UCP Research and Educational Foundation

STAFF ACTIVITIES

In addition to the development and management of scientific merit review programs and activities, Foundation staff works closely with other organizations having activities of relevance to cerebral palsy and the disabilities associated with it. In the government sector, the staff serves as ad hoc advisors for the development and evaluation of the programs of the Center for Birth Defects and Disabilities (Public Health Service Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research (Department of Education), and to several of the Institutes of the National Institutes of Health.

In the private sector, staff continues to serve on the scientific advisory committees of several academic institutions and research institutes concerned with neurological, neuromuscular, and cerebrovascular disorders. Also by serving regularly as guest lecturers on the teaching faculty of medical schools nationally, staff is able to provide faculty and students with an overview of the present status of knowledge about cerebral palsy and the exciting research that may lead to improved methods of prevention and patient care.

The activities of the staff focus on meeting the responsibilities of the Foundation to serve as a national resource on research and clinical information to other organizations, the professional community and the public; it does this by assisting in the development of new research, stimulating the training of needed personnel, and by the translation of the results of research into programs of patient service.

Science is the art of asking meaningful questions.
Research is a method of providing answers to those questions.

The UCP Research and Educational Foundation assists the biomedical and bioengineering research communities in identifying meaningful questions pertinent to cerebral palsy and seeking their answers.
--M. Goldstein