RERC:National Advisory Panel

National Advisory Panel

James Patton

James L. Patton, PhD is Associate Professor of Bioengineering at The University of Illinois at Chicago and is Associate Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Robotics at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC). He also holds an affiliate positions in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. He was born in Ann Arbor MI, USA in 1965 but grew up in Racine, WI, USA. He was educated in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science (dual BS, University of Michigan) Theoretical Mechanics (MS, Michigan State University), and Biomedical Engineering (Ph.D., Northwestern University). He has worked for Ford Motor Company and in nuclear medicine before turning his attention to biomechanics and control of human movement. His general interests involve robotic teaching, dynamic balance control, haptics, modeling of the human-machine interface, and robot-facilitated recovery from a brain injury. His research has demonstrated how control is made robust by avoiding undesirable situations. His more recent research has demonstrated how one can exploit the nervous system's natural capacity to adapt in order to teach movements and help people recover from brain injury. Dr. Patton is a member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation and Engineering in Medicine Biology Societies, as well as the Society for Neuroscience. He is a reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Engineering in Medicine Biology magazine, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. He also chairs the IEEE-EMBS technical committee on biomedical robotics

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