{"id":7353,"date":"2020-01-17T12:06:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T17:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=7353"},"modified":"2020-01-17T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T17:18:08","slug":"bms-faculty-member-named-as-new-director-of-center-for-paralysis-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/bms-faculty-member-named-as-new-director-of-center-for-paralysis-research.php","title":{"rendered":"BMS Faculty Member Named as New Director of Center for Paralysis Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Purdue Veterinary Medicine congratulates Dr. Riyi Shi, professor of neuroscience in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences<\/a> (BMS), on his appointment as the new director of the Center for Paralysis Research (CPR) in the College of Veterinary Medicine. The appointment, which was announced by Dean Willie Reed, took effect December 1, 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to\nhis role as a BMS faculty member, Dr. Shi holds a courtesy professorial appointment\nin Purdue University\u2019s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. Originally\ntrained as an orthopedic surgeon specializing in spinal cord treatment, Dr. Shi\nhas served for more than 20 years on the Purdue University faculty, focusing his\nresearch on developing new treatments for neuronal trauma and degenerative\nbrain diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After earning his MD degree at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in Shanghai, China, Dr. Shi went on to earn his master\u2019s degree in neuropathology at the University of North Texas and then came to Purdue, where he earned his PhD in neurobiology in 1994. Afterward, he worked for two-and-a-half years as a postdoctoral research associate in the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of North Carolina before returning to Purdue as a faculty member at the Center for Paralysis Research, becoming a full professor in 2009.  In addition to his work at Purdue, Dr. Shi also serves as a visiting professor at the Stark Neurosciences Research Institute at the Indiana University School of Medicine and as an adjunct professor for the Institute of Trauma and Orthopedics at the Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDr. Shi\u2019s\ndiverse background in basic sciences and clinical neuroscience will allow him\nto develop a new vision of leadership for the CPR,\u201d said Dean Reed in\nannouncing the new appointment. \u201cHe is anxious to develop internal and external\ncollaborations that will advance the College\u2019s neuroscience research and\ngraduate programs.\u201d   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Shi said the director position will give him the opportunity to reinvigorate the Center for Paralysis Research and revitalize its mission to provide the University with a robust and broadly impactful portfolio of neurotrauma research, through innovative and translational research. He added that, with this new energy, he hopes to form strong and lasting collaborations between the CPR and other departments and institutions, both within the College of Veterinary Medicine, and beyond. \u201cI hope to strengthen connections and cultivate synergies between the CPR and Purdue University, not to mention the rest of the country and world,\u201d said Dr. Shi.  Utilizing this interdisciplinary and collaborative approach, Dr. Shi aims to transform the CPR and usher in a new age of ingenuity, allowing Purdue to stand out as a world leader in central nervous system (CNS) trauma research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are researching\na variety of methods for achieving better treatment strategies in CNS trauma, including\nworking with the Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health to develop\nnovel and effective diagnostic and treatment strategies for spinal cord and\nbrain injuries, both for our soldiers and civilian populations,\u201d said Dr. Shi. \u201cNot\nonly are we working on treatment improvements for severe CNS trauma, but even\nmild cases of injury, which have been shown to significantly impact individuals\nand can be particularly insidious due to the lack of proper diagnostic tools.\u201d\nDr. Shi added, \u201cAs such, we are closely examining the underlying mechanisms of \u2019mild\u2019\nbrain injury and methods for improved CNS trauma diagnostics, such as the use\nof audiometric tests and even urine tests as diagnostic tools for ascertaining mild\nbrain injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Shi\u2019s aspirations regarding the future of the CPR don\u2019t end there, however, as he has other research goals to \u201c\u2026understand how head injuries can trigger neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s \u2013 an urgent knowledge gap, and one that has become an increasingly hot research area \u2013 and how we can arrest such injuries, curtailing the onset of post-trauma chronic neurological disorders.\u201d  With each of these critically important issues to address, Dr. Shi hopes for a future in which the CPR is a critical player in the frontier of neurotrauma research. By providing leadership and working with the excellent team of faculty, staff, and students within the CPR, Dr. Shi says he aims to provide a complete picture of CNS trauma and gain the knowledge necessary to improve the unfortunate lack of both treatment and diagnostic strategies for these devastating injuries and diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please join\nDean Reed in congratulating Dr. Shi on this new leadership opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Purdue Veterinary Medicine congratulates Dr. Riyi Shi, professor of neuroscience in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences (BMS), on his appointment as the new director of the Center for Paralysis Research (CPR) in the College of Veterinary Medicine. The appointment, which was announced by Dean Willie Reed, took effect December 1, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,29,11],"tags":[75,1425,273,1529,8,26,56,61],"class_list":["post-7353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-our-people","category-research","tag-bms","tag-center-for-paralysis-research","tag-cpr","tag-director","tag-faculty","tag-featured-story","tag-homepage","tag-riyi-shi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7353"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7382,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions\/7382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}