Jill Whitall? a very eminent researcher in Physical Therapy at the University of Maryland? US??is visiting the University on Wed Oct 19th. She will be giving a lecture in 45/0045 from 1pm –?2pm and meeting with the research team during the day.

Dr. Whitall’s primary research area is to investigate novel interventions in both UE and LE paradigms with the goal of understanding the mechanisms of recovery and learning how to optimize the interventions across different levels of impairment. For example, Dr. Whitall and collaborators have found that a novel bilateral arm training program with rhythmic auditory cueing (BATRAC) will improve impairments, function and disability for some subjects and that these functional changes correlate with changes in brain activation, particularly in the contralesional hemisphere, seen through fMRI scanning. This work involves collaborations with investigators in University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB), Johns Hopkins University and University of Zurich.