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Friday, July 31, 2009
Useful Autoantibodies in Lupus Nephritis
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Use of Hypoglycemic Agents in CKD
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Renal Transplant "Matchmaker" Busted
According to this article, Rosenbaum was initially suspected to be dealing in human organ trafficking by a UC-Berkeley anthropologist. The actual sting operation involved an FBI agent posing as an individual seeking a kidney for a fictitious uncle who had been on dialysis for two years and was tired of waiting on the transplant list. During a series of meetings Rosenbaum described himself as a "matchmaker", asked for a total of $160,000 for the kidney, and implied that he had brokered many such deals in the past, even providing as references past individuals who had successfully used his kidney matchmaking service. Allegedly, he would obtain his kidneys from impoverished donors from Israel and Eastern Europe, often for a sum of only about $10,000. There are even tales of his threatening reluctant donors at gunpoint when they attempted to back out of a planned donation.
The story suggests that transplant programs may need to be more vigilant in their screening of potential donor/recipient pairs. It's been long suspected that "transplant tourism" takes place elsewhere. The discovery that it is being controlled from within the U.S. is even more chilling.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
EAST Syndrome
The article describes children with an autosomal recessive inherited condition termed "EAST Syndrome", which stands for epilepsy, ataxia, sensorineural deafness, and tubulopathy. Specifically, patients had evidence of renal salt wasting with low-normal blood pressure, resulting in activation of the renin-angiotensin system and a resultant hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis. Individuals also demonstrated significant hypomagnesemia and hypocalciuria. Genetic studies identified the cause of EAST Syndrome: mutations in the gene KCNJ10, a potassium channel which is expressed in all of the affected tissues (brain, inner ear, and kidney) in this disorder. They go on to demonstrate that mice made deficient for KCNJ10 show a similar salt wasting phenotype as in affected humans.
What does KCNJ10 do? The authors propose that this potassium channel sits at the basolateral membrane of tubular epithelial cells where it recycles potassium, which is necessary for maintaining the activity of the Na/K-ATPase. Although rare, EAST Syndrome helps provide greater molecular detail of how the kidney absorbs salt, and suggests that researchers look for polymorphisms in this gene which may explain some of the genetic predisposition towards hypertension and salt handling by the kidney.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Magnesium Therapy in Eclampsia/Pre-Eclampsia
Sunday, July 26, 2009
cyclosporine versus tacrolimus
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Surgery Intern Boy Band
Friday, July 24, 2009
Kidney transplant lingo
CRT/DDKT: CRT = cadaveric renal transplant, which is starting to be replaced by DDKT (deceased donor kidney transplant)--I guess some people find using the term "cadaveric" too grisly.
ECD: expanded criteria donor: ECD kidneys are "suboptimal" kidneys defined as coming from a deceased donor more than 60 years of age, or more than 50 years of age with the following risk factors:
DCD: donor after cardiac death. These are kidneys donated from deceased individuals who have severe, irreversible brain damage but do not actually meet the criteria for brain death. Typically, the donor patient's family will agree to withdraw life support, the patient will experience cardiac arrest, and the donor kidneys are then harvested for use.
LURT: living unrelated renal transplant
SPK: simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant
PAK: pancreas after kidney transplant
"Status 7": when a potential kidney transplant already on the waiting list is deemed temporarily unsuitable for transplant--e.g., if they have an active infection. Patients who are made "status 7" will still accrue time on the waiting list.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
We Need More Kidneys!
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Race & Risk for ESRD
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Caveats for Using Renal Ultrasound to Diagnose Post-Renal Failure
Monday, July 20, 2009
Sensipar for APKD?
The logic is as follows: The growth of cysts in PKD is thought to be driven by low intracellular calcium levels and elevated cAMP levels. The calcium sensing receptor (upon which cinacalcet acts) is activated by binding to serum ionized calcium, and results in a G-protein-mediated decrease in cAMP levels & increase in intracellular calcium concentration. The investigators therefore suggested that cinacalcet might be an effective way to reduce cyst growth in late PKD.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
GI Bleeding in ESRD Patients
Saturday, July 18, 2009
FENa False Positives/Negatives
This post is somewhat basic but it's always good to review, right?
The FENa is one of the most commonly used tools by both nephrologists and non-nephrologists to assess the etiology of oliguric renal failure in a patient. Classically, a FENa less than 1% is consistent with pre-renal etiologies (and means that more than 99% of the Na filtered is being reabsorbed) while a FENa greater than 1% is consistent with acute tubular necrosis or other types of intrinsic renal failure.
There are however some specific instances in which the FENa fails. FENa "false positives" (e.g., the FENa is less than 1% but the patient actually has intrinstic renal failure) in the folllowing conditions. Contrast nephropathy is notorious for causing a FENa less than 1% despite its not being classified as a true pre-renal etiology of renal failure. Patients with CHF or cirrhosis/hepatorenal syndrome who develop ATN with clear evidence of granular casts may still retain a FENa less than 1%. Acute glomerulonephritis and rhabdomyolysis may also result in FENa's less than 1%.
Conversely, FENa "false negatives" (e.g., the FENa is greater than 1% but the patient is actually pre-renal) frequently occur due to one very common cause: diuretics. In the face of active diuretic use, a FENa greater than 1% is therefore uninterpretable, and one popular alternative is to assess the fractional excretion of urea (FE-urea). Since urea is reabsorbed less avidly than sodium, the cutoffs for what constitutes pre-renal and renal etiologies are different: a FE-urea greater than 35% is consistent with intrinstic renal failure while a FE-urea less than 35% is consistent with pre-renal failure.
On a previous post I noted the problems inherent in using the FENa is patients with significant chronic kidney disease.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Genetics of Wilms Tumor
There are several genes associated with patients with Wilms Tumor. Here are some of the main ones:
1. WT1 is a transcription factor and considered a tumor suppressor gene. Mutations in WT1 account for between 10-15% of sporadic Wilms tumor. It interacts with p53, a classic tumor suppressor involved in a wide variety of cancers. Denys-Drash Syndrome, a familial and severe form of Wilms tumor, is usually caused by congenital WT1 mutations.
2. beta-catenin is a key component of the canonical Wnt signaling pathway, long known to be a key player in kidney development. Interestingly, most patients with WT1 also have gain-of-function point mutations in the beta-catenin gene which result in increased stability of the beta-catenin protein and subsequent unregulated Wnt signaling.
3. WTX is mutated in a different subset of patients than those with WT1 mutations, and is found on the X-chromosome.
4. BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor): mutations in this growth factor are postulated to result in the WAGR Syndrome--a constellation of symptoms that includes Wilms Tumor along with aniridia, GU abnormalities, and mental retardation.
5. BRCA2: interestingly, mutations in the well-known breast cancer-susceptibility gene can also lead to Wilms tumor.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Location of Culprit Lesion in Acute MI's in CKD Patients
A relevant study by Charytan et al in a 2009 Kidney International edition speaks to this issue: they analyzed a cohort of patients who underwent acute myocardial infarction with either the presence or absence of Stage 3 CKD or worse, and examined where the culprit lesion was located with respect to the cardiac vascular anatomy. Interestingly, they found that patients with CKD are much more likely to have lesions which are more proximal than those without CKD. In general, more proximal lesions are generally more severe, as ischemia may occur to a larger region of the myocardium. These results highlight the current thinking that cardiovascular disease in CKD patients may be more aggressive and severe than in the general population, and may even operate by slightly different pathophysiologic mechanisms.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Doing My Part for Kidney Awareness
Monday, July 13, 2009
The CKD-Epi Equation: An Improved MDRD?
Thursday, July 9, 2009
The Power of Pee
But today's topic derives from my regular reading a website I simply can't recommend highly enough...Geekologie. From the July 8th posting, there comes a report that chemists from Ohio University led by Geraldine Botte have succeeded in harnessing the power of urine to drive a hydrogen fuel cell, as recently described in an issue of the Chemical Communications.
Briefly, the authors describe the development of a nickel-based electrode that is able to oxidize ammonia into both nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas, the latter of which could be used to power hydrogen cells. The ammonia is easily derived from urea, the major component of urine. The urine-powered hydrogen car? Don't lose hope.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Rapamycin for ADPKD?
The molecular mechanism of rapamycin is already known: it inhibits a cell signaling pathway known as the mTOR pathway (mTor = "mammalian target of rapamycin"). In support of its usefulness in ADPKD, the epithelium lining cysts (arrow) shows intense staining with an antibody against phosphorylated (active) mTOR, while non-cystic tubules (depicted by the arrowhead) do not show mTOR activity, as shown in this 2006 PNAS paper by Shillingford et al.
