10/2017 – Prof. Awad joins Prof. Mark Bowden from the Medical University of South Carolina and Michael Lewek and Jason Franz from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill for a symposium presentation at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine on “Diagnosing and Treating Deficits in Propulsion to Improve Walking After Stroke: Clinical & Technological […]
03/2017 – Undergraduate scholar, Fiona Doolan presents an e-poster, entitled “Paretic Plantarflexor Muscle Function After Stroke: Impairments in Activation, not Capacity, Contribute to Deficits in Paretic Propulsion During Hemiparetic Walking” at the Sixth Annual Translational Science Symposium of the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (BU-CTSI).
02/2017 – Prof. Awad gives a talk at the American Heart Association’s International Stroke Conference in Houston, TX as part of the Engineering For Stroke Science educational symposium.
02/2017 – Prof. Awad attends the American Physical Therapy Association’s Combined Sections Meeting in San Antonio, TX to give a platform presentation on our recent paper Identifying candidates for targeted gait rehabilitation after stroke: better prediction through biomechanics-informed characterization and a poster presentation on the exosuit technology.
02/2017 – Prof. Awad is invited to give a talk at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association of Academic Physiatrists for the New Frontiers in Rehabilitation Robotics educational session.
11/2016 – Prof. Awad presents a poster on the FastFES locomotor training program at the 2nd Annual Stroke Recovery Research Symposium, sponsored by the Spaulding Stroke Research and Recovery Institute and the New England Regional Coordination Center of the StrokeNet Trials Network. Stroke Symposium Poster
09/2016 – Prof. Awad gives an invited talk on next generation rehabilitation robots at the 2016 Stroke Rehabilitation Symposium of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, AZ. Barrow Robotics Symposium Brochure