Episode 50: Headline Patrol

Guests: Sam Maddox

Jason and Matthew talk with U2FP's Scientific Advisory Board Director, Sam Maddox, about U2FP’s new Headline Patrol and how to read the news about SCI research. Headlines and media coverage of research can often be misleading. Sam talks about his years following and covering SCI research. He provides a number of suggestions for what to look for, what terms are critical to understand in order to have a better grasp of what the announcement really means for those in the SCI community.

You can check out Sam’s compendium to this episode here: Companion Guide to Headline Patrol podcast. Use it to sift news stories that come across your feed.

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Bumper music: Dig a Hole by Freaque (SCI musician)

Guest Bios

Sam Maddox is former Knowledge Manager and spinal cord injury research writer for the Reeve Foundation. He is the author of several books related to chronic health and paralysis, including four editions of the Paralysis Resource Guide, published by the Reeve Foundation. In 1992 Maddox wrote the first comprehensive history of spinal cord injury research, The Quest for Cure: Restoring Function After Spinal Cord Injury. He wrote and published the widely acclaimed resource book Spinal Network, and is founder of New Mobility magazine. Maddox was a panel member on The Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine, which develops and disseminates evidence-based clinical practice guidelines to professionals and consumers. He is currently writing and producing books as a resource for the newly injured: SCI: First 90 Days. He has been a reporter for many magazines, including Time, Money and People. Maddox is a graduate of the University of Colorado, where he taught in the School of Journalism. Email Sam at sammaddox@u2fp.org.