UPMC Rehabilitation Institute, in partnership with the Schools of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, co-sponsor an interdisciplinary annual research day.  Faculty presenters, Drs. Walter Koroshetz and Julius Fridriksson, will present on multidisciplinary research and clinical practice in the field of rehabilitation. Dr. Koroshetz is the Immediate-Past Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  He joined NINDS in 2007 as Deputy Director and has held leadership roles in a number of NIH and NINDS programs including co-leading the NIH’s BRAIN Initiative, the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience, the Traumatic Brain Injury Center collaboration between the NIH intramural and the Uniformed Health Services University, the Helping to End Addiction Long Term (HEAL) Initiative, the Common Fund’s Undiagnosed Disease and the Acute to Chronic Pain Transition programs, and he was instrumental in founding the NIH Office of Emergency Care Research. Dr. Koroshetz recently joined the Dana Foundation as a Senior Advisor. Dr. Fridriksson is a professor and the Vice President for Research at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Fridriksson is also a SmartState Endowed Chair, and is a Health Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Arnold School of Public Health and Director of the Aphasia Laboratory at USC. Dr. Fridriksson's expertise and research center on the neurobiology of human communication, particularly focusing on the impacts of damage to the brain areas responsible for communication. He has been a faculty member and university leader at USC since 2001, garnering more than $50 million in research funding throughout that time, primarily from the NIH. The highest scored trainee abstracts in categories ranging from undergraduates to residents, as well as the research staff category, will be invited to be presented as oral presentations, while the remaining abstract submissions will be presented as posters during an in-person poster session. This educational intervention will provide attendees with the latest updates in critical areas of basic, clinical, and translational research in rehabilitation, which will improve patient care and bench-to-bedside translation of research.