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  • Thursday, Oct 31st
    7:30 AM – 2:30 PM  
    ACRM Early Career Development Course: Meeting Your Career Expectations: Aligning Multiple Definitions of Success with a Career in Rehabilitation Medicine 2261 - This Course includes a luncheon for course participants only supported by the University of Texas Medical Branch Sealy Center on Aging
    Location:  ROOM: Metropolitan REGION: Tower Mezzanine Level >>> DIRECTIONS: Exit Tower elevators on Mezzanine level. Proceed straight ahead, past the skylight. Metropolitan is the first room to the left.
    Keynote Speaker: Sandra Bond Chapman, PhD – Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas
    Corresponding Presenter: Brian Downer, PhD, FACRM – University of Texas Medical Branch
    Moderator: Deborah Backus, PT, PhD, FACRM (she/her/hers) – Shepherd Center
    Presenter: Jereme D. Wilroy, PhD – University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Panelist: Yumi Kim, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Panelist: Willa P. Vo, Psy.D. – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
    Panelist: Ralph Nitkin, PhD (he/him/his) – NICHD/NIH
    Panelist: Reza Ehsanian, MD PhD – University of New Mexico Hospital
    Panelist: Patricia A. Dorn, PhD – Department of Veterans Affairs
    Panelist: Linda Vo, MPH (she/her/hers) – National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research
    Panelist: Julie M. Faieta – University of Pittsburgh
    Panelist: Dwayne Taliaferro, PhD (he/him/his) – Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program
    Presenter: Brad G. Kurowski, MD, MS – University of Cincinnati and Ciincinnati Children's
    LeadershipWriting Grants & Getting FundedCareer Development
  • Thursday, Oct 31st
    7:30 AM – 2:30 PM  
    ACRM Leadership Development Course 9541 - This Course includes a luncheon for course participants only supported by the University of Texas Medical Branch Sealy Center on Aging 9541
    Location:  ROOM: Monet REGION: Tower Mezzanine Level >>> DIRECTIONS: Exit Tower elevators on Mezzanine level. Proceed straight ahead, past the skylight. Monet is the straight ahead.
    Keynote Speaker: Sandra Bond Chapman, PhD – Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas
    Presenter: Brad G. Kurowski, MD, MS – University of Cincinnati and Ciincinnati Children's
    Moderator: Deborah Backus, PT, PhD, FACRM (she/her/hers) – Shepherd Center
    LeadershipCareer Development
  • Friday, Nov 1st
    7:00 AM – 8:00 AM  
    Career Development Networking Group
    Location:  ROOM: Governors Lecture Hall REGION: Tower Lobby Level >>> DIRECTIONS: From ACRM Registration desk, face the elephants and turn left. Proceed past the Elephants. Turn left down the corridor. Governors is at the end of the corridor on the right.
    Moderator: Monique R. Pappadis, MEd, PhD, FACRM (she/her/hers) – University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
    Career Development