Vera Novak, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Department of Neurology
Tel: 617-632-8680
Fax: 617-632-8805
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Dr. Novak is Director of the Syncope and Falls in the Elderly (SAFE) Laboratory, Associate Professor of Neurology, Stroke Division at Harvard Medical School, and Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at North Carolina State University. She graduated from Charles University Medical School and obtained her PhD form the Czech Academy of Sciences. She continued her training at  University of Montreal and McGill University,  Montreal CA, and Mayo Clinic Rochester MN, U.S. and served as director of Autonomic laboratory at the Ohio State University. In 2001, she founded the SAFE laboratory at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston U.S.. Her area of interest is to study the effects of life style disorders (obesity, diabetes, hypertension) on well-being of older adults, falls and cognitive decline, and she has designed new strategies to promote successful aging. Implementation of preventive and treatment strategies using novel interventions, modeling and simulations may help to facilitate well-being of people as they age.

ESM Scientific Chair
Howard J Hillstrom, PhD
Director, Leon Root, MD Motion Analysis Laboratory
Hospital for Special Surgery
535 East 70th Street
New York, NY 10021
Tel: 212-606-1507; Lab: 212-606-1215
Fax: 212-774-7859; Cell: 215-802-0447
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HSS website: www.hss.edu
Lab website: www.hss.edu/rehab-motion-analysis-lab.asp

We are very pleased that Dr. Howard Hillstrom, Hospital of Special Surgeries, New York, has accepted to chair the art in science scientific committee for the first time!
Howard J. Hillstrom has directed the Leon Root, M.D. Motion Analysis Laboratory at HSS since 2005. His main research activity is in the biomechanics of posture and locomotion and the underlying neuromuscular physiology of healthy, athletic, and pathological individuals. Exploration of how lower extremity structure and function are related to human movement with special attention to osteoarthritis is a central theme in his research. Dr. Hillstrom has conducted over 75 research studies in predominantly lower extremity pathomechanics and has over 70 peer reviewed publications disseminating his work.

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