SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM AGENDA 2017

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FRIDAY, JULY 7 - Session Descriptions & Objectives

09:30 am - Whitewater Rafting Trip on the Weber River ($) Meet @ Cliff Lodge Lobby 04:30 pm

05:00 pm - Registration for WiNS Attendees Maybird / Superior Foyer 06:00 pm

06:00 pm - WNS01: Women in Neurosurgery Retreat Dinner Lecture 2.0 CME Maybird 08:00 pm 1. Building an Academic Neurosurgical Practice - Eve Tsai, MD, PhD; Ottowa Hospital Research Institute 2. Cervical Radiculopathy, Spondylosis and Kyphosis in the Operating Surgeon - Aruna Ganju, MD; Northwestern University

08:00 pm - S'more Collaboration Campcre 1.5 CME Creekside Terrace 09:30 pm

SATURDAY, JULY 8 - Session Descriptions & Objectives

07:00 am - Registration for Sensor Workshop Cottonwood A/B Foyer 08:00 am

07:00 am - Registration for WiNS Retreat attendees Maybird / Superior Foyer 08:00 am

08:00 am - Environmental Sensor Use for Quantifying Neural Exposure to Inertial and Blast Forces 8.25 CME Cottonwood A/B 05:00 pm Sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and and organized in collaboration with the Department of Defense, JPC-5 Military Operational Medicine Chairs: Col. Dennis McGurk & Patrick Bellgowan View complete agenda

08:00 am - Four Corners Youth Sports Consortium Wasatch B 05:00 pm

08:00 am - TED/TRACK-TBI Meeting Magpie 06:00 pm

08:00 am - Fly Fishing on the Provo & Weber Rivers ($) Meet @ Cliff Lodge Lobby 03:00 pm

08:00 am - WNS02: Women in Neurosurgery Retreat Breakfast Lecture 1.5 CME Maybird 09:30 am 1. What the Practicing Neurosurgeon Needs to Understand About Economics - Deborah Benzil, MD; Benzil Zusman Healthcare 2. Rising in the Ranks: Progress of Women in Neurosurgery - Stacey Quintero-Wolfe, MD; Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

10:00 am - Intro to Rock Climbing Clinic in Big Cottonwood Canyon ($) Meet @ Cliff Lodge Lobby 03:00 pm

02:00 pm - Registration Desk Open for AANS & NNS attendees (Opening at 2:00 pm instead of 12:00 pm) Cliff Ballroom Foyer 06:00 pm

05:00 pm - Celebrating 10 Years of the WiNTR VISA Award 1.0 CME Superior 06:00 pm Chairs: Mayumi Prins, PhD; UCLA and Patricia de la Tremblaye, PhD; University of Pittsburgh Michelle Theus, PhD; Virginia Tech Virginia Newcombe, PhD: University of Cambridge Patricia de la Tremblaye, PhD; University of Pittsburgh

06:00 pm - Spine Navigation and Mazor X Surgical Guidance Reception Superior Foyer 07:00 pm Sponsored by

07:00 pm - WNS03: Women in Neurosurgery Retreat Dinner Lecture Maybird 09:00 pm Neurosurgical Leadership Program - Shelly Timmons, MD, PhD; Penn State Health

09:00 pm - S'more Collaboration Campcre 1.5 CME Creekside Terrace 10:30 pm

SUNDAY, JULY 9 - Session Descriptions & Objectives

07:00 am - Registration Desk Open Cliff Ballroom Foyer 06:00 pm

07:30 am - AANS/CNS Breakfast Primrose B 08:30 am 08:30 am - AANS01: The Post-Traumatic Spine and the Unstable Decision 1.5 CME Primrose A 10:00 am Chair: Ann Parr, MD, PhD; University of Minnesota 1. Strengths and Limitations of Spine Trauma Databases and Registries - Marjorie Wang, MD; Medical College of Wisconsin 2. Spine Trauma in the Osteoporotic Patient: What Does the Evidence Support? Erica Bisson, MD; University of Utah 3. Can the Trauma System Support STASCIS and the Need for Immediate Surgery? Michael Fehlings, MD, PhD; University of Toronto

