Sutanuka Bhattacharjya, PHD

Position: Assistant Professor

Organization: Georgia State University

Role: Presenter

Biography: Dr. Sutanuka Bhattacharjya is an occupational therapist with educational and clinical background in both India and the United States. She is an Assistant Professor in the Occupational Therapy department at Georgia State University. Dr. Bhattacharjya collaborates with and is a member of international multidisciplinary research teams to develop and investigate innovative programs to facilitate remote implementation of rehabilitation for individuals with disabilities and their families. She has received past and current funding on developing and implementing rehabilitation programs for community-dwelling individuals with disabilities and their families. She received her MS in Occupational Therapy, PhD in Rehabilitation Science, and postdoctoral training from University at Buffalo. Dr. Bhattacharjya is one of the inaugural co-chairs for the Telehealth Task Force within the Technology Networking Group in the ACRM. She established the Tech Talk webinar series within the Technology Networking Group. She is also a member of the Stroke Interdisciplinary Group and the International Networking Group within ACRM. In addition to generating peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Bhattacharjya regularly presents her research at state and national conferences.

Candice Osborne, PhD, MPH, OTR (she/her/hers)

Position: Research Scientist

Organization: Craig Hospital

Role: Presenter

Biography: Candice Osborne, PhD, MPH, OTR completed a Master of Occupational Therapy at Texas Woman’s University in Dallas, Texas in 2007. She joined the US Army in 2006 to complete her occupational therapy training and worked as a staff therapist in the Army until 2009. Osborne completed a PhD in Rehabilitation Science and a Master of Public Health from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2015. She has trained in the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) at the Guido A. Zach Institute in Nottwil, Switzerland and has worked as a clinician in the areas of upper extremity orthopedic rehabilitation, neuro-rehabilitation, and hospital-based sub-acute care. Prior to joining the research department at Craig Hospital, she was a research faculty member in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center for six years. Her research interests include rehabilitation outcomes, self-management of chronic conditions, caregiver self-management and education, the use of mobile health in rehabilitation populations, and ICF application.

Amanda R. Rabinowitz, PhD (she/her/hers)

Position: Assocate Director

Organization: Moss Rehabilition Research Institute

Role: Researcher

Biography: Dr. Rabinowitz is interested in chronic brain injury outcomes across the spectrum of TBI severity. In particular, her work focuses on the psychosocial factors that confer resilience after brain injury, with an interest in self-regulation as a key mechanism. A number of Dr. Rabinowitz’s projects leverage mobile technology to augment brain injury assessment and intervention. She works with local and national collaborators on studies of long-term brain injury outcomes, including neuroimaging studies to elucidate neuropathological substrates of chronic and neurodegenerative effects of brain injury, and large epidemiological studies of participation in contact sports as a risk factor for cognitive and emotional dysfunction later in life.

George H. Collier, PhD (he/him/his)

Position: Senior Data Scientist

Organization: Shepherd Center

Role: Presenter

Biography: George is a successful system architect and data scientist with real-world Cloud, Big Data, Analytics Data, and Data Science applications for Shepherd Center Hospital, Ericsson, and Telcordia. I have had extensive prior experience with innovative product development and technology introduction, including acting as the lead architect of several launched products

As a senior data scientist working for a leading rehabilitation hospital designed, developed, and deployed a cloud-based big data platform for Mobile Rehab and Electronic Medical Record Systems. I received a multi-year grant to support this work. I am working in active collaboration with multiple universities and major commercial product companies such as Microsoft

As a product designer, I developed and deployed innovative complex applications running in the Cloud using Web Application Frameworks. Production versions of these systems have been in active use for over six years. These applications have been scientifically proven helpful to acquired brain injury consumers.

Working as a solution architect for a larger international telecommunications company, I developed innovative new analytic applications, delivering significant Data architecture and solution design and deployment. I led a team that produced a Proof-of-Concept Big Data Application and Data Science for Maritime IoT for a major Scandinavian container vessel operator/owner.

Daniel Zondervan, PhD

Position: CEO

Organization: Flint Rehab

Role: Presenter

Biography: Dan Zondervan is a co-founder and current CEO of Flint Rehab, a medical device company focused on developing low-cost devices that enable individuals with stroke or other neurological disorders to engage in motivating and effective rehabilitation exercise at home. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UC Irvine and has served as the PI on several federal research grants from NIH to commercialize rehabilitation technologies.

