30 September to 2 October 2021, Vancouver, Canada - with online access

ISCoS 2021

60th Annual Scientific Meeting of The International Spinal Cord Society

CALL FOR PAPERS IS NOW OPEN!

Submit your abstract for the opportunity to present at this prestigious Annual Meeting with the option to choose between attendance in person in Vancouver or via our state of the art virtual platform.

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Themes

We welcome submissions on all SCI related topics with particular focus on our main themes:

Pain and Pain Management

Engagement of Individuals with Lived Experience

Using Big Data to Bridge Discovery Science and Clinical Care

New and Novel Biomarkers

Non-traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

Respiratory Health in SCI

 

 

You are invited to submit in the following categories:

Instructional Courses/Workshops

Orals/Posters

To submit an abstract please click on the above relevant link and log into the portal to read the submission guidelines or download the guidelines here. Abstract submission deadline has been extended to Sunday 18th April 2021 (23:59 UK time).

Should you have any questions regarding the process please do contact us and we will be pleased to assist

Welcome to ISCoS 2021

2020 is the year we learnt to do things very differently due to a small and very nasty virus. We have learnt to use virtual systems for staff and ward meetings, for patient reviews and for our education, our learning and our teaching but we have missed being with our friends, our families and our colleagues. We have learnt to move away rather than towards others, we all wash our hands much more often than before and we have stopped travelling to other places, for work, for meetings and/or for holidays.

So many conferences have been cancelled, postponed, or have been reconfigured as virtual meetings and a few are  experimenting with hybrid meetings. Instead of being in Yokohama in September 2020, the 59th ISCoS Annual Scientific Meeting went virtual and virtual meetings have a lot going for them, including reduced costs and allowing people to attend who otherwise could not.

2021 will be different again. To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the first ISCoS ASM, our meeting will be in beautiful Vancouver and I hope that many of you will be able to join us there. Some of you will recall the wonderful meeting held in Vancouver in 2002 and it will be exciting to revisit this lovely city. However, this meeting will be different for other reasons as well. It will be a ‘hybrid’ meeting with those who can attend in person doing so, while allowing those who cannot attend in person to attend from home at a lower cost to register using these new systems that we are now utilising on a daily basis.

I look forward to spending our 60th ISCoS ASM with all of you – either in Vancouver in person or via the virtual links that will be available.

A/Prof Ruth Marshall, ISCoS President

Why You Should Attend?

The meeting will include world class keynote speakers, who will provide overviews and insights on a variety of SCI care topics. We are delighted that the meeting will include specialist symposia, panel debates, instructional courses, workshops, talks and posters to inspire discussions and lively debate during the sessions and networking throughout the meeting.

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KEY DATES

Abstract Submission Deadline

18 April 2021

Early Bird Registration Deadline

17 July 2021

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ISCoS 2021 Preliminary Programme Announcements

Further forthcoming keynote speakers, sessions & workshops to follow

Dr. Charles Tator

Dr. Catherine Jutzeler

Dr. Charles Tator

Dr. Charles Tator, Neurosurgeon

Dr. Charles Tator trained in Neurosurgery and Neuropathology and was the first Dan Chair of Neurosurgery, at the University of Toronto. He headed Neurosurgery at the Toronto Western Hospital, and was a founder of ThinkFirst, Canada, a national brain and spinal cord injury prevention foundation, and Parachute Canada, a national injury prevention agency. He is a Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto where he has held two research chairs. He invented the clip compression injury model of the rodent spinal cord, the first small animal model. He initiated the STASCIS trials of early spinal cord decompression in SCI patients. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and an inductee of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. Currently, he is a Scientist in the Krembil Brain Institute. He has received awards from the Canadian Paraplegic Association, Canadian Brain Injury Coalition, USA Hockey, Hockey Canada and the American Spinal Injuries Association. His book on Catastrophic Injuries in Sports and Recreation was published by the University of Toronto Press, and he is the author of 439 publications in peer review journals. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Neurotrauma and the Neuroscientist.

