Fostering Independence, Participation, and Healthy Aging Through Technology Workshop Summary (2013) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 63-72
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He is responsible for creating and leading a network of technology companies, providers, and research institutions focused on technology solutions for an aging society. The network advances the interests of older consumers, caregivers, and providers and fosters opportunities for collaboration between provider organizations, technology companies, and research institutions in exploring product development, testing prototypes, evaluating technology, and deploying technology-enabled care models.
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. W3C's work on Web accessibility includes ensuring that W3C technologies support accessibility; developing accessibility guidelines for Web content, browsers, media players, and mobile devices; writing tools; developing resources to improve Web accessibility evaluation tools; providing education and outreach on Web accessibility; coordinating with research and development that may impact future
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Ms. Brewer coordinates accessibility policy and standardization issues for W3C internationally, promoting awareness and implementation of Web accessibility and ensuring effective dialogue among industry, the disability community, accessibility researchers, and government on the development of consensus-based accessibility solutions.
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Secretary of Veterans Affairs Prosthetics and Special Disability Programs Advisory Committee, the board of directors of Easter Seals, and other national committees and boards.
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Access Board Technical Advisory Committee, CSUN, the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) , the Association for Computing Machinery ASSETS forum, and other forums, and he has served as scientist in residence at the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities.
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Li holds 22 U.S. patents, with an additional 12 patents pending, and has published more than 300 research papers involving microelectronic technologies, microwave circuit design, microelectromechanical systems for communication and biomedical instrumentation applications, and bio-nano-IT technology.
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His research effort focuses on functional restoration of the paralyzed upper extremity in individuals with spinal cord injury. He and collaborators developed a number of implantable neural prostheses that use electrical stimulation to control neuromuscular activation.
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I was a very good landscape architect, and I am proud of my professional achievements, but my most important work will be done after I got ALS." Jon Sanford, M.Arch., is director of the Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access and an associate professor of industrial design in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech. He is also a research architect at the Rehabilitation Research and Development Center at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
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With funding from the Foundation for Physical Therapy, she led the first physical therapy clinical research network, PTClinResNet, which supported clinical research on the effectiveness of task-specific/muscle-specific training to enhance muscle performance and functional activities across four disability groups: adult spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy in children, adult stroke, and low back pain. In 2008, with funding from the NIDRR and U.S.
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With funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Southern California, Winstein recently launched a new development-of-concept trial, Optimizing Dosage of Rehabilitation after Stroke, to ultimately determine prospectively the dose of therapy that maximizes the efficacy of treatment, that is, determine the smallest effective dose for individual patients. Mohammed Yousuf, M.S., is a research engineer in the Office of Operations Research and Development at the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
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