From February 17th to 20th, 2012, Vancouver will host the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting. Thousands of international scientists and science media will be here for symposia, plenary talks, posters, and other special events.
Earlier in this spring, AAAS put out a call for symposia proposals, and received approximately a thousand proposals for around 300 spots. ICORD’s proposal was one of those that was accepted. The title of the symposium is Curing spinal cord injury: the need for global collaboration. The symposium will be moderated by Michael Fehlings of Toronto Western Hospital. Confirmed speakers are locals Rick Hansen, Wolfram Tetzlaff (ICORD/UBC Zoology), Marcel Dvorak (ICORD/VGH Spine) and Judy Illes (UBC Centre for Applied Ethics), along with Charles Tator (U of Toronto) and Naomi Kleitman (National Institutes of Health, Washington DC).