Keith Lohse, PhD

Position: Associate Professor

Organization: Washington University School of Medicine

Role: Presenter

Biography: Keith Lohse, PhD, PStat, is an associate professor with the Program of Physical Therapy and the Department of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis. Dr. Lohse received a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Colorado where he studied the psychological processes of learning and the statistical tools required to model change over time. He then went on to do post-doctoral research in rehabilitation science at the University of British Columbia and is accredited as a professional statistician (PStat) by the American Statistical Association. Dr. Lohse is a research methodologist with >10 years of experience working in neurology, rehabilitation, and human movement science. His expertise is in multivariate statistics, machine learning, and longitudinal/time-series data. He enjoys problem solving, developing new analytical and data visualization skills, and the challenge of translating complex data to diverse audiences.

Marika Demers, PhD, ot

Position: Assistant Professor

Organization: Université de Montréal

Role: Presenter

Biography: Dr. Marika Demers is an assistant professor at the School of Rehabilitation of Université de Montréal. Dr. Demers received her BSc in occupational therapy from the Université de Montréal, and her MSc and PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences at McGill University. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Motor Behavior and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory in the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy at the University of Southern California. She is also a trained occupational therapist with clinical expertise in stroke rehabilitation. Her research interests involve the use of health technologies to better assess and enhance upper limb motor recovery and improve rehabilitation care for people with neurological impairments.

Lauri Bishop, phd, pt, dpt

Position: Assistant Professor, NIH StrokeNet Scholar

Organization: University of Miami

Role: Presenter

Biography: Dr. Bishop received her BS degree in Nutrition and Exercise Science from the Florida State University in 1999, followed by her Doctor of Physical Therapy from the University of Miami in 2004. She held clinical positions at Johns Hopkins Hospital and at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and then transitioned into a research physical therapy position at Columbia University in 2008. She completed her PhD in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Motor Learning from Columbia University’s Teachers College in 2018 followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Southern California. Dr. Bishop joined the faculty in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Miami in 2022 and is also an NIH StrokeNet Scholar.

Stephanie barnes, jd, phd

Position: Senior Counsel

Organization: Nixon Gwilt Law

Role: Presenter

Biography: Stephanie D. Barnes, Senior Counsel at Nixon Gwilt Law, is a health care innovation attorney providing business counsel and legal advice on the healthcare regulatory landscape, legal and business risks and opportunities for healthcare companies. She helps business leaders and researchers craft innovative solutions for healthcare delivery. She focuses on digital health and telemedicine, healthcare reimbursement, SaaS, contracting, Fraud & Abuse, corporate practice of medicine, business formation and corporate governance.

Dr. Barnes earned her B.A. summa cum laude in English from Tougaloo College and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She also received her doctorate in Organizational Leadership from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She is admitted to practice law in Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas. She is certified as a professional coach by Coaches Training Alliance.

She has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Personal Excellence Magazine, and the Huffington Post. Dr. Barnes has also presented a TEDx Talk, “What’s in a Name? How Leadership Discourse Perpetuates Gender Bias”.

James M. Rehg, Phd

Position: Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering

Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Role: Presenter

Biography: Previously, he was a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he co-Directed the Center for Health Analytics and Informatics (CHAI). He received his Ph.D. from CMU in 1995 and worked at the Cambridge Research Lab of DEC (and then Compaq) from 1995-2001, where he managed the computer vision research group. He received an NSF CAREER award in 2001 and a Raytheon Faculty Fellowship from Georgia Tech in 2005. He and his students have received a number of best paper awards, including best student paper awards at ICML 2005, BMVC 2010, Mobihealth 2014, Face and Gesture 2015, and a Distinguished Paper Award from ACM IMWUT and a Method of the Year award from the journal Nature Methods. Dr. Rehg served as the General co-Chair for CVPR 2009 and the Program co-Chair for CVPR 2017. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers and holds 26 issued US patents.

Veonica Swanson, ms

Position: Graduate Student Researcher

Organization: University of California, Irvine

Role: Presenter

Biography: Veronica Swanson is a Graduate Student Researcher in the Biorobotics Lab at the University of California at Irvine led by Professor David Reinkensmeyer. After earning her BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering she worked as a research and development engineer focusing on 3D printing and mechanical design. Her current work focuses on aspects of uptake and usability for rehabilitation technologies.

Sangjoon kim, phd

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher

Organization: University of California, Irvine & Flint Rehab

Role: Presenter

Biography: Sangjoon J. Kim is currently an assistant project scientist in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California Irvine and a research engineer at Flint Rehab. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He carried out his first postdoctoral studies at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) developing methods to enhance lower-limb motor learning and wearable robotic control strategies using EMG signals for stroke patients. His research interests include wearable robotic technologies, neurorehabilitation, and robotic control.