Participants
James Abbas
Co-Director
Center for Adaptive Neural Systems
The Biodesign Institute
Mark Abel
Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Pediatrics
Motor Analysis and Motor Performance Laboratory
University of Virginia
Andrew Alleyne
Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor of Engineering
Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Eric Altschuler
Instructor
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Farid Amirouche
CEO and President
Ortho Sensing Technologies
Richard Andersen
Professor
Biology
Caltech
John L. Anderson
Provost and University Vice President
Case Western Reserve University
Megan Atkinson
Senior Program Specialist
The National Academies
Keck Futures Initiative
Orlando Auciello
Materials Science Department
Argonne National Laboratory
Dennis Barbour
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis
Scott Beardsley
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering Department
Marquette University
Ravi Bellamkonda
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bradford Bennett
Assistant Professor of Research
Research Director
Motion Analysis and Motor Performance Laboratory
Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Virginia
Theodore Berger
David Packard Professor of Engineering
Director, Center for Neural Engineering
University of Southern California
Gary Berke
President
American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists
William Bunney Jr.
Distinguished Professor
Della Martin Chair of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
University of California, Irvine
Karen Burg
Hunter Endowed Chair and Professor
Bioengineering Department
Clemson University
Jennifer Byers
Recruiting Editor
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Nancy Byl
Professor and Chair
Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science Department
University of California, San Francisco
Ewen Callaway
Graduate Science Writing Student
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jose M. Carmena
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
Julia Chan
Associate Professor
Chemistry
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Megan Chao
Graduate Student in Broadcast Journalism
Annenberg School for Communication
University of Southern California
Daofen Chen
Program Director
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Ralph J. Cicerone
President
National Academy of Sciences
Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal
Associate Professor
Kinesiology, Bioengineering, and Neuroscience Program
University of Maryland
Rory Cooper
Distinguished Professor
FISA/PVA Chair
Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology
University of Pittsburgh
Barbara Culliton
Journalist: Previously Deputy Editor, Nature, and News Editor, Science.
Kenneth C. Curley
Chief Scientist
U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center
Chet de Groat
Professor of Pharmacology
University of Pittsburgh
John Donoghue
Director, Brain Science Program
Neuroscience Department
Brown University
Michael Dorman
Professor
Speech and Hearing Science
Arizona State University
Alexander Dromerick
Professor
Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology Department
National Rehabilitation Hospital
Georgetown University
Donald Eigler
IBM Fellow
IBM Almaden Research Center
Jennifer Elisseeff
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Leon Esterowitz
Program Director
Bioengineering and Environmental Systems
National Science Foundation
Boyd Evans
Research Staff
Biomedical Sciences
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
James Fallon
Professor
Anatomy and Neurobiology
University of California, Irvine
Gary K. Fedder
Howard M. Wilkoff Professor of ECE and Robotics
Director, Institute for Complex Engineered Systems
Carnegie Mellon University
Kirk Fernandes
Graduate Student/Journalist
Center for Science and Medical Journalism
Boston University
Harvey V. Fineberg
President
Institute of Medicine
Kate Fink
Graduate Student, Science Journalism
Boston University
Susan Fitzpatrick
Vice President
James S. McDonnell Foundation
Richard Foster
Managing Partner, Investment and Advisory Services LLC
Board Member, W. M. Keck Foundation
William Foster
Assistant Professor
Physics
The University of Houston
Joseph Francis
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
Robert C. Froemke
Postdoc
Department of Otolaryngology
University of California, San Francisco
Ken Fulton
Executive Director
National Academy of Sciences
Fred Gage
Vi and John Adler Professor
Laboratory of Genetics LOG-G
The Salk Institute of Biological Studies
Steven Gard
Research Associate Professor
Physical Medicine Rehabilitation
Northwestern University
Apostolos Georgopoulos
Regents Professor
Director, The Domenici Research Center for Mental Illness Department
University of Minnesota Medical School
Jeremy L. Gilbert
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Biomedical and Chemical Engineering
Syracuse University
Brent Gillespie
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
Simon Giszter
Associate Professor
Neurobiology and Anatomy
Drexel University College of Medicine
Steve Goldstein
Henry Ruppenthal Professor
Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering Department
University of Michigan
Kevin Granata
Associate Professor
Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Laboratory
Virginia Tech
Elias Greenbaum
Corporate Fellow
Chemical Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Warren M. Grill
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering and Surgery
Duke University
Selcuk Guceri
Dean
College of Engineering
Drexel University
Aparna Gupta
Assistant Professor
Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Brian Hafner
Research Director
Prosthetics Research Study
William Hammack
Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andrew Hansen
Research Assistant Professor
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Northwestern University
Stuart Harshbarger
System Integrator
The Applied Physics Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University
Jiping He
Professor and Director
Bioengineering and Center for Neural Interface Design
Arizona State University
Anne Heberger
Research Associate
The National Academies
Keck Futures Initiative
William Heetderks
Director
Extramural Science Program
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
National Institutes of Health
Sarah Heilshorn
Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University
Hugh Herr
Assistant Professor
Program in Media Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leigh Hochberg
Instructor / Investigator
Neurology / Neuroscience Department
Harvard Medical School /
Massachusetts General Hospital /
Brown University /
Veterans Administration Medical Center
Zhiyu (“Jerry”) Hu
Research Scientist
Life Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Lab
Gareth Hughes
Senior Engineer Biomedical
Zyvex Corporation
Mark Humayan
Professor of Ophthalmology
Associate Director of Research
Keck School of Medicine
Doheny Retina Institute
University of Southern California
Star Hy
Booz Allen Hamilton
SETA Support for Program Manager
DARPA/DSO
Pedro Irazoqui
Assistant Professor
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Purdue University
Edwin Iversen
Vice President of Research and Development
Motion Control Inc.
Kenneth Jaffe
Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics and Neurological Surgery
Editor in Chief, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
University of Washington School of Medicine
Ranu Jung
Co-Director, Center for Adaptive Neural Systems, The Biodesign Institute
Associate Professor of Bioengineering
Arizona State University
Alla Katsnelson
Graduate Science Writing Student
University of California, Santa Cruz
Homayoon Kazerooni
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Danielle Kerkovich, Ph.D.
Rehabilitation Research and Development Service
Department of Veterans Affairs
Robert Kirsch
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Zelma Kiss
Assistant Professor
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
University of Calgary
Elizabeth Kolbert
Staff Writer
The New Yorker
Jack Kotovsky
Engineer
Meso Micro and NanoTechnology
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Conrad Kufta
Director of Clinical Development
Innovative Neurotronics Inc.
Challa Kumar
Group Leader
Nanofabrication
Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices
Louisiana State University
Themis Kyriakides
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering and Pathology
Yale University
Joerg Lahann
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan
Cato Laurencin
University Professor
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
University of Virginia Health System
Kendall Lee
Assistant Professor
Neurosurgery, Physiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurosurgery
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Irene W. Leigh, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
Gallaudet University
Rachel Lesinski
Senior Program Specialist
The National Academies
Keck Futures Initiative
Hod Lipson
Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
Treena Livingston Arinzeh
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Gerald Loeb
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California
Helen H. Lu
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
Charles C. Mann
Author
David Martin
Professor
Materials Science and Engineering Department
The University of Michigan
Yoky Matsuoka
Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
Cameron McIntyre
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Cleveland Clinic
Michael Merzenich
Francis Sooy Professor of Otolaryngology
Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Seth Messinger
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Mahesh Mohanty
Project Manager
Advanced Technology
Stryker Orthopaedics
Pedram Mohseni
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Case Western Reserve University
David Mooney
Professor
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Karen Moxon
Associate Professor
School of Biomedical Engineering
Drexel University
Naomi Murray
Senior Research Engineer
R&D—Technology Development
Stryker Orthopaedics
Vivian Mushahwar
Assistant Professor and AHFMR Scholar
Biomedical Engineering and Center for Neuroscience
University of Alberta
Isaac Mwase
