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Director of Neurosurgery, Lenox Hill Hospital Professor of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Dr. Winn joined the faculty of the Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai in 2003 as Director of Research. His own interest in Neurosurgical research began in 1971: as part of the University of Virginia residency, Dr. Winn spent [...]

Canada Research Chair in Spinal Cord Injury Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Career Scholar Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia Dr. Kwon specializes in the surgical management of adult spinal disorders. Dr. Kwon earned a medical degree from Queen’s University, then completed his orthopaedic surgical residency at UBC in 2000. Following [...]

Spinal Cord Injury causes many changes at the molecular level that damage or destroy key components of the nervous system that carry signals to and from the brain – including neurons, axons and the myelin coating that protects the nervous system much like the insulation around an electrical cord, as well as the vascular infrastructure that carries [...]

Dr. McDonald graduated from the University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana in 1985 with Bachelor’s of Science degree, magna cum laude, in Neuroscience. From there he matriculated at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he began a combined M.D./Ph.D. program in the Medical Scientists Training Program (MSTP) that he completed in 1992. While pursuing his [...]

Dr. Kerr is an Associate Professor of Neurology with a joint appointment in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology; and Cellular and Molecular Medicine. He specializes in transverse myelitis and multiple sclerosis. Dr. Kerr has established the Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center which is the only such center in the entire world. The center utilizes the [...]

Presented, “Translational Research in Spinal Cord Injury” at the 2010 The International Conference of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Taiwan.

Presented, “Cell Therapy in Peripheral Nerve Injury from Bench to Clinical Work” at the 2010 The International Conference of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Taiwan.

Presented, “Surgical Viewpoint for Early Spinal Cord Injury” at the 2010 The International Conference of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Taiwan.

Presented, “Clinical trial of bone marrow stem cells in spinal cord injury” at the 2010 The International Conference of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Taiwan.

Presented, “Clinical trial of fetal neural stem cells for Parkinson’s disease” at the 2010 The International Conference of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Taiwan.