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Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System

 

The Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System (NWRSCIS), centered within the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at University of Washington Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center and Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, is one of only 14 model spinal cord injury (SCI) centers funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) for the 2006-2011 grant cycle.

The mission of the NWRSCIS is to improve the lives of people with SCI through excellent patient care, research and education. Consequently, the NWRSCIS strives to provide specialized care to persons with SCI, to conduct clinically relevant research and to disseminate the most useful, evidence-based information to people with SCI, their families and professionals.

University of Washington, Rehabilitation Medicine, Box 356490, Seattle, WA, 98195
Tel: 206-685-3999
Fax: 206-685-3244
E-mail: csalzman@uwashington.edu

Website: 
http://sci.washington.edu/

Fast Fact:

In Ontario, approximately 600,000 people, or 7% of the population, live with a paralysis or permanent mobility impairment.