10:00 am - AANS/CNS Coffee Break Primrose Foyer 10:30 am

10:30 am - AANS02: Treatment of the Injured Brain 1.5 CME Primrose A 12:00 pm Chair: Daniel Michael, MD, PhD; Michigan Head & Spine Institute 1. Did RESCUE-ICP save intracranial pressure monitoring? - Martina Stippler, MD; Harvard Medical School 2. Are we getting any better at detecting cortical spreading depression/spreading depolarization? - Gregory Hawryluk, MD, PhD; University of Utah 3. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Acute Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: History, and 30 Year Outcomes - Molly Hubbard, MD; University of Minnesota

12:00 pm - AANS Lunch & Learn: Brain Tissue Oxygenation Monitoring BOOSTS Outcome After Traumatic Brain Injury Cliff Ballroom 3 01:00 pm Sponsored by

Speaker: Uzma Samadani, MD; University of Minnesota

12:00 pm - Exhibitor Meet & Greet Cliff Ballroom Foyer 04:30 pm

01:00 pm - Journal of Neurotrauma Editorial Board Meeting Magpie B 02:30 pm

01:00 pm - INTS/NNS 2018 Planning Committee Meeting Wasatch A 02:00 pm

01:00 pm - AANS03: Controversies in Brain Injury 1.5 CME Primrose A 02:30 pm Chair: Jamie Ullman, MD; Northwell Health 1. Does Trauma Cause CTE? - Lili-Naz Hazrati, MD, PhD; University of Toronto 2. What are the consequences of subconcussion? - Scott Zuckerman, MD; Vanderbilt University Medical Center 3. What needs to be admitted for pediatric brain trauma? - Rebekah Mannix, MD; Boston Children's Hospital

02:30 pm - AANS/CNS Coffee Break / Exhibitor Meet & Greet Primrose Foyer 03:00 pm

03:00 pm - AANS04: Controversies in Sport 1.5 CME Primrose A 04:30 pm Chair: Uzma Samadani, MD; University of Minnesota 1. Should we rest athletes after concussion? - John Leddy, MD; SUNY Buffalo 2. Do helmets make contact sports safer? - Brittany Coats, MD; University of Utah 3. Is it time to ban sports for children and where should we draw the line? - Zachary Kerr, PhD; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

04:30 pm - NNS Council Meeting Magpie B 06:00 pm

05:30 pm - Scienticc Interviews Cirque Board Room 06:30 pm

06:00 pm Aerial Tram boarding begins for Welcome Reception Tram Base Station

06:30 pm - Welcome Reception at The Summit Hosted by The Summit on Hidden Peak 08:30 pm View Details

08:00 pm - Pediatric Neurocritical Care Research Group Dinner Steak Pit 10:00 pm

08:30 pm - NNS Council Dinner Aerie Restaurant 10:30 pm

MONDAY, JULY 10 - Session Descriptions & Objectives

07:00 am - Registration Desk Open Cliff Ballroom Foyer 06:00 pm

07:00 am - Breakfast Golden Cliff / Creekside Terrace 07:45 am

07:00 am - WiNTR Business Meeting Magpie 07:45 am

07:45 am - President's Welcome Address - Candace Floyd, NNS 2017 President Cliff Ballroom 08:00 am

08:00 am - Anniversary Lecture 01 0.5 CME Cliff Ballroom 08:30 am

John Povlishock, PhD; Virginia Commonwealth University 08:30 am - PL01:Neurotrauma-Induced Autoimmunity 1.25 CME Cliff Ballroom 09:45 am Chairs: Kevin Wang, PhD; University of Florida & Amy Wagner, MD; University of Pittsburgh 1. Autoimmunity Response Following TBI: Is It Detrimental or Beneccial? - Kevin Wang, PhD; University of Florida 2. Post-TBI hypopituitarism and anti-pituitary and anti-hypothalamus antibodies - Fahrettin Keleştemur, MD; Erciyes University 3. Post-TBI neuroendocrine dysfunction and its relation with autoimmunity - Amy Wagner, MD; University of Pittsburgh 4. Peptides and Autoantibodies in TBI and Ischemic Brain Injuries - Svetlana Dambinova, PhD; DeKalb Medical Center

