PRESIDENTIAL GUEST SPEAKER

2024 PRESIDENTIAL GUEST SPEAKER

Moving a Missing Hand: Children Born with a Congenital Limb Deficiency have Extensive Control Over Their Remaining Muscles

Wilsaan M. Joiner, PhD

Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow, UC Davis
Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine

Center for Neuroengineering
Center for Neuroscience

University of California, Davis

Dr. Joiner studies how we use different sources of information to aid behavior, ranging from visual perception to movement planning and updating. Specifically, he is interested in how external and internally-generated sensory information is integrated in healthy individuals, in comparison to certain disease and impaired populations (e.g., Schizophrenia and upper extremity amputees). Achieving this understanding may lead to better methods for diagnosing and treating impairments of the nervous system.”

PAST PRESIDENTIAL GUEST SPEAKERS

  • 2024 — Wilssan M. Joiner, PhD
  • 2023 — Kristie Bjornson, PT, DPT, PHD
  • 2022 — Jennifer Brondon, MD, Charlotte, NC
  • 2021 — Unni Narayanan, MBBS, MSc, FRCS, Toronto, ON Canada
  • 2020 — Danielle Melton, MD, Houston, TX
  • 2019 — Donald E. Katz, CO, Dallas, TX
  • 2018 — James R. Kasser, MD, Boston, MA
  • 2017 — John Dormans, MD, Houston, TX
  • 2016 — Gregory L. Dumanian, MD, Chicago, IL
  • 2015 — Todd A. Kuiken, MD, PhD, Chicago, IL
  • 2014 — Michael D. Sussman, MD, Portland, OR
  • 2013 — Colin F. Moseley, MD, FRCS(c), Los Angeles, CA
  • 2012 — Diane L. Damiano, PhD, PT, Bethesda, MD
  • 2011 — Robert S. Gailey, PhD, PT, Miami, FL
  • 2010 — Rene Baumgartner, MD, Munster, Germany
  • 2009 — Todd Anderson, CP, Minneapolis, MN
  • 2008 — Jacques D’Astous, Salt Lake City, UT
  • 2007 — Mark Huang, MD, Chicago, IL
  • 2006 — N/A
  • 2005 — Randal R. Betz, MD, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2004 — Dudley S. Childress, PhD, Chicago, IL
  • 2003 — Norris C. Carroll, BSc, MD, FRCSC, Sarasota, FL
  • 2002 — Gerhard N. Kiefer, MD, Calgary, AB, Canada
  • 2001 — William Kennedy Smith, MD, Houston, TX
  • 2000 — Sandra Gordon, Banff, AB, Canada
  • 1999 —Cheryl T. Harrell, ACSW, LCSW, St. Pete’s Beach, FL
  • 1998 — N/A
  • 1997 — N/A
  • 1996 — Joseph P. Vacanti, MD, Boston, MA
  • 1995 — Peter Rosenbaum, MD, Hamilton, ON, Canada
  • 1994 — John Michael, CPO, Chanhassen, MN
  • 1993 — Kenneth L. B. Brown, MD, Montreal, QB, Canada
  • 1992 — Michael J. Goldberg, MD, Boston, MA
  • 1991 — Robert Gillespie, MD, Buffalo, NY
  • 1990 — Ernst Marquardt, MD, Salzburg, Austria
  • 1989 — Newton C. McCollough, III, MD, Tampa, FL
  • 1988 — Newton C. McCollough, III, MD, Tubac, AZ
  • 1987 — Judith Hall, MD, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • 1986 — Dennis Dougherty, PhD, Milwaukee, WI
  • 1985 — Morris Milner, PhD, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • 1984 — Aaron Favors, PhD, Rockville, MD and Jean Pillet, MD, Paris, France
  • 1983 — Henry Cowell, MD, Boston, MA and Sherman Coleman, MD, Salt Lake City, UT
  • 1982 — John Hall, MD, Boston, MA