Parklands Drive
Southport QLD 4215
Australia
The 2015 CONROD and Centre of Research Excellence in Recovery Following Road Traffic Injuries Seminar Series
Presented by:
Assistant Professor James Elliott
from the Northwestern Universtity, Chicago, Feinberg School of Medicine
Quantifying injury following Motor Vehicle Collisions … making the invisible, visible
Integrated and global research efforts involving a diverse group of professionals has realised that the prediction of recovery following motor vehicle collisions involves a complex interplay between biological, psychological and environmental processes. Jim and his lab are working on new imaging based methods for making the mostly invisible experience of pain and disability more visible and meaningful at the level of the clinician. In this session, Jim will speak about emerging advancements in the clinical assessment of the patient with suspected head/neck trauma.
Biography
Professor James (Jim) Elliott, (PT, PhD) completed his PhD at the University of Queensland, (UQ) in 2007 and a post-doctoral fellowship (2010 at the Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD) & CCRE-Spine. He is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago, USA. He has secured over $3.3 million in research funding and has published over 60 manuscripts. His interdisciplinary research interests involve the use of magnetic resonance imaging applications to quantify physiological changes in the spinal cord and skeletal muscles following spinal trauma.
