Jessica D'Amico

Travel-loving neuroscientist!

[Jessica D'Amico @JessicaDAmico86]

@DrEricDing Wow...and yet my criminally convicted abuser and abuser of my children remains in the US on a visa and working at a university. Speechless.

[ONWARD Medical @onwdempowered]

Innovation is a critical part of finding solutions to address unmet needs in the spinal cord injury (SCI) community.

However, even the most disruptive therapies can fail to make an impact when reimbursement is uncertain and the process is lengthy. That’s why we’re advocating for access to breakthrough therapies for the SCI community.

🎗️💚 As part of SCI Awareness Month, we would like to highlight the importance of equity, access, and advocacy for people with SCI.

ONWARD recently sent a letter urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) to consider some changes to their proposed Transitional Coverage for Emerging Technologies (TCET) pathway, which is a new, proposed CMS reimbursement pathway that could provide new products that have received Breakthrough Device Designation with a faster and more certain process for obtaining reimbursement.

The current proposal focuses mostly on therapies for diseases that affect large populations of older Americans such as stroke. Our proposed changes would help make it more likely that breakthrough therapies for people with SCI would be reimbursed as quickly as possible.

We believe that new therapies targeting the SCI community should have a similar opportunity to access new therapies. In our letter, we propose the following recommendations:

➡️ Consider severity of unmet need as well as overall disease burden. This is a health care equity issue that disproportionately burdens younger Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities. The SCI community has varied and deep unmet needs. There are limited current solutions for these health challenges. The significant benefits this underserved and other communities could realize from breakthrough therapies should be a factor in the selection of recipient TCET technologies.

➡️ Consider younger Medicare beneficiaries. The average age at injury of a person with SCI is 43 years**. The current focus on larger patient populations likely excludes younger Medicare beneficiaries living with disability from benefiting from TCET.

The SCI community faces complex obstacles. Removing these barriers requires us to address the challenges end-to-end. We’re dedicated to finding solutions and making sure they are available to those who need them the most, as quickly as possible.

Learn about our commitment to partnering with the SCI community to develop innovative solutions for restoring movement, function, and independence after spinal cord injury at https://t.co/UDMerHIsOU.

*All ONWARD devices and therapies, including but not limited to ARC-IM, ARC-EX, and ARC Therapy, alone or in combination with BCI, are investigational and not available for commercial use.

**Source: https://t.co/x3eGwyEi5K

#EmpoweringMovement #SCI #SCIAwarenessMonth

[Jessica D'Amico @JessicaDAmico86]

Thanks @HarrisonFinn for this blast from the past! Wonderful memories made as a postdoc at @neuraustralia

[Harrison Finn, PhD @HarrisonFinn]

Blast from the past! @annahuddo @bartbolsterlee @JamesLNuzzo @Mattjones0203 @JessicaDAmico86 @SimonGandevia @delbaere_kim @neuraustralia @MotorImpairment

[Jessica D'Amico @JessicaDAmico86]

@HarrisonFinn @annahuddo @bartbolsterlee @JamesLNuzzo @Mattjones0203 @SimonGandevia @delbaere_kim @neuraustralia @MotorImpairment Thanks for this @HarrisonFinn! What wonderful memories....how did you ever get any work done sharing an office with me? 😂

[ONWARD Medical @onwdempowered]

Professor Grégoire Courtine shares how meeting his childhood hero Christopher Reeve, who would have turned 70 years old today, inspired him to dedicate his life to developing treatments for people living with #spinalcordinjury. @_NeuroRestore @gcourtine

[ONWARD Medical @onwdempowered]

@onwdempowered is thrilled to report positive topline results from the Up-LIFT study, which has achieved its primary effectiveness endpoint of improvement in upper extremity (arm and hand) strength and function in people with #spinalcordinjury.

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[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

In 1975, women of Iceland went on strike for equal rights. 90% of women walked off their jobs & homes, shutting down the entire country. The men could barely cope. Five years later, Iceland elected first female President. Now Iceland has the highest gender equality in the world.

[Governor Andy Beshear @GovAndyBeshear]

Today’s decision triggers an extremist Kentucky law that creates a total ban in Kentucky that will eliminate all options for victims of rape or incest.
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[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

Safe abortion care is essential to protect the health of women & girls everywhere.
Removing access to #abortion care will put more women & girls at risk of illegal abortions and the consequent safety issues that would bring https://t.co/tbsMFGQAn4

[Tiffany D. Jackson @WriteinBK]

Forced birth in a country that doesn’t have mandatory maternity leave or universal healthcare…

[Arianna Huffington @ariannahuff]

So, to sum up the Supreme Court’s week: life begins at conception and ends in a mass shooting.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When the penalty for aborting after rape is more severe than the penalty for rape, that's when you know it's a war on women

[Ana Navarro-Cárdenas @ananavarro]

If you’re against abortion, don’t get one.
If you’re against contraception, don’t take any.
If you’re against same-sex relationships, don’t have one.
If you’re against same-sex marriage, don’t marry someone of same gender.

Do not impose your beliefs & religion on all Americans.

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

Two of the men who voted to take away a woman’s right to control her own body have been credibly accused of sexual assault.

[Brian Wallach @bsw5020]

Always choose the hard right over the easy wrong. Please and thank you.

[Prof Louise Purton @purton_louise]

Today is @UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science. In 2022 it’s time to shift the focus from recruitment (which is not the main issue) to retention (which is an ongoing problem). This is the current situation in Australia👇🏻, lack of funding of women the biggest cause.