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Capacity Building - 2001

OAA Pre-Doctoral Fellows

Niels Smaby, MS FY 2001
George Chen, MS FY 2002


VA Career Development Awardees

Carolynn Patten, PhD, PT - Advanced Career Development Award
Mentors: Felix E. Zajac, PhD and Kevin C. McGill, PhD
Project: Motor unit firing patterns in hemiplegia
Dr. Patten's research concerns the neural control of movement, force regulation mechanisms, neural adaptation, neuropathology, neurorehabilitation, and post-stroke hemiparesis.


Gary S. Beaupré, PhD Research Career Scientist
Felix E. Zajac, PhD Senior Research Career Scientist


Other Research Fellow Programs

Wendy M. Murray, PhD PVA Post-Doctoral Fellow
Edward Teng PVA Summer Scholar
Mark Hong Stanford Medical Scholars Student (Pre-MD)


PhD Candidates

Robert D. Carpenter, MS - Stanford University, Graduate Fellowship
Academic Advisor: Dennis R. Carter, PhD
RR&D Mentor: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD
Area of study: Development of new algorithms for predicting femoral strength from bone densitometry data.

Christopher J. Hernandez, PhD - Stanford University - PhD received May, 2001
Academic Advisor: Dennis R. Carter, PhD
RR&D Mentor: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD
Area of study: Development of a cell-based model for predicting changes in bone density and strength during osteoporosis progression and treatment

Elizabeth Loboa Polefka, MS - Stanford University
Academic Advisor: Dennis R. Carter, PhD
RR&D Mentor: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD
Area of study: Development of concepts and algorithms for relating mechanical stress and strain histories to skeletal tissue differentiation.

Sandra Shefelbine, MS - Stanford University, Graduate Fellowship
Academic Advisor: Dennis R. Carter, PhD
RR&D Mentor: Gary S. Beaupré, PhD
Area of study: Development of concepts and algorithms for modeling the mechanobiology of normal and pathological bone growth and development

Capacity Building - 2000