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The workshop is limited to ~40 participants (including ~8 students).
Paul Bach-y-Rita, M.D. Dr. Bach-y-Rita was born in New York City in 1934. He studied Medicine at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (1952-1959), where he began neurophysiological research. He was a Post Doctoral fellow at UCLA, at the CNRS in Paris (with Professor Alfred Fessard) and at Freiburg, Germany (with Professor Richard Jung) before returning to California to begin a 10 year NIH Research Career Development Award. He has held full-professorships in Visual Sciences (University of the Pacific) Human Physiology (University of California Davis), Rehabilitation Medicine (University of California Davis) before moving to the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1983 as Chairman of Rehabilitation Medicine (1983-1988), where he is also Professor of Biomedical Engineering.His early studies were in oculomotor neurophysiology and neuropharnacology (on GABA mechanisms with Killam), and following his Medical Internship, he concentrated on visual and oculomotor studies. His interests in brain plasticity led him to complete a clinical Residency at Stanford University in Rehabilitation Medicine, and since that time his research has centered on late brain rehabilitation and rehabilitation engineering, sensory substitution, and nonsynaptic diffusion neurotransmission. Charles Burgar, M.D. Clinical and research interests: Stroke rehabilitation; robotics; mechanisms of motor impairment and recovery. URL: http://guide.stanford.edu/People/burgar/burgar.html Jules Dewald, Ph.D. The main thrust of my work is to understand and quantify mechanisms underlying upper limb discoordination following a unilateral brain lesion using a combination of neurophysiological and biomedical engineering techniques. I seek to quantify discoordination by recording static and deriving dynamic joint torque combinations that stroke subjects are able to generate in their impaired upper limb during multi-degree of freedom load cell measures or during planar arm movements. A novel direction that my team and I are exploring is the relationship between reductions in available elbow/shoulder joint torque combinations and cortical reorganization using high-resolution EEG or functional MRI while stroke subjects generate static joint torque's in various directions and of various magnitudes either in the impaired or contralateral upper limb. Susan Fasoli ScD, OTR/L, Post-Doctoral Associate, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering - M.I.T. Dr. Fasoli is currently involved in researching the effects of robotic therapy on motor impairments following stroke. She is particularly interested in two areas of this research: 1) examining how repetitive, goal directed robotic therapy influences motor recovery, as indicated by kinematic measures and clinical scales, and 2) developing robotic therapy that is more functionally-based and better integrated into clinical practice. Her doctoral research investigated how contextual variables (e.g. availability of objects, use of instruction) influence movement kinematics during reach in persons with/without stroke. A long-term aim is to participate in the development of a scientifically driven model of stroke rehabilitation. I think this process involves the use of precise and reliable measures of motor performance, a theoretical model that is consistent with the data, and a means to apply measurement and theory-driven conclusions to rehabilitation practice. Joe Hidler, Ph.D. My primary research interests lie in understanding the changes in both neurological and musculoskeletal systems which accompany stroke and spinal cord injury, changes that result in abnormal control patterns and secondary complications like spasticity. The hope is that developing a better understanding of these neuromuscular pathways using both experimental procedures and mathematical models, better therapeutic techniques for facilitating motor recovery will result. Neville Hogan, Ph.D. Professor Hogan’s research goal is to understand the dynamics and control of manipulation, contact tasks and tool use by humans and machines. Application areas include robotics, rehabilitation technologies, and studies of tool use and how the brain controls movement. Recent work has focused on new physically interactive robotic tools to study and support recovery from neurological injury. For an overview and perspective see http://www.vard.org/jour/00/37/6/gsted376.htm and http://www.vard.org/jour/00/37/6/krebs376.htm Derek Kamper, Ph.D. My primary research interests lie in the application of mechatronics to the areas of motor control and its rehabilitation, especially in the upper extremities. Current projects involve exploration of the mechanisms impairing hand function following stroke and modeling of finger motor control. I am in the process of developing potentially therapeutic devices to assist finger extension following stroke. In addition, I am involved in a project examining the changes wrought by electrical stimulation of wrist muscles in children with cerebral palsy. Casey Kerrigan, M.D. I am particularly interested in the clinical assessment of gait (walking or running) with the goal to prescribe directed physical medicine and rehabilitation interventions. My research interest is to better our understanding of the mechanisms of gait with the goal to improve and maintain health and function. Specifically, my interests are to (1) advance clinical gait analysis using computer simulation and other technological developments, (2) develop and validate clinically meaningful quantitative gait measures and (3) study the effects of different interventions on various gait measures. Pete Lum, Ph.D. The goal is to improve current rehabilitative treatment of motor dysfunction following neurologic injury. Several different approaches are currently being undertaken for neurorehab of upper-limb movement in post-stroke hemiparesis. One project is developing novel movement therapies using robots. Another project is evaluating the effects of strength training, thereby challenging the conventional belief that high-exertion exercises are inappropriate following stroke. A third project is automating Constraint-Induced Therapy by developing a workstation that allows the training portion of this treatment to be performed without one-on-one supervision from therapists. The evaluation of these new devices and techniques will lead to a greater understanding of the mechanisms of motor impairment following neurologic injury and the role interventions play in promoting motor recovery. Jim Patton: see: http://www.smpp.nwu.edu/~smpp_pub/PattonRymerMussa-Ivaldi_EMBC_2001.htm http://manip.smpp.nwu.edu/jim/R24/ David J. Reinkensmeyer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine dreinken@uci.edu; http://www.eng.uci.edu/~dreinken/djr.htm My research interests are in movement control, neurorehabilitation, and robotics. A major focus of my research is to develop physically interacting, mechatronic devices ("rehabilitators") to help the nervous system recover movement ability after neurologic injuries such as stroke and spinal cord injury. We have developed a variety of robotic devices that are being used to investigate the role of mechanical assistance in retraining arm movement following stroke, the feasibility of providing movement rehabilitation over the internet (“Java Therapy”), and the role of sensory information in controlling spinal locomotion. Zev Rymer, M.D., Ph.D. My research interests are directed towards understanding the origins of motor impairment in stroke and spinal cord injury, and in promoting the development and application of rational therapies, based on such knowledge. Jack Winters, Ph.D. [Workshop Organizer] My areas of expertise are in movement biomechanics, neuromuscular control, optimization of goal-directed human performance, rehabilitative bioengineering, shoulder and spine biomechanics, intelligent neurofuzzy systems, mobile telehealth, and telerehabilitation. When I'm able to put aside administrative responsibilities, my current areas of research interest relate to the synthesis of neurorehabilitation and telerehabilitation, especially as related to upper extremity movement. Of special interest are projects with current grad students: remote neurorehab assessment (with Adenine Stanislaus), innovative approaches of therapeutic intervention that take advantage of mainstream force-reflecting joystick interfaces and games (with Chris Elsworth), fuzzy neuromuscular models (with Amy O'Brien) and mobile telerehabilitation (with Yu "Fish" Wang). See also http://www.eng.mu.edu/wintersj/ Local: Kellye Knueppel, OD, FCOVD I am a clinician in private practice in the Milwaukee area with emphasis in vision development and vision rehabilitation. While my practice is primarily dedicated to children with learning related vision problems, strabismus and amblyopia, I also have a great interest in vision rehabilitation in neurologically impaired patients. |
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