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ICORR 2005
IEEE 9th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
Frontiers of the Human-Machine Interface
June 28 - July 1, 2005
Chicago,  Illinois


ICORR 2005 Committee

Executive Committee

 

General Chair

James Patton

RIC / NU

Chicago, IL, USA

Co-Chair

Richard F. ff. Weir

NU

Chicago, IL, USA

Secretariat

Mary-Ellen Devitt

RIC

Chicago, IL, USA

Finance Chair

Derek Kamper

RIC / NU

Chicago, IL, USA

Scientific Chairs

Yoky Matsuoka

(Publication/Sponsorship)

Carnegie Mellon

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Yasin Dhaher

(Scientific Review)

RIC / NU

Chicago, IL, USA

Awards Chair

Dan Ferris

University of MI
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

 Web Development Chair

Margaret Holzer
 

  RIC / NU

  Chicago, IL, USA

Exhibit Chair

Lennie Kahn

RIC / NU

Chicago, IL, USA

Academic Demonstration Chair

Michelle Johnson

Marquette University

Milwaukee, WI, USA

International Liaison

Mohsen Makhsous

RIC / NU

Chicago, IL, USA

 

Scientific Program Committee

 

Assistive Robotics

Machiel Van der Loos

Stanford University / V.A. 

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Dimitar Stefanov

Rookwood Hospital

Cardiff, Wales, UK

Therapeutic Robotics

David J. Reinkensmeyer

University of CA-Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA

Hermano Igo Krebs

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Cambridge, MA, USA 

Brain-Machine Interfaces for Rehabilitation

Jiping He

 

Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ, USA

Nicholas Hatsopoulos

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL, USA

Robotics in Prosthetics/Orthotics

Just Herder

Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

Gill Pratt

   Olin College,

   Needham, MA, USA

Hardware/Control Developments for Rehabilitation

Kazuhiro Kosuge

Tohoku University

Sendai, Japan

Gerry Colombo

University Hospital Balgrist

Zurich, Switzerland

Sensory/Motor Control and  Learning

V. Reggie Edgerton

UCLA

Los Angeles, CA, USA

John F. Soechting

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN, USA

Biorobotics/Biomimetics

Stefan Schaal

USC

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Evaluation Methods/Clinical Experience

Maureen K. Holden

MIT

Cambridge, MA, USA

Carolee J. Winstein

USC

Los Angeles, CA, USA

  

Advisory Committee

 

Chair

W. Zev Rymer

RIC / NU

Chicago, IL, USA

 

David A. Brown

 

   NU / ChicagoPT

   Chicago, IL, USA

    Charles G. Burgar

Central TX Veterans Health Care System

Temple, TX,  USA

 

Dudley Childress

RIC / NU

Evanston, IL, USA

 

J. Edward Colgate

NU

Evanston, IL, USA

 

Volker Dietz

Balgrist University Hospital
Zurich, Switzerland

 

Anita Halper

RIC

Chicago, IL, USA

 

William Harwin

University of Reading

Reading, England 

 

Neville Hogan

MIT

Cambridge, MA, USA

 

Kevin Lynch

NU

Evanston, IL, USA

    Linda Lovell

RIC / NU

Chicago, IL, USA

 

  Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi

RIC / NU

Evanston, IL, USA

 

Michael Peshkin

NU

Evanston, IL, USA

 

 Tariq Rahman

  A.I. duPont Hospital for Children

Wilmington, DE, USA

 

Elliot Roth

RIC / NU

Chicago, IL, USA

 

Edward Taub

University of Alabama 

Birmingham, AL, USA

 

  Machiel Van der Loos

Stanford University / V.A. 

Palo Alto, CA, USA

 

International Steering  Committee

 

Chair

 Tariq Rahman

University of Delaware

Wilmington, DE, USA

     Z. Zenn Bien
 
   KAIST
   Daejeon, Korea
 

Axel Graeser

University of Bremen

Bremen, Germany

 

William Harwin
 

University of Reading

Reading, England

 

Michael Hillman
 

Bath Institute of Medical Engineering

Bath, England, UK

 

   Machiel Van der Loos

Stanford University / V.A. 

Palo Alto, CA, USA

 

Richard Mahoney

ReAbility USA

Mount Laurel, NJ, USA

 

Mounir Mokhtari
 

INT
Evry, France

 

James Patton
 

RIC / NU

Chicago, IL, USA

 

Dimitar Stefanov
 

Rookwood Hospital

Cardiff, Wales, UK

 

Noriyuki Tejima

Ritsumeikan University

Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Awards  Committee

Chair

  Dan Ferris

 University of Michigan
 Ann Arbor, MI
, USA

 

Brent Gillespie

 University of Michigan
 Ann Arbor, MI
, USA

Carolynn Patten

Rehabilitation R&D Center

VA Palo Alto HCS

Stanford University

Palo Alto, CA, USA

 

Richard F. ff. Weir
 

NU / Jesse Brown VA Medical Center

Chicago, IL, USA

Yasin Dhaher
 

RIC / NU

Chicago, IL, USA

 

Logistics  Committee

Chair

Mary-Ellen Devitt
 

RIC

Chicago, IL, USA

Local Arrangements Chair

Nora Wenthold

RIC

Chicago, IL, USA

Web Development Chair

Margaret Holzer
 

RIC / NU

Chicago, IL, USA

Gala Dinner Chair

Marianne Kaplan
 

RIC / NU

Chicago, IL, USA

Finance Co-Chair

Anita McClure

RIC

Chicago, IL, USA

Posters & Exhibits Co-Chair   Anthony DiMaio

RIC

Chicago, IL, USA

Signage and Banner Chair

  James Sulzer

RIC / NU

Chicago, IL, USA

Local Arrangements Co-Chair

Sheila Walker Wilkins

RIC

Chicago, IL, USA

Continuing Education Co-Chair

Lance Adams

RIC

Chicago, IL, USA

AV Chair

  Jamie Hitchens

RIC

Chicago, IL, USA

AV Co-Chair

  Eric Faulring

RIC / NU

Chicago, IL, USA

Marketing & Public Relations Chair

  Samantha Caplan

RIC

Chicago, IL, USA

Lab Tours Chair

Chris Scharver

RIC

Chicago, IL, USA

Podium Presentations Co-Chair

  Rosemary (Bonnie) Collard

RIC

Chicago, IL, USA

Marketing & Public Relations Co-Chair   Katie Bernard

RIC

Chicago, IL, USA

 

Keynote Speakers

 

  Andrew Schwartz

 University of Pittsburgh
 
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

 

Paolo Dario

 Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
 Pisa, Italy

John Hollerbach

 University of Utah
 
Salt Lake City, UT, USA

 

 

Volunteer Committee
    Matt Krutky
    Elisa Pelosin
    Venn Ravichandran
    Bing-Shiang Yang
    Mike Hirsh
    Carren Lorredo
    Assaf Pressman

 

 

Scientific Review Committee

Camilo A. Acosta-Marquez, University of Abertay Dundee, Dundee, UK

Patricia Andres, MA General Hospital, Reading MA, USA

Randie Black-Schaffer, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Paolo Bonato, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Lara Boyd, University of KS Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, USA

Georg Bretthauer, Institute for Applied Computer Science, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Eggenstein, - Germany

Stephen Buerger, MA Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Joel Burdick,  California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Andrew Butler, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta GA, USA

Lance Cai, CA Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Craig Carignan, Georgetown University ISIS Center, Washington, DC, USA

James Carroll, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA

Jorge Cham, CA Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Pyung-hun Chang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, - Korea, South

Gun Rae Cho, KAIST Daejeon - Korea, South

Goran Christiansson, Delft University of Technology, Delft - Netherlands

Myung Jin Chung, EECS, KAIST Daejeon - Korea, South

Gery Colombo, CEO Hocoma AG Volketswil, - Switzerland

Roberto Columbo, Bioengineering, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, VERUNO, (NO), Italy

Erik Cruz, SMPP, RIC, Chicago IL, USA

Julius Dewald, Northwestern University, Chicago IL, USA

Yasin Dhaher, Northwestern University, RIC, Chicago, IL, USA

Laura Dipietro, MIT, Cambridge MA, USA

Bart Driessen, TNO Science and Industry, TNO Science and Industry, Delft - Netherlands

William Durfee, University of MN, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Poul Dyhre-Poulsen, Neurology UCLA, Los Angeles CA, Uzbekistan

V. Reggie Edgerton, UCLA, LA, CA, USA

Jeremy Emken, University of CA-Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

Susan Fasoli, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

David Feil-Seifer, USC- LA, LA, CA, USA

Andy Fong, CA Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Larry Forrester, University of MD, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Junji Furusho, Osaka University, Suita - Japan

Jose Galvez, UC-Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

Steve Gard, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

Mahmoud Horbel