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Collaborators

Through cooperation with individuals at the Palo Alto VA Health Care System and other affiliated institutions, the productivity of the Rehab R&D Center is enhanced. These collaborators, during 2001, have been:

VA Palo Alto / Stanford Clinicians

Rajinder Chitkara, MD Director, Pulmonary diseases Section, PAVAHCS
Project: Improving Stepping-Over Responses in the Elderly
Collaborator: David L. Jaffe, MS

James Canfield, CCPT Respiratory Care Services, PAVAHCS
Project: Improving Stepping-Over Responses in the Elderly
Collaborator: David L. Jaffe, MS

Elaine Daté, MD Chief, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, PAVAHCS
Project: Motion analysis of assisted gait
Collaborator: Eric E. Sabelman, PhD

Marilyn Douglas, RN Chief of Nursing Research, PAVAHCS
Project: Pressure/motion monitoring for telerehabilitation
Collaborator: Eric E. Sabelman, PhD

Nicholas Giori, MD, PhD Staff Orthopaedic Surgeon, PAVAHCS
Project: Osteoarthritis
Collaborator: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD

Garry Gold, MD Staff Radiologist, PAVAHCS
Project: Patellofemoral pain rehabilitation
Collaborator: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD

Leonard Goldschmidt, MD, PhD Staff physician & Medical Director of Telemedicine and Medical Information, VAPAHCS
Project: Pressure/motion monitoring for telerehabilitation
Collaborator: Eric E. Sabelman, PhD

V. Rodney Hentz, MD Surgical Service (Hand Center), & Professor of Functional Restoration, Stanford University School of Medicine
Project: 1) Functional Restoration of Grasp
2) Clinical Trial of Artificial Peripheral Nerve Graft
Collaborator: 1) Felix E. Zajac, PhD
2) Eric E. Sabelman, PhD

Jonathan Katz, MD Assistant Chief of Neurology, PAVAHCS
Project: Mobility Therapy for Parkinsonism using Accelerometric Motion Analysis
Collaborator: Eric E. Sabelman, PhD

Mary Skinner, RN Telemedicine Coordinator for Information Resources Management Service, PAVAHCS
Project: Pressure/motion monitoring for telerehabilitation
Collaborator: Eric E. Sabelman, PhD

Susan Ward, RN Staff research nurse, Aging Study Unit, GRECC, PAVAHCS
Project: Pressure/Motion Feedback To Protect Skin of Sensorimotor Impaired Elders
Collaborator: Eric E. Sabelman, PhD

Dwight Wilson, RN Chief, Nursing Home Care Unit, PAVAHCS
Project: Pressure/motion monitoring for telerehabiliation
Collaborator: Eric E. Sabelman, PhD

John Zauner, MD Orthopaedic Surgery, PAVAHCS
Project: Mechanical Loading Effects on Cartilage Repair and Regeneration
Collaborator: R. Lane Smith, PhD

Stanford Clinicians

Jessica Rose Agramonte, PhD, PT Department of Functional Restoration, Stanford University School of Medicine
Project: Motor unit firing characteristics in cerebral palsy
Collaborator: Kevin C. McGill, PhD

Guenther Knoblich, MD Division of Orthopeadic Surgery
Project: Fixation of 5th metatarsal fractures using lag screws
Collaborator: Scott A. Yerby, PhD

Clete Kushida, MD Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic, Stanford University
Project: Development of a Smart Bed
Collaborator: H.F. Machiel Van der Loos, PhD

Matra Majmundar, OTR TYC Occupational Therapist, Stanford University Hospital
Project: Mechanically-assisted Upper Limb Movement for Assessment and Therapy
Collaborator: Charles G. Burgar, MD and H.F. Machiel Van der Loos, PhD

David Schurman, MD Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University
Project: Hip replacement design
Collaborator: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD and Dennis R. Carter, PhD

David Terris, MD Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Division, Department of Surgery, Stanford University
Project: Clinical Trial of Artificial Peripheral Nerve Graft
Collaborator: Eric E. Sabelman, PhD

David C. Tong, MD Department of Neurology & Clinical Neurosciences, Stanford Stroke Center, Stanford University
Project: Motor Unit Firing Patterns in Hemiparesis
Collaborator: Carolynn Patten, PhD

Other Stanford Faculty

Thomas P. Andriacchi, PhD Biomechanical Engineering Division, Dept Mech Eng, Stanford University
Project: Shear Stress and Chondrocyte Gene Expression
Collaborator: R. Lane Smith, PhD

Scott L. Delp, PhD Biomechanical Engineering Division, Dept Mech Eng, Stanford University
Project: Patellofemoral pain rehabilitation
Collaborator: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD

Min Hu, MD, PhD Research Associate, Stanford University School of Medicine
Project: Clinical Trial of Artificial Peripheral Nerve Graft
Collaborator: Eric E. Sabelman, PhD

Norbert Pelc, PhD Lucas Imaging Center, Dept Radiology, Stanford University
Project: QCT measurement of bone density
Collaborator: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD

Others

David A. Brown, PhD, PT Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Medical School
Project: Improving Stepping-Over Responses in the Elderly
Collaborator: David L. Jaffe, MS

Christopher J. Hernandez, PhD The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
Project: Modeling of osteoporosis progression and treatment
Collaborator: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD and Dennis R. Carter, PhD

Wilson Hayes, PhD Oregon State University
Project: Atypical bone loading for increasing bone mass
Collaborator: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD and Dennis R. Carter, PhD

Kevin L. Kilgore, PhD Clinical Research Director, VA Center of Excellence in FES
Project: Linking Hand Biomechanics and Functional Ability after Tetraplegia
Collaborator: Wendy M. Murray, PhD

Cliff Les, PhD Henry Ford Hospital
Project: Computed tomography properties of calcaneal bone marrow
Collaborator: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD

Robert Marcus, MD Eli Lilly and Company
Project: Modeling of osteoporosis progression and treatment
Collaborator: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD and Dennis R. Carter, PhD

Keyes, Marshall, MD Maven Technologies, Los Angeles, CA
Project: Hip fracture prevention
Collaborator: Eric E. Sabelman, PhD

P. Hunter Peckham, PhD Director, VA Center of Excellence in FES, Louis Stokes VA Hospital, Cleveland
Director of Orthopaedic Research, Metrohealth Medical Center, Clevelan Professor, Biomedical Engineering, CWRU
Project: Linking Hand Biomechanics and Functional Ability after Tetraplegia
Collaborator: Wendy M. Murray, PhD

Christine Snow, PhD, FACSM Director, Bone Research Laboratory, Oregon State University
Project: Atypical bone loading for increasing bone mass
Collaborator: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD and Dennis R. Carter, PhD

Edward Taub, PhD University Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Principal Investigator Birmingham VAMC
Project: Automated induced constraint therapy
Collaborator: Peter S. Lum , PhD

James W. Tetrud, MD Parkinsons Institute, Sunnyvale, CA
Project: Parkinson's disease
Collaborator: Eric E. Sabelman, PhD

Marjolein van der Meulen, PhD Cornell University
Project: Co-author of journal article and book chapter
Collaborator: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD and Dennis R. Carter, PhD

Robert Whalen, PhD NASA Ames Research Center
Project: QCT measurement of bone density
Collaborator: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD

Chye Yan, PhD DSO National Laboratories & National University of Singapore
Project: QCT measurement of bone density
Collaborator: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD

Scott Yerby, PhD St. Francis Medical Technologies, Inc.
Project: Evaluation of Spinal Decompression Implants
Collaborator: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD

Past Collaborators


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