Blink of an Eye

#330 The Exquisite Spinal Cord: Navigating Spinal Tumors and Their Acute Impact Louise sits down with Dr. Daniel Lubelski, a world-class neurosurgeon and the Director of Spine Tumor Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University, to explore a lesser-known cause of spinal cord injury: spinal tumors. Dr. Lubelski breaks down the biology of how tumors form inside and around the spinal cord, highlighting th...

#329 From BCI Clinical Trials to the Patient-Focused Drug Development landmark meeting for FDA Clinical Trial Advocacy  Louise sits down with Ian Burkhart, a brain-computer interface pioneer, patient advocate, and co-founder of the BCI Pioneers Coalition. After sustaining a C5 spinal cord injury in 2010 at the age of nineteen, Ian made history as the first person to restore voluntary movement to a...

From Project Walk to The Miami Project: Redefining Priorities in Paralysis Recovery Louise sits down with Dr. David W. McMillan, PhD, a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery and the Director of Education and Outreach at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine to discuss a recent Congressional Senate briefing with BreakTHRU SCI on accelerating FDA trials...

How NervGen Impacted A Son, and a Mother’s Push to Change SCI Regulations Louise sits down with Suzy Scherb, founder and executive director of BreakThruSCI. After her son Clay sustained a C5 spinal cord injury in 2022, Susie was shocked to discover that there are zero FDA-approved drugs designed to repair the spinal cord. Refusing to accept the status quo, she successfully fought to enroll Clay in...

Revisiting The Frontier of Healing: Macrophages and the Battle for SCI Repair with Dr. John Gensel While we gear up for what's next on Blink of an Eye, we are spent looking back at the groundbreaking conversations that took us deepest into this frontier. In this special recap series, Louise revisits the scientists, engineers, and physicians who are rebuilding what a spinal cord injury damages, one...

Revisiting The Frontier of Healing: Brad Lang’s Vision for Spinal Cord Injury - NervGen and Beyond While we gear up for what's next on Blink of an Eye, we are spent looking back at the groundbreaking conversations that took us deepest into this frontier. In this special recap series, Louise revisits the scientists, engineers, and physicians who are rebuilding what a spinal cord injury damages, one...

Revisiting The Frontier of Healing: Inside the NerveGen Trials: Part II While we gear up for what's next on Blink of an Eye, we are spent looking back at the groundbreaking conversations that took us deepest into this frontier. In this special recap series, Louise revisits the scientists, engineers, and physicians who are rebuilding what a spinal cord injury damages, one breakthrough at a time. Lo...

Revisiting The Frontier of Healing: Inside the NerveGen Trials: Part I While we gear up for what's next on Blink of an Eye, we are spent looking back at the groundbreaking conversations that took us deepest into this frontier. In this special recap series, Louise revisits the scientists, engineers, and physicians who are rebuilding what a spinal cord injury damages, one breakthrough at a time. Loo...

Revisiting The Frontier of Healing: NerveGen with Meghan Morrow While we gear up for what's next on Blink of an Eye, we are spent looking back at the groundbreaking conversations that took us deepest into this frontier. In this special recap series, Louise revisits the scientists, engineers, and physicians who are rebuilding what a spinal cord injury damages, one breakthrough at a time. Looking ah...

Fast, Silent, and Life-Changing: What You Need to Know This Summer As summer gets into full swing, Louise shares an urgent, direct reminder about water safety. A single moment at the beach or pool can change everything. In this special PSA, she breaks down the critical realities of how these injuries happen—including the fast, silent nature of drowning, the importance of a designated "Water Watche...

Dissolving the Glial Scar Wall: Dr. Molly Shoichet on Rewiring the Injured Spinal Cord Louise sits down with Dr. Molly Shoichet, a University Professor at the University of Toronto and one of the world's leading polymer scientists and bioengineers. Shoichet arrived at spinal cord injury in 1995, convinced that if academics didn't tackle the hardest problems, nobody would. Thirty years later, her r...

Dr. Karim Fouad on Rebuilding the Nervous System, like Rebars in Concrete Louise sits down with Dr. Karim Fouad, Canada Research Chair in Spinal Cord Injury and Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Alberta, who has spent 35 years asking why the spinal cord refuses to heal. He traces that failure back to evolutionary logic — in the Stone Age, a broken spine meant death, and nat...