Dr. Catherine Jutzeler

Title of talk: Data-Driven Approaches to Advance Clinical Care in Spinal Cord Injury

Bio: Catherine Jutzeler is a group leader and data scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). After completing her BSc and MSc in pharmaceutical science, she pursued her doctoral studies jointly at ETH Zurich and the University Clinic Balgrist applying neurophysiological and neuroimaging methods to assess the neural plasticity in patients recovering from spinal cord injury. She was then awarded with several postdoctoral fellowships (Craig H. Nielsen, Michael Smith Research Foundation, International Research for Paraplegia) to conduct her postdoctoral studies in the field of neuro-pharmacoepidemiology and data science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Since 2020, Dr. Jutzeler is leading her own research group in the Machine Learning and Computational Biology Laboratory at the ETH Zurich. Her group’s research lies at the intersection of medicine, epidemiology, and data science, with a particular focus on applications in modelling disease progression, biomarker discovery, and drug repurposing. Dr. Jutzeler and her team have received multiple research grants from national and international funding agencies, including the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Wings for Life Foundation.

Programme to follow

Local Organising Committee

Dr. Andrei Krassioukov

Dr. Brian Kwon, MD, FRCSC, PhD

Dr. Cathy Craven, MD, FRCP

Dr. Chris McBride, PhD

Dr. Colleen O’Connell, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Karim Fouad (PhD)

Dr. Laurent Bouyer, PhD

Dr. Michael Fehlings, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS

Dr. Tara Jeji, MD, MBA

Dr. Vanessa Noonan, PhD, PT

Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff

Joanna Marie Rivera, MPH

John Chernesky

Dr. Andrei Krassioukov

Dr. Andrei Krassioukov is a Professor at the Department of Medicine, UBC and Associate Director of the International Collaboration on Repair Discovery (ICORD). Dr. Krassioukov holds an endowed Chair in Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Research and is a physician at GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre. His research focuses on autonomic dysfunctions following spinal cord injury (SCI).

Dr. Brian Kwon, MD, FRCSC, PhD

Dr. Brian Kwon, MD, FRCSC, PhD is a surgeon-scientist and Professor in the UBC Department of Orthopaedics with advanced training in spine surgery. As a neuroscientist and Principal Investigator at ICORD, Dr. Kwon runs an active basic/translational research laboratory. He also serves as the Associate Director, Clinical Research, for ICORD and is the Director of Research for the Vancouver Spine Research Program.

Dr. Cathy Craven, MD, FRCP

Dr. Cathy Craven, MD, FRCP is the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute/ University of Toronto Chair in Spinal Cord Injury SCI Rehabilitation and Associate Professor in the Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She is Senior Scientist and Team Leader of the Neural Engineering and Therapeutics Research Team at KITE and Medical Director of the Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program at University Health Network.

Dr. Chris McBride, PhD

Dr. Chris McBride, PhD is Executive Director of SCI BC and has over 20 years experience as a spinal cord injury researcher, research centre executive, volunteer, and now community service leader in the SCI sector.  He has served as managing director of ICORD and executive director of translational research at the Rick Hansen Institute.

Dr. Colleen O’Connell, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Colleen O’Connell, MD, FRCPC specializes in neuro-rehabilitation, and is Research Chief at New Brunswick’s Stan Cassidy Centre for Rehabilitation and Clinical Research Director of University of New Brunswick Institute of Biomedical Engineering. Her broad-ranging research include treatment and applied technologies for mobility impairments and function, pain and spasticity management, and development of best practice recommendations.

Dr. Karim Fouad (PhD)

Dr. Karim Fouad (PhD) is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Spinal Cord Injury in the Dept. of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine at University of Alberta and Co-director of the Open Data Commons in SCI. His laboratory focuses on promoting neuroplasticity and recovery in SCI animal models. He is passionate about promoting transparency in science.

Dr. Laurent Bouyer, PhD

Dr. Laurent Bouyer, PhD is a Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Research Center at Laval University. Laurent’s research focusses on understanding the neural control of movement, improving clinical assessments using wearable sensors, and using robotic technologies for rehabilitation after SCI. He works in interdisciplinary teams that combine health sciences and engineering.

Dr. Michael Fehlings, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS

Dr. Michael Fehlings, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS is a Professor of Neurosurgery and Vice Chair Research in the Department of Surgery. He combines an active clinical practice in complex spinal surgery at the Toronto Western Hospital with a translationally oriented research program focused on discovering novel treatments for the injured spinal cord.

Dr. Tara Jeji, MD, MBA

Dr. Tara Jeji, MD, MBA is Program Director at Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, Toronto, Canada and manages research and implementation for the spinal cord injury program. As a person living with Spinal Cord Injury for 27 years, this provides her an insight into lived experience needs to live a healthy life and participate in the community.