09:45 am - Break Cliff Ballroom Foyer 10:00 am

10:00 am - Data Blitz A: Mini Presentations 0.5 CME Cliff Ballroom 10:30 am Chairs: Gene Gurkoff, PhD; UC Davis & Jimmy Huh, MD; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia A03-07 Margalit Haber; University of Pennsylvania A06-08 Stefania Mondello; University of Messina A10-02 James Hong; University of Toronto A12-06 Jenny Szu; University of California, Riverside A13-11 Olga Minaeva; Boston University A16-02 Nadine Kerr; University of Miami A18-10 Starlyn Okada-Rising; Walter Reed Army Institute of Research A20-01 Moustafa Algamal; Roskamp Institute A22-07 Patrick Kochanek; Safar Center, Univ. of Pittsburgh A22-08 Pavel Lizhnyak; Virginia Commonwealth University

10:30 am - Poster Session 1: Group A / Final Competition Judging / Visit Exhibits 1.5 CME Snowbird Event Tent 12:00 pm All Posters in Group A on display - Odd Poster #s presenting Chair: David Magnuson, PhD; University of Louisville

12:00 pm - WiNTR Lunch Session: The Lab Notebook Evolution 1.5 CME Cottonwood A/B 01:30 pm Moderator: Mayumi Prins, PhD; UCLA View Details

12:00 pm - Grab & Go Lunch Snowbird Event Tent 01:30 pm

12:00 pm - CDE Working Group Meeting Cottonwood C 1:30 pm

12:00 pm - TBI Algorithm Planning Meeting Cottonwood D 1:30 pm

01:30 pm - Poster Session 02: Group A / Visit Exhibits 1.5 CME Snowbird Event Tent 03:00 pm All Posters in Group A on display - Even Poster #s presenting Chair: David Magnuson, PhD; University of Louisville

03:00 pm - PL02: Pain After SCI: Plasticity, Activity & Treatment 1.25 CME Cliff Ballroom 04:15 pm

Sponsored by

Chairs: David Magnuson, PhD; University of Louisville & Claire Hulsebosch, PhD; UTMB 1. Pain and Locomotor Circuitry: Competitors for Attention - Catherine Mercier, PhD; Laval University, Quebec 2. Plasticity and Neuropathic Pain After SCI - John Kramer, PhD; iCORD 3. Central and Peripheral Mechanisms of Hyperalgesia and Chronic Pain - Kathleen Sluka, PhD: University of Iowa

04:15 pm - Coffee Break Cliff Ballroom Foyer 04:45 pm

04:45 pm - S01: Novel Aproaches to Target Mitochondrial Dysfunction Following CNS Injury: From Biomarker to Replacing the Damaged Powerhouse 1.25 CME Cliff Ballroom 1 06:00 pm Chairs: Patrick Sullivan, PhD; University of Kentucky & Courtney Robertson, MD; Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 1. Assessing CNS Mitochondria Damage Using Serum Biomarkers - Todd Kilbaugh, MD; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 2. Swapping The Powerhouse Of The Cell Out Following SCI; Intraspinal Mitochondrial Transplants In SCI - Alexander Rabchevsky; PhD; University of Kentucky 3. Transfer Of Mitochondria From Astrocytes To Neurons After Stroke - Kazuhide Hayakawa, PhD; Massachusetts General Hospital 4. Permeability Transition, Synaptic Plasticity and - Elizabeth Jonas, MD; Yale School of Medicine

04:45 pm - S02: Peripheral Organ Involvement in CNS Trauma 1.25 CME Cliff Ballroom 2 06:00 pm Chairs: David Magnuson, University of Louisville & Sonia Villapol, PhD, Georgetown University 1. Changes in gut dysbiosis and barrier function underlie SCI pathophysiology - Shirish Barve, PhD; University of Louisville 2. The effects of TBI on peripheral immune cell responses - Fletcher White, PhD; IUPUI 3. Intestional dysfunction following TBI: Lessons from Drosophila - David Wassarman, PhD; University of Wisconsin

04:45 pm - S03: Blast-Related Mild TBI- Translational Relevance Starting from the Top (Humans) Down (mechanistic animal models) 1.25 CME Cliff Ballroom 3 06:00 pm Chairs: David Cook, PhD; University of Washington & Ibolja Cernak, PhD; University of Alberta 1. Human Neuropathological Findings of Blast-Related mTBI - Daniel Perl, MD; Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences 2. Behavioral and cognitive symptoms and complex comorbidities of blast-related mTBI in Veterans - Elaine Peskind, MD; University of Washington 3. Integration of cndings from animal models of blast-induced brain injury to clinical cndings - Ibolja Cernak, PhD; University of Alberta 4. Translational correspondences between animal models and cndings in veterans - David Cook, PhD; University of Washington

05:00 pm - Chinese Neurotrauma Scholar Association Meeting Magpie 06:00 pm

06:00 pm - ALPINE DINNER: "Mentoring on the Mountain" 2.0 CME View Details Peruvian Terrace & Skiers 09:00 pm Bridge 09:00 pm - S'More Collaboration Campcre 1.5 CME View Details Skiers Bridge 10:30 pm

TUESDAY, JULY 11 - Session Descriptions & Objectives

07:00 am - Breakfast Golden Cliff / Creekside Terrace 08:00 am

07:00 am - NNS Society Business Meeting - All NNS members are invited to attend Magpie 07:50 am

07:55 am - President's Announcements Cliff Ballroom 08:00 am

08:00 am - Anniversary Lecture 02 0.5 CME Cliff Ballroom 08:30 am

Edward Hall, PhD; University of Kentucky

08:30 am - PL03: Enhancing Recovery by Addressing Sleep: A Culprit of Chronic TBI Morbidity 1.25 CME Cliff Ballroom 09:45 am Chairs: Grace Griesbach, PhD; Centre for Neuro Skills & Akiva Cohen, PhD; University of Pennsylvania 1. Circuit Disturbances and Neuroinpammation - Mark Opp, PhD; University of Washington 2. Inpuence of Sleep and Diet on Rehabilitation Outcome - Akiva Cohen, PhD; University of Pennsylvania 3. Hormonal Alternations and Sleep Following Brain Injury - Grace Griesbach, PhD; Centre for Neuroskills

09:45 am - Break / Room Refresh Cliff Ballroom Foyer 10:00 am

10:00 am - Data Blitz B: Mini Presentations 0.5 CME Cliff Ballroom 10:30 am Chairs: Brian Pcster, PhD; New Jersey Institute of Technology & Andrea Kleindienst, PhD; Friedrich-Alexander-University B03-03 Maura Weber; University of Pennsylvania B04-03 Yun Li; University of Maryland, Baltimore B08-06 Erich Franz; Boston University B08-15 Daniel Huber; Medical College of Wisconsin B08-23 Briana Meyer; University of California, Los Angeles B18-04 Molly Braun; Augusta University B18-08 Merry Ma; Medical College of Georgia - Augusta University B18-12 Lesley Schurman; Virginia Commonwealth University B26-02 Shuxin Li; Temple University School of Medicine B26-05 Wenjiao Tai; UT Southwestern Medical Center

10:30 am - Poster Session 03: Group B / Visit Exhibits 1.5 CME Snowbird Event Tent 12:00 pm All Posters in Group B on display - Odd Poster #s presenting Chair: David Magnuson, PhD; University of Louisville

12:00 pm - Lunch & Learn Session: Rehabilitation for Acquired Brain Injury Throughout the Continuum Cottonwood A/B 01:30 pm Matthew J. Ashley, MD; Centre for Neuro Skills

Sponsored by

12:00 pm - Grab & Go Lunch Snowbird Event Tent 01:30 pm

12:00 pm - NNS Membership Committee Meeting Alpine A 01:30 pm

01:30 pm - Poster Session 04: Group B / Visit Exhibits 1.5 CME Snowbird Event Tent 03:00 pm All Posters in Group B on display - Even Poster #s presenting Chair: David Magnuson, PhD; University of Louisville

03:00 pm - S04: Late Effects of TBI 1.25 CME Cliff Ballroom 1 04:15 pm Chairs: Christine MacDonald, PhD, University of Washington & Jordan Grafman, PhD, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago 1. Associaton of Traumatic Brain Injury with Late-Life Neurodegenerative Conditions from the ACT Study - Paul Crane, MD; University of Washington 2. Long Term Disability Findings from TBI Model Systems - Kristen Dams O'Connor, PhD; Mount Sinai Hospital 3. Late LifeEffects of Military-Related Brain Injury from ADNI and Vietnam Head Injury Study - Jordan Grafman, PhD; Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago 4. Long Term Impact of Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury - Talin Babikian, PhD; UCLA Health

