“Remodeling of Sympathetic Circuitry and Dysautonomia After Spinal Cord Injury: Mechanisms and Clinical Implications”
The 2026 Distinguished G. Heiner Sell Lecture of ASIA will be presented by Phillip Popovich, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University.
Dr. Popovich earned his PhD in Physiology and completed post-doc training in Immunology at Ohio State. He is internationally renowned for his research in neurotrauma and neuroimmunology. He is a member of national and international advisory boards for organizations that support SCI research, patient advocacy and policy development. He serves on the editorial board of scientific journals and advises the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Faculty of 1000. Dr. Popovich received the David F. Apple, Jr. Award from the American Spinal Injury Association and in 2019, he was awarded an R35 Outstanding Investigator Award from NIH-NINDS.
Dr. Popovich holds the Ray W. Poppleton Research Designated Endowed Chair and is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of OSU’s Department of Neuroscience.
A link to his research publications and Google Scholar profile can be found at: https://medicine.osu.edu/find-faculty/non-clinical/neuroscience/phillip-popovich-phd
The G. Heiner Sell Lectureship was inaugurated in 1982, following the untimely death of Dr. Sell the previous year. At that time, Dr. Sell was the President-Elect of ASIA. The association wanted to memorialize him by presenting this named lecture as the keynote of its annual conference.
The 2026 Sell Lecture “Remodeling of Sympathetic Circuitry and Dysautonomia After Spinal Cord Injury: Mechanisms and Clinical Implications” will be presented by Dr. Popovich on the first day of the Annual Scientific Meeting in San Antonio, TX, April 24-26.
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