We will obviously have to see how rapamycin does in clinical trials. One of the obvious caveats is that this is not a wholly benign medication as observed by many transplant nephrologists, and bear in mind that it would likely be a chronic medication taken to prevent the growth of cysts and resultant ESRD. In the meantime, an article in this month's Kidney International by Gattone et al successfully uses rapamycin to decrease cyst growth in a mouse model of nephronophthisis (the pcy mouse), providing further rationale for this approach.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Sudden cardiac death rates in ESRD patients
Monday, July 6, 2009
The MRI above depicts a classic example of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES), sometimes also called reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy, an increasingly-recognized consequence of malignant hypertension. The whitish areas ("hyper-intense signal") in the bilateral occipital and parietal lobes represent edema in these regions. PRES has also been reported in other disorders such as eclampsia and lupus. The lesion is allegedly reversible if the hypertension is appropriately treated.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
A recession-proof profession?
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Why Do U.S. ESRD Patients Do So Poorly?
A 2006 cross-sectional study by Yoshino et al using an international WHO mortality database helps to get at this question by noting a close correlation between all-cause mortality rates and cardiovascular mortality in the general population and showed that this correlation is even stronger within dialysis patients. This, it appears that at least some of the reason that U.S. ESRD patients do poorly is because of the relatively high rate of cardiovascular disease in the general population here.
There remain, however, other variables between countries which could also potentially explain the difference in mortality. U.S. patients tend to spend less overall time on dialysis than in Japan, for instance, and the U.S. also performs poorly in terms of having a low percentage of patients who begin dialysis with catheters as opposed to AV fistulas. Dialysis units in the U.S. are often staffed by a high percentage of dialysis technicians who have less formal training than dialysis nurses, which are required in greater numbers in Europe. I have also suspected that in the U.S. we may tend to dialyze the very elderly or the very ill with greater frequency than in other countries, which would obviously tend to make our numbers look worse. Explaining the mortality discrepancy likely has a complex answer, but it makes sense to try and figure out what aspects of our dialysis care might be improved to help lessen the mortality difference.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Some Cool, Geeky Science-Type Kidney Web Resources
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Exciting NEJM Membranous Nephropathy Article
There has long been strong evidence in support of a circulating factor which causes podocyte injury and resultant nephrotic syndrome. Additional evidence from the neutral endopeptidase story further suggested that an autoantibody directed again some podocyte antigen might be the culprit. In this issue, the researchers demonstrate that in 70% of patients with idiopathic membranous nephropathy (but 0% of patients with secondary membranous nephropathy or other forms of proteinuric kidney disease such as FSGS or diabetic nephropathy) contain an autoantibody against the podocyte antigen phospholipase A2 receptor. Furthermore, the autoantibody's presence appears to correlate with disease activity, suggesting a possible pathogenic role.
The work has a number of implications. First, it suggests that membranous nephropathy is indeed a separate disease than FSGS and other distinct forms of nephrotic syndrome. The common final pathway for proteinuria is the same (podocyte injury), but the ways in which to get there is likely different. Second, it suggests that detection of serum antibodies against phospholipase A2 receptor may be a useful part of the diagnostic workup for nephrotic syndrome--perhaps even making biopsies unnecessary--and perhaps could be used to follow disease activity in response to various therapeutic maneuvers. That is, this test may well become the "ANCA" of membranous nephropathy.


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Prof Nikolai Bogduk
Professor Bogduk is Emeritus Professor of Pain Medicine at the University of Newcastle. He retired in 2014 after 40 years as an academic and physician. His research pursued the anatomical basis of interventional diagnostic and treatment procedures for spinal pain and headache, and the validation of those procedures in clinical trials.Read more
He has published and tested guidelines for the management of musculoskeletal pain in primary care, and in tertiary referral settings. In
Prof David Cifu
David Cifu, MD is the Associate Dean for Innovation and System Integration in the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine, and the Chairman and Herman J. Flax, MD Endowed Professor (tenured) of the Department of PM&R at VCUSchool of Medicine in Richmond, Virginia.Read more
He is also Chief of PM&R Services for the VCU Health System and Founding Director of the VCU-Center for Rehabilitation Sciences and Engineering (CERSE). He is the Senior TBI Specialist for the U.S.Department of Veterans Affairs. He has been funded on 43 research grants for over $137 million, including currently serving as Principal Investigator of the VA/DoD $62.2 million Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium CENC). In his more than 25 years as an academic physiatrist, he has delivered more than 550 regional, national and international lectures, published more than 220 scientific articles and 65 abstracts, and co-authored or edited 34 books and book chapters. He is the Past President of the American Academy of PM&R (2007-8), Editor-in-Chief of the 5th Edition of Braddom's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation textbook (2015) and co-Editor in Chief of Braddom's Handbook of Rehabilitation Medicine (2017).
Prof Eiichi Saitoh
Professor Eiichi Saitoh (MD, DMSc) is a certified physiatrist, Executive Vice President of Fujita Health University, and Professor and Chairperson of Department of Rehabilitation Medicine I, School of Medicine, Fujita Health University, Aichi, Japan.Read more
He is also Adjunct or Visiting Professor of Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA), Capital Medical University (Beijing, China), Sun Yat-Sen University (Guangzhou, China), Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, and Executive Board Member of National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology (Japan).
He graduated from Keio University in 1980, and got DMSc (PhD) from Keio University in 1991.
Now, he serves several roles in rehabilitation medicine in Japan; Deputy Chairperson and Board Member of Governors, Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine; Chairperson, Japan Council on Rehabilitation Education; Board Member of Governors, Japanese Society for Neural Repair and Neurorehabilitation; etc.
Recently he selected as a recipient of China High-end Foreign Experts Program (Beijing, 2015) and got the Sidney Licht Lectureship Award of ISPEM (Berlin, 2015).
Especially he is interested in dysphagia, robotics, motion analysis, orthosis, locomotion, exercise science, and psychology.
Dr John Alchin
After 3 years as Medical Officer on the Chatham Islands, John trained in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and worked for Air NZ in Occupational and Aviation Medicine for 8 years. Since 1998 he has worked at the Pain Management Centre at Burwood Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand, where he was the Clinical Director for 6 years.Read more
He is also Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, and is currently President of the New Zealand Pain Society. His main interests are in chronic non-malignant pain, including musculoskeletal and visceral pain syndromes, and headaches.
Assoc. Prof Ted Arnold
Following graduation from Otago University Medical School, undertook further experience in Surgery in NZ and then in urology in UK at Institute of urology and at the Middlesex Hospital. Attained a PhD from University of London on aspects of bladder responses to outlet obstruction.Read more
Returned to Dunedin in 1973 to an academic appointment in Urology. Established the first urodynamic clinic in Australasia, and subsequently moved to a similar position in Christchurch.
Prof Toyoko Asami
Professor Toyoko Asami (MD, DMSc) is a certified physiatrist, clinical professor and chairperson of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Saga University Hospital, Saga, Japan.Read more
She is also visiting professor at the School of Medicine, Fujita Health University (Japan).
Assoc. Prof Ian Baguley
Ian is based in Sydney, Australia where he works as a Senior Staff Specialist in Rehabilitation Medicine and is the Research Team Leader of Westmead Hospital's Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service. He holds academic appointments with the Medical School of the University of Sydney and the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University.Read more
He is widely published, particularly in traumatic brain injury and spasticity management and regularly lectures both nationally and internationally. He obtained a PhD investigating Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity in 2008 and was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in 2014 for services to brain injury rehabilitation.
Dr Amit Bhargava
Dr. Bhargava is board certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and has sub specialty board certification in Sports Medicine and Pain Medicine ( American Board of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation). He graduated from Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Indore, India.Read more
He completed internship at Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) residency at Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia. He completed Interventional Spine fellowship at Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. He is registered with American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS). Following two years of working at
Earlier, Dr. Bhargava obtained board certification in Orthopedics from Indore University, India and has completed Orthopedic Sports Medicine fellowship from University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester (USA). After a fellowship in Ilizarov surgery in India, Dr. Bhargava did a research fellowship in Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction, Department of Orthopedics at
Dr. Bhargava's area of special interest is in the diagnosis and treatment of spinal and musculoskeletal disorders, including musculoskeletal ultrasound. He is a faculty member for teaching musculoskeletal ultrasound at national and international PM&R conferences. He has published chapters and articles on subjects related to back pain and ultrasound. He has been a course director for spine and ultrasound workshops and faculty member at spine and ultrasound courses at PM&R meetings.
