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NNS 2025 Keynote Speakers

We are thrilled to announce our Neurotrauma 2025 renowned Keynote Speakers. Read their bios to learn more about their educational background, current work and achievements:

Candace Gantt

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Session Date & Time: Monday, June 16, 2025, from 08:30 – 09:30
Session Title: Glasgow Coma Scale

Candace, is a tireless advocate for the Traumatic Brain Injury community. She is a TBI survivor and a beacon of hope. As the Founder of the Mind Your Brain Foundation (MYBF) and Co-Director of MYB at Penn Medicine conferences, she’s revolutionizing brain injury awareness and support. Candace’s community service includes her role as an executive board member of the Brain Injury Coalition of Pennsylvania, Brain Injury Coalition of Florida, and board member of the Patient and Family Advisory Council at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital . Her unwavering dedication has earned her recognition as a Philadelphia Magazine Health Hero, Main Line Today Health Care Hero, Main Line Power Woman and Council on Brain Injury award recipient. As featured in Wounded Brains and Second Wind: The Resilience of Women, “Candace’s story is an inspiration to countless individuals. Beyond her advocacy work, Candace’s impressive career in the hospitality industry, including her role as Corporate Director of Reservations Operations Worldwide with the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company, showcases her leadership and entrepreneurial spirit”.

Candace Gantt

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Marco Capogrosso

Categories: NNS 2025 Speakers
Session Date & Time: Monday, June 16, 2025, from 10:30 – 11:30
Session Title: Recovery of Volitional Arm and Hand Motor Control After Paralysis with Neurostimulation

 

Marco Capogrosso, PhD, joined the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery as an assistant professor in January of 2020. He completed his doctoral studies in biomedical engineering and robotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy. His doctorate work focused on the implementation of a computational framework to support the design of peripheral and central neural interfaces for sensory and motor applications.
After the receiving his PhD, Dr. Capogrosso completed his post-doctoral training at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland where he worked on the development of brain spinal interfaces for the restoration of voluntary motor control in animals and humans with spinal cord injury. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh, he directed his own research group as a research faculty at the primate center of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and was a manager of the primate platform. Dr. Capogrosso received the Young Investigator Award of the Society for Neuroscience in November 2023. He is now director of the Spinal Cord Stimulation Laboratory and part of the Rehab and Neural Engineering Labs of the University of Pittsburgh.

Marco Capogrosso

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