03:00 pm - S05: Stem Cell-Mediated Endogenous and Exogenous Repair of the Injured Spinal Cord 1.25 CME Cliff Ballroom 2 04:15 pm Sponsored by

Chairs: Xiao-Ming Xu, PhD; Indiana University & Aileen Anderson, PhD; University of California Irvine 1. Cell Replacement Therapy Using Lineage-Restricted Precursor Cells for Repair After SCI - Itzhak Fischer, PhD; Drexel University 2. Neural Stem Cell Transplantation for Neurotrauma: Clinical Targets and Preclinical Benchmarks - Aileen Anderson, PhD; University of California, Irvine 3. Creation of In Vivo Reprogrammed Neurons After SCI - Chun-Li Zhang, PhD, UT Southwestern University 03:00 pm - S06: Emerging Cell Biology of Trans-Cellular Signaling 1.25 CME Cliff Ballroom 3 04:15 pm Chairs: Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, MD, PhD; University of Pennsylvania & Cheryl Wellington, PhD; University of British Columbia 1. Exosomes - David Issadore, PhD; University of Pennsylvania 2. micro RNAs - Bogdan Stoica, PhD; University of Maryland 3. Lipoproteins - Cheryl Wellington, PhD; iCord

04:15 pm - Break Cliff Ballroom Foyer 04:30 pm

04:30 pm - WS01: Grant Writing Workshop 1.0 CME Wasatch A 05:30 pm Facilitators: Patrick Bellgowan, PhD; NIH/NINDS Dalton Dietrich, PhD; MIami Project to Cure Paralysis Pramod Dash, PhD; University of Texas Health Science Center

04:30 pm - WS02: Insiders Tips for Getting your Manuscript Published 1.0 CME Wasatch B 05:30 pm Facilitator:John Povlishock, PhD; VCU

04:30 pm - WS03: Preclinical Research Methods 1.0 CME Magpie A 05:30 pm Facilitator: Fiona Crawford, PhD; Roskamp Institute & Tampa VA 1. Fluid Percussion TBI Injury in the Rat - Bruce Lyeth, PhD; UC Davis 2. Acute and Chronic repetitive TBI in the Mouse - Fiona Crawford, PhD; Roskamp Institute & Tampa VA 3. Murine Sled Model - Lee Goldstein, MD, PhD; Boston University

04:30 pm - WS04: Judging Quality in Human and Animal Imaging Studies - Distinguishing Fact from "Leap of Faith" 1.0 CME Magpie B 05:30 pm Facilitator: Brenda Bartnik-Olson, PhD; Loma Linda University 1. Human - David Brody, PhD; Washington University of St. Louis 2. Animal - Neil Harris, PhD; UCLA

04:30 pm - WS05: Human TBI Neuropathology 1.0 CME Superior A 05:30 pm Facilitator: William Stewart, PhD: University of Glasgow

04:30 pm - WS06: Preclinical Common Data Elements: A Common Language for the TBI Community 1.0 CME Superior B 05:30 pm Chair: Michelle LaPlaca, PhD; Georgia Tech/Emory University Co Chairs: C. Edward Dixon, PhD - University of Pittsburgh, Lindsey Hulbert, PhD - Kansas State University and Douglas Smith, University of Pennsylvania Facilitator: Leonie Misquitta, PhD - CIT/NIH

06:00 pm - Cocktail Reception Cliff Ballroom Foyer 07:00 pm

07:00 pm - AWARDS CEREMONY & DINNER Hosted by Cliff Ballroom 08:30 pm The Power of Procrastination: The Science Gap Chairs: Candace Floyd, PhD and David Magnuson, PhD Guest Speaker: Dr. Jorge Cham, creator of PhD Comics Registered attendees only; advance RSVP required

8:30 pm - Book Signing with Dr. Jorge Cham Cliff Ballroom Foyer 9:00 pm

08:30 pm - AWARDS AFTER-PARTY Primrose 11:00 pm

WEDNESDAY, JULY 12 - Session Descriptions & Objectives

07:00 am - Breakfast Golden Cliff / Creekside Terrace 08:00 am

07:55 am - President's Announcements Cliff Ballroom 08:00 am

08:00 am - Anniversary Lecture 03: Evolving Concepts of Secondary Injury: Expanding the Therapeutic Window 0.5 CME Cliff Ballroom 08:30 am

