University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Mentor: Manda Keller-Ross, Ph.D., Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
Insia Kizibash is a rising premed student at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She is pursuing a major in Chemistry and Human Physiology and a minor in Art. She is most excited about learning to do more clinical research which is not something she has experienced before.
The project she will be assisting with is to determine the influence of epidural spinal cord stimulation on autonomic function in cervical spinal cord injury patients. This study is to determine if epidural spinal cord stimulation improves autonomic function in spinal cord injury patients. She will be involved with optimizing stimulation parameters for each participant and test autonomic reflexes (head up tilt test) while using gold standard measurements to quantify blood pressure, heart rate, and sympathetic function.
