Rehabilitation Roundup for November 2018
Greetings!

I'd like to announce our new co-director, Linda Noble (Psychology)! She's joined by the new CARE Core Leadership Team. Please welcome:

Larry Abraham (Kinesiology)
Maya Henry (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
Theresa Jones (Psychology)

The same Theresa Jones will also be giving our next CARE Seminar on 11/16. Dr. Jones is a world-renowned expert on how the brain recovers from injury such as stroke.

Want to get a collaborative idea off the ground with a CARE colleague but don't have money? Consider entering your idea for James' Rehabilitation Engineering graduate course this Spring. See details below.

There is a new Texas Aging and Longevity Center! See details below.
Best,

Linda Noble and James Sulzer
CARE Co-Directors
CARE Events
November CARE Talk: Theresa Jones, Ph.D., Psychology

" Brain reorganization after stroke: Learning to drive it in optimal directions "

Date: Friday, Nov. 16th
Time: 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Place: SEA 4.244
Graduate Student/Post-doc Lunch with Dr. Jones
Graduate student or Post-doc? Get quality time with Dr. Jones and a free lunch. It's win-win (you win twice). Space is limited, so RSVP on the link below.

Time: 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. (right before the talk on 11/16)
Place: SEA 4.242
Related Events
Kickoff for new Texas Aging and Longevity Center
Led by Karen Fingerman (Human Development and Family Sciences), the Texas Aging and Longevity Center was just announced and has a kickoff event Jan. 25th in RLP 1.302E from 12pm-1pm.
Neurology Grand Rounds Speaker Series
Every week Dell Medical School's Department of Neurology has a featured speaker as part of their Grand Rounds series. See below for details (note CARE's Linda Noble 11/13!):

Time: 7:30am-8:30am
Place: UFCU Room – Dell Seton Medical Center
1500 Red River St, Austin, TX 78712

November Speakers:
11/6/18 Mark Wainwright, MD, PhD
Refractory Status Epilepticus: Mechanisms, New Treatment Approaches and Neuroprotection

11/13/18 Linda Noble, PhD
Spinal Cord Injury and Therapeutic Targets - Defining a Clinically Informed Pathway Toward Discovery

11/20/18 Ethan Meltzer, MD
Safely navigating the changing landscape of immunotherapies in the treatment of multiple sclerosis

Wednesday, November 28, 2018
8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sonesta Bee Cave Austin Hotel 
12525 Bee Cave Parkway
Austin, TX 78738
Tickets: $95 (includes lunch and parking)

Our goal is to provide a creative space so that people with different talents and perspectives on aging can come together to help put Austin on the map in the emerging field of aging/longevity innovation. Our speakers will represent community need, research, business opportunity and investment – and we’ll focus on aspects of healthy aging that are vital to successful Aging in Place and Aging in Community:

1. Safety and Support at Home and in the Community
2. Social Interaction and Participation
3. Health and Wellness

Relevant News
Use CARE coursework to get your idea off the ground
Every Spring, I (James) teach a graduate-level course on Rehabilitation Engineering in the ME/BME departments. Many CARE members serve as invited lecturers. The main goal of the course is to write a NIH R21-style proposal and collect the pilot data for it in teams of two students. I would love to see new CARE collaborative research ideas proposed for this class where the students can help develop your idea into a grant. Please email me if you're interested.
New Website for WCWH
The Bridging Barriers Initiative has launched. Here's the link so you can stay up-to-date.
Have news you'd like to share? Papers, funding announcements, events?
For more information, please see links belowe
CARE would like to thank the Cockrell School of Engineering for their generous support