Skip Navigation

News and Events

 

Regular and Ongoing Events

2012 Rehabilitation Symposium

Join us as Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan
presents its 4th Annual Rehabilitation Symposium

Thursday, May 31, 2012
8:00 am - 3:30 pm
MGM Grand-Detroit
Detroit, MI

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Wise Young
Director of the W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience and a world leader in spinal cord injury research.

 


White House Hosts Monthly Call to Discuss Disability Issues
Each month, members of the White House Domestic Policy Council and Office of Public Engagement who work on disability issues host a public, live-captioned conference call to keep citizens better informed of important disability issues and to connect them to the leaders who work on disability policies in the federal government.

Following is information for the January call:

Date of Call:  Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Start Time: 2:00 p.m. EST (dial in 5 minutes early). This call will probably last 1.5 hours.
Dial in: (800) 762-4758
Code: “White House Disability Call”        

Note: This call is off the record and not for press purposes.

Email disability@who.eop.gov with your name, organization, city and state to be added to the White House Disability Group email distribution list.

Click here to learn more about the White House monthly disability calls.

Visit http://www.disability.gov/ for information on federal disability programs and services.


Local Area Organizational Group Activities

Women Empowered Council for Women with Physical Challenges is a support group for women with disabilities. For more information about them and their entrepreneurship, support group and book club please click on this link. For their upcoming activities in 2011 please review this document Women Empowered Council for Women with Physical Challenges 2011 Schedule of Events.



News


Remembering a Giant: Past U-M SCIMS Principal Investigator, Ted Cole M.D.

THEODORE M. COLE, Professor Emeritus of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and former Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation department chair at the University of Michigan, passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 26, 2011, after a brief illness.  Dr. Ted Cole served as a Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Tate of Spinal cord Injury Model System at UM from 1993 to 1995. Dr. Cole was known for his expertise in spinal cord injury care specializing with his wife Sandra Cole on issues of sexual well-being after SCI. He wrote many articles and book chapters on this topic. Dr. Cole also served on the board of the Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living and was Chair of the department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Michigan.  He touched the lives of many people with disabilities and especially those with spinal cord injury. And as such he will be always be remembered.

The State of the Science (SOS) in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Rehabilitation: Informing a New Research Agenda

In conjunction with the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) and the International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) meeting, SCI researchers and clinicians attended a two and half day meeting in Washington D.C. June 5-7 to discuss important issues for SCI research and care and develop an agenda for SCI rehabilitation research in the next decade by identifying research questions that must be answered to implement improved programs, practices, and policies for individuals with SCI.  Representing the University of Michigan SCI Model Systems were Dr. Tate, Co-Director and Mr. Forchheimer, Senior Research Associate. They both served as group facilitators and Dr. Tate was part of the SOS Steering Committee. A temporary link to this conference is available here

International Data Sets in SCI

International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) and ASIS have teamed up to develop international standards and datasets for SCI care and research. These standards serve as guidelines for appropriate care and datasets provide a consistent and unified way to collect basic information on SCI care across the world. Groups of SCI researchers have developed many of these datasets which are available at both organizations websites. We invite you to visit them and provide your comments! Having uniform datasets will allow us to better compare results from clinical trials from various countries and thus make better determination of what may be useful to you in the future in terms of treatment options.

Report on Stem Cell Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury (PDF)