Meeting Agenda

Agenda: Meeting 3

Monday, September 27, 2004

9:30 - 11:00 am  PANEL DISCUSSION: Review of State Sponsored Spinal Cord Injury Research Programs

Panelist Presentations:

Mary Bunge, Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Marie Filbin, Hunter College of the City University of New York
Raj Ratan, Burke/Cornell Medical Research Institute
Christopher Shields, Neurological Institute of Kentucky  

11:00 - 11:45 am   How does the FDA deal with the complexities associated with SCI?  

Cynthia Rask - Director, Division of Clinical Evaluation and Pharmacology/Toxicology, Food and Drug Administration  

11:45 am - 12:45 pm   LUNCH

Tuesday, September 28, 2004

11:00 - 12 noon  Community Perspectives

Speakers:

John Bollinger, Paralyzed Veterans of America
Paul J. Tobin, United Spinal AssociationZ. Alexander Gentle, Arachnoiditis patient

12:00 noon - 1:00 pm  LUNCH  

2:30 - 3:00pm  Community Perspectives continued

Speaker:

James R. Langevin, U.S. House Representative (Democrat, RI)

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