
Quality Improvement Research
Presented at American Spinal Injury Assocation Annual Meeting 2019, Honolulu, HI
Developing brand-agnostic inertial-based functional electrical stimulation for stationary and recumbent bikes.
Researched digital signal processing algorithms to measure realtime heart rate and blood pressure from implanted functional electrical stimulation systems.
SinaiMedMaker hackathon project that uses biofeedback to wirelessly control parameters of a patient's environment such as lighting and ambient sound as well as trigger actions to a computer. Team members were Jen Lewin, Bill Magnuson, Austin Puckett, Andrew Abdou, and Salman Hirani.
The CAPT offers a rapidly scalable voice-driven phone and text based assistant that uses natural language processing to appraise patients’ answers for at-home triage. Project was among the winners of the MIT COVID-19 Challenge Hackathon (4/5/2020). Team members were Gregor Macadam, Nick Pan, Carly Raven, Adele Stewart, Ling U, Brian Weil.
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Presented at American Spinal Injury Assocation Annual Meeting 2019, Honolulu, HI
Presented at AAPM&R 2018, Orlando, FL
Presented at American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2018, Orlando, FL
Presented at Association of Academic Physiatrists 2017, Las Vegas NV
Presented at Association of Academic Physiatrists 2016, Sacramento, CA
Presented at International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease 2009, Vienna, Austria
Presented at Neuroscience 2006, Atlanta, GA
Presented at Neuroscience 2006, Atlanta, GA
Fellowship in Spinal Cord Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Cleveland, OH
Residency, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and Human Performance
New York, NY
Internship, Department of Internal Medicine
Harrisburg, PA
M.D.
B.S. Brain & Cognitive Sciences
For innovative use of technology to promote the ideals of academic physiatry, 2017
Project: bioLumen, a biofeedback system for chronic low back pain using surface electromyography to control the lighting, sound, and data interactions within a patient's environment. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2016.
Clinical Research Coordinator, 2007-2010
Recruited patients for national clinical trials, administered cognitive testing and collected data, prepared IRB/NIH submissions, and maintained regulatory documents. Analyzed safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetic data for nutraceutical study. Served as liaison between the research center and the national Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Society.
Research Assistant, 2005-2007
Performed dietary experimentation in rats and gerbils to study neuroprotective benefits of chronic supplementation of uridine and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Co-authored articles related to the effects of polyunsaturated fatty acids (e.g. DHA) on synaptic membrane synthesis in gerbils and rats. This animal research led to the active clinical trials of Souvenaid in U.S. and Europe as a possible treatment for cognitive decline in the elderly.
Research Intern, 2006
Performed dietary experimentation in rats and gerbils to study neuroprotective benefits of chronic supplementation of uridine and docosahexaenoic acid.
Research Assistant, 2004
Designed and programmed computer-based cognitive experiments, and analyzed data to construct computational models of thought processes.