As an Implementation Coordinator at the KITE Research Institute, Arman has undertaken many knowledge translation and implementation activities related to traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury (SCI). Currently, he leads the implementation of the Data Prioritization Initiative, a data integration initiative embedded within the Neurotrauma Care Pathways Project.

Matthew R. Redmond, HBSc Matthew Redmond is a second-year medical student at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University in Ontario, Canada. He is a Research Trainee studying paediatric traumatic spinal cord injury epidemiology under the supervision of Dr. James A. G. Crispo. He obtained his bachelor of science degree in Biomedical Science at the University of Ottawa, completing an honours thesis in neuromodulation and spinal cord injury under the supervision of Dr. Tuan Bui. Matthew has held previous research appointments at University College London’s Institute of Neurology (London, UK) investigating motor control under Dr. Rob Brownstone, and at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Ottawa, ON) supporting a clinical trial for digital paediatric concussion interventions in the lab of Dr. Andrée-Anne Ledoux. Matthew is interested in traumatic spinal cord injury, neural circuits, and epidemiology.

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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 in the United States. 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 new temporary pacing system in 2020. This has led to multiple new applications of the use of temporary diaphragm pacing wires to decrease ventilator times significantly in cardiac patients and lung transplant patients

Julio C. Furlan, MD, LLB, MBA, PhD, MSc, FRCPC, FAAN, FASIA is a staff neurologist and a Clinician Investigator in the Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the SCI Rehabilitation Program at the Lyndhurst Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, a Scientist at KITE Research Institute, University Health Network, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Toronto. He is a trained head and neck surgeon from Brazil, who holds a MBA degree in Health Administration, an MSc degree in Clinical Epidemiology, and a PhD degree in Neuroanatomy. In the past, Dr. Furlan has worked as an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Genetics and Development, Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network from 2007 to 2012. Dr. Furlan has also been an Adjunct Scientist at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network from 2009-2016, inclusive. He completed five years of residency training in Adult Neurology at University of Toronto in June 2014. He also completed a two-year clinical fellowship in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and the University of Toronto in June 2016. Dr Furlan´s research has been focused on outcome measures (including clinical assessments, neuroimaging analysis, and neurophysiological assessments) and predictors of outcome (including sex and age) after traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injury. In addition, he has interest and expertise in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Economics.