Associate Professor
Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
I am a human movement scientist interested in motor rehabilitation of persons with neurologic damage or disorders. I am also the Director of the Precision Medicine Center of Excellence at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Director of the Center for Movement Studies at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. My background spans engineering, clinical gait analysis, and neuroscience. My research focuses on combining these disciplines to understand how the nervous system controls movement and how we can improve motor function in persons with neurologic conditions. I use many techniques to study human movement, including three-dimensional motion capture, artificial intelligence, electromyography, interactive feedback, wearables, and electronic health records. Interdisciplinary collaboration is a strong emphasis of my work, as I have published with academic and clinical faculty in engineering, kinesiology, physiology, psychology, neurology, neuroscience, neurosurgery, physical therapy, and language sciences. My laboratory pursues three long-term goals: 1) improving rehabilitation for persons with motor dysfunction, 2) improving rehabilitation technologies, and 3) facilitating a shift toward precision rehabilitation. Our work has been funded by the NIH, the American Heart Association, the American Parkinson Disease Association, the Parkinson’s Foundation, the Association of Academic Physiatrists, the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Johns Hopkins University, the Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory at Johns Hopkins University, and pilot project awards through Stanford University.
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