International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation (ISVR) newsletter - 5th Issue
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Find more information at http://www.isvr.org
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Message from the president:
"As we prepare for the start of a new academic year, we swing into a new cycle of projects and activities. Our focus this summer was the organization of the International Conference of Virtual Rehabilitation, one of the major meetings sponsored by ISVR. The meeting was held in Valencia, Spain in conjunction with RehabWeek, which included the participation of two other societies ICRAN and INRS. It was co-chaired by Mariano Alcaniz Raya and Emily A. Keshner and included a large number of hard-working committee members. An important and recurrent event of the ICVR is the full-day of workshops organized before the meeting. This year, there was quite a bit of interest in the workshops with high levels of attendance, signaling the continuing need for and popularity of this learning format. You can find more information about the meeting on page 6 of the newsletter as well as summaries of the winning platform and poster presentations on pages 7 to 11.
In terms of ISVR news, as I announced during the ISVR annual general meeting, held during ICVR, we have created a new category of membership. Open to clinicians and users of VR technology including patients and their families, membership in the Society is free for the first year, and will be available at a reduced rate thereafter. We hope to encourage the formation of a ‘community of practice’ of individuals involved in using or developing VR for rehabilitation purposes, who can use resources available on our webpage for information sharing. General membership information can be found on page 5 of the newsletter.
Also, I am very excited to announce the establishment of the ISVR Early Career Investigator Award. Our awards committee including Belinda Lange, Greg Burdea and Tamar Weiss have worked hard on bringing this award to fruition. We hope that it will encourage young researchers in the field of virtual rehabilitation and provide a means of recognizing the accomplishments of promising upcoming scientists. Full details about the award and the nomination procedure can be found on page 13.
Finally, the newsletter includes our regular features of technology and clinical profiles, now in a new format. These provide a means by which we can showcase the work of people in our network. This newsletter features the work being done by one of our newest Board members, Philippe Archambault, at the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital site of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, as well as by Andrea Turolla at the Laboratory of Kinematics and Robotica, in the IRCCS San Camillo Hospital Foundation in Venice, Italy.
We are always looking for interesting news from our membership, so if you have something exciting to share, such as a meeting announcement or news from your clinic or lab, please pass it on to our newsletter team (see the email address on the bottom right of this page).
Mindy Levin President, ISVR"
Message from the president:
"As we prepare for the start of a new academic year, we swing into a new cycle of projects and activities. Our focus this summer was the organization of the International Conference of Virtual Rehabilitation, one of the major meetings sponsored by ISVR. The meeting was held in Valencia, Spain in conjunction with RehabWeek, which included the participation of two other societies ICRAN and INRS. It was co-chaired by Mariano Alcaniz Raya and Emily A. Keshner and included a large number of hard-working committee members. An important and recurrent event of the ICVR is the full-day of workshops organized before the meeting. This year, there was quite a bit of interest in the workshops with high levels of attendance, signaling the continuing need for and popularity of this learning format. You can find more information about the meeting on page 6 of the newsletter as well as summaries of the winning platform and poster presentations on pages 7 to 11.
In terms of ISVR news, as I announced during the ISVR annual general meeting, held during ICVR, we have created a new category of membership. Open to clinicians and users of VR technology including patients and their families, membership in the Society is free for the first year, and will be available at a reduced rate thereafter. We hope to encourage the formation of a ‘community of practice’ of individuals involved in using or developing VR for rehabilitation purposes, who can use resources available on our webpage for information sharing. General membership information can be found on page 5 of the newsletter.
Also, I am very excited to announce the establishment of the ISVR Early Career Investigator Award. Our awards committee including Belinda Lange, Greg Burdea and Tamar Weiss have worked hard on bringing this award to fruition. We hope that it will encourage young researchers in the field of virtual rehabilitation and provide a means of recognizing the accomplishments of promising upcoming scientists. Full details about the award and the nomination procedure can be found on page 13.
Finally, the newsletter includes our regular features of technology and clinical profiles, now in a new format. These provide a means by which we can showcase the work of people in our network. This newsletter features the work being done by one of our newest Board members, Philippe Archambault, at the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital site of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, as well as by Andrea Turolla at the Laboratory of Kinematics and Robotica, in the IRCCS San Camillo Hospital Foundation in Venice, Italy.
We are always looking for interesting news from our membership, so if you have something exciting to share, such as a meeting announcement or news from your clinic or lab, please pass it on to our newsletter team (see the email address on the bottom right of this page).
Mindy Levin President, ISVR"
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