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September, 1992 NOTE: An asterisk at the end of a citation Annual Meeting of the European Association for indicates a new entry to the calendar. the Study of Diabetes, Prague, Czechoslovakia Contact: EASD Secretariat, 10 Queen Anne Street, London W1M OBD, United Kingdom*
1992 September 1-3, 1992 International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, Tokyo, Japan August 5-9, 1992 Contact: Professor Hisato Kobayashi, Department 9th World Congress, IASSMD, Gold Coast, of Electrical Engineering, Hosei University, Australia Kajinocho, Koganei, 184 Tokyo, Japan Contact: IASSMD Congress, GPO 2069, Brisbane, Q, 4001, Australia ; Tel : + 61-7-365-6485 ; Fax: September 7-11, 1992 + 61-7-221-2728* 17th World Congress of Rehabilitation International on `Accelerating Efforts to Equalization of Oppor- August 21-24, 1992 tunities: Strategies for the 90s', Nairobi, Kenya COMMON THREADS 1992, Missoula, MT Contact: Executive Director, 17th World Congress Contact: Kathy Dwyer, Rural Institute on Disabili- of RI, Organizing Committee Secretariat, PO Box ties, The University of Montana, 52 Corbin Hall, 56643, Nairobi, Kenya ; Tel: 332227/222443 ; Fax: Missoula, MT 59812; Tel: (406) 243-5467 ; Fax: (406) 255-2971 243-2349* September 8-10, 1992 August 24-28, 1992 31st Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Second North American Congress on Biomechanics, Medical Society of Paraplegia, Barcelona, Spain Chicago, IL Contact: Secretariat : BRP, Barcelona Relaciones Contact: Dr. L. Draganich, Dept. of Surgery, Publicas, Edifici Laietana, C/Pau Claris, no . 138, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Ave- 7, 4, Barcelona 08009, Spain ; Tel : (93) 215 .72.14; nue, Box 421, Chicago, IL 60637 Fax: (93) 215 .72.87
August 30-September 3, 1992 September 8-12, 1992 Conference on the Changing Status and Emerging International Stroke Society Second World Con- Roles of the Elderly in the 21st Century, Bombay gress, Washington, DC and Pune, India Contact: Convention Office, Wake Forest Univer- Contact: International Federation on Ageing, Attn: sity Medical Center, Box 57, 300 S . Hawthorne S.D. Gokhale, c/o Kesari, 568 Narayan Peth, Pune Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27103-2797* 411030, India; Fax: 0212-441677* September 14-18, 1992 August 31-September 4, 1992 Xlth World Congress of the International Federa- XXIst International Congress of Audiology, tion of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Morioka City, Japan Dresden, Germany Contact: Professor T. Tsuiki, Dept. of Contact: J. Kleditzch, Medical Academy Carl Otolaryngology, Iwate Medical University, 1-19 Gustav Carus, Clinic of Orthopaedics, 74 Uchimaru, Morioka 020, Japan Fetscherstrasse, Dresden 8019, Germany
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September 15-18, 1992 Contact: Mrs . Brenda Freeman, The Biological Second International Conference on Automation, Engineering Society, c/o The Royal College of Robotics and Computer Vision, Singapore Surgeons, 35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London Contact: ICARCV '92 Conference Secretariat, As- WC2A 3PN, UK* sociated Conventions & Exhibitions Pte Ltd ., 204 Bukit Timah Road, #04-00, Boon Liew Building, October, 1992 Singapore 0922; Tel : (65) 7326839 ; Fax : (65) Second International Congress on Evaluation Scales 7326309* in Rehabilitation Medicine, Montreal, Quebec Contact: Pierrette Boivin, 6300 Darlington Street, September 16-19, 1992 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3S 2J4; Tel: (514) REHAB '92, The 7th International Exhibition for 340-2089; Fax: (514) 340-2149* Care, Rehabilitation and Integration, Karlsruhe, Germany October, 1992 Contact: Karlsruher Kongress, Hobe Strasse 39, Annual Meeting of the International Medical Soci- P .O . Box 100 555, D-4600 Dortmund 1, Germany; ety of Paraplegia, Barcelona, Spain Tel: (02 31) 12 80 10/12 80 11 ; Fax: (02 31) 12 56 Contact: Dr . Paul Dollfus, Chairman, Scientific 40* Committee, International Medical Society of Para- plegia, Centre de Readaptation, 57 rue Albert September 17-18, 1992 Camus, 68093 Mulhouse Cedex, France* The Science and Technology of Orthopaedic Im- plants, Glasgow, UK October 5-6, 1992 Contact: Professor J .C . Barbenel, Bioengineering