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Program

Thursday, October 26, 2023 - Integrated Sciences Building, KSU

Time details

1:00-4:00PM

Research Skills Workshop                                                                                                       

 

Thursday, October 26, 2023 - KSU Hotel & Conference Center

Time Details

6:00PM

Welcome remarks

Manfred Van Dulmen, Ph.D., Senior Associate Provost & Dean, Graduate College, ºÚÁÏÍø

Douglas L. Delahanty, Ph.D., Vice President for Research and Economic Development, ºÚÁÏÍø

6:15PM

Keynote Address

"Intracortical Brain-Computer Interfaces: Toward the Restoration of Communication and Mobility"

Leigh Hochberg, M.D., Ph.D.

L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Engineering and Professor of Brain Science at Brown University; Director of the Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery in the  Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital; Senior Lecturer on Neurology at Harvard Medical School; Director of the Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology in the Rehabilitation R&D Service of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Providence, RI.  

(Introduced by Dr. Mike Lehman)

7:00-9:30PM

Reception and Poster Session

 

Friday, October 27, 2023 - KSU Hotel & Conference Center

Time Details

8:00AM

Check-in and Breakfast

8:30AM

Welcome Remarks and Brain Health Research Institute Overview

Mike Lehman, Ph.D., Director, Brain Health Research Institute

 

Morning Session

Time Details

9:00AM

"REconnecting the Hand and Arm to the Brain (ReHAB): Bi-directional neuroprostheses for sensorimotor functional restoration"

A. Bolu Ajiboye, Ph.D.

Elmer Lincoln Lindseth Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University School of Engineering; Biomedical Engineering Research Scientist, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Rehabilitation R&D Service, FES Center of Excellence

(Introduced by Dr. Lique Coolen)

9:45AM

"Letting the Brain Be the Engineer"

Dawn M. Taylor, Ph.D.

Associate Staff Member, Cleveland Clinic Department of Neurosciences; Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University Department of Biomedical Engineering; Research Scientist, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

(Introduced by Dr. Angela Ridgel)

10:30AM

"Medical Bionics – Lessons Learned from Cochlear Implants"

Ray Goldsworthy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Research Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

(Introduced by Dr. Brad Winters)

11:15AM

Break

11:30AM

 

Brain-Machine Interfaces:  Perspectives from Technology Users and Therapists

Ian Burkhart

Vice President, North American Spinal Cord Injury Consortium; Executive Director, Ian Burkhart Foundation

 

Olivia Coontz, ’23

Master’s Candidate, Youngstown State University

 

Ray Goldsworthy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Research Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

 

Tim Lucas, M.D., Ph.D, MHCI

Neurosurgeon, The Ohio State University; Scientist, Battelle; Founder and CEO, NeuroTech Institute

 

(Moderated by Dr. Rachael Blasiman)

12:15PM

Break for Lunch

 

Afternoon Session

Time Details

1:15PM

"Closed-Loop Neuromodulation for Improved Treatment of Neurological Disorders"

Aysegul Gunduz, Ph.D.

Professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering and Fixel Brain Mapping Professor, Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, University of Florida

(Introduced by Dr. Lique Coolen)

2:00PM

"Neural dynamics of skilled motor control and tools for large-scale neuroscience"

Eric M. Trautmann, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Scholar, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University

(Introduced by Dr. Mike Lehman)

2:45PM

Break

3:00PM

"Touch Interaction and Feedback Technology Revolutionizing Motor Skill Training"   

Kwangtaek Kim, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Director of Immersive Computing For Touch Lab, Department of Computer Science, ºÚÁÏÍø

(Introduced by Dr. Angela Ridgel)

3:45PM

Brain-Machine Interfaces:  Corporate Perspectives

Rob Franklin, Ph.D.

Vice President, Brain Computer Interfaces, Blackrock NeuroTech

 

Tim Lucas, M.D., Ph.D, MHCI

Neurosurgeon, The Ohio State University; Scientist, Battelle; Founder and CEO, NeuroTech Institute

 

Doug Weber, Ph.D.

Akhtar and Bhutta Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Neuroscience, Carnegie Mellon University

 

(Moderated by Dr. Dawn Taylor)

4:30PM

Poster awards, wrap up and farewell

Mike Lehman, Ph.D., Director, Brain Health Research Institute