Charlotte Nos, MD, is a resident in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine at Nantes University Hospital, France. Her clinical interests include spinal cord injury rehabilitation and respiratory management in patients with tetraplegia.

Manpreet Kaur is a final-year MPT (Cardiopulmonary) student at ISIC Institute of Rehabilitation Sciences. Her academic and clinical interests lie in cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and evidence-based physiotherapy, with a special focus on improving pulmonary and extra-pulmonary outcomes in individuals with spinal cord injury. She is presenting her research titled “Evaluating the Feasibility, Safety, and Acceptability of Abdominal FES with Inspiratory Muscle Training for Respiratory Rehabilitation in Spinal Cord Injury.” Her study uniquely focuses on the feasibility of integrating abdominal functional electrical stimulation (FES) with inspiratory muscle training within a clinical setting. By examining safety, patient tolerance, and acceptability alongside other outcomes. Her work addresses an important gap between experimental interventions and their real-world application in spinal cord injury rehabilitation. A "GOLD MEDALIST" in her Bachelor of Physiotherapy (BPT), Manpreet has consistently demonstrated academic excellence. She has also been recognized for her research contributions, receiving "GOLD PRIZE" in best Paper Presentation awards at both International conference of physical therapy at AIIMS and at Indian association of physiotherapy women cell conference. With a strong commitment to evidence-based practice, Manpreet aspires to contribute meaningfully to clinical research and advance rehabilitation practices in cardiopulmonary and neurological conditions.

Dr Raymond P. Onders is Professor of Surgery at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. He is honored with the Walter and Margaret Remen Chair of Surgical Innovation. Over the last 25 years, he has focused his research efforts on ways to help people breathe naturally using their own diaphragm. He has authored multiple publications and book chapters on the primary muscle of breathing –the diaphragm. Diaphragm pacing, electrical stimulation of the diaphragm muscle, is a technology aimed at either replacing or delaying the need for mechanical ventilation or maintaining and improving normal breathing. One of his first research subjects was the late Christopher Reeve (Superman). Diaphragm pacing technology was recognized as one of the most important medical innovations at the 6th Medical Innovation Summit in 2008. His advancements in the technology of pacing the diaphragm have led to multiple patents. He co-founded the medical device company Synapse Biomedical which helped to bring this technology to patients. He has given invited lectures around the world and presented his research at numerous scientific meetings. He has helped spread this knowledge training surgeons to do the diaphragm pacing operation in over 35 countries which has helped countless patients worldwide. His present research focuses on using diaphragm pacing to shorten the time to wean from a ventilator on all intensive care unit patients which is one of the largest health care expenditures. With the possibility of a shortage of ventilators early in the COVID-19 pandemic, he worked and obtained emergency use authorization by the FDA of the new temporary pacing system. This has led to multiple new applications for the use of temporary diaphragm pacing wires to decrease ventilator times significantly in high risk cardiac patients and lung transplant patients.