Senior Research Career Scientist

罗纳德J. Triolo博士是康复研发服务的高级研究职业科学家， 凯斯西储大学生物医学工程教授。他是执行董事 VA RR&D高级平台技术中心，该中心开发新型医疗设备， 为感觉运动障碍或肢体丧失的个人提供辅助恢复技术。特里奥洛医生 撰写了150多篇同行评议的出版物和教科书章节，并指导了40多篇 研究生和医学生或博士后实习生。他目前领导着独立的研究项目 资助VA，NIH，DoD和其他机构作为主要或共同主要研究者。Triolo博士被任命为 进入美国医学和生物工程研究所，获得保罗B。Magnuson 退伍军人事务部康复研究与发展杰出成就奖， 被评为2020年杰出退伍军人健康管理局员工（荣誉奖） 美国残疾退伍军人协会（DAV）Triolo博士设计、申请专利并评估了辅助设备， 方便从坐到站的过渡，并通过楼梯、坡道或其他建筑障碍， 脊髓损伤（SCI）后运动的新干预措施的准备过程， VHA。他的研究计划包括五个主要领域： 1.用于站立和行走的植入式神经假体：Triolo博士领导着一个跨学科团队 致力于开发、部署和评价手术植入运动系统的临床结局 脊髓损伤后下肢功能的神经假体。他量化了他们的急性和慢性表现， 并探索整合刺激和意志肌肉活动的新方法。他的团队创造了新的 计算工具来分析双足站立和踏步的生物力学，并将其应用于优化 用于保持直立平衡或促进有效行走的控制系统。 2.坐姿平衡和轮椅推进：这项研究探讨了控制瘫痪的方法。 骨盆和脊柱，以恢复脊椎对齐，延长双手伸展，提供主动坐姿平衡， 提高手动轮椅推进的机械效率。Triolo博士记录了 调节躯干的刚度以调节直立姿势，以防止福尔斯从轮椅上跌落并伸展 控制环境中的物体。 3.选择性外周神经接口：Triolo博士设计并验证了安全性和性能 新型高选择性多触点外周神经电极， 在一个共同的神经干内的分支组。选择性地激活独立的神经元组可以 引起多个关节运动，或离散的感觉，被认为是从失踪的肢体，从一个共同的 近端神经上的手术部位，以及协同运动单位池之间的交替可以延长力 输出和延迟疲劳发作。 4.下肢截肢者的自然感觉：该计划采用选择性多接触神经 电极，以激活残肢中膝盖以上坐骨神经的感觉成分， 截肢者诱导的感觉涉及到失踪的肢体。诱发的感觉信息由 中枢神经系统以类似于来自完整机械感受器的输入的方式，并且可以改善站立和行走 目前，该技术正在与电动下肢假肢相结合。 5.神经机械步态辅助系统：Triolo博士开发了新型外骨骼系统， SCI或其他神经肌肉疾病患者的双足活动能力。他创新的“肌肉第一” 这种方法将机械部件与意志或电激活的肌肉收缩相结合， 最大限度地提高身体效益，并达到社区步行所需的速度。

Dr. Ronald J. Triolo is Senior Research Career Scientist with the Rehabilitation R&D Service, and a Tenured Full Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. He is Executive Director of the VA RR&D Center for Advanced Platform Technology which develops novel medical devices and assistive restorative technologies for individuals with sensorimotor impairments or limb loss. Dr. Triolo has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications and textbook chapters, and has mentored more than 40 graduate and medical students or post-doctoral trainees. He currently leads independent research programs funded the VA, NIH, DoD and other agencies as Principal or Co-Principal Investigator. Dr. Triolo was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, received the Paul B. Magnuson Award for outstanding achievement in Rehabilitation Research and Development from the VA, and was named the Outstanding Veterans Health Administration Employee (Honorable Mention) of 2020 by the Disabled American Veterans (DAV). Dr. Triolo has devised, patented and evaluated assistive devices to facilitate the sit-to-stand transition and negotiate stairs, ramps or other architectural barriers, and is in the process of preparing novel interventions for exercising after spinal cord injury (SCI) for dissemination within the VHA. His research program encompasses five main areas: 1. Implanted Neuroprostheses for Standing and Walking: Dr. Triolo leads an interdisciplinary team dedicated to developing, deploying, and evaluating the clinical outcomes of surgically implanted motor system neuroprostheses for lower extremity function after SCI. He quantifies their acute and chronic performances, and explores novel methods of integrating stimulated and volitional muscle activity. His team creates new computational tools to analyze the biomechanics of bipedal stance and stepping, and applies them to optimize control systems for maintaining erect balance or facilitating efficient walking. 2. Seated Balance and Wheelchair Propulsion: This research explores methods to control the paralyzed pelvis and spine to restore vertebral alignment, extend bimanual reach, provide active sitting balance, and enhance mechanical efficiency of manual wheelchair propulsion. Dr. Triolo documents the effects of modulating stiffness of the trunk on regulating upright posture to prevent falls from the wheelchair and expand control over objects in the environment. 3. Selective Peripheral Nerve Interfaces: Dr. Triolo has designed and verified the safety and performance of new, highly selective multicontact peripheral nerve electrodes capable of isolating functionally distinct fascicular groups within a common nerve trunk. Selectivly activating of independent groups of neurons can elicit multiple joint motions, or discrete sensations perceived as arising from the missing limb, from a common surgical site on the proximal nerve, and alternating between synergistic motor unit pools can prolong force output and delay onset of fatigue. 4. Natural Sensation for Lower Limb Amputees: This program applies selective multicontact nerve electrodes to activate the sensory components of the sciatic nerve above the knee in the residual limbs of amputees to induce sensations referred to the missing limb. Elicited sensory information is processed by the CNS in a manner similar to input from intact mechanoreceptors, and can improve standing and ambulatory ability after traumatic or diabetic limb loss, and is being integrating with motorized lower limb prostheses. 5. Neuromechanical Gait Assist Systems: Dr. Triolo develops novel exoskeletal systems to facilitate bipedal mobility for individuals with SCI or other neuromuscular disorders. His innovative “muscle first” approach integrates mechanical components with volitional or electrically activated muscle contractions to maximize physical benefit and achieve the walking speeds required for community ambulation.