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Jul

Dr. Fionn MacPartlin: “Manipulating Lower Limb Muscle Moment Arms to Optimise Adaptation

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Abstract:

Increasing strength and cross-sectional area of a muscle is a commonly targeted adaptation in rehabilitation and performance enhancement. The initial stage of structural adaptation is known as mechanotransduction. This process describes how mechanical cues are sensed by the muscle leading to a biological response. Important factors for this response include the magnitude and duration of mechanical tension, which will depend largely on the external load applied and the muscle s capacity to contribute to joint torques. This capacity will depend on factors such as muscle moment arms and intrinsic muscle-tendon properties. With consideration to these factors, I will discuss and question the assumptions we can make in the applied setting of elite sport to guide exercise selection and execution to maximize the stimulus to the muscle.

Speaker Info:

Fionn currently leads the strength & conditioning support at the Intensive Rehabilitation Unit with the English Institute of Sport/British Olympic Association. Here he works as part of an interdisciplinary team to provide intensive rehabilitation to Olympic athletes and collaborates with practitioners throughout the English Institute of Sport network in the areas of loading strategies and diagnostics/athlete profiling. Fionn moved to the UK in 2010 and completed an MSc in Sport & Exercise Science at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He then worked for the Sport Wales Institute until 2016, leading delivery to several sports including boxing, judo, gymnastics and cycling. Fionn also provides consultancy in the application of strength diagnostics in rehabilitation, and integrated physical preparation to professional athletes and teams.

Jul

BMG Guest Seminar Speaker: Gloria V. Echeverria, PhD

Chicago - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics presents:

Gloria V. Echeverria, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology
The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Talk Title: Investigating Clonal Dynamics and Phenotypic Evolution of
Chemo Resistance and Metastasis in Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Jul

TIME Lecture: TIME-ly Projects from the Medical Educator Certificate Program

Chicago - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

TIME-ly Projects from the Medical Educator Certificate Program

Speakers:

John T Brinkmann, CPO
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Assessment Criteria for PTB Impressions A Delphi Study

Rachel B Kadakia, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Endocrinology)
A Hands-On Simulation Model to Teach Breast Tanner Staging to Pediatric Residents

Brenda B Suh-Lailam, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Development of a Comprehensive Pediatric Clinical Pathology Resident Rotation Curriculum

Rachel S Tappan, DPT
Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences
Rubric Development for Vestibular Rehabilitation Practical Exams in Entry-Level DPT Education

Tuesday, July 16th, 2018
4:00-5:00pm
Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center
Baldwin Auditorium
303 East Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60611

Learning Objectives

At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Introduce educational projects completed by Feinberg Faculty in the Medical Education Certificate Program.
2. Demonstrate how educational projects serve as needs assessment for larger curricula.
3. Relate how educational projects can translate into educational scholarship and academic productivity.

Credit Designation Statement

The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) . Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement

Drs. John Brinkmann, Rachel Kadakia, Brenda Suh-Lailam, and Rachel Tappan have nothing to disclose. Course director Dr. Walter Eppich has nothing to disclose. FSM s CME Leadership and Staff have nothing to disclose: Clara J. Schroedl, MD, Medical Director of Continuing Medical Education, Sheryl Corey, Manager of Continuing Medical Education, Jen Banys, Rhea Alexis Banks and Allison McCollum.

Accreditation Statement

The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Jul

Steer Your Research Career

Chicago - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

This panel presentation is for postdocs, fellows, & graduate students in the Feinberg School of Medicine to learn about resources to fund your early research career. Join representatives from the Feinberg School of Medicine Office of Foundation Relations, Northwestern University Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute, and the Northwestern University Office of Fellowships as they help trainees looking for early career funding and grant writing support. There will be ample time for questions and a box lunch will be provided. RSVP is required.

Jul

Dr. Levi Hargrove: Pattern Recognition Based Control of Bionic Arms and Legs.

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Aug

1st Chung Lee International Lecture Series- Jin Woo Chang, MD, PhD: President Korean Neurousurgical Society.

