In January 2017, Raza published his Master’s work which explored the role of sensorimotor integration of vision and proprioception in ambulatory individuals with SCI while obstacle crossing. He found that vision was more important for obstacle crossing for ambulatory individuals with SCI compared to able bodied controls, due to proprioceptive deficits. Want to learn more? Read the full article here.
Congratulations to authors Raza Malik, Rachel Cote, and Dr. Tania Lam.
This month, the Human Locomotion Research Laboratory took a road trip to Jasper, AB for the 2017 NeuroHike conference! Neurohike is an annual event held in the Rockies that brings together researchers from Western Canada. Alternating between Jasper and Kananaskis, it provides a casual forum to talk science, have fun and as the name suggests, hike in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. We look forward to attending more NeuroHike conferences in years to come!
Lam Lab at the Old Fort Point lookout for NeuroHike 2017.
From L-R: Raza Malik, Alison Williams, Dr Tania Lam, Abdullah Alghamdi, Gevorg Eginyan, Andrea Lynn.
Last week, students from the Human Locomotion Research Laboratory attended the 7th Annual ICORD Trainee Symposium, a conference organized by students to showcase the amazing work being done by ICORD trainees. This year there were 129 attendees with 40 poster presentations and 10 oral presenters, as well as special plenary talks by Dr. Jeff Petruska, who traveled from the University of Louisville, and University of British Columbia’s Dr. Brett Finlay.
Taha Qaiser (third from the right) and Alison Williams (third from the left) with the other award winners from the ICORD Trainee Symposium
Congratulations to Taha Qaiser (MSc student) and Alison Williams (MSc student) who received third place in the oral presentations and second place in the master’s poster presentations respectively.
A huge congratulations to Taha Qaiser who successfully defended his Master’s of Science thesis on June 14th 2017! Taha has been a member of the lab since 2011 when he began as an Undergraduate Research Assistant through UBC’s Work Learn program. More recently, Taha’s thesis study which examined if it was possible to train proprioception after spinal cord injury showed some interesting results! We look forward to reading his published results down the road.
Dr Tania Lam and Taha Qaiser
Congratulations, Taha! You will be missed.
Congratulations to Alison Williams – a recipient of the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute Rising Star Award!
http://www.vchri.ca/feature-stories/articles/2017/05/28/supporting-and-coming-researchers-trainee-awards-2017#williams
3 Minute Thesis (3MT) is an academic competition where participants have just three minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their thesis project to a non-specialist audience. This year, both Master’s student Taha Qaiser and PhD student Raza Malik from the Human Locomotion Research Lab qualified for UBC’s 3MT finals (top 8 in the whole of the university!). More recently, Taha placed first at the School of Kinesiology’s 3MT competition as a part of the Kinesiology Graduate Student Research Day. Well done Raza and Taha!
Last week, City of Vancouver Council Member Andrea Reimer visited ICORD to take a tour of PARC and the Human Locomotion Research Lab to learn about the research and community work being done here. Councillor Reimer chairs the the Nomination Sub-Committee for the City of Vancouver and supported PARC’s nomination for a City of Vancouver Award earlier this year. If you missed it, take a look at this awesome video by Accessible Media Inc in which Councillor Reimer speaks about PARC’s impact on the community.
As a part of the tour, Councillor Reimer was able to check out the Ekso in action. From left to right: Taha Qaiser, Alison Williams, Kyle Gieni, Coucillor Andrea Reimer.
Our paper “Overground vs treadmill-based robotic gait training to improve seated balance in people with motor-complete spinal cord injury: a case report” is now available in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. The article is open access and can found here.
Congratulations to authors Dr Amanda Chisholm, Raed Almaro, Alison Williams and Dr Tania Lam on this exciting publication.
Congratulations to our Lab Coordinator and MSc student Alison Williams for her successful application in the 2017 Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s competition. Alison has been chosen as one of the few students at UBC to be funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).
The objective of the CGS M Program is to help develop research skills and assist in the training of highly qualified personnel by supporting students who demonstrate a high standard of achievement in undergraduate and early graduate studies.
On March 31st and April 3rd, master’s students Megan Brousseau and Raed Almaro successfully completed their respective MSc defences. Congratulations to both Lam Lab members!
Celebrating after Raed’s Defence
After they have wrapped up their master’s work, Megan will be moving on to teach in the Kinesiology Program at Langara College while Raed will be moving back to Saudi Arabia to continue his clinical work as a physical therapist.