We are very proud to share the news that Alvin Ip is the winner of the 2013 CAPM&R Medical Student Research Contest for his work “Applying Resistance Against the Stronger Leg to Improve Walking Symmetry in People with Stroke: A Pilot Study”. Well done, Alvin!
and see an English language version here
Congratulations to Matt Crombeen, who will be awarded a Governor General’s Medal of Bravery today at Rideau Hall. You can find out more about his story here.
Amanda Chisholm (post-doctoral fellow), Abdullah Alghamdi (PhD student) and Raza Malik (MSc student) join the lab.
Our work on the ReJoyce study was featured in today’s Vancouver Sun. You can access the full article here.
more links:
Hometelemed (manufacturers of the ReJoyce device)
Dr. Arthur Prochazka (lead investigator of the multi-centre ReJoyce SCI trial)
Congratulations to Jason Liang for being awarded the “Best Undergraduate Poster” award for his poster Joint-Based vs. Endpoint-Based Lower Limb Proprioception: A Quantitative Study Using the Lokomat at the 2012 Annual ICORD Trainee symposium.
Congratulations to Alvin Ip who was awarded 1 of the 3 Top Oral Presentations at the UBC Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference for his talk “Applying resistance against the stronger leg to improve walking symmetry in people with stroke: a pilot study”. Alvin will be one of 3 students representing UBC at this summer’s U21 Undergraduate Research Conference in Waseda University in Japan.
As part of the Rick Hansen 25th Anniversary of the Man-in-Motion Tour celebrations, we had the pleasure of hosting Prime Minister Stephen Harper and BC Premier Gordon Campbell at our lab this morning. Many thanks to Katie and Antoinette, and especially Mr. and Mrs. S. for coming out early on a Saturday morning to help with the Lokomat demonstration!
