TWENTY-NINTH NEURAL PROSTHESIS WORKSHOP

October 28 - 30, 1998

Auditorium of the Lister Hill Center (NLM), Bldg. 38A

National Institute of Neurological Disorders
and Stroke (NINDS)

National Institute on Deafness and Other
Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

National Institutes of Health

Wednesday, October 28, 1998


8:30 a.m.	Registration

9:00	Welcome - NINDS	Gerald Fischbach

9:10	Welcome - NIDCD	Jim Battey

9:20	Update and Orientation	Terry Hambrecht

9:30	Multichannel Stimulating and Intracortical Recording Electrodes University of Michigan	Ken Wise

10:00	Discussion

10:15	BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING

10:40	Hermetic Packages and Feedthroughs University of Michigan	Khalil Najafi

11:05	Discussion

11:20	Microstimulators and Microtransducers for Functional Neuromuscular Stimulation A.E. Mann Foundation / Ill Institute of Technology / Queens University	Joe Schulman Phil Troyk Jerry Loeb

11:45	Discussion

12:00	LUNCH

1:00	Unassisted Standing by FNS Case Western Reserve University	Ron Triolo Weiseng Zhao Jim Abbas

1:25	Discussion

1:40	Functional Neuromuscular Stimulation (FNS) Case Western Reserve University	Pat Crago Clayton VanDoren Hunter Peckham Rich Lauer Wendy Murray

2:10	Discussion

2:25 p.m.	FNS Electrodes Case Western Reserve University	Tom Mortimer Matthew Tarler

2:50	Discussion

3:05	BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING

3:40	Cortical Control of Neural Prostheses Arizona State University	Andy Schwartz Daryl Kipke Rob Isaacs

4:05	Discussion

4:20	Cortical Control of Neural Prostheses Allegheny University of the Health Sciences	John Chapin Miguel Nicolelis

4:45	Discussion

5:00	Adjourn

6:00 p.m.	Informal Get-Together Chatter's - Ramada Inn (1/2 block south on Wisconsin Ave.)

Thursday, October 29, 1998


8:00 a.m.	Neurophysiological Effects of Simulated Auditory Prosthesis Stimulation University of Iowa	Paul Abbas Charles Miller Jay Rubinstein

8:25	Discussion

8:40	Speech Processors for Auditory Prostheses MIT	Don Eddington

9:05	Discussion

9:20	Speech Processors for Auditory Prostheses Research Triangle Institute	Blake Wilson

9:45	Discussion

Note: Be sure to visit the posters in the hallways and foyer.
Authors will be at their posters during breaks.

10:00	BREAK and POSTER VIEWING

10:30	Protective Effects of Patterned Electrical Stimulation	Pat Leake Russ Snyder

	UCSF
10:55	Discussion

11:10	Percutaneous Connectors BioElectric Corporation	Lou Rucker Albert Lossinsky

11:35	Discussion

11:50	LUNCH

SPECIAL SESSION ON CONNECTIONS WITH THE CNS

1:00 p.m.	Feasibility of a Central Nervous System Auditory Prosthesis Huntington Med. Res. Inst. / House Ear Institute	Doug McCreery Jean Moore Bob Shannon

1:25	Discussion

1:40	Optic Nerve Chronic Stimulation in an Retinitis Pigmentosa Blind Volunteer Universite de Louvain Brussels, Belgium	Claude Veraart

2:10	Discussion

2:20	Stimulation of the Human Retina Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary	Joe Rizzo John Wyatt

2:50	Discussion

3:00	BREAK and POSTER VIEWING

3:30	Stimulation of the Human Retina Johns Hopkins University	Mark Humayan Eugene Dejuan

4:00	Discussion

4:10	The Utah Visual Prosthesis Project The University of Utah	Richard Normann

4:40	Discussion

4:50	The NIH Visual Prosthesis Project Lab of Neural Control/NINDS	Edward Schmidt Bill Heetderks Terry Hambrecht

5:20	Discussion

5:30	Adjourn

Note: Be sure to visit the posters in the hallways and foyer.
Authors will be at their posters during breaks.

Friday, October 30, 1998


8:00 a.m.	Microstimulation of the Lumbosacral Spinal Cord - Mapping Case Western Reserve University	Warren Grill

8:25	Discussion

8:40	Microstimulation of the Lumbosacral Spinal Cord - Mapping University of Pittsburgh	Jim Roppolo

9:05	Discussion

9:20	Chronic Microstimulation of the Lumbosacral Spinal Cord Huntington Med. Res. Inst.	Doug McCreery Albert Lossinsky

9:45	Discussion

10:00	BREAK and POSTER VIEWING

10:20	Safe Stimulation of Neural Tissue Huntington Med. Res. Inst.	Bill Agnew Doug McCreery Ted Yuen

10:55	Discussion

11:15	Surface Modification for Biocompatibility University of Michigan	David Martin Sue O'Shea

11:40	Discussion

11:55	LUNCH

1:00 p.m.	Sensing Information from Afferent Signals Simon Fraser University	Andy Hoffer

1:25	Discussion

1:40	Insulating Biomaterials MIT	Dave Edell

2:05	Discussion

2:20	Multi-Channel Transcutaneous Cortical Stimulation System Illinois Institute of Technology	Phil Troyk

2:45	Discussion

3:00	FINIS

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