Dr Johnny Bourke
Dr Johnny Bourke is the Deputy Director at the Burwood Academy of Independent Living (BAIL), Christchurch, New Zealand. Johnny's experienced a spinal injury in 2005 and has been working in spinal cord injury research for the last eight years.Read more
His research interests include community participation following SCI, the lived experience of rehabilitation and SCI, consumer involvement in research, and disability theory and policy. Johnny's PhD explored the community inclusion experience of wheelchair users as Christchurch rebuilds following the Canterbury earthquakes. Johnny's lived experience of spinal cord injury combined with his research and industry knowledge has allowed him a particularly unique understanding of how rehabilitation and disability services are developed and delivered.
Evan Brown
Evan Brown is a Behavioural Optometric Vision Care Specialist with specific interest in Visual Dysfunctions Related to Learning, Pediatric Optometry and Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation. A 1985 graduate from Auckland University Optometry School he has been self employed in private practice in Auckland, NZ for the past 30 years.Read more
Completing a Post-Graduate Certificate in Ocular Pharmacology in 1996; Fellowship to the College of Optometrists in Vision Development in 2006; Therapeutic Endorsement in 2012; Fellowship with ACBO in 2016. He has been NZ Clinical Co-Director for the NZ Special Olympics Healthy Athletes Opening Eyes Program since 1999, and received their Distinguished Service Award in 2013. In 2004 he was recognized by the NZ Division of ACBO for services to Behavioural Optometry and Children's Vision Care in NZ. In 2005 he was awarded the Snowvision Charitable Trust Scholarship for Post-graduate study at the State University of New York Optometry School. He is currently co-lecturer for the ACBO Practical Vision Therapy Program and is an Honorary Teaching Fellow in the School of Optometry and Vision Science, Auckland University. He is current Vice-President to the board for the Australasian College of Behavioural Optometrists.
Prof Carl Chen
Carl graduated from the prestigious National Taiwan University, College of Medicine, and pursued his PhD degree from the renowned King's College of London, United Kingdom. His post graduate study was on aging proteomics (biochemistry) and brain perfusion studies.Read more
As a result, Carl has published numerous articles on aging studies and age related degenerative disorders. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a field that Carl also specializes in. Carl has won many EBP competition awards in several medical institutions in Taiwan.
In terms of clinical research, Carl specializes in diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound, brain evoked potential, prosthetics and orthotics, gait analysis, and stroke rehabilitation. Carl applies ultrasound-guided injection techniques in treating spinal pain problems. These techniques include facet joint injections and medial branch blocks, caudal epidural injection, and selective nerve root block. Carl has done extensive research in botulinum toxin injections in treating pain and spasticity, and autologous
Presently, Carl is the national representative of Chinese Taipei in ISPRM, chairman of the research committee in AOSPRM, and elected executive member of Taiwan Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. In all, Carl has published over 60 papers in clinical research and aging studies.
Prof Lidian Chen
Professor Lidian Chen (MD) is Executive member of Central & East Asia of ISPRM; Vice Chairman of Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine; Secretary, prefessor and Doctoral mentor of Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.Read more
Chairman of Health Preservation and Rehabilitation Medicine, China Society of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine; Chairman of Rehabilitation Facilities, Chinese Association of Medical Facilities. Director of Chinese Research Academy of Rehabilitation Industry, National Joint Engineering Research Center of Rehabilitation Medicine Technology, Fujian Collaborative Innovation Center of Rehabilitation Technology, Fujian Engineering Research Center of Rehabilitation, TCM Rehabilitation Research Center of State Administration of TCM. Fuzhou, China
Assoc. Prof Andrew Cole
Having grown up in SE Asia, Andrew Cole studied Medicine and did his speciality training in Sydney. He has been a Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine and conjoint academic with UNSW Medicine since 1985, currently at associate professorial level.Read more
He has worked successively in the St George area until 1990, then in East Asia until 1996, at Braeside Hospital until 2006, and since then with HammondCare in northern Sydney.
Kathy Dwyer
Kathy has worked as a physiotherapist in the field of spinal cord injury or impairment (SCI) for over 25 years. She worked in the inpatient spinal unit setting initially in Auckland and then in Christchurch for several years. For the past thirteen years she has been working in the community as part of an interdisciplinary team with individuals who have sustained SCI.Read more
In 2010 under the umbrella of the Altus Resource Trust Kathy started working in a voluntary capacity in Samoa and Tonga. The Altus Resource Trust is New Zealand based charity that works with organisations in the Pacific Islands who provide services for children and adults with disabilities. In the context of SCI, the aim is to work collaboratively with individuals who have sustained SCI and their families along with health providers in Samoa and Tonga to provide specialised management, education and equipment.
| Assoc Prof Steven Faux
Associate Professor Steven Faux is the Director of the Departments of Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney and a Conjoint Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of NSW and Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine the University of Notre Dame.
He has authored over 70 journal articles and received the Ko Awatea International Excellence award for patient safety in developing and translating evidence based guidelines in acute pain management for the elderly. Associate Professor Faux has conducted trials in device development for rehabilitation and has been funded by ARC grant for research into SMARTGLASSES for determining activities of daily living, unobtrusive sensors for detecting falls in hospital, Virtual reality for use in Stroke and Pain Management and conducted the first Australian RCT in tele-rehabilitation for Chronic Pain and the use of an online multidisciplinary resource for chronic pain. He has also received a LIEF grant to establish the National Facility of Human Robot Interaction Research with collaborators at UNSW, Australia.
Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Gutenbrunner
Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Gutenbrunner, FRCP is a specialist in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. He is the head of Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Germany. His specialty includes pain in musculoskeletal, neurological disorders, and others.Read more
He has also established Integrative Chinese Medicine at his department. In addition to clinical works, he has published many publications as peer-reviewed articles, chapters and books. Prof. Gutenbrunner has been appointed as a visiting professor in many universities worldwide. He has position as the President of German Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. At international level, he has served as the chair of ISPRM-WHO Liaison Committee. He has developed National Disability, Health and Rehabilitation Plan in Egypt, Ukraine and Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The most recent activity at international level, he is a founding member of Global Rehabilitation Alliance and become a Vice President of this organization.
Prof Maggie-Lee Huckabee
Prof Maggie-Lee Huckabee practiced as a clinical speech language pathologist for 15 years before the frustration of never knowing 'the answers' led her to an academic career. She is now Founder and Director of the University of Canterbury Rose Centre for Stroke Recovery and Research and Professor in the Department of Communication Disorders in Christchurch, New Zealand.Read more
She still hasn't found 'The Answers' but is trying, with research interests focusing on the complexities of behaviorally-driven neural adaptation and biomechanical change leading to swallowing recovery following neurological injury.
In her 15 year academic career, Maggie-Lee has co-authored three books, one of which is going into its 3rd edition, 14 book chapters and has published 80 peer reviewed scientific papers. A recent research programme has resulted in a reduction in pneumonia rates from 27 to 10%, with a subsequent savings in health care costs for the regional health board of over $1.5 million in one year. For this research, she was awarded one of the top research medals from the University of Canterbury – The Innovation Medal. She is well known as a clinical teacher and is an invited speaker by health systems worldwide to provide clinical training, particularly in rehabilitation practices.
Dr Patrick Kelly
Dr Patrick Kelly FRACP, ONZM is a paediatrician and Honorary Associate Professor in paediatrics in the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is Service Clinical Director of the Starship Children's Hospital child protection team (Te Puaruruhau), based in Puawaitahi, New Zealand's first multi-agency child advocacy centre.Read more
Dr Kelly has been involved in multi-disciplinary child protection, service development, teaching and research (particularly, research in abusive head trauma) since 1991. Dr Kelly has played a key role in the development of "Power to Protect", the national programme for the prevention of paediatric abusive head trauma funded by ACC. He has appeared as an expert witness in many criminal trials and runs annual training courses for paediatricians from throughout Australasia on the management of suspected child abuse. Dr Kelly was chair of the Child Protection Special Interest Group of the Paediatric Society of New Zealand for 12 years and was a founding member of the New Zealand National Child Mortality Review Committee and the New Zealand Family Violence Death Review Committee.
Prof Fary Khan
Professor Khan is the Director of Rehabilitation Services and Clinical Director, Australian Rehabilitation Research Centre at the Royal Melbourne Hospital; Clinical Professor, University of Melbourne; Adjunct Professor, Nossal Institute of Global Health and Monash University.Read more
She is the Chair-Elect, of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine - Disaster Rehabilitation Committee. She currently also holds over 20 of national/international executive positions and over 15 international academic research appointments.
