IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY LECTURES – NOVEMBER 2020
Topic: Electrical Stimulation and Virtual Environments for Neuro-Rehabilitation
The IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Chicago Chapter, invites you to join us for our November Seminar, where Dr. Michael J. Fu from Case Western Reserve University will present his work on the development of devices to help patients with neurological injuries.
Neurological injuries such as stroke and cerebral palsy are top causes of lifelong disability for millions of people worldwide. Even after conventional care, many people with stroke and cerebral palsy cannot use their hands for activities of daily living. Functional electrical stimulation and virtual environments can work in concert to facilitate motor recovery for people with hand impairment. There is also potential to better understand and more effectively deliver electrical stimulation assistance during therapy to maximize the rehabilitation participant’s volitional effort and prevent non-use of the paretic hand.
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- Date: 12 Nov 2020
- Time: 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-06:00) US/Central
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- Starts 25 October 2020 12:00 AM
- Ends 12 November 2020 08:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-06:00) US/Central
- No Admission Charge
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Dr. Michael J Fu
Biography:
Michael J. Fu is the Timothy A. and Allison L. Schroeder Assistant Professor of Computer and Data Science in the Dept. of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and in the Dept. of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at MetroHealth System in Cleveland, Ohio. Previously, he was a Visiting Scholar at NASA Glenn Research Center, a Postdoctoral Investigator with the Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation Center at Louis Stokes Cleveland Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and an NIH Clinical Translational Science Award KL2 fellow. With support from the NSF Early Career Award program, his research group is developing virtual environments and human-machine interfaces to improve function after neural injury and using rehabilitation video games as a platform to enable underprivileged high school students and primary school teachers to engage in rehabilitation science.