Partners and Advisors
The grant from NIDRR was awarded to Marquette University through the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and builds on a special strength in Rehabilitative Bioengineering (contact: Dr. Jack Winters).
If you would like information on any of our activities, or if you would like to share something that might be helpful to our team, please contact us!
Partners in California
- Western University of Health Sciences Center for Disability Issues in the Health Professions (CDIHP), which was established in 1998 in response to the concerns of the disability community, and focuses on improving the capabilities of healthcare providers to meet the needs of people with disabilities, increasing the number of qualified individuals with disabilities who pursue careers in the health professions, supporting people with disabilities in becoming more vocal and active participants in their healthcare, and conducting research on community based health education, prevention and healthcare services for people with disabilities. See also http://www.cdihp.org (key contacts: Brenda Premo and June Isaacson Kailes).
- UC Ergonomics Lab located at U.C. Berkeley's Richmond Field Station, which targets human factors and product usability research and evaluation, with a special focus on the upper extremity. The laboratory occupies 3,000 square feet of accessible research and meeting space, with considerable state-of-the-art capabilities for ergonomic and biomechanical measurement and evaluation. It is part of the 3-campus (UC Berkeley, San Francisco, Davis) Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. See also http://www.me.berkeley.edu/ergo/.
- Human Spectrum Design, L.L.C. provides special expertise in universal design of products. The President is Molly Follette Story.
- Kaiser Permanente is America's largest not-for-profit health maintenance organization, serving 8.1 million members in California and eight states and the District of Columbia.
Partners in Milwaukee
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Rehabilitation Research Design & Disability (R2D2) Center, which is the home of the Assistive Technology Outcomes Measurement System (ATOMS) Project (contact: Dr. Roger Smith).
- IndependenceFirst, metro-Milwaukee's non-residential Independent Living Center operated by a staff and board composed primarily of people with disabilities. See also http://www.independencefirst.org (contact: Lee Schultz).
Partner in Connecticut
This RERC also supports a National Student Design Competition that targets innovative approaches for enhancing the accessibility and usability of medical instrumentation products, coordinated through the Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of Connecticut (contact: Dr. John Enderle).
RERC-AMI Advisory Council
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Alexandra Enders, Chair | Senior Research Associate, Rural Institute on Disabilities, Univ. of Montana |
| Tom Armstrong | Director of the Center for Ergonomics, Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering, Univ. of Michigan |
| Stephanie Bowlin | Dean, College of Allied Health Professions, Western Univ. |
| Jane Dorval | Senior Medical Advisor, CARF |
| Chris Duff | CEO, AXIS Healthcare |
| William Durfee | Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Minnesota |
| Robert Erlandson | Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State Univ. |
| Daryle Gardner-Bonneau | Principal, Bonneau and Associates, Portage, MI |
| Alfred S. (Al) Gilman | |
| Jim Leahy | Co-PI, Project Administrative Officer, RERC on Technology Transfer, Univ. of Buffalo |
| Donald Marlowe | Standards Administrator, U.S. Food & Drug Admin., Rockville MD |
| Gerald Miller | Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth Univ. |
| James Mueller | Universal Design Consultant, President, J.L. Mueller, Inc. |
| Robert Radwin | Professor & Chair, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Univ. of WI-Madison |
| James Rimmer | Professor, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago |
| Donna Scandlin | Consultant, NC |
| Lee Schulz | Executive Director, IndependenceFirst, WI |
| Bill Stothers | Deputy Director, Center for an Accessible Society |
| Rebecca Wassem | Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Univ. of Utah |
| Stephen Wilcox | Principal, Design Science, Philadelphia, PA |
| Stanley Yarnell | St. Mary’s Medical Center |
| Leslie Young | Director of Design, Center for Universal Design, North Carolina State Univ. |
Contact the RERC-AMI
If you would like information on any of our activities, or if you would like to share something that might be helpful to our team, please contact us at the phone number, fax number, mailing address, or e-mail addresses provided.