She has a leadership role in rehabilitative care in Australia and extensive experience in evidence based research, for which has received numerous awards. She has published over 350 scientific papers in academic journals (including 20 Cochrane reviews, 20 book chapters), and is invited speaker at national and international conferences (over 60 presentations in last 5 years). She currently supervises 8 PhD and 3 MD students at the University of Melbourne. She is editor/reviewer for more than ten academic journals.
Prof Heakyung Kim
Heakyung Kim, MD serves as Vice Chair and A. David Gurewitsch Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine of Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical Center, Director of Pediatric PM&R at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital and at Blythedale Children's Hospital, New York, USA.Read more
She is founding director of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine fellowship program at New
She specializes in single event multilevel
Dr Witsanu Kumthornthip
Dr.Witsanu Kumthornthip is an Assistant Professor and the Chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. He is specialized in neurorehabilitation particularly sensorimotor problems, pain management, botulinum toxin injection, acupuncture and rehabilitation robotics.Read more
Dr. Witsanu's main ongoing research interests are motor disorders in neurological disease for example spasticity management, botulinum toxin injection in neurological diseases and other movement disorders, robotic gait training after stroke and other acquired brain injuries such as traumatic brain injury, and cerebral palsy, for example. He has been invited as a guest speaker more than hundred times for both local and international conferences and workshops. He has some textbook chapters and research publications. His latest research publication is Early abobotulinumtoxinA (Dysport®) in post-stroke adult upper limb spasticity: ONTIME pilot study. Toxins 2018;10, 253. doi:10.3390/toxins10070253. At present, he is also taking the position of Chairman of Educational Committee of the Asia-Oceanian Society for NeuroRehabilitation and a Regional Vice-President of the World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation (WFNR).
Dr Xiao Lan
Lan Xiao graduated from Beijing Medical University in 1984 with a bachelor degree of medicine, and went on to further education of advanced acupuncture. Lan moved to New Zealand in 1992 and set up an acupuncture clinic in Christchurch in 1993.Read more
Over the next five years, Lan engaged in research and clinical practice on nose acupuncture (using the nose as a microsystem for whole body treatment) which resulted in the publication of her first book, "Lan Xiao Nose Acupuncture" in 1998. Lan continued her research over the next 15 years which culminated in her identification of a comprehensive microsystems treatment system which she outlined in her book, "Dr. Lan's Reflexology Network" published in 2014. For the last 3 years Lan has continued to develop and refine her system and is presently writing her new book describing her holographic systems approach to treatment which will include her holograph diagrams which she hopes will make the system easy to apply to help spread this powerful system.
Dr Jianan Li
Jianan Li is a professor and chief doctor in rehabilitation medicine working as Chair of the Center of Rehabilitation Medicine, Jiangsu Province Hospital and President of the Zhongshan Rehabilitation Hospital, Nanjing, China.
Internationally, he is an international associate of National Academy of Medicine, USA and the Past President, International Society of Physical and Rehab Medicine as well as the associated editor, Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine.
In China, he is in leading position in the field of rehabilitation medicine, including the Immediate Past President of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation medicine and the Chinese Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. In addition, He is the Chief Editor, Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine.
Prof Jianjun Li
He once studied in Queen's University, Canada. He successively got professional training in many famous international rehabilitation institutions, including Sonny Brook Medical Center of Canada; National Spinal Cord Injury Center, Stoke Mandeville, England; Stuttgart University, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Japan National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities etc.Read more
Prof. Li Jianjun has directed more than 30 national, provincial and bureau-level as well as international scientific research projects. He has won 10 national patents or software copyright. He has published over 270 papers in core journals at home and abroad including 25 SCI papers. He compiled more than 50 books and textbooks as editor-in-chief or editor. He established surgical technique for thoracic respiratory reconstruction with high-level spinal cord injury, which was reported internationally for the first time.
Prof. Li Jianjun has been dedicated to orthopedics, treatment & rehabilitation of spine and spinal cord injury, geriatric rehabilitation, rehabilitation education, management of rehabilitation institute etc. for a long time with rich experience in clinical rehabilitation, scientific research, teaching as well as hospital management. He is the winner of many awards, including Special Government Allowance,"Humanistic Management Award" by Chinese Medical Association, "5th Chinese Doctor Nominee" by Chinese Medical Doctor Association, "Rick Hansen Difference Maker Award" by the world-renowned Rick Hansen Foundation. In addition, he participated in Paralympic Games both in London 2012 and Rio 2016 as the Chief Medical Officer of China Paralympic Games Delegation. performance). From 1995 until 2008 he worked as a consultant in rehabilitation medicine at Libra Rehabilitation and Audiology in Eindhoven. From may 2008 until may 2009 he worked as a research fellow at the George Institute of Global Health, affiliated with the University of Sydney, in Sydney, Australia. In June 2009 he was appointed professor in Rehabilitation Medicine and coordinated the research program rehabilitation medicine at the Maastricht University and Maastricht University Medical Centre the Netherlands and worked as a consultant in rehabilitation medicine at Maastricht University Medical Centre.
Prof Leonard Li
Prof. Leonard S.W. Li is Rehabilitation Director of Neurological Rehabilitation Centre of Virtus Medical Group, Hong Kong. His current academic positions include Honorary Clinical Professor of Department of Medicine of University of Hong Kong.Read more
Adjunct Professor of Department of Rehabilitation Sciences of Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Visiting Professor of Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine of Sun Yat-sen University in China. Internationally, he is taking the position of President of World Federation for Neurorehabilitation and President-elect of International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. His current research interest is in the field of Spasticity management, Robotic training and Neurostimulation with over 100 publications in the international peer review journals. He also sits in the Editorial Board of several international medical journals including "Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine", "Neurorehabilitation and Nerve Repair" and "Journal of International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine".
Mr Thomas Lin
Thomas Lin, Acupuncturist, Chinese Herbalist; Director of TCM Chinese Medical Centre; Committee member of WFAS (World Federation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Societies), Vice president of Acupuncture New Zealand (from 2012).
He has been working in ACC as the Asian Cultural Case Advisor, ACC treatment Provider; he has studied Chinese medicine and Western Medicine in China.
Mr Lin graduated in 1991 with degree of medicine. He has been practising Acupuncture and Chinese medicine in New Zealand since 1994. Mr Lin has provided Acupuncture treatment for musculature and nerve damage to more than 10000 clients. All his clients have had very successful result with rehabilitation.
The state of China invited Thomas to attend a study course of human health wellbeing lifestyle in Guangzhou University of TCM in 2017.
Prof Zhibiao Lu
Medical consultant of ShiSanHang (Thirteen Hongs of Canton) Traditional Chinese Medical Center, Adjunct lecturer of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Adjunct professor and director of acupuncture and massage rehabilitation department in Guangdong food and drug vocational college, TCM associate chief physician.Read more
Member of the Association of Chinese Medicine and the Association of Acupuncture. Former athlete injury and rehabilitation therapist of the Sports Administration Bureau of Guangzhou. Former chief sport injury rehabilitation physician of the Guangzhou soccer club. He has over 40 years of clinical experience and has conducted research. His is specialized in pain treatment combining Western medicine TCM, acupuncture, moxibustion,massage and rehabilitation. His acupuncture techniques adhere to tradition and result in effective treatment.
Dr John MacVicar
Dr. MacVicar was born and raised in the Scottish Highlands and educated at the University of Glasgow Medical School. He has lived and worked in Christchurch, New Zealand since 1980. He is vocationally registered in Musculoskeletal Medicine with the Medical Council of New Zealand and is the medical director of Southern Rehab.Read more
His main clinical interest is the evidence-based use of interventional procedures for the investigation and treatment of spine pain. He was trained in the application of these techniques through the Department of Clinical Research at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has been a member of the (International) Spine Intervention Society since 2004 and is the immediate Past President of the Society.
Boya Nugraha
Boya Nugraha, PhD is a research group leader in Rehabilitation Sciences, particularly rehabilitation and disability at health system level; and biosciences in rehabilitation and musculoskeletal pain at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Germany.Read more
He got his doctoral degree from Hannover Medical School. He is also active at international level, including as secretary of ISPRM-WHO Liaison Committee, and as co-chair strengthening rehabilitation medicine within this committee. He has published many review papers. His recent publications with the team including developing national disability, health and rehabilitation plan in Egypt, Ukraine, and Democratic People's Republic of Korea. He is also one of core team member to develop International Classification of Service Organization in Rehabilitation (ICSO-R) both version 1.0 and 2.0. Other his recent works including article about how to reduce gap rehabilitation for cancer survivors in low and middle-income countries.
