18APR18 - SCI Grand Rounds- Maysam Ghovanloo

Welcome to a Kessler Foundation Spinal Cord Injury Grand Rounds podcast featuring Dr. Maysam Ghovanloo presenting “Tongue-Based Assistive and Rehabilitation Technologies”. Dr. Ghovanloo is a professor and founding director of the GT-Bionics Lab Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 2007. In 2012 he started Bionic Sciences Inc., a technology transfer company, where he serves as the CTO. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications on implantable microelectronic devices, integrated circuits and microsystems for medical applications, and modern assistive/rehabilitation technologies. He also holds 8 issued patents. For more information about Dr. Ghovanloo, his online biography can be found at https://www.ece.gatech.edu/faculty-staff-directory/maysam-ghovanloo This presentation was recorded and produced by Joan Banks-Smith, Creative Producer for Kessler Foundation on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, Conference Center, West Orange, New Jersey and was hosted by the Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System, which is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant number 90SI5026). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).  Be sure and check out our next podcast with Dr. Nathan Hogaboom, one of our newest post-doctoral fellows from our spinal cord injury research lab at Kessler Foundation. He will be presenting “Transfer Skills and Soft-Tissue Injuries in Wheelchair Users with Spinal Cord Injury” on Thursday, May 10, 2018. For more information about Kessler Foundation and our researchers, go to KesslerFoundation.org Like us on FaceBook, follow us on Instagram, listen to us on Soundcloud, and tweet with us on Twitter!