Speaker
Prof. Alexander Ovechkin
University of Louisville, UK
Biography :
Professor Alexander Ovechkin received his MD and PhD from Perm State Medical Academy. In 1999, he joined the University of Louisville, where he earned a second PhD in Physiology while investigating pulmonary-cardiovascular regulation. Since 2006, he has served on the faculty of the Department of Neurological Surgery and the Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center, where he established the Laboratory of Clinical Respiratory-Cardiovascular Neurophysiology. His research focuses on neurophysiological evaluation and rehabilitation of locomotor, respiratory, and cardiovascular deficits in spinal cord injury using activity-based therapies combined with invasive and non-invasive spinal neuromodulation. He leads multiple NIH-funded clinical trials.