Prof John Olver
Consultant Physician in Rehabilitation
In 2008 he was appointed as Chairman of the Clinical Institute of Rehabilitation, Psychiatry and Pain Management at Epworth HealthCare and in 2009 was appointed to the Victor Smorgon Chair of Rehabilitation Medicine, Epworth HealthCare and Monash University. He is Director of the Epworth Monash Rehabilitation Medicine Research Unit (EMReM), the medical research arm of Epworth HealthCare Rehabilitation. He is Clinical Director of the Australasian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre (AROC).
Dr Yohei Otaka
Dr. Yohei Otaka is a board-certified physiatrist and is an associate professor of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine I, School of Medicine, Fujita Health University, Aichi, Japan. He received his medical degree and
Besides numerous works as a clinician and clinical researcher, he has been involved in the startup of several distinct rehabilitation facilities in Japan, including Tokyo Bay Rehabilitation Hospital, Chiba, Japan (2007-) and the Convalescent Rehabilitation Units in Fujita Health University (2018-). In addition, he has been involved in the establishment of fall prevention programs for older people in the community (2004-). His research interests include stroke rehabilitation, robotics, dementia, and fall prevention.
Assoc. Prof Teerada Ploypetch
Teerada Ploypetch, MD serves as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.Read more
After graduated Thai board-certified physiatrist, Dr. Ploypetch completed Pediatric Rehabilitation fellowship (2 years visiting scholar) at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, USA.
Her main interests are in spasticity management, ultrasound-guided interventions, developmental problems and cerebral palsy. As an outstanding young professional, she won the International Scholarship in 2015 from the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM). Her researches have been published and presented at world congress/international conferences. She has been invited to give many national and international lectures/workshops on her expertise such as ultrasound-guided phenol/botulinum toxin injections, gait analysis, orthoses prescription, cerebral palsy, etc.
Jennie Ponsford
Jennie Ponsford, AO, BA (Hons), MA (Clin Neuropsych), PhD, MAPsS, is a Professor of Neuropsychology and Director of Clinical Programs in the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University and Director of the Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre at Epworth Hospital in Melbourne.Read more
She has spent 37 years engaged in clinical work and research with individuals with brain injury, investigating outcomes following mild, moderate and severe traumatic brain injury, factors predicting outcome and the efficacy of rehabilitative interventions. She has published over 300 journal articles and book chapters and two books on these subjects. She is Past-President of the International Neuropsychological Society, the International Association for the Study of Traumatic Brain Injury and the Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment (ASSBI), and serves on the Executive of the International Brain Injury Association and ASSBI. In 2013 she was awarded the Robert L. Moody prize for Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury and Rehabilitation and in 2015 the INS Paul Satz Career Mentoring Award. In 2017 she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for her distinguished contributions to neuropsychology and seminal advances in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of patients with traumatic brain injury.
Assoc. Prof Barry Rawicki
Associate Professor Barry Rawicki is a physician in rehabilitation medicine. He obtained his medical degree at the University of Melbourne in 1978, and his specialist qualifications in rehabilitation medicine in 1985. He was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Monash University in 1999.
He is the Medical Director of Paediatric Rehabilitation for the Victorian Paediatric Rehabilitation Service at Monash Children's Hospital in Melbourne. He is medical head of the Monash Health Clinical Gait Analysis Laboratory at Kingston Centre which performs 3D gait analysis on both adults and children. He is head of rehabilitation for Epworth Rehabilitation Brighton.
He has published more than 35 papers and two book chapters in these areas.
Prof Seyed Mansour Rayegani
Professor Seyed Mansour Rayegani received his doctoral degree in medicine in 1990 and the degree of physical and rehabilitation medicine from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 1993. After graduation, she launched a residency course on physical medicine and rehabilitation at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran.Read more
He is now a full professor and director of the department at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. He is also chairman of the Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Electrodiagnosis society and secretary of the PRM board in Iran. Membership in the editorial board of JISPRM journals, the Turkish journal of PRM, IJBPPN, the Application of LASER in medical science and Cancer prevention, as well as the editor of the journal of Physical medicine, rehabilitation and electrodiagnosis is another of his responsibilities. Directorate and founder of the Research Center for Physical and Rehabilitation medicine of Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and the establishment of a Fellowship for Spinal Cord Injury and spine rehabilitation are among his responsibilities. He published about 107 articles in medical journals. His professional interests include: Electrodianostic medicine, Neuromusculoskletal pain syndromes, SCI, MSK ultrasound (post graduate expert in MSK ultrasound certificate from UCAM university) and PRM research and education.
Assoc. Prof Reynaldo Rey-Matias
He is currently the Chairman and Associate Professor 2 of the St Luke's College of Medicine - Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine and a Clinical Associate Professor of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine.Read more
Presently the Vice President of the Asian Oceania Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine , the Pain Society of the Philippines and the Philippine Society for Neurorehabilitation.
Dr Robin Sekerak
Dr Robin Sekerak is a board-certified, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) physician from the US, and a Fellow of The Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine. She is board certified in Brain Injury Medicine. She is also a Hospice and Palliative Medicine physician. Her training in Brain Injury was through TIRR-Memorial Hermann, in the Texas Medical Center, part of the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems since 1987.Read more
She was invited to Waikato hospital in 2004 to help establish a Comprehensive Stroke Service, which brought her to New Zealand in 2005.
Prof Richard Siegert
Richard Siegert is Professor of Psychology and Rehabilitation at the Auckland University of Technology. His research interests include psychometrics, outcomes in mental health, palliative care and rehabilitation, goal setting and applying mindfulness techniques for people with chronic health conditions.Read more
Richard is on the editorial committee of the journals Disability and Rehabilitation and Mindfulness. He is an author on over 130 articles in international journals and an author of two popular textbooks on rehabilitation. His most recent book is Rehabilitation Goal Setting: Theory, Practice and Evidence published recently by CRC Press/Taylor and Francis.
Frances Simmonds
Frances Simmonds is a Senior Research Fellow with the Australian Health Services Research Institute (AHSRI) at the University of Wollongong, one of the largest and best known Health Services Research Centres in Australia.Read more
Her primary role is as the Director of AROC, the Australasian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre, the Australian and New Zealand national rehabilitation clinical registry, but she is also involved in other AHSRI projects. Frances' career within the health industry has spanned some 25 plus years, during which time she has held senior executive roles in the private and not-for-profit sectors before returning to research and academia at the University of Wollongong.
Dr Raj Singhal
Dr Raj Singhal is the clinical director of Adult Rehabilitation, Christchurch, New Zealand. He works in the field of Spinal injuries and specialises in acute management of Spinal cord injuries as well as the rehabilitation phase of these individuals.Read more
He worked in United Kingdom before coming to New Zealand. He trained at the world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in U.K. He holds U.K, South Africa, and NZ patents for a traction reduction device to reduce C-Spine fracture dislocations in a timely manner. The device is currently being used in Christchurch Public Hospital, NZ and Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, NZ. He is also involved in various other multi-centre trials focussing on improved outcomes for Spinal Cord injured Patients. Pressure Ulcers in SCI is one of the areas of special interest.
Prof Dr Rob Smeets
Prof. dr Rob J.E.M. Smeets (1964) is a consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine since 1995 and received his PhD in medicine in 2006 (topic effectiveness of different treatment modalities for chronic disabling low back pain and measuring performance).Read more
From 1995 until 2008 he worked as a consultant in rehabilitation medicine at Libra Rehabilitation and Audiology in Eindhoven.
From may 2008 until may 2009 he worked as a research fellow at the George Institute of Global Health, affiliated with the University of Sydney, in Sydney, Australia. In June 2009 he was appointed professor in Rehabilitation Medicine and coordinated the research program rehabilitation medicine at the Maastricht University and Maastricht University Medical Centre the Netherlands and worked as a consultant in rehabilitation medicine at Maastricht University Medical Centre.
Since 1-4-2016 he is working as a full professor at Maastricht University (0.4 fte) and consultant in rehabilitation medicine at Libra Rehabilitation and Audiology (location Eindhoven and Weert (0.6 fte clinical work and 0.1 fte research).
He specialized in the physical as well as cognitive behavioral treatments of chronic musculoskeletal pain and chronic fatigue patients and is responsible for the development, research and implementation of new diagnostic tools and treatments for these patients. He has successfully transferred the clinical department of Rehabilitation Medicine into an innovative academic working place and developed new diagnostic and treatment care pathways between primary and secondary care, especially in the field of musculoskeletal disorders.
