James C. (Cole) Galloway, Ph.D., founder of GoBabyGo!, will be in Omaha on Sept. 27-28 for a presentation and to take part in a GoBabyGo! build at the Munroe-Meyer Institute on the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus.
The GoBabyGo! program helps children with physical and developmental delays move and explore the world. The program’s most popular project – modified ride-on cars – provides parents, clinicians, students and community volunteers with the know-how to adapt ordinary toy cars into therapeutic vehicles for children with physical limitations.
Dr. Galloway will be speaking to health care professionals and members of the community from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 27, at the Fred & Pamela Buffet Cancer Center, Room 0.12.101.
Then on Saturday, Dr. Galloway will participate in MMI’s latest GoBabyGo! Nebraska! build, the ninth for the organization. The build begins at 8 a.m. in the MMI gym, 330 S. 44th St.
Children with their families will come from 11 a.m. to noon to be fitted in and try out the modified toy cars. Dr. Galloway, MMI staff and volunteers will build 11 cars.
“We are so excited to have Dr. Galloway visit MMI and help with our latest GoBabyGo! Nebraska! build,” said Sandra Willett, Ph.D., director of the MMI Department of Physical Therapy. “Since MMI began taking part in the GoBabyGo! program in 2016, we have held nine builds, including two in Kearney, creating a total of more than 75 cars to be used by children with mobility issues across Iowa and Nebraska.
“We are pleased to bring Dr. Galloway to Omaha to speak about the GoBabyGo! mission, and we look forward to his help as we prepare to transform the lives of 11 families by helping their children achieve a greater degree of freedom and mobility.”
Members of the media are invited to attend Dr. Galloway’s Friday presentation or to attend the Saturday build. Dr. Galloway also is available for interviews by phone ahead of his visit to Omaha.
A professor in the University of Delaware Department of Physical Therapy, Dr. Galloway is director of the Pediatric Mobility Lab and Design Studio. He started the GoBabyGo! program in 2012. He has spoken at numerous TEDMED conferences. TEDMED is the independent health and medicine edition of the world-famous TED Conference.
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