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InMotion Musculoskeletal Institute Hosts Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting

Monday, October 23, 2006

First Annual Meeting Brings Scientific Luminaries to Memphis

Memphis, Tenn – October 23, 2006 – The InMotion Musculoskeletal Institute announces its first annual Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting to be held in Memphis, Tennessee, on Tuesday, November 28, 2006. InMotion created this committee to advise the Institute on its scientific direction, research focus, and development opportunities.

“One of the reasons that InMotion exists is to bring to one place the best talent in the fields of musculoskeletal research and surgery,” says Executive Director & President Richard Tarr. “The people on this list are conducting some of the most exciting musculoskeletal research in the world. We are bringing them to Memphis to talk about InMotion and to showcase this city as an obvious center for musculoskeletal research, treatment, and entrepreneurship.”

The committee meeting is going to be held the day after InMotion’s fifth quarterly musculoskeletal lecture at the University of Memphis’ FedEx Institute of Technology. The speaker is Scientific Advisory Committee member, Joshua J. Jacobs, MD, who is President of the Orthopaedic Research Society. Dr. Jacobs is also the Crown Family Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.

Other committee members include:

• Stephen Badylak, MD, PhD, DVM, Research Professor &Director, Center for Preclinical Studies, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
• Richard H. Gelberman, MD,Professor & Chairman, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Washington University, St. Louis
• Joseph P. Iannotti, MD, PhD, Professor & Chairman, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic
•   Andrew H. Kang, MD, Professor Emeritus, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
• Linda C. Lucas, PhD, Dean School of Engineering, University of Alabama, Birmingham
• Robert M. Nerem, PhD, Parker H. Petit Professor and Director, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
• Thomas Schmalzried, MD, Associate Medical Director, Joint Replacement Institute, Los Angeles
• Timothy M. Wright, PhD, Professor & Director, Dept. of Biomechanics, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
• Cecil Rorabeck, MD, Professor of Surgery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

InMotion is an independent not-for-profit laboratory that reduces disability and improves mobility for the musculoskeletal patient through translational research.

InMotion will move into its first laboratory space in January 2007 and is currently recruiting clinician scientists through a joint appointment with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center – Campbell Clinic and the University of Memphis Department of Biomedical Engineering.

InMotion has received funding from the Hyde Family Foundations and Campbell Foundation. In addition, InMotion has received laboratory and research support from the Assisi Foundation of Memphis, Inc. and the Plough Foundation, as well as support for its education series from Medtronic. InMotion has signed multiple contract agreements to perform pre-clinical and clinical research for local and national orthopaedic implant and pharmaceutical companies.

For media queries, contact Director of Grants and Communications Chris Przybyszewski at 901-759-3284, 901-570-0128, or at chris@campbell-foundation.org.