SCOPE Workshops
September 14, 2023 – Join Us Live! No Registration Required!
The International Spinal Research Trust, Spinal Cord Partnership Outcome Endeavor (SCOPE), Wings for Life, and Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation are partnering to bring you an update on SCI Clinical Trials.
This year, the ISRT/Spinal Research annual meeting will take place in London, on Friday and Saturday, the 15-16th September. The conference will start with a free pre-course on Clinical Trials, on Thursday, 14th September. Please visit the event website for further information.
2023 – SCI Investor Symposium – San Diego, CA
Spinal Cord Outcomes Partnership Endeavor (SCOPE)
Linda Jones, PT, PhD, Jane Hsieh, MSc, SCOPE Co-Leaders
Check out the 2023 SCI Symposium Recorded Talks
2023 – ASIA 50th Anniversary Annual Scientific Meeting – Atlanta, GA
Combinatorial Therapies for Functional Restoration after Spinal Cord Injury (SCOPE)
Monica Perez, PT, PhD, Linda Jones, PT, PhD, Gordon Mitchell, B.S. PhD, Martin Oudega, PhD
2022 – SCOPE ISCoS 2022 Workshop – Vancouver, Canada
Gaps and Opportunities in the Development and Evaluation of Human and Animal Outcome Measures using Modern Statistical Techniques
Linda Jones, PhD; MJ Mulcahey, PhD, OTR/L, CPPC, CLCP, FASIA; Adam R. Ferguson, PhD; Armin Curt, MD; Daniel Mikol, MD, PhD
2022 – ASIA Annual Scientific Meeting – New Orleans, LA
Stem Cells in Spinal Cord Injury: Past, Present and Future (SCOPE)
James Guest, MD, PhD, FACS; Ed Wirth, MD, PhD; Aileen Anderson, PhD; Mark Tuszynski, MD, PhD
2021 – ASIA Annual Scientific Meeting – St. Louis, Missouri
A Rodent-Human Sensorimotor Outcomes Matrix: Overlap and Gaps
Matthew Budde, PhD, Jason Talbott, MD, PhD, James Guest MD, PhD, FACS – Moderator – Laura Krisa, PhD
2021 – SCITrialsFinder.net Facilitating Clinical Trial Recruitment Through Website Analytics
Robin Lütolf, Paulina Scheuren, Kristine Cowley, PhD; John Kramer, BSc, MSc, PhD
2020 – ASIA Annual Meeting (Online)
SCI Clinical trials by SCOPE: Considering Traditional RCT Study Protocols with Adaptive Design Approaches
John Steeves, PhD, FASIA; Amy Franke, James Guest, MD, PhD, FACS; Linda Jones, PT, PhD; Edelle Field-Fote, PT, PhD, FAPTA, FASIA, MJ Mulcahey, PhD, OTR/L, CPPC, CLCP, FASIA
2020 – SCItrialsfinder.net
Updates on this new, invaluable website that provides individuals with SCI, their families and health care professionals information about clinical trials.
Presenters: Paulina Scheuren and Robin Lütolf
2019 – ASIA Annual Scientific Meeting – Honolulu, Hawaii
Course: Clinical Trials: A Critical Appraisal of Lessons Learned and Applications for Future Studies, Sponsored by Spinal Cord Outcomes Partnership Endeavor (SCOPE)
Linda Jones, PT; Daniel Lammertse, MD; James Guest, MD, PhD, FACS; Andrew Blight, PhD; Stephen Huhn, MD; Edward Wirth III, MD, PhD
2019 – ASIA Annual Scientific Meeting – Honolulu, Hawaii
Lunch Presentation/SCI Trials Instructional Course
Andrew Blight, PhD; John Chernesky; Jane Hsieh, MSc; Daniel Lammertse, MD
2018 – ISCoS Sydney, Australia
2018 – ASIA Annual Scientific Meeting – Rochester, Minnesota
SCOPE Clinical Trials 360 | Sponsored by the Spinal Cord Outcomes Partnership Endeavor (SCOPE) Moderator: Daniel Lammertse, MD
Steve Casha, MD, PhD; Norbert Weidner, MD; George Maynard, PhD; Wenchun Qu, MD, PhD; Randy Trumbower, PT, PhD; P. Hunter Peckham, PhD; Linda Jones, PT
2017 – ASIA Annual Scientific Meeting – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Course: Clinical Trials 360 degree sponsored by Spinal Cord Outcomes Partnership Endeavor (SCOPE)
Linda Jones, PT; Daniel Lammertse, MD
2017 – ISCoS Dublin, Ireland
Important Considerations for Moving Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trials Forward: a SCOPE Perspective.
James Guest MD, PhD; Linda Jones PT; MJ Mulcahey, PhD, OTR/L, CPPC, CLCP, FASIA ; Keith Tansey, MD, PhD
2016 – ASIA Annual Scientific Meeting – Philadelphia, PA
SCOPE- Challenges and Approaches for Measuring Upper and Lower Extremity Spinal Cord Injury Outcomes
Linda Jones PT; John Steeves PhD; Andrew Blight PhD; Edelle C. Field-Fote PT PhD FAPTA
2016 – ISCoS Vienna, Austria
2015 – Montreal
SCOPE conducted a one day workshop on lower extremity measurement in SCI on May 17, 2015 in Montreal. Taking advantage of the presence of many of the workshop participants at the combined ASIA-ISCoS meeting, SCOPE co-chairs John Steeves, Ph.D. and Andy Blight, Ph.D., along with workshop co-chair Marc Bolliger, Ph.D. put together an intense, effective one day agenda designed to push the needle on this topic. A similar upper extremity workshop was held in January in Philadelphia, under the chairmanship of Linda Jones, P.T., M.S. Manuscripts will be produced for both of these workshops. SCOPE has been affiliated with ASIA since its inception in 2006. Its Planning Committee consists of representatives from clinical, academic, industrial, federal, and foundation entities interested in spinal cord injury research.
Feb 2015 – SCOPE Annual Report
Specific Activities
- Based upon the review of clinical SCI outcome measures, completed through the ASIA-ISCoS-NIDRR partnership meetings held in 2006 and 2007, SCOPE has continued the assessment of some of the more promising measurement techniques for many different clinical targets after SCI (e.g. autonomic, sensory, motor, activities of daily living, quality of life).
- SCOPE has published guidelines for the conduct of clinical trials for SCI as developed by the ICCP panel. These are available on its website (www.scope-sci.org) and serve as a starting point for the continued development of clinical trial protocols, including:
- further development of appropriate clinical trial outcome tools for different types of SCI, different times after SCI, and different phases of clinical trials
- identification of functionally beneficial (clinical) endpoints
- development of cogent inclusion and exclusion criteria for SCI trials with different clinical targets
- detection of confounding factors that would alter the accurate interpretation of trial findings