Other research topics are mediating and moderating processes and clinimetrics of outcome measures including performance tasks. He has been involved in several (inter)national guideline committees, (past) chair of the International Association of the Study of Pain (IASP) special interest group op Pain & Movement, chair of scientific working group of the Dutch Association of Rehabilitation Medicine (2011-2014), and member (till 2014) of the scientific committee of the 7th World Congress of World Institute of Pain (2014). He is internationally recognized in the area of musculoskeletal pain research as well as rehabilitation medicine. He has served >70 times as keynote, obtained >5 million Euro of grants and co(authored) 124 international peer reviewed articles. Although he only started publishing in 2006, his work has been cited >4800 times and has an H-index of 29 (ISI Web of Knowledge) and 39 (Google Scholar). He has supervised 11 PhD's and 3 postdocs and is currently supervising 12 PhD's, including 2 PhD students in Sweden, 1 in Belgium and 1 from Germany. He is associate editor of Pain Practice, European Journal of Physiotherapy, and was associate editor of the Netherlands Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine (2011-2015), and guest editor for a special issue Clinical Journal of Pain (2010).
He is also member of the scientific advisory board of the Dutch association of back pain patients and Hereditary Multiple Osteochondromas and clinical advisory board of the Dutch Neuromuscular Diseases (Hereditary Spastic Paresis).
Dr Deborah Snell
Dr Deborah Snell, PhD is a registered neuropsychologist and consultant clinical psychologist with the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service at Burwood Hospital in Christchurch. She is also a Senior Research Fellow and Professional Practice Fellow with the University of Otago.Read more
Deborah has led research evaluating the impacts of psychological factors on outcomes after mild traumatic brain injury and has worked in specialty concussion clinics for many years. She collaborates with mild traumatic brain injury and rehabilitation researchers and clinicians from around New Zealand, Canada and the US. She is currently leading a Health Research Council funded study focusing on developing guidelines for managing psychological difficulties after mild traumatic brain injury in the NZ context.
Ken Stewart
Ken Stewart is based in Canterbury and has an academic background in epidemiology, neural science, clinical psychology and physiotherapy. For many years he has taught in post graduate programmes in Occupational Medicine, General Practice and Physiotherapy.Read more
He works professionally as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist in primary care and is Canterbury DHB clinical lead for Falls & Fragility Fracture Prevention. He is also on the NZ Health Quality & Safety Commission Expert Advisory Group for falls & fracture prevention and the South Island regional network lead. He has a leadership role for the Canterbury health system and holds numerous clinical governance positions across the Canterbury health system including Deputy Chair of the Alliance Leadership Team. Ken is the national clinical advisor to ACC and leading the outcomes work for a cross-agency nationwide initiative to prevent falls and fragility fractures for older New Zealanders.
Dr Cathy Stinear
Dr Cathy Stinear is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Auckland. Her research team works with people with stroke in acute and rehabilitation wards, exploring predictors and promoters of motor recovery.Read more
As a clinical neuroscientist, she is focused on translating research tools into clinical practice. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Stroke, Brain, and The Lancet Neurology.
Prof Areerat Suputtitada
Dr. Areerat Suputtitada is Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. She is an expert in the area of neurological rehabilitation, spasticity and dystonia, gait and motion, and pain.Read more
At the age of 36, she was the youngest physician appointed as a Professor in Thailand. She has received 14 national awards, 12 international awards, and published more than 60 international and 20 national articles in the areas of her expertise. Throughout her career, she has been invited to lecture as the keynote speakers, parallel and symposium speakers and as the chairpersons for over 100 international conferences around the world. Professor Dr. Areerat Suputtitada 's achievements had her elected and appointed as important positions in the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM) such as the Chair of Women and Health Task Force, International exchange Committee and Representative to the ISPRM Assembly of Delegates for Asia& Oceania.
| Professor Dr. Simon Fuk-Tan Tang
Professor Dr. Simon Fuk-Tan Tang, is the deputy superintendent of Lotung Poh Ai Hospital. He had been the chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and a full-time professor at Chang Gung University in Taipei, Taiwan.Read more
A graduate of the College of Medicine, National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, Dr. Tang completed his postdoctoral fellowship in restorative neurology and human neurobiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
Assoc. Prof Alice Theadom
Associate Professor Alice Theadom, PhD is a registered psychologist and Deputy Director of the National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neuroscience at Auckland University of Technology. Alice leads a research programme focusing on traumatic brain injury including clinical trials, longitudinal cohorts and qualitative studies of the recovery experience.Read more
Alice has a particular interest in the impact of mild injuries/concussion and understanding why some people recover well, whilst others have long term problems. Alice was involved in the development of the ACC traumatic brain injury strategy and sports concussion guidelines and is a member of an international consortium (CENTER-TBI) which aims to review international practice and develop clinical guidelines. Alice leads the new postgraduate training course in Rehabilitation Psychology at AUT.
John Thwaites
John Thwaites is Director of Medical Clinical Training at Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch New Zealand. He is on the Education Committee for the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ) and has been involved in the development of the MCNZ Curriculum Framework for prevocational medical training.Read more
He is a senior clinical lecturer with the University of Otago, Christchurch. He has a great interest in the continuum of medical education and training from under graduate to vocational specialist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and is a Consultant Geriatrician in clinical practice in Christchurch. His practice includes the multiple medical problems of older people and has a particular interest in perioperative medicine.
Prof Mouwang Zhou
Professor Mouwang Zhou is the chairman of Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Peking University Third Hospital since 2005. He is the vice chairman of Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine (CARM).
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Chairman elected of Chinese doctor association for Rehabilitation Medicine and chairman of Beijing Association of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine. His main interesting subjects are musculoskeletal rehabilitation, spine cord injure and management of neurologic bladder after SCI. He published 99 papers in the clinical and experimental research.


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"I'm curious by nature"
In her new film, Nicole Kidman plays a tormented, wholly unglamorous cop. In an interview, the Hollywood actor talks about mothering, her aversion to texting, and altering her appearance.
Mrs. Kidman, The #MeToo movement was started over a year ago to take a stand against the sexual harassment of women. Has it made any progress in the meantime?
I've been advocating for stronger laws to prevent violence against women for over 20 years, and it's quite obvious that many things have recently changed. Men are treating women very differently, and I have so much influence now that I think I can help and really make a difference. This includes supporting female directors' projects, like Karyn Kusama's film Destroyer.
In that movie, you play a troubled cop, Erin Bell, who is haunted by something that happened in her past. Have you ever been in trouble with the law?
No, luckily for me! But it meant I had to do a lot of preparation, like overcome my fear of guns and learn how to handle them. I was trained by army instructors and spent weeks doing target practice.
Were you a rebel when you were young?
Sure, I was pretty headstrong as a teenager. I'm naturally curious, so I always wanted to know what was taking place behind closed doors. That actually helped me follow my dream. I was determined to become an actor, so I had to learn to combine my stubbornness with a tactical approach in order to get what I wanted. It helped that I had a good sense for when it was time to strike a compromise with my parents.
Do you understand your mother better in retrospect, now that you have children of your own?
I understand life much better! I know what it means to raise children, to be patient and to love them unconditionally. To want to protect your family and be afraid of losing someone. I know how difficult it is to let your child make mistakes in order to learn from them. You cannot always save or protect your child from doing the wrong thing.
Raising children is hard work …
Yes, it sometimes takes a huge amount of effort! But you learn that you would do anything for your children, give everything up and change everything for them. What's most difficult of all is always wanting the best for your children. But protecting them from pain and suffering is not always in their best interest. Finding the middle road is incredibly hard for a mother.
First you made Aquaman, then Boy Erased, now Destroyer: How does a mother of four find the time to make so many movies in such quick succession?
My family comes with me. We don't like being separated for very long. So we became modern nomads, always on the road and with a private tutor in tow. When we're at home, though, the kids go to a regular school.
Is having such a supportive family what allows you to take on difficult, sometimes traumatic parts, in the first place?
Absolutely! I have a fantastic husband who is the mainstay of my career. What I mean is that Keith is a real man, not just a grown-up-looking boy. He's pragmatic and makes smart decisions. I wouldn't be able to manage any of it without him.
Is it true that the two of you never text?
Yes, that way we have to talk. If we have something to say to each other, we call each other on the phone. I want to hear his voice when we're discussing things. It's easier to understand someone's tone of voice than to interpret a text message. When they're in a passionate relationship, people often fight over misunderstandings that wouldn't have taken place if they had talked.
For the movie Destroyer, you changed your appearance to the point of unrecognizability. Aren't you even a little vain?
I like to dress up and wear pretty clothes, which is what I would call a healthy form of vanity. Bu I will do anything for a role! It actually felt fantastic to look so worn out and broken. I walked differently, talked differently, and nobody recognized me on the street. It was very interesting to observe people's reactions when they didn't immediately recognize me as Nicole Kidman. I was practically invisible.
