Lou N. Awad, PT, DPT, PhD

Associate Professor
Boston University
Boston, MA, United States

Lou Awad is a physical therapist-scientist with training in neurorehabilitation, biomechanics, wearable sensors, and rehabilitation robotics. His research spans the translation continuum and includes studies focused on discovery and evaluation of rehabilitation interventions and technology. He is an Associate Professor at Boston University and a Research Faculty Member at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. He is the founding director of Boston University’s Neuromotor Recovery Laboratory—a cross-disciplinary research group of clinicians, movement scientists, and engineers that studies movement dysfunction across the clinical, biomechanical, and physiological levels of impairment, with the goal of generating foundational knowledge to inform the development of hypothesis-driven rehabilitation programs and technologies.

Presentation(s):

• Clinical Evidence Is Just the Start: Considerations for Building Evidence for the Successful Commercialization of Novel Rehabilitation Devices 1159

  Wednesday, October 29, 2025
  2:30 PM - 3:30 PM  

• MR-005: A Novel, Music-based Gait Rehabilitation Device Delivering Individualized, Progressively Challenging and Autonomous Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation at Home to Adults with Parkinson’s Disease 1161

  Thursday, October 30, 2025
  12:00 PM - 1:00 PM