External Activities

Leadership positions

1983-89                                                            Editor- in- Chief, Journal of Neurophysiology

1986-90                                                            Council, Society for Neuroscience

1991-92                                                            President, Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs

1996-7                                                              Treasurer, Society for Neuroscience

1997-8                                                              President, Society for Neuroscience

2007-                                                                 Chairman of New York State Spinal Cord Injury Research Board

2007-                                                                 Board of Directors, Craig Neilsen Foundation

Named/Plenary lectures

1992                                                                  Society for Neuroscience, Plenary Lecture

1994                                                                  Knight Lecturer, The Miami Project

1995                                                                  U.K. Physiological Society, Sensorimotor Control Interest Group, Plenary Lecture

1995                                                                  American Pain Society, Plenary lecture

1996                                                                  Society for Neuroscience, Plenary Lecture

1999                                                                  Servier Lecture, University of Montreal

Professional Activities

1975-78                              Member, Advisory Panel for Neurobiology, National Science Foundation

1979-81                              Member, Neurology B Study Section, NIH

1980-99                              Member, Wakeman Award Selection Committee, Duke University

1985                    Co-organizer, Conference on Strategies for modifying axonal growth, synaptic function, and recovery of neural function after injury to the central nervous system sponsored by National Spinal Cord Injury Association and the Society for Neuroscience

1989-95                                        Member, Publications Committee, American Physiological Society         

1989                     Co-organizer, Conference on the Segmental Motor System

1995                     Co-organizer, Conference on Presynaptic Inhibition and Neural Control

1995                    Co-organizer, Royal Society of London Discussion on Neuroptrophins and sensory neurons: role in development, maintenance and injury                       

1995-99                              Member, Consortium Advisory Panel, Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation

1998-2007           Member, Ameritec Award Selection Committee

1997-2003           Scientific Trustee, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory