Keynote Speakers, NACOB 2008
Wednesday, August 5, 2008
John O.L. DeLancey, M.D. (University of Michigan, U.S.A.)
“On the Challenge of Vaginal Birth”
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Thursday, August 6, 2008
Mimi A.R. Koehl, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A)
“Locomoting in a Turbulent World”
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Friday, August 7, 2008
Stephen H. Scott, Ph.D. (Queens University, Ontario, Canada)
“The 3 Bs of Motor Control: Behaviour, Brains and Biomechanics”
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Saturday, August 8, 2008
Jaap van Dieën, Ph.D. (Vrije Univesiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
“Low-Back Injury: From Work Place to Lab and Back”
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John O.L. DeLancey, M.D.
Norman F. Miller Professor of Gynecology
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A.
“The Challenge of Vaginal Birth”.
Dr. DeLancey is the Norman F. Miller Professor of Gynecology at the University of Michigan Medical School. One of the world’s experts on female pelvic floor anatomy, function and dysfunction, he is credited with revolutionizing the understanding of uterine prolapse and urinary incontinence, conditions that can develop in the mother as a result of vaginal birth.
Mimi A.R. Koehl, Ph.D.
Robert and Virginia Gill Professor in Natural History
Department of Integrative Biology,
University of California, Berkeley.
“Locomoting in a Turbulent World”.
Mimi Koehl, specializes in evolutionary and ecological biomechanics using tools of biofluiddynamics. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and recipient of the Borelli Award (American Society of Biomechanics), a Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the Rachel Carson Award (American Geophysical Union).
Stephen H. Scott, Ph.D.
Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Queen’s University
Botterell Hall, Room 219
Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
“The 3 Bs of Motor Control: Behaviour, Brains and Biomechanics.”.
Stephen Scott’s research examines coordination and
adaptive learning of limb movements and how regions of the brain are involved in these tasks. A CIHR Investigator Awardee, he has received several national awards for his research which appears in Nature, Nature Neuroscience and other leading journals.
Jaap van Dieën, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomechanics
Institute for Fundamental and Clinical Human Movement Sciences
Faculty of Human Movement Sciences
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
THE NETHERLANDS
“Low-Back Injury: From Work Place to Lab and Back.”.
Jaap van Dieën’s main research interest is on the interaction of muscle coordination, fatigue, disorders, joint load and stability. He is an editor of the European Journal of Applied Physiology, section editor of Human Movement Sciences and serves on several other editorial boards and societies.