CONFERENCE CHAIR

Prof. Rory A. Cooper
University of Pittsburgh, USA

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Biography of the Conference Chair

Rory A. Cooper, Ph.D. is FISA Foundation - Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) Chair and distinguished professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, and professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a professor in the Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health System. Dr. Cooper is director and VA Senior Research Career Scientist of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories. He is also the Co-Director (with Dr. Takeo Kanade) of the NSF Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center, which is a joint effort between the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Cooper is the author of two books (which have been translated into Japanese and Chinese): Rehabilitation Engineering Applied to Mobility and Manipulation and Wheelchair Selection and Configuration. Dr. Cooper is an elected Fellow of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Cooper is Past-President of RESNA, and a member of the RESNA/ANSI and ISO Wheelchair Standards Committees and IEEE-EMBS Medical Device Standards Committee. In 1988, he was a bronze medalist in the Paralympic Games, Seoul, Republic of Korea. He was on the steering committee for the 1996 Paralympic Scientific Congress held in Atlanta, GA.

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