RR&D Research Career Scientist Award Application

库珀博士是世界领先的康复工程师。他是一名患有脊髓损伤的美国退伍军人 他的职业生涯致力于帮助退伍军人过上充实而有意义的生活 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 建筑适用于改善残疾退伍军人的生活质量，并为他们提供 成为科学家和工程师的机会。库珀博士是375同行评议期刊的作者 已有30项专利已授予/待批。他目前的研究活动主要集中在 为残疾退伍军人设计、设计和评估移动设备和辅助机器人。 库珀博士是退伍军人康复研究与发展中心(VA-R&RDC)的主任， 轮椅和辅助机器人，退伍军人事务部高级研究职业科学家。他现在是校长 退伍军人荣誉奖创建和调查第二组电动轮椅的调查员(PI)- 床式机器人辅助转移装置，不需要使用吊索或零件上的体力 用户或助理的。已经授予了一项专利。库珀博士参与了两项额外的退伍军人事务部功绩评估 为进一步开发和研究气动个人移动设备提供资金 退伍军人，这是库珀博士发明的，退伍军人管理局已经为其申请了两项专利。另一种聚焦于 机械臂辅助退伍军人上下肢功能评估的研究 减损。库珀博士目前指导2名退伍军人职业发展奖获得者-坎迪奥蒂博士和 杜瓦尔。坎迪奥蒂博士正在研究移动增强机器人轮椅(又名MeBot)，他 与库珀博士等人共同发明的，VA拥有一项专利，另一项专利正在申请中。杜瓦尔医生的 库珀博士的工作正在扩大与退伍军人使用电力传输设备相关的贡献 第3组电动轮椅上/下床和上下轮椅都不会感到尴尬和 通常是有害的搬运。库珀博士正在与VA-R&RDC一起领导一个与折纸工程相关的项目 辅助设备的声音和老兵的声音以及提供者的声音。在退伍军人管理局技术 转移计划，库珀博士领导退伍军人技术转移援助项目，帮助退伍军人管理局的发明者 将他们的想法/概念转化为原型，以进一步进行退伍军人管理局的研究和/或促进向 商业部门为退伍军人造福。库珀博士在非退伍军人管理局的资助方面也有良好的记录 目前由国家科学基金会(NSF)和美国能源部提供的资金 交通(点)。在10年的时间里，库珀博士一直担任美国国家科学基金会工程研究中心的联合主任 (ERC)关于生活质量技术。ERC是NSF的旗舰产品。库珀博士目前是主任 DOT大学交通中心(UTC)专注于无障碍自动驾驶车辆和 运输系统。DOT-UTC是政府、学术界和工业界合作的成果 确保当自动驾驶车辆和运输系统可用时，它们包括 残疾人和老年人的需求。库珀博士是美国国家科学基金会2项拨款的合作伙伴，专注于 康复工程学和使残疾人无障碍工程学。他是个联合-- 关于国家残疾、独立生活和康复研究所(NIDILRR)的PI- 高级康复研究培训补助金，以及关于NIDILRR残疾和残疾的CoI 康复研究计划关于技术转让和知识转化的拨款。库珀博士 有来自美国的资金。国防部作为国家科学研讨会的联合牵头机构，自 2004年，它建立了研究合作关系，并为4,000名国防部和退伍军人事务部临床医生提供培训 还有科学家。这项工作已经出版了4本书：照顾战斗截肢者，战士过渡 领导医疗康复手册，并促进成功融合。

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.