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics
National Center for Bioethics,
Tuskegee University
Hamid Najib
Personal Computer and Program Support Specialist
The National Academies
Erica Naone
Graduate Student
Science Writing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roger Narayan
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of North Carolina
Richard Normann
Professor
Bioengineering Department
University of Utah
Randolph Nudo
Director, Landon Center on Aging
Professor, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
The University of Kansas Medical Center
Matthew O’Donnell
Dean
College of Engineering
University of Washington
Marcia O’Malley
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Rice University
Santa Ono
Vice Provost and Deputy Provost
Emory University
Kevin Otto
Assistant Professor
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and Biological Sciences
Purdue University
Cengiz Ozkan
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Riverside
Joseph Pancrazio
Program Director
Repair and Plasticity Cluster Department
Division Extramural Research
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institutes of Health
Hunter Peckham
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Maria Pellegrini
Vice President for Research
Brandeis University
Carlos Pena
Senior Science Policy Analyst
OC/OSHC
Food and Drug Administration
Marty Perreault
Program Director
The National Academies
Keck Futures Initiative
Haley Poland
Print Journalism Graduate Student
Annenberg School of Communication
University of Southern California
Alan Porter
Evaluation Coordinating Consultant
The National Academies
Keck Futures Initiative
Steve Potter
Assistant Professor
Laboratory for Neuroengineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Elizabeth (“Beth”) Quill
Graduate Science Writing Student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sasha (Alexander) Rabchevsky
Assistant Professor of Physiology
Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center
University of Kentucky
Walter Racette
Director
Certified Prosthetist/Orthotist
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
Buddy Ratner
Professor
Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering
Director, University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials (UWEB)
University of Washington
Vilupanur Ravi
Professor
Chemical and Materials Engineering
California State Polytechnic University
Aristides Requicha
Gordon Marshall Chair in Engineering
Computer Science Department
University of Southern California
Frances Richmond
Director
Regulatory Science Program
School of Pharmacy
University of Southern California
Dave Roessner
Evaluation Consultant
The National Academies
Keck Futures Initiative
Robert Sah
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
Khaled Saleh
Associate Professor
Orthopedic Surgery
Division Head and Fellowship Director
Adult Reconstruction
University of Virginia
Gerwin Schalk
Research Scientist IV
Brain-Computer Interface R&D Program
Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
Steven Schiff
Brush Chair Professor of Engineering
Center for Neural Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
Elmar T. Schmeisser
Neurophysiology and Cognitive Neurosciences
U.S. Army Research Office
Karen Schrock
Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program
New York University
Joseph Schulman
President and Chief Scientist
Alfred Mann Foundation
Jeffrey Schwartz
Professor
Chemistry
Princeton University
Arthur M. Sherwood
Science and Technology Advisor
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
Department of Education
Patricia Shewokis
Associate Professor and Movement Scientist
College of Nursing and Health Professions
Drexel University
Molly Shoichet
Professor and Director, Undergraduate Collaborative Bioengineering
Canada Research Chair in Tissue Engineering
University of Toronto
William Skane
Executive Director
Office of News and Public Information
The National Academies
Judith Stein
Chief Technologist
Chemical Nanotechnologies Lab Department
GE Global Research
Mercedes Talley
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Michael E. Tompkins
President
Animated Prosthetics Inc.
Dennis Turner
Professor
Neurosurgery, Neurobiology, and Neuroengineering
Duke University Medical Center
Dustin Tyler
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Heinz Wässle
Professor, Doctor
Max-Planck-Institut
Michael Weinrich
Director
National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research
National Institutes of Health
Bruce Wheeler
Professor and Interim Head
Bioengineering Department
University of Illinois
Blake Wilson
Senior Fellow
RTI International
George Wittenberg
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
University of Maryland
Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center
VA Maryland HCS
Wm. A. Wulf
President
National Academy of Engineering
Nic Young
Executive Producer
Lion House
Edyta Zielinska
Graduate Science Writing Student
New York University
Tom Zimmerman
Graduate Student
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
The University of Georgia
Wendi Zongker
Graduate Student
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
The University of Georgia
