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30
Mar
2015
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09:00 AM
America/New_York
Donald Peck Leslie, M.D., has been Shepherd Center’s medical director for the past 11 years and will soon celebrate his 32nd year at the hospital.
“I’ve worked in virtually every division of this hospital from inpatient to outpatient,” Dr. Leslie says. “It’s no ...
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05
Mar
2015
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08:45 AM
America/New_York
Patient enrollment in a Phase 1/2a clinical trial is now open at Shepherd Center to study an investigational product called AST-OPC1 (oligodendrocyte progenitor cells) in newly injured patients with sensory and motor-complete cervical spinal cord injury (SCI).
Shepherd Center is the first of up t ...
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20
Feb
2015
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09:00 AM
America/New_York
NOTE: This story was originally published in February 2015 and updated with new information on December 5, 2016.
Each year, traumatic brain injuries (TBI) contribute to many premature deaths and cases of permanent disability. According to estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...
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22
Sep
2014
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09:00 AM
America/New_York
New – or not so new – users of manual wheelchairs have an opportunity to learn and practice advanced wheelchair mobility skills in an upcoming free event scheduled for Oct. 25, 2014.In response to needs identified by staff members in Shepherd Center’s Seating and Mobility Clinic, a ...
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01
Sep
2014
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10:00 AM
America/New_York
Anna and Hays Mershon were special guests last summer at a luncheon held in Shepherd Center's Secret Garden.The Mershons, who have been regular donors to Shepherd Center over the years, had recently informed J. Tyler (Ty) Tippett, senior director of planned gifts for the Shepherd Center Foundati ...
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02
Jun
2014
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09:00 AM
America/New_York
Rhonda Taubin, M.D., is a staff physiatrist in Shepherd Center’s Multi-Specialty Clinic. This summer marks her 10th year at Shepherd Center, including eight years at Shepherd Pathways, where she worked with post-acute rehabilitation patients recovering from brain injuries.Q: What kin ...
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20
Sep
2013
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13:23 PM
America/New_York
Mark Caprio, 30, of Huntsville, Ala., survived a horrific automobile accident in 2001 only because a nurse and her EMT tech husband happened onto the scene and kept his windpipe clear until an ambulance arrived. A neurosurgeon and surgeon operated on him simultaneously at the hospital because his in ...
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10
Jul
2013
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08:40 AM
America/New_York
Upcoming EventsShepherd Center’s 25th Anniversary of The Legendary Party will Present “The Future Is Now” to Showcase Assistive Therapy Advances Plans are developing for The Legendary Party 2013, themed “The Future Is Now,” which will showcase remarkable advances i ...
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27
Mar
2013
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10:23 AM
America/New_York
Two years after T.J. Atchison, 23, sustained a complete T-7 spinal cord injury in an automobile accident, he became the face of spinal cord injury research in Alabama when the state legislature passed the T.J. Atchison Initiative for Spinal Cord Injury Research and Funding. The bill, which was ...
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26
Dec
2012
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18:00 PM
America/New_York
By Beth Gayle
Mother of Gip Gayle and Author of "And Then Came the Angels" Three weeks into his freshman year of college, our son Gip Gayle, sustained a traumatic brain injury after a near-fatal gunshot wound to his head in a hunting accident.The right front corner of his forehead was cru ...
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