2026 ECRC Webinar Series
The ECRC Webinar series aims to connect the next generation of leaders in SCI Research and Evidence-based Clinical Care. ECRC webinars are organized by the Early Career Committee of the American Spinal Injury Association.
Friday, September 25, 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET
Biorepositories, Biobanking, and How to Share Data to Advance Research in Spinal Cord Injury
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SCI Clinicians, Researchers, and Rehabilitation Professionals will gain insight into how high-quality data and biospecimen resources can advance SCI research and improve patient outcomes. Attendees will also learn about current best practices for data sharing, secondary data use, and collaborative research, helping them leverage existing resources to strengthen their own research and contribute to the future of SCI science.
Moderator:
Jacob A. Goldsmith, MS, PhD, James J. Peters VA Medical Center
Presenters:
Andrew J Park, MD
Craig Hospital – Physician Scientist
Dr. Park is a physician-scientist at Craig Hospital, adjoint assistant professor at University of Colorado Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Affiliate Physician at University of Colorado Boulder Clinical Translational Research Center. His clinical work focuses on inpatient and outpatient care of individuals with spinal cord injury. He is also the Director of the Craig Hospital Spasticity Clinic. His research is focused on advancing translational research in mechanisms of cardiovascular disease and other secondary complications after spinal cord injury and is the Founder and Director of the Craig Hospital Biorepository.
Abel Torres Espin, PhD
University of Waterloo – Assistant Professor
Abel Torres Espín is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He holds a BSc in Biology, an MSc in biostatistics and bioinformatics, and a PhD in Neuroscience. After his PhD, Abel pursued a postdoctoral research position at the University of Alberta, followed by a postdoctoral position in neurological data science at the University of California, San Francisco. Since 2023, Abel directs the health.data DRIVEN lab and teaches health data science and AI courses. He and his team are currently working on applying computational, statistical, causal, and machine-learning methods for neuroepidemiology and personalized health research, as well as to predict and understand disease complexity in neurological conditions. Abel is also interested in data-driven discovery, open science, reproducibility, and data sharing.
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