The ongoing scientific research regarding spinal cord regeneration would benefit greatly from input of people with paralysis. Kim Anderson is a researcher who has quadriplegia and sees from a first-hand perspective the gap in communication between scientists and the community of people with spinal cord injury. She is conducting a short survey that is designed to determine the needs of people with spinal cord injuries and their requests of the research community regarding functional recovery.

If you have a spinal cord injury, please contact Kim at kanderso@uci.edu (or Reeve-Irvine Research Center, 1216 GNRF, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-4292) so she can e-mail/mail you the survey. If you know someone who has a spinal cord injury, please forward this information to them so as many people as possible can be heard. The community has a responsibility to inform researchers about what functional recovery is important to people with SCI.