Second International Congress on Objective Assess- Unit, University of Strathclyde, 106 Rottenrow, ment in Rehabilitation Medicine : Low Back Pain Glasgow G4 ONW, Scotland and Brain Injury, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Contact: Centre de Formation en Readaptation du September 17-19, 1992 Quebec, 6300, Avenue Darlington, Montreal, Que- International Conference on Population Aging, San bec, H3S 2J4; Tel: (514) 340-2089; Fax: (514) Diego, CA 340-2149* Contact: Conference Secretariat, University Center on Aging, College of Health and Human Services, October 12-16, 1992 San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182- Human Factors Society, 36th Annual Meeting, 0273; Tel: (619) 594-6765 ; Fax: (619) 594-2811* Atlanta, GA Contact: Human Factors Society, PO Box 1369, September 18-19, 1992 Santa Monica, CA 90406-1369 ; Tel: (310) 394-1811; International Conference on Spinal Cord Injuries, Fax: (310) 394-2410* Kovacova, Czechoslovakia Contact: Myron Maly, MD, Secretary General, October 16-18, 1992 Rehabilitation Center, 96237 Kovacova, Czecho- BMES 1992 Fall Meeting : Perspectives and Oppor- slovakia* tunities in Bioengineering, Salt Lake City, UT Contact: Anne M . Smith, AC213 SOM MIRL, September 20-24, 1992 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84132 ; Tel: Four-Yearly Conference of the British Society of (801) 581-3141 Audiology (BSA) on `Audiology in Europe,' Cambridge, United Kingdom October 23-25, 1992 Contact: British Society of Audiology (BSA), 80 Abilities Expo, St . Louis, MO Brighton Road, Reading RG6 1PS, UK* Contact: Expocon Management Association, Inc ., P .O . Box 1019, Trumbull, CT 06611 ; Tel: (203) September 23-24, 1992 374-1411, ext. 0* BES 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting-Bioengineering in an Open Europe, London, UK 98 Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development Vol. 29 No. 3 Summer 1992
October 26-31, 1992 November 20-23, 1992 American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (AOPA), Annual National Assembly, Orlando, FL (ASHA), Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX Contact: Annette Suriani, AOPA, 717 Pendleton Contact: Frances Johnston, ASHA, 10801 Rockville Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 ; Tel: (703) 836-7116 Pike, Rockville, MD 20852; Tel : (301) 897-5700
October 28-November 1, 1992 November 23, 1992 18th Annual Conference of the Association of International Conference on Persons with Disabili- Rehabilitation Nursing, Pittsburgh, PA ties, Rome Italy Contact: Association of Rehabilitation Nurses, 5700 Contact: Ginny Thornburgh or Mark Lewis, Na- Old Orchard Road, First Floor, Skokie, IL 60077- tional Organization on Disability, 910 Sixteenth 1024* Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006 ; Tel: (202) 293-5960; Fax: (202) 293-7999* October 29-31, 1992 Accessibility in Public and Private Business, Wash- December 2-4, 1992 ington, DC Seventh International Conference on Biomedical Contact: Art Kerley, The Fairfield Factor Inc., Engineering, Singapore Access Expo Conference Development, 13 Obtuse Contact: The Secretary, 7th ICBME 1992, Depart- Rocks Road, Brookfield, CT 06804; Tel: (203)775- ment of Orthopaedic Surgery, National University 0422; Fax: (203) 740-8638* Hospital, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 0511, Republic of Singapore; Tel : 772-4424* October 29-November 1, 1992 December 13-19, 1992 14th Annual International Conference of the IEEE The Sixth International Seminar on the Treatment Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Paris, of Rheumatic Diseases, Jerusalem/Tiberias/Tel France Aviv, Israel Contact: Dr. Swamy N . Laxminarayan, Academic Contact: Secretariat : SISRD, Peltours-Te'um Con- Computing Center, IST, University of Medicine & gresses, POB 8388, Jerusalem 91082, Israel ; Tel: Dentistry, 185 South Orange Avenue, Newark, NJ (972-2) 617402; Fax: (972-2) 637572* 07103 ; Tel: (201) 456-6007 ; Fax: (201) 504-7668
