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Atlanta 2024

Bring Your Point of View

U2FP's Annual Symposium brings together the major stakeholder groups in curative treatments - Scientists, Clinicians, Industry, Funders and the Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Community - all while centering the voice and perspective of those who live with the injury.

Hear from SCI research and advocacy experts as U2FP contextualizes and unpacks their key findings with moderated Q&A sessions and panel discussions. These two days are laser focused on accelerating the pace and quality of functional recovery from spinal cord injury!

Symposium Highlights

Check out just a few of the many highlights from last year's Symposium in Minneapolis (below).

2023 Symposium

Traci Fernandez uses her epidural stimulator to stand and transfer following a talk by Sakina Valika (PT, DPT, NCS, MSCS) this past October.
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Noam Y. Harel, (MD, PhD) co-presents with Jill Wecht (EdD): One Center’s Road from Investigator-centric Academic Research toward Participant-oriented Rehabilitation Progress.
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Amanda Herrmann (left) of HealthPartners Institute with U2FP’s Social Media Strategist, Jordan Bolton (center) along with Tiffany Elliott (right), an Occupational Therapist & SCI Clinical Researcher at the University of Minnesota.
Murray Blackmore (PhD, left) of Marquette University with Jason Biundo (right) a research assistant in the Zhigang He Lab at Harvard Medical School. Watch Murray on the Regeneration Panel.
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Nekey Oliver (MEd) of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education, talks about the impact of the SCI/TBI Minnesota Research Grant Program, legislation the SCI community passed in 2017.
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Zachary Wagner speaking on the Estim Participant Panel.
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Mackenzie Wann (center) talks with Hans Jeong (right), a University of Minnesota medical student, during the poster session.

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2024 Sponsors

Special thanks to Emory Neurotrauma Translational Research Center (ENTiRe), this year's Title Sponsor!

Join the leading research institutions, biotech companies, funders and community organizations and become a sponsor of this year's symposium.