Kostyantyn Shcherbina- Team Leader: Kostyantyn is a senior in the Bioengineering department at GMU. His primary interest is biomedical imaging, and he plans to pursue that interest after graduation in graduate school. He is currently working in the Biomedical Imaging Lab under Dr. Parag Chitnis.

 

Erin Schulte- Team Manager: Erin is a senior at George Mason University studying Bioengineering with a concentration in Signals and Systems. She is also on the collegiate swim team for George Mason University. After a personal battle as a child, she gained a passion for the medical field. She wants to contribute to this innovative field through the power of both biotechnology and medicine. She hopes to pursue a career as a physician assistant.

 

Connor is a senior at George Mason studying Bioengineering with a concentration in Signals and Systems as well as obtaining a minor in Rehabilitation Science.  His interests lie in the intersection of engineering and rehabilitation.  After college, Connor intends to apply to graduate school programs in Rehabilitation Engineering. 

 

Omar Sangid – programmer and designer: is a senior at George Mason university working towards a degree in Bioengineering with a concentration in Signals and Systems. expected to graduate in May 2017. Interested in designing new biomedical devices to help those in need. Working as a programmer and designer to help patients who suffer from strokes.

 

Zepher Begnell – Zepher is a senior at George Mason University studying Bioengineering. He has spent most of his life overseas having lived in 7 different countries. Zepher’s interests in the field are in nanotechnology and cancer research. He has intentions to pursue them after graduation from graduate school.

 

Wilsaan Joiner, PhD

Dr. Wilsaan Joiner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering. He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2007. From 2007-2012, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the National Eye Institute (The Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research).

Dr. Joiner’s Sensorimotor Integration Laboratory at the Volgenau School of Engineering conducts translational research investigating human sensory integration, motor learning and control using computational and experimental approaches. Ongoing projects include the influence of eye movements and internal monitoring signals in guiding goal-directed movements and the neural processes underlying motor adaptation and memory consolidation. In addition, there are ongoing collaborative research projects with laboratories at the National Eye Institute, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Harvard University.

 

Michelle Harris-Love, PhD

Michelle Harris-Love PT, PhD is Associate Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Science at George Mason University and directs the Mechanisms of Therapeutic Rehabilitation (MOTR) laboratory at National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington DC.

She earned a Master of Science degree in Physical Therapy from the Mayo School of Health Sciences in Rochester, MN (1997) and her PhD in Rehabilitation Science from the University of Maryland (2004), with a specialization in Neuromotor Control. She then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Neurophysiology at NIH in the lab of Leonardo Cohen where she developed techniques for using transcranial magnetic stimulation to study neurophysiology in stroke patients with severe motor impairment. After completing her post-doc, she received an NIH K01 career development award and has since developed an active, clinically-oriented TMS lab at National Rehabilitation Hospital and mentored numerous students and fellows.

Her primary research interest is in mechanisms of motor recovery after stroke and the development of non-invasive brain stimulation as a method of testing and enhancing the effects of rehabilitation interventions. Her work has been funded by numerous organizations including the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research, and the American Heart Association, and has been published in such journals as the Journal of Physiology, Journal of Neurophysiology, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, among others. Her most recent work is primarily focused on uncovering mechanisms of arm recovery after human stroke and developing novel rehabilitation interventions to improve functional reaching abilities in stroke patients with severe arm impairment.