ICORD held our fifteenth Annual Research Meeting on March 12 and 13. This year’s conference featured two visiting speakers, eleven research talks by ICORD and RHI researchers, and 51 poster presentations by ICORD staff and trainees from labs at UBC Read More…
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ICORD Dr. Matt Ramer performs on stage
Most of us know Dr. Matt Ramer as a researcher of neural regeneration following SCI, but he is also a prolific amateur actor. Dr. Ramer has appeared in more than forty performances of musical theatre and operetta in Canada, the Read More…
Electrical implant could improve daily activities for people with spinal cord injuries: study
An experimental treatment that sends electrical currents through the spinal cord has improved “invisible” yet debilitating side effects for a B.C. man with a spinal cord injury. A diving accident six years ago left Isaac Darrel, of Langley, B.C., with Read More…
Postdoctoral position in ICORD’s autonomic lab
ICORD, in the UBC Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver Campus, is seeking a postdoctoral fellow in discovery/basic science to join an established group of scientists and clinicians in the laboratory of Dr. Andrei Krassioukov for a two-year term (with possibility of Read More…
ICORD PI featured in “Women of Innovation” book
ICORD PI Dr. Stephanie Willerth is featured in Women of Innovation: The Impact of Leading Engineers in Canada, a book recently published by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum (CIM). The book tells the stories of twenty inspiring Read More…
New exercise guidelines for people with SCI
We all know that exercise is good for you, but how can you find out how much you should get? And what if you have a spinal cord injury? In November, ICORD PI Dr. Kathleen Martin Ginis and her research Read More…
Dr. Bonnie Sawatzky co-hosts seating symposium in NZ
ICORDian Dr. Bonita Sawatzky travelled to New Zealand in November to co-host the inaugural Oceania Seating Symposium. The purpose of the conference was to bring state-of-the-art concepts and latest technologies in seating and mobility to professionals (clinicians and researchers), manufacturers, Read More…
‘Gut feeling’ spurs doctor to re-examine evidence on urinary tract infections in people with SCI
People with spinal cord injuries often rely on catheters to empty their bladder. When a well-respected publication concluded that catheters could be reused without an increased risk of infection, it didn’t sit right with a Vancouver clinician and researcher. He Read More…
Dr. Chris West shows SCI affects the heart
Spinal cord injury affects the heart – that’s what research published in Experimental Physiology and carried out by by ICORD PI Dr. Chris West has found. The heart undergoes changes after spinal cord injury that are dependent on how severe Read More…
BICP-funded seed grant leads to US$1.926M grant
ICORD PIs Drs. Christ West and Brian Kwon have been awarded US$1.926 million by the US Department of Defense to study how changes to heart function following SCI can impact mobility. Their study, Offsetting cardiac dysfunction in acute spinal cord injury Read More…