Chicago - 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

Neurosurgery Grand Rounds

Aug

Health Equity by Design: Tailoring your Biosketch for Health Equity Proposals

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Health Equity by Design Summer Series

Design Thinking for Health Equity Workshop: Critical and Creative Considerations when Challenging Health Disparities-Maria Young
Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Time: 9am-10:30am
Location: Lurie - Searle Seminar Room

Tailoring your Biosketch for Health Equity Proposals- Q. Eileen Wafford, MSt, MLIS
Date: Friday, August 2, 2019
Time: 12pm-1pm
Location: 633 N. St. Clair Suite 1800 - Theater Room 18-055

What Journals look for in Health Equity Centered Publications- Philip Greenland, MD
Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Time: 12pm-1pm
Location: McGaw - Kellerman Classroom (McGaw 2-322)

For more information please contact us at healthequity@northwestern.edu.

Aug

Dr. Mehdi Mirbagheri: Neurorehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy: Predicting the recovery patterns of neurophysiological factors contributing to gait and balance impairments.

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Aug

CHETchat: Hidden Figures ChicagoCHEC Book Club

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

CHETchat: Hidden Figures ChicagoCHEC Book Club

Join us as we kick off our One Book Northwestern - Hidden Figures Summer Series

Please RSVP here

Aug

Dr. Jose Pons: Technology-based neurorehabilitation and clinical assessment.

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Aug

Distinguished Simpson Querrey Center for Epigenetics Lecturer: Stuart L. Schreiber, PhD

Chicago - 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The Simpson Querrey Center for Epigenetics presents:

Stuart L. Schreiber
Co-Founder, Broad Institute
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University

Aug

Health Equity by Design: What Journals look for in Health Equity-Centered Publications

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Health Equity by Design Summer Series

Join us for a series of workshop sessions dedicated to advancing the health equity lens of your research development, implementation, and dissemination, hosted by the Center for Health Equity Transformation.
Design Thinking for Health Equity Workshop: Critical and Creative Considerations when Challenging Health Disparities-Maria Young
Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Time: 9am-10:30am
Location: Lurie - Searle Seminar Room

Tailoring your Biosketch for Health Equity Proposals- Q. Eileen Wafford, MSt, MLIS
Date: Friday, August 2, 2019
Time: 12pm-1pm
Location: 633 N. St. Clair Suite 1800 - Theater Room 18-055

What Journals look for in Health Equity Centered Publications- Philip Greenland, MD
Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Time: 12pm-1pm
Location: McGaw - Kellerman Classroom (McGaw 2-322)

For more information please contact us at healthequity@northwestern.edu.

Aug

Dr. Mark D'Esposito: The modular brain.

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Abstract:

What type of system is the brain? The brain is widely assumed to be one of many modular systems in nature, which are thought to be computational tractable and favored by evolution. While focal brain lesions lead to very specific cognitive deficits, suggesting a modular structure, other focal lesions can have a widespread impact on cognition, suggesting that some cognitive processes emerge from interactions between many brain regions that are not functionally organized as modules. Thus, how information is functionally segregated yet integrated across brain modules remains an open question. In this talk, I will discuss a series of empirical findings from fMRI studies that begin to elucidate the neural architecture of modular processing by showing that brain modules execute discrete processes and connector hubs are likely integrating and sending information across modules in support of goal-directed cognition. I will also discuss how a better understanding of this type of large scale organization of the brain may lead to new approaches in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of cognitive disorders.

Speaker Info:

Mark D Esposito, M.D. is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, and Director of the Henry H. Wheeler Jr. Brain Imaging Center at University of California, Berkeley. He is also currently the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. His lab investigates the neural mechanisms underlying working memory, cognitive control and frontal lobe function utilizing different convergent experimental approaches such as functional MRI, transcranial magnetic stimulation, pharmacological interventions and behavioral studies of healthy individuals and those with neurological disorders. He has over 375 research publications, written and edited six books, and received numerous competitive NIH research grants. He has trained over 75 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows and received many clinical and academic awards.

