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RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

The first annual Ida P. Rolf Research Foundation Research Training and Project Funding Symposium will be held Thursday, March 29, 2012, from 6:30-9:00 pm at the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia. The symposium is free to fascia congress attendees but you must register separately for the symposium.

You must be registered for the Third International Fascia Research Congress 2012 to participate. The deadline for advance registration for the symposium is February 15, 2012 but space is limited so you are encouraged to register for the symposium prior to the deadline.

The symposium will focus on funding mechanisms and grant proposal review methodology and will include presentations by leading scientists. Part of the symposium will be a “mock review” of research projects and grant proposals, similar to the panel of scientists who review proposals for funding agencies. Participants are encouraged to submit the full text of any pending or proposed grant proposal to be considered for discussion and comments during the symposium itself. The symposium is designed for researchers at all levels – from clinicians considering a project to funded seasoned investigators. You may also submit a research idea you would like to see developed, a clinical case study or pilot project.

Please send your proposed topic as soon as possible, but no later than March I, 2012 with full text by March 15, 2012 to Dr Findley at fasciaresearch@gmail.com . Please send the full text as a Microsoft word attachment to your email. The actual texts submitted will remain confidential but will be reviewed by scientific participants in the symposium. If you have any questions concerning the suitability of a possible proposal, please feel free to contact Dr. Findley (fasciaresearch@gmail.com).

Presenters include:
Partap Khalsa, DC, PhD, DABCO, a Program Director at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health where he oversees a portfolio of NIH grants on research training and career development and on manual therapies, including chiropractic, massage, and osteopathic medicine. Dr Khalsa gave a keynote presentation at the First International Fascia Congress in 2007 on his own area of research “Joint Capsule Proprioceptive and Nociceptive Mechanisms.”

Tom Findley, MD, PhD, Center for Health Care Knowledge Management and Research Chair of Integrative Medicine Committee, Veterans Healthcare Administration New Jersey Medical Center; Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Medicine and Dentistry, N.J.; Emeritus Founding Editor in Chief, International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Body Work; Executive Director, Ida P. Rolf Research Foundation. He is a permanent member of the Veterans Healthcare Administration Scientific Merit Review Board, and has reviewed grants for federal agencies including CDC, NIH, and NIDRR. He gave a keynote presentation at the 2009 International Fascia Congress on “Clinical Measurement of Fascial Change.” He has written a series of articles on designing clinical research which is available online at http://www.rolfresearchfoundation.org/other_resources .

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STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS 

The student registration rate for the Fascia Congress is open to all students enrolled in any professional or academic training program.  Additional scholarships are available to graduate students with scientific abstracts accepted at the Fascia Research Congress.  .

Graduate students enrolled in any doctoral degree granting program (MD, PhD, DO, DC, DPT, DPH, DAc, etc.)  submitting abstracts to the 2012 Fascia Research Congress will be considered for a $200 scholarship by the Ida Rolf Research Foundation. Students may apply by marking the appropriate box on the abstract submission form.  

The first 25 graduate students with accepted abstracts will be awarded this scholarship, based on date of abstract submission.  Priority will be given to students who are listed as the presenting author.  Students must complete their conference registration and provide evidence of graduate student status within 30 days of abstract acceptance in order to be eligible. Students who are awarded the scholarship will receive them when they attend the Congress.

$5000 has already been received in donations to support this fund.  As additional donations are received, more scholarships will become available.  If you wish to donate, please click here.

For more information on the 2012 Fascia Research Congress go to www.fasciacongress.org/2012.

Abstract submission opens July 1, 2011 and closes September 15, 2011 .  Detailed instructions for abstract preparation are online at www.fasciacongress.org/2012/abstract-submissions/.

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