My husband is fantastic, he's a real man, not just a grown-up-looking boy
Was it, shall we say, difficult for you to turn 50?
It isn't easy because my children are still small. I'm the oldest mom in my seven-year-old daughter's class. My hope, of course, is that I will be able to be there for my kids for a long time. I want to see them get married and meet my grandchildren. But most importantly of all, I want to maintain my enthusiastic approach to life.
What was the best decision you ever made?
No question about it: to get married and start a family. Being an actor is not as glamorous as it appears. Even the night after I won an Oscar, I went back to my hotel room and found myself alone, like Cinderella after the ball. That was extreme.
You and your husband, Keith Urban, have lived near Nashville, Tennessee, since 2007. How do people there react to you and your family?
Most of them couldn't care less. They might glance at us briefly, but nobody makes a fuss.
Did you move to the area because your husband is a musician and Nashville is a country music mecca?
When I got married, it didn't matter where we lived as far as my job was concerned, but for Keith and his work, Nashville was naturally important, and he's been there for 20 years. But the area suits me, too: I like to ride and work in the garden, where I grow roses and vegetables. I like country life, honestly.


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Red Backed Squirrel Monkey - Mono Titi
RED-BACKED SQUIRREL MONKEY (AKA MONO TITI) All monkeys in this gallery are wild. This sub-species of squirrel monkey(red backed squirrel monkeys) are highly endangered. They are found in Costa Rica along the corridor of Manuel Antonio National Park and the Osa Peninsula. They often visit local hotels and beg for food. Unfortunately, this practice is slowly killing these squirrel-sized monkeys. The sunscreen on tourists' hands acts as a poison, and some monkeys are electrocuted when they travel along hydro wires in search of tourists to feed them. I will donate 10% of all sales of any mono titi photograph to the Association for the Conservation of the Mono Titi. All images in this gallery were shot with a professional digital camera. Original captures of these photos were recorded in RAW. I offer rights managed and royalty free licenses for all stock photographs in this European Travel Gallery. Please contact me by by email or phone at (250) 475-9268 in Victoria, British Columbia to purchase a license for one of these photos. These images are also available as prints. You can use the shopping cart feature on this site to order directly from a professional photo lab.Read More


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Love Botswana necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 96 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Okavango International School
Okavango International School exists to provide an international standard of education to students of all backgrounds and prepare students to enter the international higher education system. The student is at the heart of everything at Okavango International School. The school strives to develop the students' full potential - physical, practical, moral, creative, and intellectual - that each individual might graduate a well educated, balanced, compassionate and tolerant member of the world society.
Bolstered by its unique placement in this environmental setting, the school advocates environmental protection and sustainable natural resource utilization. Okavango International School celebrates conservation, good stewardship, and Godly character.
With an enrollment of over 250 students in 2010, the school boasts a strong culture of discipline and high performance, and diversity is celebrated with pride.
Serving both primary and secondary students, Okavango International School provides an accelerated level of education over and above what is currently available in this region. The school curriculum prepares students for the University of Cambridge International General Certificate for Secondary Education (IGCSE) programme and allows them to easily transition into the University of Botswana.
We are targeting Africans and expatriates that want their children to have the very best education possible.
They are typically affluent, holding professional positions in corporations or governments living and working throughout Africa.
We want a logo that projects our values; conservation, good stewardship, Godly character and academic excellence.
We want a vintage collegiate look. Think shield or crest. Harvard, Cambridge, Yale type of logo with a slight African twist. Our school colors are forest green, khaki and navy blue.
The attached files is the basic look we are going for.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


text: 1 CPU frequency and voltage scaling code in the Linux(TM) kernel 2 3 4 L i n u x C P U F r e q 5 6 U S E R G U I D E 7 8 9 Dominik Brodowski <firstname.lastname@example.com> 10 11 12 13 Clock scaling allows you to change the clock speed of the CPUs on the 14 fly. This is a nice method to save battery power, because the lower 15 the clock speed, the less power the CPU consumes. 16 17 18Contents: 19--------- 201. Supported Architectures and Processors 211.1 ARM 221.2 x86 231.3 sparc64 241.4 ppc 251.5 SuperH 261.6 Blackfin 27 282. "Policy" / "Governor"? 292.1 Policy 302.2 Governor 31 323. How to change the CPU cpufreq policy and/or speed 333.1 Preferred interface: sysfs 34 35 36 371. Supported Architectures and Processors 38========================================= 39 401.1 ARM 41------- 42 43The following ARM processors are supported by cpufreq: 44 45ARM Integrator 46ARM-SA1100 47ARM-SA1110 48Intel PXA 49 50 511.2 x86 52------- 53 54The following processors for the x86 architecture are supported by cpufreq: 55 56AMD Elan - SC400, SC410 57AMD mobile K6-2+ 58AMD mobile K6-3+ 59AMD mobile Duron 60AMD mobile Athlon 61AMD Opteron 62AMD Athlon 64 63Cyrix Media GXm 64Intel mobile PIII and Intel mobile PIII-M on certain chipsets 65Intel Pentium 4, Intel Xeon 66Intel Pentium M (Centrino) 67National Semiconductors Geode GX 68Transmeta Crusoe 69Transmeta Efficeon 70VIA Cyrix 3 / C3 71various processors on some ACPI 2.0-compatible systems [*] 72 73[*] Only if "ACPI Processor Performance States" are available 74to the ACPI<->BIOS interface. 75 76 771.3 sparc64 78----------- 79 80The following processors for the sparc64 architecture are supported by 81cpufreq: 82 83UltraSPARC-III 84 85 861.4 ppc 87------- 88 89Several "PowerBook" and "iBook2" notebooks are supported. 90 91 921.5 SuperH 93---------- 94 95All SuperH processors supporting rate rounding through the clock 96framework are supported by cpufreq. 97 981.6 Blackfin 99------------ 100 101The following Blackfin processors are supported by cpufreq: 102 103BF522, BF523, BF524, BF525, BF526, BF527, Rev 0.1 or higher 104BF531, BF532, BF533, Rev 0.3 or higher 105BF534, BF536, BF537, Rev 0.2 or higher 106BF561, Rev 0.3 or higher 107BF542, BF544, BF547, BF548, BF549, Rev 0.1 or higher 108 109 1102. "Policy" / "Governor" ? 111========================== 112 113Some CPU frequency scaling-capable processor switch between various 114frequencies and operating voltages "on the fly" without any kernel or 115user involvement. This guarantees very fast switching to a frequency 116which is high enough to serve the user's needs, but low enough to save 117power. 118 119 1202.1 Policy 121---------- 122 123On these systems, all you can do is select the lower and upper 124frequency limit as well as whether you want more aggressive 125power-saving or more instantly available processing power. 126 127 1282.2 Governor 129------------ 130 131On all other cpufreq implementations, these boundaries still need to 132be set. Then, a "governor" must be selected. Such a "governor" decides 133what speed the processor shall run within the boundaries. One such 134"governor" is the "userspace" governor. This one allows the user - or 135a yet-to-implement userspace program - to decide what specific speed 136the processor shall run at. 137 138 1393. How to change the CPU cpufreq policy and/or speed 140==================================================== 141 1423.1 Preferred Interface: sysfs 143------------------------------ 144 145The preferred interface is located in the sysfs filesystem. If you 146mounted it at /sys, the cpufreq interface is located in a subdirectory 147"cpufreq" within the cpu-device directory 148(e.g. /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ for the first CPU). 149 150cpuinfo_min_freq : this file shows the minimum operating 151 frequency the processor can run at(in kHz) 152cpuinfo_max_freq : this file shows the maximum operating 153 frequency the processor can run at(in kHz) 154cpuinfo_transition_latency The time it takes on this CPU to 155 switch between two frequencies in nano 156 seconds. If unknown or known to be 157 that high that the driver does not 158 work with the ondemand governor, -1 159 (CPUFREQ_ETERNAL) will be returned. 160 Using this information can be useful 161 to choose an appropriate polling 162 frequency for a kernel governor or 163 userspace daemon. Make sure to not 164 switch the frequency too often 165 resulting in performance loss. 166scaling_driver : this file shows what cpufreq driver is 167 used to set the frequency on this CPU 168 169scaling_available_governors : this file shows the CPUfreq governors 170 available in this kernel. You can see the 171 currently activated governor in 172 173scaling_governor, and by "echoing" the name of another 174 governor you can change it. Please note 175 that some governors won't load - they only 176 work on some specific architectures or 177 processors. 178 179cpuinfo_cur_freq : Current frequency of the CPU as obtained from 180 the hardware, in KHz. This is the frequency 181 the CPU actually runs at. 182 183scaling_available_frequencies : List of available frequencies, in KHz. 184 185scaling_min_freq and 186scaling_max_freq show the current "policy limits" (in 187 kHz). By echoing new values into these 188 files, you can change these limits. 189 NOTE: when setting a policy you need to 190 first set scaling_max_freq, then 191 scaling_min_freq. 192 193affected_cpus : List of CPUs that require software coordination 194 of frequency. 195 196related_cpus : List of CPUs that need some sort of frequency 197 coordination, whether software or hardware. 198 199scaling_driver : Hardware driver for cpufreq. 200 201scaling_cur_freq : Current frequency of the CPU as determined by 202 the governor and cpufreq core, in KHz. This is 203 the frequency the kernel thinks the CPU runs 204 at. 205 206bios_limit : If the BIOS tells the OS to limit a CPU to 207 lower frequencies, the user can read out the 208 maximum available frequency from this file. 209 This typically can happen through (often not 210 intended) BIOS settings, restrictions 211 triggered through a service processor or other 212 BIOS/HW based implementations. 213 This does not cover thermal ACPI limitations 214 which can be detected through the generic 215 thermal driver. 216 217If you have selected the "userspace" governor which allows you to 218set the CPU operating frequency to a specific value, you can read out 219the current frequency in 220 221scaling_setspeed. By "echoing" a new frequency into this 222 you can change the speed of the CPU, 223 but only within the limits of 224 scaling_min_freq and scaling_max_freq. 225


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Dysis is a creative voxel-based real time strategy and first person shooter hybrid. You are given an army of robots, the ability to manipulate your environment, and the task of escaping the Dysis. The land is infinite, hostile and mysterious. You must explore, research and survive. You've just crash landed; your journey begins with limited resources and the knowledge that you will be facing wave after wave of hostile enemies. You must engage or evade them to survive. You can hide your crash site and base by manipulating the world around you, block by block, or you can bring the fight to the enemy first-hand by piloting a robot and leading your army to victory!
