Save The Date: Wheeled Mobility in Everyday Life

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Sunday July 1, 2012 - Tuesday July 3, 2012
      4:00 am - 3:59 am
  • Location: Baltimore, Maryland
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Contact

Stephen Sprigle

stephen.sprigle@coa.gatech.edu

Summaries

Summary Sentence: The MobilityRERC will conduct its State of the Science Conference on July 1-2, 2012

Full Summary: MobilityRERC's State of the Science Conference on July 1-2, 2012 at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Save the Date 

Sunday and Monday, July 1-2, 2012

Marriott Waterfront Hotel

Baltimore, MD

 

The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Wheeled Mobility (mRERC) will conduct its State of the Science Conference (SOSC) in conjunction with the 2012 RESNA Annual Conference (http://web.resna.org/conference/index.dot).  The SOSC will bring together experts in the fields of research, rehabilitation engineering, service delivery and policy to explore important topics related to the mRERC theme:  Mobility in Everyday Life. 

As part of the event, the mRERC is sponsoring the Sunday morning RESNA plenary session titled:  How science influences public policy in seating and mobility.  The plenary will consist of a presentation and discussion on how science influences public policy in seating and mobility and will address barriers that need to be overcome to allow policy makers to access and utilize research results. 

This year’s Plenary Speakers are:

Rita S. Hostak
Vice President, Government Relations
Sunrise Medical

 Doran Edwards, MD
Advanced Healthcare Consulting, LLC. 

Speakers will address important topics such as:

  • How to tailor messages to policy-makers, just as one tailors messages to other stakeholders in the research and clinical community
  • How studies promoting evidence based medicine differ from those that target comparative effectiveness
  • What the functional outcomes are that interest policy makers with respect to comparative effectiveness research
  • How science and research can be used to allow companies to innovate more freely under current reimbursement policies

 

If you would like more information on this conference, please contact Stephen Sprigle at stephen.sprigle@coa.gatech.edu.

 

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Keywords
SOS, SOSC
Status
  • Created By: Summer Ienuso
  • Workflow Status: Draft
  • Created On: Mar 6, 2012 - 11:03am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 9:58pm