Alan Faden, MD; University of Maryland

08:30 am - PL04: Acute SCI and the Therapeutic Window: Are We Chasing Realistic Targets? 1.25 CME Cliff Ballroom 09:45 am

Panel Discussion Sponsored by

Moderator: Linda Noble-Haeusslein, PhD; University of Texas at Austin Michelle Hook, PhD; Texas A&M University William Whetstone, MD; University of California J. Marc Simard, MD, PhD; University of Maryland Linda Noble-Haeusslein, PhD; University of Texas at Austin 09:45 am - Coffee Break Cliff Ballroom Foyer 10:15 am

10:15 am - Patient Perspective Talk: Jeremy Morgan 0.5 CME Cliff Ballroom 10:45 am

Sponsored by

Chair: Gregory Hawryluk, MD, PhD; University of Utah

10:45 am - PL05: Ocular Manifestation of Brain Trauma 1.25 CME Cliff Ballroom 12:00 pm Chairs: Andrew Mayer, PhD; The Mind Research Network & Uzma Samadani, MD; University of Minnesota 1. Minds Matter: Seeing Concussion Through New Eyes - Christina Master, MD; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 2. Vision Rehabilitation for Concussion-Related Vision Disorders - Mitchell Scheiman, PhD; Salus University 3. Automated Objective Measures of Oculomotor Dysfunction in Concussion - Uzma Samadani, MD; University of Minnesota

12:00 pm - Grab & Go Lunch Cliff Ballroom Foyer 12:30 pm (take into afternoon sessions)

12:30 pm - S07: MMPs in CNS: Dual Modulators of Pathology and Regeneration 1.25 CME Cliff Ballroom 1 01:45 pm Chairs: Alpa Mahuvakar, PhD; UCSF & Josephine Lok, MD; Massachusetts General Hospital 1. EMMPRIN, Upstream Inducer of MMPs, in CNS Pathology - Deepak Kaushik, PhD; University of Calgary 2. The Goldilocks Effect: MMPs and Angiogenesis After SCI - Alpa Mahuvakar, PhD; UCSF 3. MMPs and Post-Traumatic Neuroplasticity: Integrating Multiple Cellular Systems to Reorganize Synapses - Linda Phillips, PhD; VCU

12:30 pm - S08: Dawn of a New Day: Brain Edema is "Back in the Game" with New Discoveries! 1.25 CME Cliff Ballroom 2 01:45 pm Chairs: Jerome Badaut, PhD; Institut de Cognitives et Intégratives d’Aquitaine & Andre Obenaus, PhD; Loma Linda University 1. Water Channels and Brain Edema: Success and Failure - Jerome Badaut, PhD; Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives et Intégratives d’Aquitaine 2. The Glymphatic System: Role in Post-TBI Edema? - Jeffrey Iliff, PhD 3. Targeting Substance P to Reduce Edema: TBI vs SCI - Anna Leonard, PhD: University of Adelaide 4. Vasopressin: A Promising Player for Clinical Edema - Nikolaus Plesnila, PhD; University of Munich

12:30 pm - S09: Clinical Trial Update: Status and Baseline Demographics for Ongoing Spinal Cord Injury Studies 1.25 CME Cliff Ballroom 3 01:45 pm Chairs: Marco Rizzo, MD: Mayo Clinic & Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Kim Anderson-Erisman, PhD; University of Miami 1. Phase 2b/3 SPRING Study: Status & Baseline Demographics - Kee Kim, MD; University of California, Davis 2. Phase 2/3 RISCIS Study: Status & Baseline Demographics - Jefferson Wilson, MD, PhD; St. Michael's Hospital 3. Phase 1 ahSC Study: Status & Baseline Demographics - Kim Anderson-Erisman, PhD; University of Miami 4. Phase 1/2 AST-OPC1 Study: Status & Baseline Demographics - Edward Wirth, MD, PhD; Asterias Biotherapeutics

01:45 pm - Break Cliff Ballroom Foyer 02:00 pm

02:00 pm - Anniversary Lecture 04 0.5 CME Cliff Ballroom 2 02:30 pm

Wise Young, MD, PhD; Rutgers University

02:30 pm - Closing Remarks & Introduction of 2018 President Cliff Ballroom 2 03:00 pm