BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:MDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:MST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250320T212025Z UID:EE91886B-4EA0-457D-BE52-4D49E1483B7C DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250220T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250220T140000 DESCRIPTION:This is a joint meeting of Canadian Society of Senior Engineers and IEEE Life Members Affinity Groups.\n\nThis series of presentations ha s been occurring for more than 20 years and is now being also advertised t o the IEEE Northern Canada Section (NCS) Life Members Affinity Group (LMAG ) through vTools and other IEEE LMAG's and IEEE members depending upon the topic. At the same time the Canadian Society of Senior Engineers (CSSE) i s using their national organization to provide information\, the subject a nd speaker to members across Canada.\n\nThe next meeting will be held on T hursday\, February 20\, 2025. The meeting will open at 12:30 pm MST (2:30p m Eastern)\, with the presentation starting at 12:45 (2:45 pm EST). The me eting will be held via the Zoom platform\, with the actual invitations sen t the afternoon of Wednesday\, February 19. If you plan to attend and be i ncluded on the Zoom invite for this meeting please respond to Tom Madsen\, tcmadsen@telus.net\, before noon on Wednesday\, February 19.\n\nPlease no te the meeting originates in Alberta which is in the Mountain Time Zone\, so if you are in another province you must account any necessary time shif t.\n\nTitle: Spinal Micro-implant for restoring the ability to walk after spinal cord injury.\n\nPresenter: Vivian K. Mushahwar\, Ph.D.\, AIMBE Fell ow\, CAHS Fellow\n\nSummary: In this talk\, Dr. Mushahwar will present he r work on developing a micro-implant to restore walking after spinal cord injury. She will demonstrate the evidence that this approach is viable and describe the process of moving it towards clinical implementation.\n\nBio : Dr. Vivian K Mushahwar is a Professor of Medicine at the University of A lberta and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Functional Restoration. She i s also the Director of the Institute for Smart Augmentative and Restorativ e Technologies and Health Innovations (iSMART) and its business arm\, Smar t Technology (ST) Innovations. She is a Fellow of the American Institute f or Medical and Biological Engineering and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Her work focuses on developing intelligent wearable a nd implantable neuromodulation devices that restore mobility and prevent s econdary complications. She also focuses on developing activity-based ther apy rehabilitation interventions that are both efficacious and cost-saving . She initiated the development of micro-implants for stimulating the spin al cord to restore standing and walking after complete spinal cord injury\ , and demonstrated the benefits of simultaneous arm and leg cycling for im proving walking capacity after incomplete spinal cord injury. She and her group invented the wearable garments\, Smart-e-Pants and the SOCC\, for pr eventing pressure injuries and deep vein thrombosis\, respectively. She co -founded 3 companies and has been appointed to advisory boards at both aca demic institutions and industry. She holds funding from numerous agencies including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research\, PrairiesCan and the US Department of Defense. She also holds 6 patents and has published >100 peer-reviewed journal articles.\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.or g/m/468568 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/468568 ORGANIZER:jimellis@ieee.org SEQUENCE:21 SUMMARY:Spinal Micro-implant for restoring the ability to walk after spinal cord injury URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/468568 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><span style="font-family: arial\, helvetic a\, sans-serif\; font-size: 14pt\;">This is a joint meeting of Canadian So ciety of Senior Engineers and IEEE Life Members Affinity Groups.</span></p >\n<p><span style="font-family: arial\, helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size : 14pt\;">This series of presentations has been occurring for more than 20 years and is now being also advertised to the IEEE Northern Canada Sectio n (NCS) Life Members Affinity Group (LMAG) through vTools and other IEEE L MAG's and IEEE members depending upon the topic.&nbsp\; At the same time t he Canadian Society of Senior Engineers (CSSE) is using their national org anization to provide information\, the subject and speaker to members acro ss Canada.</span></p>\n<p><span style="font-family: arial\, helvetica\, sa ns-serif\; font-size: 14pt\;">The next meeting will be held on Thursday\, February 20\, 2025. The meeting will open at 12:30 pm MST (2:30pm Eastern) \, with the presentation starting at 12:45 (2:45 pm EST). The meeting will be held via the Zoom platform\, with the actual invitations sent the afte rnoon of Wednesday\, February 19. If you plan to attend and be included on the Zoom invite for this meeting please respond to Tom Madsen\, <a href=" mailto:tcmadsen@telus.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tcmadsen@telus.n et</a>\, before noon on Wednesday\, February 19.</span></p>\n<p class="Mso Normal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto\; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto\;">< span style="font-family: arial\, helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 14pt\ ;"><strong><span style="color: black\;">Please note the meeting originates in Alberta which is in the Mountain Time Zone\, so if you are in another province you must account any necessary time shift.&nbsp\; </span></strong ></span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto\; mso-m argin-bottom-alt: auto\;"><span style="font-family: arial\, helvetica\, sa ns-serif\; font-size: 14pt\;"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: bla ck\;">Title:&nbsp\;<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: black\;">Spinal Micro-implant for restoring the ability to walk after spinal cord injury</ span><span style="color: black\;">.&nbsp\;</span></span></span></strong></ span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt\; font-family : arial\, helvetica\, sans-serif\;"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="colo r: black\;">Presenter:&nbsp\;<span style="color: black\;">Vivian K. Mushah war\, Ph.D.\, AIMBE Fellow\, CAHS Fellow</span></span></strong></span></p> \n<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt\; font-family: arial\, helvetica\, sans-serif\;"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black\ ;">Summary: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp\;<span style="color: black\;"><span style="color: black\;">In this talk\, Dr. Mushahwar will pr esent </span>her work on developing a micro-implant to restore walking aft er spinal cord injury.&nbsp\; She will demonstrate the evidence that this approach is viable and describe the process of moving it towards clinical implementation.</span></span></span></p>\n<p style="margin: 0cm\;"><span s tyle="font-size: 14pt\; font-family: arial\, helvetica\, sans-serif\;"><st rong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black\;">Bio: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black\;">Dr. Vivian K Mushahwar is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1 ) in Functional Restoration. She is also the Director of the Institute for Smart Augmentative and Restorative Technologies and Health Innovations (i SMART) and its business arm\, Smart Technology (ST) Innovations. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering an d a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Her work focuses on developing intelligent wearable and implantable neuromodulation devices t hat restore mobility and prevent secondary complications. She also focuses on developing activity-based therapy rehabilitation interventions that ar e both efficacious and cost-saving. She initiated the development of micro -implants for stimulating the spinal cord to restore standing and walking after complete spinal cord injury\, and demonstrated the benefits of simul taneous arm and leg cycling for improving walking capacity after incomplet e spinal cord injury. She and her group invented the wearable garments\, S mart-e-Pants and the SOCC\, for preventing pressure injuries and deep vein thrombosis\, respectively. She co-founded 3 companies and has been appoin ted to advisory boards at both academic institutions and industry. She hol ds funding from numerous agencies including the Canadian Institutes of Hea lth Research\, PrairiesCan and the US Department of Defense. She also hold s 6 patents and has published &gt\;100 peer-reviewed journal articles.</sp an></span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-variant-caps: normal\; fo nt-stretch: normal\; font-size-adjust: none\; font-kerning: auto\; font-va riant-alternates: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-n umeric: normal\; font-variant-east-asian: normal\; font-variant-position: normal\; font-feature-settings: normal\; font-optical-sizing: auto\; font- variation-settings: normal\; min-height: 12px\;">&nbsp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR