Confirmed Speakers

Bill Barrable
The Rick Hansen Institute, Canada

William A. Bauman, MD
James J. Peters VA Medical Center, USA

Fin Biering-Sørensen, MD, DMSc
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Marc Buoniconti
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, USA

Victoria Claydon, PhD
Simon Fraser University, Canada

Armin Curt, MD, FRCPC
Balgrist University Hospital, Switzerland

Marcel Dvorak, MD, FRCSC
University of British Columbia, Canada

Stacy L. Elliott, MD
University of British Columbia, Canada

James Fawcett, PhD
Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, United Kingdom

Michael Fehlings, MD PhD FRCSC FACS
Toronto Western Hospital, Canada

Kenneth Galbraith
Ventures West Capital Ltd., Canada

Robert G. Grossman, MD
The Methodist Hospital, USA

James D. Guest, MD, PhD, FRCS (C), FACS
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, USA

Susan Harkema, PhD
University of Louisville, USA

Rick Hansen, CC, OBC
Rick Hansen Foundation, Canada

James S. Harrop, MD
Thomas Jefferson University, USA

Keith C. Hayes, PhD
University of Western Ontario, Canada

Stephen Huhn, MD, FACS, FAAP
StemCells, Inc. (USA)

Steven Kirshblum, MD
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, USA

Andrei Krassioukov, MD, PhD, FRCPC
University of British Columbia, Canada

Ray Kurzweil
Kurzweil Technologies (USA)

Brian Kwon, MD, PhD, FRCSC
University of British Columbia, Canada

Jane Lebkowski, PhD
Geron Corporation, USA

Kathleen Martin Ginis, PhD
McMaster University, Canada

Lisa McKerracher, PhD
BioAxone BioSciences Inc., USA

Wendy Nicklin
Accreditation Canada, Canada

Luc Noreau, PhD
Université Laval, Canada

P. Hunter Peckham, PhD
Cape Western Reserve University, USA

Aaron A. Phillips, MSc
University of British Columbia, Canada

Arthur Prochazka, PhD
University of Alberta, Canada

Ann M. Spungen, EdD
James J. Peters VA Hospital, USA

Charles Tator, PhD, MD
Toronto Western Hospital, Canada

Jack Taunton, MSc, MD
University of British Columbia, Canada

Wolfram Tetzlaff, PhD
University of British Columbia, Canada

Catherine Truchon, PhD, MSc.Adm 
University of Toronto

Darren Warburton, PhD
University of British Columbia, Canada

Jill M. Wecht, EdD
James J. Peters VA Medical Center, USA

Christopher West, PhD
University of British Columbia, Canada

Peter T. Wilderotter
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, USA

Stephanie Williams, PhD
The Spinal Cord Injury Network, Australia

Ed Wirth III, MD, PhD
InVivo Therapeutics, USA

Shirley Wong
University of British Columbia, Canada

Jean-Jacques Wyndaele, MD
Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium

Wise Young, MD, PhD
Rutgers University, USA

Mouwang Zhou, MD
Peking University 3rd Hospital, China
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