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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):
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Dr. med. Sebastian Grunt, Head physician, Pediatric Neurorehabilitation, Inselspital Bern
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Dr. Sandra Hunziker, Child and Adolescent Health Researcher, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern
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Dr. med. David Jacquier, Physician, Neuropediatrics, Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne
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Dr. Petra Marsico, Post-Doc and Physiotherapist, Swiss Children’s Rehab, University Children’s Hospital Zurich
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. med. Christopher Newman, Head physician, Paediatric Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Unit, CHUV
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Dr. Anne Tscherter, Project Coordinator and Researcher, Child Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern
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Anja Maria Vossenkaul, PhD candidate, Researcher, Neuropediatrics, Inselspital Bern
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Prof. Dr. Melanie Willke, Interkantonale Hochschule für Heilpädagogik (HfH)
Past members of the organization committee:
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Dr. Cristina Simon-Martinez, PT, Researcher, HES-SO Valais-Wallis
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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): ​
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Prof. Stéphane Armand, University of Geneva
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Prof. Dr. Regula Everts, Neuropediatrics, Inselspital Bern
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Dr. med. Stephanie Jünemann, University Children’s Hospital Basel
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Prof. Dr. Christina Schulze, Zurich University of Applied Science
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Prof. Dr. Anita Truttmann, Université de Lausanne
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Prof. Dr. Hubertus van Hedel, Children’s Hospital Zurich
Awards and Sponshorship
The SACD Research Day would not be possible without the kind support of the Anna Mueller Grocholski Foundation. Their financial 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.
