Jessica Zistatsis to Present at UW Medicine – Inventor of the Year Event

Jessica Zistatsis to Present at UW Medicine –  Inventor of the Year Event

Tomorrow a group of esteemed faculty and students will present their work during the UW Inventor of the Year event at the Don James Center, Husky Stadium on November 15, 2016 from 5-7:30 p.m.

Samual Browd, Jonathan Posner, and Per Reinhall will be recognized for their collaborative work inventing and developing a football helmet designed to mitigate the forces thought to contribute to concussions. Jessica will be presenting a poster for her pediatric exoskeleton and competing in a lightning pitch competition.

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Michael MacConnell, Bradley Wachter, CJ Smith, and Sasha Portnova Present at the Undergraduate Research Symposium

Undergraduate Research Symposium graphic displaying May 20th in Mary Gates Hall.

Our undergraduate researchers presented in Mary Gates Hall today, presenting their research from 11am-1pm. Member of the community, faculty, and staff stopped by to hear about Bradley and CJ’s work developing an open-source proximal control orthosis, Sasha’s wrist-driven, wrist-hand orthosis, and Michael’s work on ankle foot orthoses as a rehabilitation tool. Great job, everyone!

 

 

CJ and Bradley, members of our research team, discuss the outcome measures of their proximal control device with interested community members. Michael MacConnell, a member of our research team, shares his research with members of the community. Sasha Portnova, a member of our research team, fields questions from an interested member of the community about her wrist-driven, wrist-hand orthosis.