Illuminate Speaker Series - Understanding life after spinal cord injury (Feb 4, 2024)

Описание: Dr. Kristine Cowley is an associate professor and director of the Spinal Cord Research Centre at UM. She received a PhD in physiology (neurosciences) in 1998, investigating the neural mechanisms and pathways generating and coordinating walking within the spinal cord. Cowley holds a Canada Research Chair in Spinal Cord Function, and Health after Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). Her research ranges from: understanding the pathways and neural mechanisms involved in the let-down reflex for breastfeeding in women with tetraplegia; to understanding how the spinal cord normally produces and coordinates movement; to how bone mineral density is regulated after SCI; to identifying means to improve exercise function and exercise capacity in those living with tetraplegia.

Outside of her research life, Cowley was awarded three medals, and set two world records, in athletics/track at the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona (under the surname Harder). Outside of academia, she served as executive director of the Manitoba Division of the Canadian Paraplegic Association from 1995 to 1998 where she learned first-hand how good health and social policy can drastically improve life quality for people living with SCI and how poor health and social policy can drastically impair life quality and the ability for those living with SCI to contribute within their communities.

Some of her most recent research focuses on characterizing the inequities and disparities in health policy in Canada as it relates to public support for medical services and supplies and mobility equipment that is required by people living with SCI to survive.

The Illuminate Speaker Series is hosted by the College of Rehabilitation Sciences.
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This event was recorded on February 4th, 2025 at the University of Manitoba.
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