The Cellular Detective Who Rewrote Spinal Cord Injury Science Louise sits down with Dr. Michael Sofroniew, professor of neurobiology at UCLA, who spent four decades overturning one of medicine's most stubborn assumptions about spinal cord injury. His lab proved that the glial scar — long blamed for blocking nerve regeneration — is actually the body's own protective border, separating living neural...

The Hidden Intelligence of the Human Spine with Dr. Susan Harkema Louise sits down with Dr. Susan Harkema, a world-renowned neuroscientist and the director of Consortium Growth for Spinal Stimulation at the Kessler Foundation's Reynolds Center for Spinal Stimulation. Dr. Harkema's path into spinal cord research was entirely serendipitous — trained in cellular muscle energetics, she stumbled into a...

The First Electronic Bridge Between Brain, Body and Spinal Cord with Dr. Chad Bouton Louise sits down with Dr. Chad Bouton, VP of Advanced Engineering at Northwell Health and director of the Neural Bypass and Brain-Computer Interface Laboratory at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in New York. A science-fair kid from Texas who survived his own traumatic brain injury in graduate school,...

The Neurons That Never Died: Dr. Parag Gad on Rewiring the Injured Spine Louise is joined by Dr. Parag Gad, a neuroscientist, biomedical engineer, and co-founder of Spinex, whose work is quietly dismantling one of medicine's most stubborn assumptions — that what spinal cord injury takes, stays taken. Trained under the late Dr. Reggie Edgerton at UCLA, Dr. Gad shares the accidental lab observation...

The Mind-Bending Future of Neural Stem Cells with Dr. Michael Fehlings Louise is joined by Dr. Michael Fehlings, a world-renowned neurosurgeon in Toronto, spinal cord injury researcher, and the head of neurosurgery at University Health Network. Dr. Fehlings reflects on his early years, sharing how his grandfather's struggle with strokes inspired his path into neuroscience. He recounts the immense...

The Cross-Syndrome Medical Quest to Cure Nerve Damage with Dr. Jarod Carter Louise sits down with Dr. Jarod Carter, a doctor of physical therapy and the founder of the Neuron Regeneration Community. Jarod bravely traces his journey back to the devastating moment he received a phone call in the middle of treating a patient, learning that his infant twins, Adelaide and Gray, had Spinal Muscular Atro...

#312 Revisiting Blink: I Didn't See This One Coming Before launching into a new season focused on cutting-edge medical science and breakthroughs in spinal cord injury research, Louise takes a moment to look back at where it all began. In these special revisiting episodes, listeners are invited to return to the origin story of the podcast and the deeply personal realities of spinal cord trauma with...

#311 Revisiting Blink: I Didn't See This One Coming Trauma Healing Learnings Before launching into a new season focused on cutting-edge medical science and breakthroughs in spinal cord injury research, Louise takes a moment to look back at where it all began. In these special revisiting episodes, listeners are invited to return to the origin story of the podcast and the deeply personal realities o...

#310 Revisiting Blink: The ABC Board Before launching into a new season focused on cutting-edge medical science and breakthroughs in spinal cord injury research, Louise takes a moment to look back at where it all began. In these special revisiting episodes, listeners are invited to return to the origin story of the podcast and the deeply personal realities of spinal cord trauma with the intention...

#309 Revisiting Blink: Tunnel Vision Before launching into a new season focused on cutting-edge medical science and breakthroughs in spinal cord injury research, Louise takes a moment to look back at where it all began. In these special revisiting episodes, listeners are invited to return to the origin story of the podcast and the deeply personal realities of spinal cord trauma with the intention...

#308 Revisiting Blink: He Talked with God Before launching into a new season focused on cutting-edge medical science and breakthroughs in spinal cord injury research, Louise takes a moment to look back at where it all began. In these special revisiting episodes, listeners are invited to return to the origin story of the podcast and the deeply personal realities of spinal cord trauma with the inten...

#307 Revisiting Blink: The Call Before launching into a new season focused on cutting-edge medical science and breakthroughs in spinal cord injury research, Louise takes a moment to look back at where it all began. In these special revisiting episodes, listeners are invited to return to the origin story of the podcast and the deeply personal realities of spinal cord trauma with the intention to ra...

The Unifying Language of the Human Breath for SCI Healing with Jessica Dibb Louise sits down with Jessica Dibb, a pioneer in psychospiritual healing, Director of the Global Breathwork Alliance, and the founder of the Inspiration Consciousness School and Community. Jessica shares her unique journey from her early days as a classically trained dancer with the Royal Ballet of England and the Bolshoi...