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|  RECENT NEWS:
- PRESENTATIONS-- Lee Saunders, Research Assistant Professor of College of Health Professions, attended and presented at the ASIA 2012 Meeting in Denver, Colorado on April 18th .
- NEWSLETTERS-- Spring 2012 newsletters are now available. --INFO--
- GRAND ROUNDS-- Internationally known guest speaker, Michael J. DeVivo, professor of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at UAB, will present on "Life expectancy trends & cause of death following spinal cord injury".The presentation will take place Tuesday, May 1, 2012 from 12-1pm at the Gazes Auditorium. --INFO--
- CONSUMER ADVISORY PANEL-- The CAP meeting took place on February 16, 2012. Main topics were unintentional injuries after SCI and workforce after SCI. --READ MORE--
- WEBCAST-- Lee Saunders, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of College of Health Professions, will present on "Health Care Access After Spinal Cord Injury" on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 from 3:00 to 4:00pm EST. Click link to view --WATCH--
- ACCOMPLISHMENTS--On September 24, James Krause, PhD, Director of the Spinal Cord Injury Outcomes Research Group, accepted the 2011 Medtronic National Courage Award.--INFO-- or --VIDEO--
- PUBLICATIONS--Congratulations! Two articles were recently published.
"Association of race, socioeconomic status, and health care access with pressure ulcers after spinal cord injury", by Dr. Lee Saunders, Dr. James Krause, and Joshua Acuna, was accepted for publication in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.--ABSTRACT-- "Racial disparities in depression and life satisfication after spinal cord injury: A mediational model", by Simon Brown, Dr. Lee Saunders, and Dr. James Krause, was accepted for publication in the Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation.--ABSTRACT-- | |
| RESEARCH BYTES:
- Post-injury education can be effective in increasing employment rates after SCI.
- An important factor related to longevity after SCI is finding purpose in life.
- Because skin sores can lead to infection, depression, and even amputation, it is very important to be vigilant in avoiding and treating skin sores and infection.
- MORE SCI facts and figures...
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| | FUNDING: - SCI Research Team was recently awarded a Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Secondary Conditions in Individuals with SCI from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR-#H133B090005) for a five-year period (2009-2014).
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