The Mission of IFESS is to promote the research, application, and understanding of electrical stimulation technologies in rehabilitation and medicine.
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IFESS is soliciting contributions to it's Annual Special Issue. In particular contributions from those participating at this year's meeting in Lecco and those who participated at IFESS@RehabWeek2025 and the 30th IFESS Anniversary Vienna Workshop. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page…
IFESS Members are invited to submit to the IFESS Special Issue in Artificial Organs. A primary focus on work to be presented at IFESS 2026,2025 (Chicago) and Vienna FES 2025. Due 15.10.26
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IFESS Team
Simona Ferrante (Pres) and Erika Spaich (VP) were re-elected. New officers elected to fill the shoes of the departing officers are Ken Yoshida (Sec) and Winfried Mayr (Treas). It welcomes Martin Schmoll, Lynsey Duffell and Kei Masani. ifess.org/board-members-2/
2026 IFESS Executive Board and Officers
Happy 2026! With the opening of the New Year, the IFESS EB sees the departure of two officers and welcomes 3 new EB members. We first thank the service of our departing EB members, Tamsyn Street (Sec), and Cesar Marques Chin (Treas).
12 Jan 2026 IFESS Webinar
Hope Jervis-Rademeyer, U Saskatchewan to give a webinar "Pedaling Toward Progress: Implementing FES cycling into clinical practice".
See ifess.org/civicrm/event/info… for more information
19 Jan 2026 IFESS Webinar
Gad Alon, UMD School of Medicine, to give a webinar, “Technology guided precision training of the paretic lower extremity to enhance recovery of locomotion post stroke: An interpretive review for practicing clinicians."
see ifess.org/civicrm/event/info…
Vidisha Ganesh gives her Fast Forward presentation at @RehabWeekOrg . Vidisha eventually went on to win the poster competition for @IFESS_org
The presenters of the IFESS 2025 “Mechanisms” session at @RehabWeekOrg pose for a group photo. The Tues evening session featured a Keynote by Jonathan Wolpaw, invited talks by CJ Heckman & Matija Milosevic and platform talks by Hamid Hassanlouei and Kei Masani
Anouk Lamontagne presents her keynote address at the Thursday morning @RehabWeekOrg plenum session on her work with rehabilitation VR AR. The talk was sponsored by Fourier Rehab with @IFESS_org and @ISVRSociety
Prof John Rogers presents his keynote talk at the @IFESS_org Technologies session at @RehabWeekOrg 2025
From the IFESS2025 Organizing Committee. Thanks to the RehabWeek2025 Organizing Committee for bringing together our societies for a successful interdisciplinary meeting. Thanks to the members for joining and supporting our program. See you all in Switzerland in 2027.
Congratulations to Vidisha Ganesh winner of the RehabWeek Fast Forward poster award @RehabWeekOrg
Congratulations to the winners of the Vodovnik Awards
1st Margaux Randolph
2nd Guijin Li
3rd Aidan McConnell-Trevillion
The Vodovnik Student Paper judging committee has spent the past 3 days evaluating the contributions from our Student Members. The competition has been fierce, and the winners will be announced at the RehabWeek closing ceremonies at 4:30pm CDT
Bob Kirsch opens the “Cleveland” session at IFESS at @RehabWeekOrg with his keynote talk
Dimitry Sayenko speaks on spinal stimulation after injury at the IFESS ICORR session at @RehabWeekOrg
Speakers from the Mechanisms session at IFESS 2025
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Please help us identify the presenting author at IFESS2025. If you are the presenting author, please identify yourself to IFESS at [email protected]