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Capacity Building - 2002
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OAA Pre-Doctoral Fellow
| George Chen (FY2002) |
| Mentors: |
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Felix E. Zajac, PhD |
| Fellowship Title: |
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Improving Temporal, Kinematic, and Kinetic Gait
symmetry during harness-Supported Treadmill Training in Post-Stroke
Hemiparesis |
Career Development Awardee
| Carolynn Patten, PhD, PT -
Advanced Career Development Award |
| Mentors: |
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Felix E. Zajac, PhD and Kevin C. McGill, PhD |
| Project: |
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Motor unit firing patterns in hemiplegia |
Research Career Scientists
| Gary S. Beaupré, PhD |
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Research Career Scientist |
| Dennis R. Carter, PhD |
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Senior Research Career Scientist |
| Felix E. Zajac, PhD |
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Senior Research Career Scientist |
Other Research Fellow Programs
| Peter D. Fredericks - SCI/PVA
Summer Scholar |
| Mentor: |
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David L. Jaffe, MS |
| Project: |
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Using a Simulator to Assess Driving Ability after
Stroke, TBI, and SCI |
| Deepti Singh, University of
Chicago - SCI/PVA Summer Scholar |
| RR&D Mentor: |
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Wendy M. Murray, PhD |
| Project: |
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Clinical characteristics of patients with
Tetraplegia who have received brachioradialis tendon transfer surgeries |
Post-Doctoral Students
| Angelie Agarwal, PhD |
| Academic Advisor: |
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Dennis R. Carter, PhD |
| RR&D Mentor: |
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Gary S. Beaupré, PhD |
| Project: |
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Repair and Rehabilitation of Skeletal Tissues by
Mechanical Loading |
| Michelle Johnson, PhD
(Stanford PhD awarded 2002) |
| Academic Advisor: |
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Larry J. Leifer, PhD |
| RR&D Advisor: |
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H.F. Machiel Van der Loos, PhD |
| Project: |
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Upper-extremity stroke rehabilitation |
PhD Candidates
| Robert D. Carpenter - Stanford
University |
| Funding Source: |
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Stanford Graduate Fellowship |
| Academic Advisor: |
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Dennis R. Carter, PhD |
| RR&D Mentor: |
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Gary S. Beaupré, PhD |
| Area of study: |
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Development of new algorithms for predicting
femoral strength from bone densitometry data. |
| George Chen - Stanford
University |
| Funding Source: |
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VA Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Academic Advisor: |
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Felix E. Zajac, PhD |
| RR&D Mentors: |
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Felix E. Zajac, PhD and Carolynn Patten, PhD |
| Area of study: |
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Harness-supported treadmill training of persons
with post-stroke hemiparesis |
| Jill S. Higginson - Stanford
University |
| Funding Source: |
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VA Magnuson Award to Felix E. Zajac, PhD |
| Academic Advisor: |
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Felix E. Zajac, PhD |
| RR&D Mentors: |
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Felix E. Zajac, PhD, Steven A. Kautz, PhD, and
Charles G. Burgar, MD |
| Area of study: |
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Role of ankle plantar flexion in gait of persons
with post-stroke hemiparesis |
| Lampros Kourtis - Engineers
Degree candidate - Stanford University |
| Academic Advisor: |
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Dennis R. Carter, PhD |
| RR&D Mentor: |
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Gary S. Beaupré, PhD |
| Area of study: |
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Influence of post-stroke gait on bone
density |
| Amanda Malone - Stanford
University |
| Funding Source: |
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NSF Graduate Fellowship |
| Academic Advisor: |
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Dennis R. Carter, PhD |
| RR&D Mentor: |
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Gary S. Beaupré, PhD |
| Area of study: |
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Development of concepts and algorithms for
relating mechanical stress and strain histories to skeletal tissue
differentiation |
| Elizabeth Loboa Polefka, MS -
Stanford University |
| Academic Advisor: |
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Dennis R. Carter, PhD |
| RR&D Mentor: |
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Gary S. Beaupré, PhD |
| Area of study: |
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Development of concepts and algorithms for
relating mechanical stress and strain histories to skeletal tissue
differentiation. |
| Niels Smaby - Stanford
University |
| Funding Source: |
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Rehab R&D Merit Review |
| Academic Advisor: |
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Mark Cutkosky, PhD |
| RR&D Mentor: |
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Wendy M. Murray, PhD |
| Area of study: |
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Development and analysis of clinical tools to
measure pinch ability in the tetraplegic population |
| Christine Tibero - Stanford
University |
| Funding Source: |
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Whitaker Fellowship |
| Academic Advisor: |
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Christopher R. Jacobs, PhD |
| Area of study: |
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Cell seeded bone substitutes |
| Joseph Towles - Stanford
University |
| Funding Source: |
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Rehab R&D Merit Review |
| Academic Advisor: |
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Felix E. Zajac, PhD |
| RR&D Mentors: |
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Felix E. Zajac, PhD, Wendy M. Murray, PhD, and
Vincent R. Hentz, MD |
| Area of study: |
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Grasp statistics: application to restoring key
pinch following tetraplegia |
| J. Joseph Wagner - Stanford
University |
| Funding Source: |
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Rehab R&D Merit Review |
| Academic Advisor: |
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Larry J. Leifer, PhD |
| RR&D Mentor: |
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H.F. Machiel Van der Loos, PhD |
| Area of study: |
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Assistive robot user interface development |
Capacity Building - 2001
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