November 8-13, 1992 1993 American Academy of Physical Medicine and Reha- bilitation, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (no date yet), 1993 Contact: American Academy of Physical Medicine 15th Annual International Conference of the and Rehabilitation, 122 South Michigan Ave ., Suite IEEE/EMBS, San Diego, CA 1300, Chicago, IL 60603 Contact: Dr. Andrew Szeto, Department of Electri- cal and Computer Engineering, San Diego State November 13-16, 1992 University, San Diego, CA 92182-0190* Seventh World Congress of the International Retinitis Pigmentosa Association, Sandton City, January 15-16, 1993 Johannesburg, South Africa 6th National Conference on Biomaterials and Artifi- Contact: RP Foundation of South Africa, P .O . Box cial Organs, Calcutta, India 2395, Primrose 1416, South Africa ; Tel: 825-1132; Contact: Prof. Subrata Pal, Director, School of Fax: 825-6662* Bioscience & Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, 700032, India; Tel: 091-33-72-4044* November 15-18, 1992 American Geriatrics Society (AGS), Annual Meet- February 18-23, 1993 ing, Washington, DC American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Contact: AGS, Suite 400, 770 Lexington Ave ., New (AAOS), Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA York, NY 10021 Contact: AAOS, Tel: (312) 823-7186 99
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March 11-13, 1993 October 31-November 5, 1993 International Symposium on Management of Pa- American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabil- tients With Low Back Pain, `BACK TO itation (AAPM&R), Annual Conference, Miami FUNCTION,' Munster, Germany Beach, FL Contact: W .H .M. Castro, Orthopaedic Department, Contact: AAPM&R, 122 South Michigan Avenue, University of Munster, Albert-Schweitzer-Strasse 33, Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60603 ; Tel: (312) 922-9366 D-4400 Munster, Germany ; Tel: (251) 837901/ 837903* November 19-22, 1993 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association March 30-April 4, 1993 (ASHA) Annual Convention, Anaheim, CA American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists Contact : Frances Johnston, ASHA, 10801 Rockville (AAOP), Annual Meeting and Scientific Sympo- Pike, Rockville, MD 20852; Tel : (301) 897-5700 sium, Las Vegas, NV AAOP, 717 Pendleton Street, Alexandria, Contact: 1994 VA 22314; Tel: (703) 836-7116 (no date yet), 1994 May 10-12, 1993 16th Annual International Conference of the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA), Annual IEEE/EMBS, Baltimore, MD Conference, San Diego, CA Contact: Dr. Joshua Tsitlik, Johns Hopkins School Contact: ASIA, 2020 Peachtree Road, NW, At- of Medicine, RM 410 Traylor Bldg ., 720 Rutland lanta, GA 30309 ; Tel: (404) 355-9772 Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21205*
June 13-17, 1993 January 31-February 4, 1994 American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), Visions in Mobility International Mobility Confer- Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH ence-7, Melbourne, Australia Contact: APTA, 111 N. Fairfax Street, Alexandria, Contact: Royal Guide Dogs Associations of Austra- VA 22314; Tel : (703) 684-2782 lia, Chandler Highway, KEW . Victoria 3101, Aus- tralia; Tel: + 61-3-860-4444 ; Fax: + 61-3-860-4500* June 19-23, 1993 American Occupational Therapy Association March 15-20, 1994 American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists (AOTA), Annual Conference, Seattle, WA (AAOP), Annual Meeting and Scientific Sympo- Contact: AOTA, 1383 Piccard Drive, Rockville, sium, Nashville, TN MD 20850; Tel: (301) 948-9626 Contact: Annette Suriani, AAOP, 717 Pendleton Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 ; Tel: (703) 836-7116 June 25-30, 1993 RESNA Rehabilitation Technology, 16th Annual April 9-16, 1994 Conference, Las Vegas, NV IRMA VII—Seventh World Congress of the Inter- Contact: RESNA, Association for the Advancement national Rehabilitation Medicine Association : 25th of Rehabilitation Technologies, Suite 700, 1101 Anniversary of IRMA, Washington, DC Connecticut Ave . NW, Washington, DC 20036 ; Tel: Contact: IRMA VII, 875 Kings Hwy., West (202) 857-1199 Deptford, NJ 08096
October 12-16, 1993 April 9-16, 1994 American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association XIIth World Congress of the Rehabilitation Medi- (AOPA), Annual National Assembly, Reno, NV cine Association, Washington, DC Contact: Annette Suriani, AOPA, 717 Pendleton Contact: Ms. D. Jones, 1333 Moursund Avenue, Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 ; Tel: (703) 836-7116 A-221, Houston, TX 77030