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Blythedale Hosts 3rd Annual Scientific Advisory Board Meeting

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(Pictured, left to right) Barry Kosofsky, M.D., Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medicine, Scientific Advisory Board Member, Burke-Blythedale Pediatric Neuroscience Collaboration; Owen Gutfreund, Ph.D., Board of Trustees, Blythedale Children’s Hospital; William Mobley, M.D., Ph.D., UC, San Diego, Scientific Advisory Board Member, Burke-Blythedale Pediatric Neuroscience Collaboration; Sudhin Shah, Ph.D., Director of Cognitive Recovery Program, Burke-Blythedale Pediatric Neuroscience Collaboration; Scott Klein, M.D., M.H.S.A., Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Medical Officer, Blythedale Children’s Hospital; Kathleen M. Friel, Ph.D., Co-Director of Research & Director of Motor Recovery Program , Burke-Blythedale Pediatric Neuroscience Collaboration; Dianna Willis, Ph.D., Associate Director of Burke Neurological Institute, Co-Director of Research, Burke-Blythedale Pediatric Neuroscience Collaboration; Glen Prusky, Ph.D., Co-Director of Research & Director of Vision Recovery Program, Burke-Blythedale Pediatric Neuroscience Collaboration; Nicholas Schiff, M.D. Weill Cornell Medicine, Scientific Advisory Board Member, Burke-Blythedale Pediatric Neuroscience Collaboration; N. Jeremy Hill, D.Phil., Director of Neurotechnology, Burke-Blythedale Pediatric Neuroscience Collaboration; John Canning, M.P.A., Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Blythedale Children's Hospital; Larry Levine, President & CEO, Blythedale Children’s Hospital; (Not pictured) Robert Baldoni, Board Member, Burke Neurological Institute; Donald Foley, Board Member, Burke Neurological Institute; Amy Bastian, P.T., Ph.D., Kennedy Krieger Institute, Scientific Advisory Board Member; Darryl De Vivo, M.D. Columbia University, Scientific Advisory Board Member; Jonathan Wolpaw, M.D., Wadsworth Center, Scientific Advisory Board Member; David Pedowitz, Board Chair, Blythedale Children's Hospital; Adam Kirton, M.D., M.Sc., University of Calgary, Scientific Advisory Board Member; Rajiv R. Ratan, M.D., Ph.D., Executive Director, Burke Neurological Institute

The annual meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Burke-Blythedale Pediatric Neuroscience Research Collaboration, was held at Blythedale Children’s Hospital on Monday, December 2, 2019.

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The SAB is made up of national and international leaders in the fields of neuroscience, clinical medicine, and pediatrics, in addition to Administrative leaders, Board Members, and Trustees of the Burke Neurological Institute (BNI) and Blythedale Children’s Hospital. This board meets once a year to formally evaluate the direction and scientific merit of the Research Collaboration, provide guidance on research direction, and make strategic planning suggestions.

The role of the scientific advisory board is to evaluate the direction and scientific merit of the Research Program, which ensures that research at Blythedale is relevant to the mission of the Blythedale Children’s Hospital, is accomplishing its goals, and is being conducted at the highest standards.

The four Collaboration research programs (Vision Recovery, Motor Recovery, Cognitive Recovery and Neurotechnology) were evaluated following presentations from their Directors (Glen Prusky, Ph.D., Kathleen Friel, Ph.D., Sudhin Shah, Ph.D., and Jeremy Hill, Ph.D., respectively). In addition, Edmund Hollis, Ph.D., Director of the Circuit Repair Laboratory at BNI, presented on the connection between basic research and clinical research.

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The final presentation of the day was from Blythedale’s Will Watson, Ph.D., who discussed the system that Blythedale has developed for testing and tracking every child with a brain injury who is admitted to the Hospital. The feedback from the Board will be used to enhance the research program in the coming year.

Scientific Advisory Board Members:
Amy Bastian, PT, PhD, Kennedy Krieger Institute
Darryl De Vivo, MD, Columbia University
Adam Kirton, MD, MSc., University of Calgary
Barry Kosofsky, MD, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine
William Mobley, MD, PhD, UC, San Diego
Nicholas Schiff, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine
Jonathan Wolpaw, MD, Wadsworth Center

For more information, please visit http://burke.weill.cornell.edu/burke-blythedale-pediatric-neuroscience-research-collaboration/team/burke-blythedale-scientific.

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