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In 1985 I began my undergraduate college
years intending to study forestry with the intent of becoming
a park ranger! One trip to the Bioengineering Department at
Syracuse University changed my mind and I obtained a B.S.
in Bioengineering in 1989. From there I attended the University
of Utah to work on developing implantable brain systems to
help the blind. I received my Ph.D. in 1996. I spent two years
in England as a post-doctoral research fellow, continuing
to explore the feasibility of a visual prosthesis for the
blind and expanding my interests in neural engineering. In
1998 I started a 3 year post-doctoral fellowship in neuroscience/neural
engineering, in Bioengineeering at Arizona State University,
eventually becoming a research assistant professor. Since
2002, I have been an assistant professor in BioEngineering
at UIC, continuing neural interface development but also moving
into other neural-related diseases such as stroke and epiplepsy.
When I have time, I now enjoy forestry (hiking, mountain biking,
rock climbing etc.) on the weekends, as long as I can take
my two beautiful kids, both under age 3.
Courses developed and taught:
BioE 101/200 'Introduction to Bioengineering'
(UIC)
BioE 432 'BioInstrumentation and Measurement'
(UIC)
BioE 476 'Neural Engineering II: Introduction
to Neural Coding' (UIC)
BioE 576 'Sensory Neuroprostheses' (UIC)
BioE 494 'Clinical Bioengineering' (UIC)
BioE 594 'Clinical Bioengineering' (UIC)
BioE 595 'Scientific Presentation' (UIC)
HON 201 'BioEthics of Brain Implants' (UIC)
BEN 470 'Microcomputer Applications in Biomedical
Engineering', (Arizona State Univ.)
BEN 505, 'Fundamentals of Neural Coding'
(Arizona State Univ.)
NEURO 201, filled in for Departments of Optometry
and Biochemistry for graduate and undergraduate lectures in
vision science and physiology. (Univ. of Manchester, England)
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