Prof. Jocelyne Bloch

Professor in the department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV/UNIL)
Adjunct Professor in the INX institute at EPFL, Switzerland

Title of Keynote Speech: Implantable technologies reversing paralysis

Jocelyne Bloch is a neurosurgeon specialized in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. She acquired an extensive experience and expertise in deep brain stimulation (DBS) and neuromodulation for movement disorders, pain and epilepsy. She is in charge of the functional neurosurgical unit at the University Hospital of Lausanne. Very active in experimental medicine and translational neuroscience, she nourishes a profound interest in the development of new indications for DBS, and in advancing technologies and therapeutic paradigms in neuromodulation, neuro-regeneration, and cell therapy. She seeks to gather all these novel therapeutic strategies under a common umbrella that will foster optimization of treatment options for patients suffering from neurological impairments. She is now associate Professor in the department of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV/UNIL) and adjunct Professor in the Center for Neuroprosthetics at EPFL where together with Grégoire Courtine she is director of the Defitech Center for Interventional Neurotherapies (NeuroRestore).