The Mission of IFESS is to promote the research, application, and understanding of electrical stimulation technologies in rehabilitation and medicine.

Joined March 2018
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IFESS Members are invited to submit to the IFESS Special Issue in Artificial Organs. A primary focus on work to be presented at IFESS 2026,2025 (Chicago) and Vienna FES 2025. Due 15.10.26 LINK: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page… Questions: special_issue@ifess.org Best regards, IFESS Team

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Simona Ferrante (Pres) and Erika Spaich (VP) were re-elected. New officers elected to fill the shoes of the departing officers are Ken Yoshida (Sec) and Winfried Mayr (Treas). It welcomes Martin Schmoll, Lynsey Duffell and Kei Masani. ifess.org/board-members-2/

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2026 IFESS Executive Board and Officers Happy 2026! With the opening of the New Year, the IFESS EB sees the departure of two officers and welcomes 3 new EB members. We first thank the service of our departing EB members, Tamsyn Street (Sec), and Cesar Marques Chin (Treas).
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12 Jan 2026 IFESS Webinar Hope Jervis-Rademeyer, U Saskatchewan to give a webinar "Pedaling Toward Progress: Implementing FES cycling into clinical practice". See ifess.org/civicrm/event/info… for more information

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19 Jan 2026 IFESS Webinar Gad Alon, UMD School of Medicine, to give a webinar, “Technology guided precision training of the paretic lower extremity to enhance recovery of locomotion post stroke: An interpretive review for practicing clinicians." see ifess.org/civicrm/event/info…

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Vidisha Ganesh gives her Fast Forward presentation at ⁦@RehabWeekOrg⁩ . Vidisha eventually went on to win the poster competition for ⁦@IFESS_org
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The presenters of the IFESS 2025 “Mechanisms” session at ⁦@RehabWeekOrg⁩ pose for a group photo. The Tues evening session featured a Keynote by Jonathan Wolpaw, invited talks by CJ Heckman & Matija Milosevic and platform talks by Hamid Hassanlouei and Kei Masani
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Anouk Lamontagne presents her keynote address at the Thursday morning ⁦@RehabWeekOrg⁩ plenum session on her work with rehabilitation VR AR. The talk was sponsored by Fourier Rehab with ⁦@IFESS_org⁩ and ⁦@ISVRSociety
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Prof John Rogers presents his keynote talk at the ⁦@IFESS_org⁩ Technologies session at ⁦@RehabWeekOrg⁩ 2025
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From the IFESS2025 Organizing Committee. Thanks to the RehabWeek2025 Organizing Committee for bringing together our societies for a successful interdisciplinary meeting. Thanks to the members for joining and supporting our program. See you all in Switzerland in 2027.
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Congratulations to Vidisha Ganesh winner of the RehabWeek Fast Forward poster award ⁦@RehabWeekOrg
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Congratulations to the winners of the Vodovnik Awards 1st Margaux Randolph 2nd Guijin Li 3rd Aidan McConnell-Trevillion
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The Vodovnik Student Paper judging committee has spent the past 3 days evaluating the contributions from our Student Members. The competition has been fierce, and the winners will be announced at the RehabWeek closing ceremonies at 4:30pm CDT
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Bob Kirsch opens the “Cleveland” session at IFESS at ⁦@RehabWeekOrg⁩ with his keynote talk
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Dimitry Sayenko speaks on spinal stimulation after injury at the IFESS ICORR session at ⁦@RehabWeekOrg
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Speakers from the Mechanisms session at IFESS 2025 Heksors decerebrate excitable little and cortical drive
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Simona Ferrante welcomes the delegates at RehabWeek2025’s opening ceremonies
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IFESS2025 Scientific Program now available at ifess.org/rehabweek-2025-chi…

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Please help us identify the presenting author at IFESS2025. If you are the presenting author, please identify yourself to IFESS at IFESS2025@ifess.org
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Int’l Functional Electrical Stimulation Society retweeted
🎤Keynote Speaker Alert Anouk Lamontagne (McGill University) joins #RehabWeek2025 to explore mixed reality in locomotor rehab after brain injury. Don't miss this insightful session 👉 bit.ly/4kX6gGm @ICORR_2025 @IFESS_org @ISVRSociety @ACRMtweets @MiNT_hobbs @RESNAorg
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