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In all, since MTS launched the program in 2006, more than 330,000 special cards have been distributed to military personnel in countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the company's support of Jack Beckman, who races the Valvoline/Mail Terminal Services Dodge Funny Car for Don Schumacher Racing.
"We exceeded our high-level goal this year due to the efforts of all the people at the terminals, the fans and everyone who supports NHRA drag racing," said Comstock. "With everyone's help the program was able to put smiles and a touch of home to 125 to 130 thousand troops in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Soldiers in the war zones receive a package of post cards with individual messages on them, autographed "hero" cards from the Valvoline/MTS team and other DSR teams, as well as National Dragster and Drag Racing Action magazines. Fans are asked to sign and write messages on these unique post cards at the Don Schumacher Racing hospitality area and the U.S. Army kiosk in the manufacturers' midway at each event.
"The program may not seem as significant when we're in the NHRA pits, but when you see the messages posted on bulletin boards, outside tents and in fox holes all over the rough terrain of places like Afghanistan and Iraq, that's where it plays an important role," added Comstock.
"Literally, MTS employees spent thousands of hours working on this program. The San Francisco terminal was our lead terminal and they would take their lunch hours and breaks and would fill out cards just to make sure that they got enough cards to send over there.
"The tribute first is to the troops who make everything safe for us and the second is to the people who care enough about them to do what they do for them."
Said Beckman, "As a former Air Force sergeant, I can tell you that every day that you get positive mail your outlook for that day improves. So, I think what the 'Mail From Home' program has done over the years is help nearly a third of a million soldiers have a better day due to the small effort on behalf of the fans.
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Fans who are unable to visit the NHRA events but would like to participate in the "Mail From Home" program and send a "Mail From Home" package to a specific soldier, should send the soldier's APO mailing address to firstname.lastname@example.com. MTS will be pleased to help brighten the day of a soldier.


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After reading this thread, I did re-examine my LR printing workflow and learned that if one does not check the resolution box to specify a printing resolution and checks the dimensions in the guides panel, the linear size and pixel dimensions of the printed image are shown (as illustrated below). In his LR4 book, Martin Evening suggests not checking the resolution box in which case LR will send the full resolution to the printer and the downsizing will be done by the printer driver. I think it would be better to initially leave the resolution box unchecked and obtain a readout of the print resolution. With the Epson printer, one would then enable print resolution and use 360 ppi if the indicated resolution is less than 360 and 720 for a resolution greater than 760.
For best quality, it might be preferable to resize in Photoshop.
I dont know ... i was intrigued so I looked at it. With no real GUI I just couldnt bring myself into trying to figure out installation and the command line interface.
I think it is interesting to know and understand how stuff works, when things start to break down, and how far quality can be stretched if one is willing to pay the price. Like you, I prefer the comfort of doing most of my stuff inside Lightroom, even if there might be some slight quality hit.
One other question for the forum. Jeff in the past had recommended 240 dpi for larger prints 16 x 20 and up and 1440 on the printer, Epson. I have always worked on the principal that Epson's will do best with 180,240,360 and 720 for the print and 1440 dpi for the printer on larger prints.
For 20 x 30 and up most times I will use 240dpi for the print and 1440 on the printer as uprezing to 360dpi most time just does not give the best looking output. Phase One images I tend to use 300dpi but I can get them to 360 easily enough.
Personally I just have never found a good software solution for uprezing that holds the finer details that the Epson printers can produce. Uprezing say a 20 x30 at 240dpi to a 40 x 60 at 240 or 360dpi. For that I tend to go to 180dpi.
The printer driver will then automatically upsample from 180 to 360 PPI (= native printer driver resolution) with an inferior (usually bi-linear) algorithm, do no re-sharpening, and leave unused quality on the table.
That's correct, even though the specific answer mentioned above was in relation to upsampling, deconvolution sharpening, and down-sampling again to the original size. Down-sampling image detail that exceeds the highest spatial frequencies of the smaller size will lead to aliasing artifacts, and the various resampling filters produce different artifacts as a result. Bi-cubic sharper produces horrible aliasing, even regular bicubic down-sampling improves with a prior blurring of the highest spatial frequencies. In the specific up/down-sampling suggestion, there will be little image detail to cause trouble (even with bicubic) because there is not much aliasing potential.
As for Output sharpening use, this video offers a reasonably good workflow explanation (using the older version of Detail, the newer version offers more tools such as masking thus reducing the need for Photoshop), although I'd also pay more attention to the "Deblur" panel, because it can mitigate some of the up-sampling blur. Good up-sampling generally should try to avoid adding big halos, and therefore produces low detail contrast which can be compensated for by deconvolution.
Bart, as of three years ago, it was even worse that that with the Epson 3880 driver; it used nearest-neighbor.http://blog.kasson.com/?p=487
Thanks for the detailed reply. The information concerning alaising when downsizing with bicubic sharper is of particular concern to me, since I am using the Nikon D800e, which does not have a low pass filter and thus already has alaising in that regard.
As I am rather naive in the tools available, I have stuck to LR . I am interested in using a better output workflow. Either going with perfect resize and then sharpening with topaz detail OR printing directly through LR using qimAge fusion. I am still unclear on the steps for each workflow-and the considerations necessary to properly choose the right amount of sharpening.
Many references state that you cannot judge output sharpening on the display before printing even if you look at the image at 300% (the scaling necessary to view a 300 dpi image on a 100 dpi screen).
My response "no scaling after sharpening" was in reference to do image resampling before sharpening...if you were to then downsample then of course you would want to add sharpening because downsampling introduces softness.Personally, since I use Lightroom (and usually large captures) the only resampling I do is in the LR Print module and I apply output sharpening where LR upsamples 1st and then sharpens...As for the upsampling %'s, I've pretty much moved away from that (in part because of Bart's tests) and also since I don't do upsampling in Photoshop for the most part-although Photoshop CC's new "Preserve Details" option in Image Size is very interesting. If I were to need to do a massive upsample of a small original, I would prolly take a look at doing it in PS CC.
But in LR, in Develop module we first apply lots of sharpening/creative sharpening then we move to print module for upsampling then again using output sharpening just before printing so at least in LR, like it or not, part of sharpening happens before resampling. Am I right?
... A zoom setting to preview the image at the final output size would be nice, but such functionality was also removed from Photoshop CC (a 'print size' button is still present in Photoshop CS6 on Windows OS) because it apparently generated too many support questions about how to set up the system.
Hi,[...]A zoom setting to preview the image at the final output size would be nice, but such functionality was also removed from Photoshop CC (a 'print size' button is still present in Photoshop CS6 on Windows OS) because it apparently generated too many support questions about how to set up the system.Cheers,Bart