Sep

SQE Distinguished Lecturer: Daniel K. Nomura, PhD

Chicago - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

The Simpson Querrey Center for Epigenetics presents:

Daniel K. Nomura, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley

Sep

Dr. Monica Perez: Reorganization of the corticospinal tract after human spinal cord injury.

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Sep

Ms. Joanna Butchart, Senior PT: Developing a socially assistive robot for Paediatric Rehabilitation.

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Sep

Narahashi Lecture: Nieng Yan, Ph.D.

Chicago - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Nieng Yan, Ph.D.
Shirley M. Tilghman Professor of Molecular Biology
Princeton University

Sep

Alzheimer's Disease Seminar Series: Modulation of neuroinflammation in FTLD-TDP

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Qinwen Mao, MD, PhD | Associate Professor of Pathology | Neuropathology Fellowship Program Director | Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Sep

Lou and Jean Malnati Brain Tumor Institute Series: Guest Michael D. Taylor, MD

Chicago - 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

Neurosurgery Grand Rounds

Sep

SQE Invited Speaker: Michael Washburn, PhD

Chicago - 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

The Simpson Querrey Center for Epigenetics presents:

Michael Washburn, PhD

Director of Proteomics Center
Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
The University of Kansas Medical Center, Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Sep

Genetics and Biology of the Human Circadian System - Louis Ptáček, MD

Chicago - 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine welcomes you to attend a lecture featuring:

Louis Pt ek, MD
John C. Coleman Distinguished Professorship in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Professor of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco

Sleep contributes to our physical and mental health, and sleep perturbation has been linked to many health conditions. However, understanding of the human circadian system was impossible until the recognition of extreme behavioral variants of the human circadian system. The Mendelian trait of familial advanced sleep phase (FASP) 20 years ago opened up the possibility of identifying human genes and mutations that regulate the human clock. We have been studying many FASP families to identify such genetic variant and to probe the in vitro and in vivo functional consequences of such variants. These studies have led to many novel insights into the human circadian clock. Our work over the last 20 years has now culminated with reported estimates of FASP prevalence that is much higher than anyone could have predicted before. The resource of human families is leading to identification of novel circadian genes.

Dr. Louis Pt ek has used the tools of human genetics in the study of patients with an impressive range of human phenotypes. He pioneered the field of Channelopathies which encompasses a large group of episodic/electrical disorders of muscle, heart, and brain. His earliest work focused a group of rare episodic muscle diseases he had proposed as models for more complex episodic/electrical disorders like cardiac arrhythmias and epilepsy. In an elegant set of papers, he systematically cloned and characterized all the genes causing a variety of familial periodic paralyses. All encode ion channels and work from his and other labs has shown that homologs of these are the cause of some forms of cardiac arrhythmias, epilepsy, and migraine headache. Subsequently, his group has done extensive work in characterizing the functional consequences of disease causing mutations.

To this point, Pt ek s work had focused on human diseases. In another line of work motivated by a family with an interesting phenotype, he has now embarked into the challenging field of behavioral genetics. He and his colleague, Ying-Hui Fu, study the genetics of human sleep phenotypes. Familial advanced sleep phase (FASP), is manifest as a lifelong trait of extremely early sleep times and early morning awakening (1 am 4 am). Pt ek and Fu have gone on to characterize mutations in a growing list of genes that underlie the phenotype in 15% of FASP families. Furthermore, they ve gone on to model human mutations in Drosophila and mice. In vitro and in vivo experiments focused on regions harboring the human mutations has led to novel insights in fine tuning of circadian period regulation by phosphorylation and other post translational modifications.

He serves on a number editorial boards including Neurogenetics, eLife, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Association of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Science.

Sep

Pharmacology Seminar: Stephen F. Traynelis, Ph.D.

Chicago - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Stephen F Traynelis, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology
Emory University School of Medicine

Feb

Mechanisms in Aging and Dementia (MAD) Training Grant Day

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM