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		<title>Dr. Gillian Simonett wins award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Gillian Simonett, who just completed her Masters thesis with Dr. Andrei Krassioukov, has won the S. Stewart Murray prize. This prize has been endowed by donations from the Health Officers of British Columbia in honour of Dr S. Stewart Murray who contributed greatly to the development of public health services in British Columbia and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://icord.org/news/dr-gillian-simonett-wins-award/</link>
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		<title>ICORD Trainee wins prestigious award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ICORD Trainee Claire Jones from the Orthopaedic &#38; Injury Biomechanics Lab was awarded Margaret H. Hines award for best oral presentation award May 18 at the Ohio Injury Biomechanics Symposium. This is a prestigious international conference held annually at Ohio State University and there were many excellent papers presented there this year. Claire is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://icord.org/news/icord-trainee-wins-prestigious-award/</link>
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		<title>Just announced: Spinal Chord 2010</title>
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Save Saturday, November 6th, 2010, for one of the year&#8217;s most unique fund raising events! 
Spinal Chord is a gala evening in support of ICORD and the Vancouver Cantata Singers.
This is your chance to get all dressed up, hear an award-winning choir in the spectacular atrium of the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, enjoy fabulous hors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://icord.org/news/just-announced-spinal-chord-2010/</link>
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		<title>Dr. Janice Eng wins YWCA Women of Distinction Award</title>
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ICORD Researcher Dr. Janice Eng has won the 2010 YWCA Women of Distinction Award in the category of Health and Active Living.
Dr. Eng is a researcher in the ICORD program at VGH and Brain Research Centre at UBC Hospital. She is a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (Department [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://icord.org/news/dr-janice-eng-nominated-for-ywca-award/</link>
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		<title>ICORD joins UBC Faculty of Medicine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Effective March 4th, 2010, ICORD was repositioned from the UBC College for Interdisciplinary Studies to the Faculty of Medicine.
This change to the reporting relationship of ICORD reflects both the strong interprofessional focus across health disciplines for research and patient outcomes and the strong connections to Vancouver Coastal Health and the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute.
Also, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://icord.org/news/icord-joins-ubc-faculty-of-medicine/</link>
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		<title>Dr. Brian Kwon recognized for research contributions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Kwon, ICORD Researcher and Associate Professsor in UBC&#8217;s  Department of Orthopaedics, won the 2010 Young Investigator Award from  the Kappa Delta Sorority and the Orthopaedic Research and Education  Foundation.
The award is given to outstanding authors who are under 40 years  of age or no more than seven years beyond training. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://icord.org/news/dr-brian-kwon-receives-aaos-award/</link>
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		<title>Spinal Chord gala gets rave reviews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The choir was amazing &#8211; sublime, exquisite &#8211; a great treat for our ears!&#8221;
&#8220;We loved how the choir members mingled and chatted with the audience.&#8221;

&#8220;Your show last night was magnificent. I have seldom enjoyed myself that much.&#8221;
&#8220;Who would have thought that a research building designed to be universally accessible would turn out to have the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://icord.org/news/spinal-chord-gala-gets-rave-reviews/</link>
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		<title>Current study: control of the heart and blood vessels in individuals with SCI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ICORD &#38; SFU researcher Dr. Victoria Claydon is seeking volunteers to take part in a research study looking at control of the heart and blood vessels in individuals who have sustained a spinal cord injury.
After spinal cord injury (SCI) nerves that are important in controlling blood pressure, heart rate and blood flow to the brain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://icord.org/uncategorized/current-study-control-of-the-heart-and-blood-vessels-in-individuals-with-sci/</link>
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		<title>ICORD Researchers in the news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drs. Wolfram Tetzlaff and Femke Streiger&#8217;s study on the effects of  high-fat, low-carb (or ketogenic) diet on recovery after SCI was featured in Science Daily and PhysOrg.com. Dr. Tetzlaff presented the research project at a press conference at this year&#8217;s Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago.
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		<link>http://icord.org/news/icord-researchers-in-the-news/</link>
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		<title>Current Study: Advanced neurophysiological assessment of spinal cord sensory function: contact heat and dermatomal somatosensory evoked potentials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ICORD and GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre of Vancouver Coastal Health are conducting a clinical study to improve the diagnosis and understanding of cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). 
The goal of this study is to use new non-invasive techniques that examine different nerve fibres in the spinal cord to better understand the type and extent of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://icord.org/front-page-news/advanced-neurophysiological-assessment-of-spinal-cord-sensory-function-contact-heat-and-dermatomal-somatosensory-evoked-potentials/</link>
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