National Advisory Panel

Dr. Krouskop was instrumental in founding the bioengineering program at Texas A&M University before moving to Baylor College of Medicine where he was a professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation until he retired in July 2006. He is now the director of the National Center for Human Performance at the Texas Medical Center. He is also still a clinical professor at Baylor College of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor at The University of Texas Dental School in the Department of Oral Biomaterials and in the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He has served as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Occupational Therapy at Texas Woman's University where he taught in a Master's level program in rehabilitation technology that he started in 1986 and in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science at Rice University. He has served on 47 graduate student research committees and has been chairman or co-chairman for 12 students. He currently serves on committees for 2 graduate students. He has been the principal investigator for a National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) sponsored Rehabilitation Engineering Center and field initiated research projects from NIDRR. The Veterans Administration, National Research Council, and NASA and private foundations have also sponsored research projects for Dr. Krouskop. He has served NIDRR as a temporary director for the rehabilitation engineering center programs and has been a peer reviewer for NIDRR, VA, Paralyzed Veterans of America, NIH and the Shriners Hospital System. He is an active member of several professional organizations and has published extensively in the area of the effects of pressure on tissue and fitting sockets for artificial limbs.

Dr. Krouskop received the Kosiak Award in 1993 for his work in pressure ulcer prevention and he has served on the panels that developed the AHCPR guidelines for preventing and treating pressure ulcers. He also has received 9 United States patents and has commercialized products developed in the programs at Baylor College of Medicine and The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research. He also was responsible for setting up the motion analysis laboratory at the Shriners Hospital in Houston; that laboratory has become the model for the other gait laboratories in the Shriners Hospital System.