Interdisciplinary Engineering Career Development Center in Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences

项目摘要：本竞争性更新提案的目标是继续高度成功的 运动和康复科学跨学科工程职业发展中心由 该领域领先机构的联盟，包括西北大学，康复研究所， 芝加哥、加州大学欧文分校、南卡罗来纳州医科大学/克莱姆森大学、 北卡罗来纳州/北卡罗来纳州州立大学、凯斯西储大学、马奎特大学、 斯坦福大学和特拉华州大学。我们的计划的使命是培养顶尖学者， 工程和其他定量背景，成为成功的康复科学家在翻译 research.这是同类项目中唯一一个专注于受过工程训练的调查人员的项目。我们认为 这些人，谁已经拥有强大的定量，解决问题，编程，信号分析和 机电一体化技能，具有独特的地位，使定量运动领域的重大影响 和康复科学（MRS）及其翻译康复护理。拟议的职业发展 该计划将为学者提供：1）深入了解康复以病人为中心的临床 问题; 2）职业发展机会和指导，以扩大他们的MRS研究和培训; 3） 指导翻译研究; 4）技术转让和翻译培训，以增加 他们的工作。我们将通过使用高级工程师和高级工程师的双导师模式来实现这些目标。 教员和高级临床康复教员分配给每个学者。此外，新 在这个周期中，学者将参加临床训练营，然后是指导性的临床经验， 使他们能够将他们新获得的病理生理学知识整合到临床表现中， 运动障碍此外，学者将受益于增加曝光和网络，通过有组织的 会议会议。最后，他们将参加由其他学者和一个 执行委员会成员。这些经验旨在帮助我们的学者识别重要的 临床需要相关的专业领域，以及成为成功的康复科学家。 参与的机构在康复研究方面有悠久和公认的历史，包括 运动行为和功能障碍的神经生物学，康复机器人，神经机器接口， 感觉运动功能的恢复和肌肉骨骼建模。正在进行广泛的研究 在这些领域，从基本的动物和人类研究到小说的发展， 康复模式。这一令人印象深刻的既定研究计划阵列提供了一个肥沃的土壤， 发展我们的工程学者，促进新的跨学科和跨机构的合作， 推进我们的领域。我们打算在职业发展计划的第一年共支持四名学者， 在随后的几年里，有六位学者。该计划将为每位学者提供两年的支持。

Project Summary: The goal of this competitive renewal proposal is to continue the highly successful Interdisciplinary Engineering Career Development Center in Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences created by a consortium of leading institutions in the field, including Northwestern University, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, University of California Irvine, Medical University of South Carolina/Clemson University, University of North Carolina/North Carolina State University, Case Western Reserve University, Marquette University, Stanford University, and University of Delaware. The mission of our program is to develop top scholars with engineering and other quantitative backgrounds to become successful rehabilitation scientists in translational research. This is the only program of its kind to focus on engineering-trained investigators. We believe that these individuals, who already possess strong quantitative, problem-solving, programming, signal analysis and mechatronics skills, are uniquely positioned to make a significant impact on the field of quantitative movement and rehabilitation sciences (MRS) and its translation to rehabilitative care. The proposed career development program will provide scholars with: 1) In-depth understanding of rehabilitation patient-centered clinical problems; 2) Career development opportunities and mentoring to broaden their MRS research and training; 3) Mentoring in translational research; 4) Technology transfer and translation training to increase the impact of their work. We will accomplish these goals by using a dual-mentorship model with both a senior engineering faculty member and a senior clinical rehabilitation faculty member assigned to each scholar. Moreover, new this cycle, scholars will participate in a clinical bootcamp followed by a mentored clinical experience that will allow them to integrate their newly gained knowledge of pathophysiology to clinical manifestations of movement disorders. Also, scholars will benefit from increase exposure and networking through organized conference sessions. Finally, they will be participating in grant review groups made up of fellow scholars and a member of the executive committee. These experiences are designed to help our scholar’s identify significant clinical needs related to their domains of expertise as well as to become successful rehabilitation scientists. The participating institutions have a long and recognized history of rehabilitation research including studies on the neurobiology of movement behavior and dysfunction, rehabilitation robotics, neural machine interfaces for the restoration of sensorimotor function, and musculoskeletal modeling. Extensive research is being performed in these areas, across the continuum from fundamental animal and human studies to the development of novel rehabilitation paradigms. This impressive array of established research programs provides a fertile ground for developing our engineering scholars and fostering new interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaborations to advance our field. We intend to support a total of four scholars in year one of the career development program, and six scholars in subsequent years. The program will provide support for two years for each scholar.