INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
Commitee on Spinal Cord Injury
ROSTER
RICHARD T. JOHNSON, M.D., (Chair)
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
ALBERT J. AGUAYO, M.D., McGill University, Montreal, Canada
JEREMIAH A. BARONDESS, M.D., New York Academy of Medicine
MARY BARTLETT BUNGE, Ph.D., The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
FRED H. GAGE, Ph.D., The Salk Institute for Bilogical Studies,
La Jolla, CA
SUZANNE T. ILDSTAD, M.D., University of Louisville
JOHN A. JANE, M.D., Ph.D., FRCS, University of Virginia
LYNN T. LANDMESSER, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland,
OH
LINDA B.MILLER, M.S., Volunteer Trustees Foundation, Washington,
D.C.
P. HUNTER PECKHAM, Ph.D., Case Westren Reserve University, Cleveland,
OH
ROBERT T. SCHIMKE, M.D., Standford University, California
CHRISTOPHER B. SHIELDS, M.D., FRCS, University of Louisville
School of Medicine
STEPHEN G. WAXMAN, M.D., Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine,
New Haven, CT
Expert Consultants:
JESSE M. CEDERBAUM, M.D., Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown,
NY
GERALD D. FISCHBACH, M.D., Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons, New York, NY
WISE YOUNG, Ph.D., M.D., W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience,
Rutgers University, New Jersey
NBH Lieison:
SID GILMAN, M.D., FRCP, University of Michigan, Ann Harbor, MI
Staff:
Cathy T. Liverman, Study Director
Bruce M. Atevogt, Ph. D., Program Officer
Kathleen M. Patchan, Research Associate
Janet E. Joy, Ph. D., Senior Consultant
Miriam Davis, Ph. D., Writer
Lora k. Taylor, Senior Project Assistant
The Purpose of This Workshop
This workshop is one of several different
approaches the IOM Committee on Spinal Cord Injury: Strategies in a
Search for a Cure will use to identify potentially productive approaches
for restorative spinal cord injury research. It is organized as both
an information gathering session and a forum for the committee to explore
and analyze new prospects for advances in the fight against the devastating
consequences of spinal cord injuries. Speakers were invited on the basis
of their experience in spinal cord injury translational and clinical
research, or because they have an expert perspective from other endeavors
which may be adaptable to spinal cord injury research strategies.
Although opinions may be stated and lively
discussion may be part of the workshop, no conclusions or recommendations
will be made by the Committee as a result of this one activity. In fact,
the Committee will deliberate thoroughly over the course of several
meetings and several months before writing its draft report. Moreover,
once the draft report is written, it must go through rigorous review
by experts who are anonymous to the Committee members, and then the
Committee must respond to these reviews with appropriate revisions that
adequately satisfy the Academy's Report Review Committee before it is
considered an IOM report. Therefore, observers who draw conclusions
about the Committee's work based on today's discussions will be doing
so prematurely.
Furthermore, individual Committee members
often engage in discussion and questioning for the specific purpose
of probing and issue, and/or sharpening and argument. As such, the in-workshop
comments of individual Committee members do not necessarily refer the
position they actually hold on the subject under discussion, to say
nothing of their future position as it may evolve over the course of
the project. Accordingly, any inferences about a Committee member's
position regarding findings or recommendations in the final report are,
therefore, also premature.
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