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Professor Mary Galea, AM FAHMS FACP, is a physiotherapist and neuroscientist whose research in basic and clinical neuroscience has contributed to understanding the organisation and development of the motor system and its recovery from injury following nervous system disorders such as spinal cord injury, stroke, and multiple sclerosis. She is Professorial Fellow in the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne, with Honorary appointments in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Victorian Spinal Cord Service, Austin Health. She leads the Program in Restorative Neuroscience in the Graeme Clark Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Her current major project is an early phase adaptive trial of transcutaneous spinal cord neuromodulation to improve hand function following spinal cord injury. Prof Galea is past Chair of the Stroke Association of Victoria, and member, Scientific Advisory Committee of SpinalCure Australia, and Clinical Governance and Research Committee of Spinal Cord Injuries Australia.

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Dr. Ashraf S. Gorgey currently serves as Chief of SCI Research and Director of the SCI Exercise and Body Composition Lab at the Central Virginia Veterans Affairs Health System (CVVAHS). He also serves as a Research Clinical Specialist at the Spinal Cord Injury Service & Disorders and Director of the SCI Move Program at CVVAHS. He has a dual appointment as a Professor, VCU Center for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering, Department of PM&R, School of Medicine. The applicant has been awarded number of SCI research grants including VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Career Development (CDA), VA Merit (I01), and VA Spire (I21) awards; National Science Foundation grants; and DoD-CDRMP awards to study the effects of exercise training using assistive technologies and neurostimulations techniques for post-SCI impairment.

Nafisseh Jafarian is a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician and a Specialty Doctor in Spinal Rehabilitation in the UK. She completed her specialist training in PM&R in Iran and has a focused clinical and academic interest in spinal cord injury rehabilitation, service delivery models, and the psychological impact of systemic challenges on both patients and healthcare teams.

Punam D Costa is a physiotherapist with a B.Sc in Physiotherapy (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh) and MPhil in Medicine (The University of Sydney, Australia). She was the recipient of prestigious Australia Awards Scholarship. She is currently working as a lecturer, department of Rehabilitation Science at Bangladesh Health Professions Institute (BHPI) since 2022. She has more than 8 years clinical and research experience in the field of spinal cord injuries (SCI). She worked with people with SCI all over Bangladesh in both hospital and community setting that provided her lived experience of the challenges faced by people with SCI in Bangladesh and working with different stakeholders to mitigate the challenges. In addition, she has brief experience of working in public health response of New South Wales (NSW) Health during the Covid-19 pandemic. She has keen research interest on the area of spinal cord injury, disability, rehabilitation and social inclusion.

Full Professor of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. PRM specialist in 2009. Pain Medicine specialist in 2011. European Master of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, ECPIR project “Education Curricula Project in rehabilitation” Tempus MEDA Morocco 2006-2009, University of Messina (Italy), University of Paris V René Descartes (France), University of Mohamed V. (Rabat) Master’s degree in public management from the business school, Morocco in 2015. PhD degree in Clinical Neuroscience from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, 2023 Chair of the research group Psychophysics and rehabilitation at the Clinical Neuroscience laboratory 2013-2023. Received the National Disability Research and Innovation Awards of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah University in 2017; Member of the ISPRM-WHO Liaison Committee. Secretary funder of the Moroccan association of the occupational therapist Presidents elect and vice president funder of the MENA SCI network Member of African SCI network Members of the InSCI Steering Committee National leader of the Moroccan SCI survey 2015-2025. Co-Chair of the Clinical Practice committee, ISPRM Cancer Rehabilitation SIG Member of the Development Group for Traumatic Brain Injury in the project “Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation” WHO 2020. Member of the SCI Service Module Advisory Committee Member of the ClinFIT Task Force Member of the ISPRM Task Force on Physical Activity for Persons with Disabilities Member of the ISCOS Educational Committee. Co-Chair of the World Rehabilitation Alliance Workforce Workstream Member funder with the National Center for Monitoring, Studies, Research and Documentation in the field of Disability. Editor of the book “Adult rehabilitation after stroke: from injury to inclusion”. IBENPUB, 2019, p. 169.

I am a physician-scientist with a proven track record at the intersection of academic medicine, clinical research, and biotech innovation. My work centers on computational neuroscience, medical imaging analytics, AI/ML-based outcome modeling, and real-world evidence generation for translational and regulatory applications. I have led cross-functional research efforts spanning clinical trials, guideline development, and industry-aligned analytics, with a publication record exceeding 250 peer-reviewed articles and 350 conference abstracts. I am particularly focused on converting high-dimensional clinical and imaging data into actionable insights that inform clinical decision-making, trial design, and therapeutic strategy.