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Committees, Awards & Sponsorship

Organization Committee 

The organization committee is responsible for the program, location, logistics, advertisement, correspondence, submissions, and choice of abstracts. Further, their role is to make the attendees feel comfortable and welcomed during the Research Day. 

 

The organization committee includes (in alphabetical order): 

  • Sebastian Grunt, MD, PhD, Head physician, Pediatric Neurorehabilitation, Inselspital Bern

  • Sandra Hunziker, PhD, Research Assistant, Research - Child and Adolescent Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern

  • Petra Marsico, PT, PhD cand., Researcher and physiotherapist, Children's Hospital Zürich

  • Christopher Newman, Head physician, associate Professor, Paediatric Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Unit, CHUV

  • Cristina Simon-Martinez, PT, PhD, Researcher, HES-SO Valais-Wallis

  • Anne Tscherter, PhD, Project Coordinator, Research - Child Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern

  • Anja Maria Vossenkaul, PhD cand., Researcher, Neuropediatrics, Inselspital Bern

Scientific Committee

The role of the scientific committee is to listen to the presentations on the Research Day to make the difficult decision of selecting the awardees.  

 

The scientific committee includes (in alphabetical order): 

  • Nathalie de Beukelaer, PhD, Kinesiology Laboratory, University Hospitals Geneva

  • Regula Everts, Prof., PhD, Neuropediatrics, Inselspital Bern

  • Huub van Hedel, PhD, Children’s Hospital Zurich

  • Stephanie Jünemann, MD, PhD, University Children’s Hospital Basel

  • Prof. Emeritus Eliane Roulet Perez MD, University of Lausanne, Pediatric Neurologist and former Head of the Pediatric Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Unit in CHUV, Lausanne

  • Christina Schulze, PhD, School of Health Professions, Zurich University of Applied Science, Winterthur, Switzerland

Awards and Sponshorship

The SACD Research Day would not be possible without the kind support of the Anna Mueller Grocholski Foundation. Its support garantees that the Research Day can be attended by anyone without any registration costs and additionally supports excellent research with its awards. 

For each category, the best works will be awarded. The works are chosen by the scientific board committee after a careful rating during the Research Day.

The prizes will be awarded to the presenter of the scientific work.

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