Join Mary-Jo Fetterly for 6 sessions of Adaptive yoga on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 1:30pm. Classes start September 4th and run through October 16th (no class Sept. 18th) Classes take place in the ICORD Access Lab / PARC at the Read More…
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Get your tickets for the Spinal Chord Gala!
Join your friends and colleagues at Spinal Chord on Saturday, November 2nd. 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 Read More…

Dr. Patricia Mills is the first recipient of the Adopt a Young Scientist Award!
Dr. Patricia Mills has been named as the first recipient of VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation’s Adopt a Young Scientist Award! Dr. Mills is a physician scientist not only here at ICORD, but also at the GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre. Read More…

ICORD trainees win MSFHR awards
Congratulations to Drs. Reza Jalili, Chris West and Aaron Philips, who are among 59 BC Health Researchers to have won prestigious Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Trainee Awards for 2013. Dr. Jalili is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Read More…

Kids learn wheelchair skills in ICORD’s first wheelchair skills camp
Over the course of four Saturdays in June, children and their parents improved their wheelchair skills through ICORD’s indoor training course, with the guidance of Dr. Bonnie Sawatzky and UBC Kinesiology graduate Warren Springer. The aim of the wheelchair skills Read More…

Good morning!
Good morning! Check out ICORD’s video contribution to Goodmornings.org, a project that aims to brighten up the world through the simple sharing of a “Good morning!” from all parts of the world. The video features some of our talented researchers and staff, Read More…

Congratulations to our recent award-winning trainees!
Seth Gilchrist, a PhD student from Dr. Peter Cripton’s Orthopaedic and Injury Biomechanics Group, was awarded best presentation at the Northwest Biomechanics Symposium at the University of Idaho early this month. His presentation was titled “Development and Validation of a Fall Read More…

Stem cell tourism
Have you ever thought about going abroad for a stem cell treatment? ICORD PI Dr. Brian Kwon, along with researchers Drs. Judy Illes, Holly Longstaff and Vera Krahmova are studying stem cell trust and tourism. The goal of their Stem Read More…

Grant Launches Partnership for SCI Cures at ICORD
ICORD’s cutting edge spinal cord injury research will be accelerated by a 10-year, $20 million grant from the Rick Hansen Foundation, fueling efforts to pursue treatments in the laboratory and to launch clinical trials. The Rick Hansen Foundation announced this Read More…

Sounds like Science: a benefit concert for ICORD
Enjoy some beautiful music and support ICORD at the same time at Sounds like Science on May 25th. This concert will feature some of Vancouver’s finest musicians performing works by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Hurlstone and others. Saturday 25 May at Read More…