Dr. Vanessa Noonan, PhD, PT

Dr. Vanessa Noonan, PhD, PT is the Director of Research & Best Practice Implementation at Praxis Spinal Cord Institute and oversees the Cure and Care Programs. Vanessa works with SCI stakeholders to implement and embed patient-centred approaches to facilitate the translation of SCI health research, innovations and best practices.

Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff

Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff is Director of ICORD and Professor in the Departments of Zoology and Surgery at the University of British Columbia. He also holds the Rick Hansen Man in Motion Chair in Spinal Cord Research. He obtained his MD at the University of Essen, completed his Dr. Med. at Ruhr-University Bochum and PhD at the University of Calgary.

Joanna Marie Rivera, MPH

Joanna Marie Rivera, MPH is a Research Coordinator at Praxis Spinal Cord Institute where she supports knowledge translation and best practice implementation of spinal cord injury research. With a background in public health research, Joanna is passionate about promoting inclusive, evidence-based spinal cord injury health services through innovative systems-level changes.

John Chernesky

John Chernesky is the Consumer Lead at Praxis Spinal Cord Institute. With over 25 years of lived experience of SCI, John works closely with SCI consumers to ensure research is addressing their priorities. As a recognized leader in engagement and integrated knowledge translation, John has advised funding agencies on their engagement policies.

What people say about our last meeting, ISCoS 2020: Virtual

  • Discussion posts on virtual posters - a great way to engage with people in different time zones

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  • Having the recorded oral presentations and keynotes to view when most convenient.

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  • I could take part in many of the events and contribute to the chats. I could see all of the posters in my own time at night as well and will be able to catch up on the events that I missed when I was attending others

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  • I particularly enjoyed the blend of recorded and live discussion and the three tracks with varying topics. EXTREMELY impressed by how well this went.

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Meeting Registration Rates

All rates are EXCLUSIVE of tax as applicable by region.

REGISTRATION CATEGORY: IN PERSON WITH VIRTUAL ACCESS

Please note: In person rates are charged in CAD $.  All rates are exclusive of local tax (5% GST).

 Early Bird RateStandard RateLate/Onsite Rate
NOW until 17 July 2021
23:59 (UK time)		18 July 2021 to 26 Sept 2021
23:59 (UK time)"
From 27 Sept 2021
ISCoS Member$750
$1150
$1350
Non Member$1150$1350$1550
Fellow, Resident & Trainee*$555$680$805

Student rates (full-time student studying for a BA or MA degree)* *Written verification from department chair is required
Early Bird RateStandard RateLate/Onsite Rate
NOW until 17 July 2021
23:59 (UK time)"
18 July 2021 until 26 Sept 2021
23:59 (UK time)"
From 27 Sept 2021
$475$600$725

REGISTRATION CATEGORY: VIRTUAL ACCESS ONLY

Please note: Virtual rates are charged in GBP £.  All rates are exclusive of local tax (20% VAT).

 Early Bird RateStandard RateLate/Onsite Rate
NOW until 17 July 2021
23:59 (UK time)"
18 July 2021 to 26 Sept 2021
23:59 (UK time)"
From 27 Sept 2021
ISCoS Member£300
£350
£450
Non Member
£400
£475
£550
Fellow, Resident & Trainee*
£225£250
£300
Student rates (full-time student studying for a BA or MA degree)* *Written verification from department chair is required
Early Bird RateStandard Rate
Late/Onsite Rate
NOW until 17 July 2021
23:59 (UK time)
18 July 2021 until 26 Sept 2021
23:59 (UK time)
From 27 Sept 2021
£125
£150
£175

REGISTRATION FOR INDIVIDUAL LIVING WITH SCI

Individual Living with Spinal Cord Injury: If you are paralyzed by injury or disease, we offer discounted registration rates. Please send an email to iscos@associationsltd.co.uk – prior to registering – verifying your status (e.g. ” I have a C5/6 SCI, and was injured in 1997 …”). We will respond with instructions on how to register at the discounted rate.

Personal Care Assistant (PCA): If you require a personal care assistant in order to attend the conference, we do not charge them a registration fee. However, they MUST register to attend (limit one comp per attendee).

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With 13,000 hotel rooms in the city’s downtown core, and 28,000 in Metro Vancouver, delegates have plenty of choice including three world-class properties that connect to the Vancouver Convention Centre.  Booking details will be available in January 2021.

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