Course Info
Agenda
Registration
Schedule
Day 1: January 29, 2026
Day 2: January 30, 2026
Day 3: Janaury 31, 2026
Day1: Thursday, January 29, 2026
Exhibitor and supporter activities will be outside the educational space in accordance with CME/ANCC regulatory standards
Time
Topic & Speaker
8 - 8:30 a.m.
Registration & Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45 a.m.
TIRR Education Academy & Logistics
Victoria Zegarrundo, PT, DPT
8:45 - 9 a.m.
Introduction to the Conference
Radha Korupolu, MD, MS & Argyrios Stampas, MD, MS
9 - 9:45 a.m.
Keynote: Past, Present, & Future
Stephen Kirschblum, MD
9:45 - 10 a.m.
Innovation Centers & Model Centers
Rhonda Abbott, PT, FACHE
10 - 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 - 10:45 a.m.
RSVP - Local to National - Grassroots
Jeff Berliner, MD
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.
Christopher Dana Reeve Foundation (CDRF) -
What's New: Updates & Gaps
Regina Blye, CPPO
11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Lunch with Exhibitors
12:15 - 1 p.m.
Keynote: History of Advocacy
Lex Frieden, MA, LLD
1 - 1:30 p.m.
Nielsen Foundation - Advocacy
Jacob Shreckengost, PhD
1:30 - 2 p.m.
Advocacy & UTIs
Matthew Davis, MD
2 - 3 p.m.
Break/Posters/Exhibitors
3 - 3:30 p.m.
How Rehab Professionals and People with SCI Use Research
Joanne Glinsky, Bapp, Sc, MHealth Science, PhD
3:30 - 4 p.m.
Women with SCI & Needs
Heather Taylor, PhD
4 - 4:45 p.m.
Keynote: SCI & Research: Not Without Me!
Kim Anderson, PhD
4:45 - 5 p.m.
End Educational Content for the Day
Day 2: Friday, Janaury 30, 2026
Exhibitor and supporter activities will be outside the educational space in accordance with CME/ANCC regulatory standards
Time
Topic & Speaker
8 - 8:30 a.m.
Registration & Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45 a.m.
Welcome & Education Information
Patricia Tully, OTR, OTD
8:45 - 9:30 a.m.
Keynote: Autonomic Dysreflexia
Andrei Krassioukov, MD, PhD
9:30 - 10 a.m.
Enhance Breathing & Swallowing in People with SCI
Alicia Vose, PhD, CCC-SLP
10 - 10:45 a.m.
Facilitating Ventilator Weaning Through Diaphragmatic and Phrenic Nerve Pacing in Spinal Cord Injury
Raymond P. Onders, MD, FACS
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.
Break
11:15 - 11:45 a.m.
Nerve Transfers in SCI: Real-World Outcomes and Evolving Practices
Thomas Wilson, MD
11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Nerve Transfer Outcomes & Implantables
Anne Bryden, PhD, OTR/L
12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Provided w/ Exhibitors & Posters
1:30 - 2:15 p.m.
Neuromodulation for Functional Recovery
Candy Tefertiller, PT, DPT, PhD, NCS
2:15 - 2:45 p.m.
Epidural Spinal Stimulation
Dimitry Sayenko, MD, PhD
2:45 - 3:15 p.m.
Vagus Nerve Stimluation in SCI
Michael Kilgard, PhD
3:15 - 3:45 p.m.
Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation in SCI
Radha Korupolu, MD
3:45 - 4:15 p.m.
Break
4:15 - 5 p.m.
Keynote: Innovation in Bowel Programs
Dennis Bourbeau, MD
5 - 5:30 p.m.
Bladder Neuromodulation in SCI
Argyrios Stampas, MD, MS
5:30 p.m.
End Educational Content for the Day
Day 3: Saturday, Janaury 31, 2026
Exhibitor and supporter activities will be outside the educational space in accordance with CME/ANCC regulatory standards
Time
Topic & Speaker
8 - 8:30 a.m.
Registration & Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45 a.m.
Welcome & Education Information
Patricia Tully, OTR, OTD
8:45 - 9:30 a.m.
Keynote: Motivational Interviewing
Linda Ehrlic-Jones, PhD, RN, FACRM, FAAN
9:30 - 10 a.m.
Psychological Health
Susan Robinson-Whelan, PhD
10 - 10:30 a.m.
Sex & Intimacy: A Personal Perspective
Garrett Parish, MS
10:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Break
10:45 - 11:30 a.m.
Keynote: Pain
Eva Widerstrom-Noga, DDS, PhD, FASIA
11:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Cryoneurolysis & SCI
Sheng Li, MD, PhD
12 - 12:45 p.m.
Lunch
12:45 - 1:30 p.m.
Keynote: Rehab Engineering & Technology - Future Directions
Rory Cooper, PhD
1:30 - 2 p.m.
Bone Health & Biomarkers
Leslie Morse, DO
2 - 2:45 p.m.
Keynote: When Life Takes Your Breath Away
Rex Marco, MD
2:45 - 3 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Argyrios Stampas, MD & Radha Korupolu, MD
3 p.m.
End Educational Content for the Day
