RR&D Research Career Scientist Award Application

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• 批准号: 10417473
• 负责人: RORY A. COOPER
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-01 至 2029-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10417473
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Dr. Cooper is a world leading rehabilitation engineer. He is a US Army veteran with spinal cord injuries who has dedicated his career to helping veterans to lead full and rewarding lives through engineering and advancing assistive technology. He has made broad contributions to science, engineering, and capacity building applied to improving the quality of life of veterans with disabilities, and providing them with opportunities to become scientists and engineers. Dr. Cooper is an author on >375 peer-reviewed journal publications, and has >30 patents awarded/pending. His current research activities are focused on the design, engineering, and evaluation of mobility devices and assistive robots for veterans with disabilities. Dr. Cooper is Director of the VA Rehabilitation Research & Development Center (VA-R&RDC) for Wheelchairs and Assistive Robotics, and VA Senior Research Career Scientist. He is currently Principal Investigator (PI) on a VA Merit Review Grant creating and investigating Group 2 powered wheelchair- bed robotic assisted transfer device that does not require the use of a sling or physical effort on the part of the user or assistant. A patent has been awarded. Dr. Cooper is Co-PI on 2 additional VA Merit Review Grants one further developing and investigating pneumatically powered personal mobility devices for Veterans, which Dr. Cooper invented and for which the VA has applied for 2 patents. The other focused on assessment of robotic manipulators to assist veterans with both upper and lower extremity impairments. Dr. Cooper currently mentors 2 VA Career Development Awardees – Drs. Candiotti and Duvall. Dr. Candiotti is working on the Mobility Enhancement Robotic Wheelchair (aka MEBot) that he co-invented with Dr. Cooper et al for which VA has a patent and has another patent pending. Dr. Duvall’s work is extending Dr. Cooper’s contributions related to powered transfer devices for veterans who use Group 3 powered wheelchairs to get in/out of bed and to/from their wheelchair without awkward and often injurious lifting. Dr. Cooper is leading a project with the VA-R&RDC related to origami engineering of assistive devices and the voice of the veteran and voice of the provider. Within the VA Technology Transfer Program, Dr. Cooper leads the VA Technology Transfer Assistance Project, helping VA inventors take their ideas/concepts to prototypes to further VA research and/or to facilitate transfer to the commercial sector to benefit Veterans. Dr. Cooper has a proven track-record of non-VA funding as well with current grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US Department of Transportation (DoT). For 10-years, Dr. Cooper was Co-Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) on Quality of Life Technology. ERC’s are flagships within NSF. Dr. Cooper is currently the Director of the DoT University Transportation Center (UTC) focused on Accessible Autonomous Vehicles and Transportation Systems. The DoT-UTC is a collaboration of government, academia, and industry to ensure that as autonomous vehicles and transportation systems become available that they include the needs of people with disabilities and older adults. Dr. Cooper is the Co-PI on 2 NSF grants focused on rehabilitation engineering and on making engineering accessible to people with disabilities. He is a Co- PI on a National Institute for Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) – Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training Grant, and Co-I on the NIDILRR Disability and Rehabilitation Research Program grant on technology transfer and knowledge translation. Dr. Cooper has funding from the US. Department of Defense as co-lead on the State-of-the-Science Symposium since 2004, which has built research collaborations and provided training to >4,000 DoD and VA clinicians and scientists. This work has resulted in 4-books: Care of the Combat Amputee, Warrior Transition Leader Medical Rehabilitation Handbook, and Promoting Successful Integration.

库珀博士是世界领先的康复工程师。他是一名脊髓受伤的美国退伍军人 他的职业生涯致力于帮助退伍军人通过工程和 先进的辅助技术。他在科学、工程和能力方面做出了广泛的贡献 建设适用于改善残疾退伍军人的生活质量，并为他们提供 有机会成为科学家和工程师。库珀博士是一个作者在>375同行评议的期刊 出版物，并拥有超过30项已授予/正在申请的专利。他目前的研究活动主要集中在 为残疾退伍军人设计、工程和评估移动设备和辅助机器人。 博士库珀是退伍军人事务部康复研究与发展中心（VA-R&RDC）的主任， 轮椅和辅助机器人，以及VA高级研究职业科学家。他目前是校长。 研究员（PI）在VA优异审查补助金创建和调查组2电动轮椅- 一种床式机器人辅助转移装置，不需要使用吊索或在部件上施加体力 用户或助手。已获得专利。库珀博士是另外2次VA Merit审查的共同主要研究者 赠款进一步开发和研究个人移动设备， 退伍军人，这是库珀博士发明的，退伍军人事务部已经申请了2项专利。另一个专注于 评估机器人操作器，以帮助退伍军人与上肢和下肢 损伤库珀博士目前指导2名退伍军人事务部职业发展奖获得者-博士。 杜瓦尔。Candiotti博士正在研究移动增强机器人轮椅（又名MEBot）， 与库珀博士等人共同发明，VA拥有一项专利，另一项专利正在申请中。杜瓦尔医生 工作是扩大库珀博士的贡献有关的动力转移设备的退伍军人谁使用 第3组电动轮椅上/下床和上/下轮椅时不会感到尴尬， 经常是有害的提升。库珀博士正在领导一个与VA-R&RDC有关的折纸工程项目 以及老兵和提供者的声音。在VA技术中 转让计划，库珀博士领导的VA技术转让援助项目，帮助VA发明家 将他们的想法/概念转化为原型，以进一步进行VA研究和/或促进转移到 商业部门，以造福退伍军人。库珀博士也有非退伍军人事务部资助的良好记录 目前获得了国家科学基金会（NSF）和美国农业部的赠款 运输（DoT）。10年来，库珀博士是美国国家科学基金会工程研究中心的联合主任 (ERC)生活质量技术。ERC是NSF的旗舰。库珀博士目前是 美国交通部大学交通中心（UTC）专注于可折叠自动驾驶汽车， 运输系统。DoT-UTC是政府，学术界和工业界的合作， 确保自动驾驶汽车和运输系统的可用性， 残疾人和老年人的需要。库珀博士是共同PI的2 NSF赠款集中在 康复工程和使工程对残疾人无障碍。他是一个- 国家残疾、独立生活和康复研究所PI- 高级康复研究培训补助金，以及关于NIDILRR残疾和 康复研究计划资助技术转让和知识转化。库珀博士 有美国的资助。自2002年以来，国防部一直是科学现状研讨会的共同领导者。 2004年，该组织建立了研究合作，并为4,000多名国防部和退伍军人管理局临床医生提供了培训 和科学家。这项工作已经导致了4本书：战斗截肢者的护理，战士过渡 领导者医疗康复手册，并促进成功的整合。