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Senior Scientist
Carolinas Rehabilitation
Charlotte, North Carolina
Mark A. Hirsch, PhD is Senior Scientist, Carolinas Rehabilitation, Department of PM&R, Director, Parkinson and Movement Disorders Lab, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte campus. He completed NIH-T32 fellowship training in neurorehabilitation research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, PMR (Professor Barbara J deLateur, mentor) (96-99). He received advanced training in movement disorders in the Department of Neurology at Heinrich-Heine University of Dusseldorf, Germany (Professor Harald Hefter, MD, PhD, mentor) (2000). He conducted pioneering NIH funded research in the area of political participation (voting) and traumatic brain injury. His current research is in gait and balance, mostly in Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Hirsch has made seminal scientific contributions in the area of exercise and Parkinson’s disease. He also pioneered the study of Parkinson patient/provider /scientist collaboration. He works with doctors and therapists who want to give patients a more active role in their health care, and he promotes cooperation in the health care system. He calls the system he envisions “participatory healthcare”. His work on physical activity promotion and brain neurotrophins has been critical in the field of neurorehabilitation. His experience with developing regionalized professional collaborative networks to improve the quality of care in PD is one of the largest in the world. Together with Dr. Sanjay Iyer, he established the Parkinson Network at Carolinas Medical Center in 2007, which received funding from the Park Foundation in 2012, and became known as RENEW Carolinas Parkinson Initiative. RENEW has received awards for its innovation and patient care, including the Ray of Hope Award in 2016. Dr. Hirsch is active on boards internationally including the International Association of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, Geriatric Rehabilitation, and the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM). He joined the ACRM in 2008 and the ACRM Neurodegenerative Diseases Networking Group in 2013 (Chair 2018-2020). In 2016 Hirsch and the NDNG Awards Task Force developed the NDNG-level Women in Rehabilitation Science Symposium and a new international award to acknowledge world-class rehabilitation research conducted by a female scientist in the field of rehabilitation science, The NDNG-level Women in ND Science Award and the ACRM-level Women in Rehabilitation Science Award. Hirsch is active on the ACRM AdHoc Committee on Diversity, ACRM Program Committee, AdHoc ACRM Committee to Review Group Configuration, and ACRM Chairs of Councils.
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EST
Thursday, October 22, 2020
8:45 AM – 9:45 AM EST
Thursday, October 22, 2020
1:35 PM – 1:43 PM EST
Thursday, October 22, 2020
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM EST
Thursday, October 22, 2020
12:30 PM – 1:45 PM EST
Thursday, October 22, 2020
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Friday, October 23, 2020
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Friday, October 23, 2020
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Friday, October 23, 2020
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Friday, October 23, 2020
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM EST
Saturday, October 24, 2020
8:30 AM – 9:45 AM EST
Saturday, October 24, 2020
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Saturday, October 24, 2020
11:30 AM – 12:20 PM EST
Saturday, October 24, 2020
12:20 PM – 12:40 PM EST