The Hanger Institute for Clinical Research & Education, launched in March by Hanger, Austin, Texas, formed an external advisory board of members from the healthcare community. The advisory board will join the Hanger Institute in its efforts to advance the clinical practice of O&P and improve patient outcomes.
Members of the advisory board are as follows:
- Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD, director of Winters Center for Heart Failure Research, and associate director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Baylor College of Medicine
- Judith M. Burnfield, PhD, PT, director of the Institute for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering, director of the Movement and Neurosciences Center and the Clifton Chair in Physical Therapy and Movement Sciences at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals
- Catrine Tudor-Locke, PhD, FACSM, FNAK, professor and dean of the College of Health and Human Services at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Douglas Smith, MD, professor emeritus, Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Washington, professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
The Hanger Institute is also partnering with academic and institutional research organizations and industry collaborators, including:
- Center for Adaptive Systems of Brain-Body Interactions at George Mason University
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University
- Department of Physical Therapy at Virginia Commonwealth University
- Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science at The University of Iowa
- OrthoCarolina Research Institute
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation-Physical Therapy Program at The University of Colorado
- The Rehabilitation Neuroscience Lab at The University of Missouri
- Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
- Infinite Biomedical Technologies, Baltimore, Maryland
- Ӧssur, Reykjavík, Iceland
- Ottobock, Duderstadt, Germany
- Parker Hannifin, Cleveland, Ohio
- Point Designs, Lafayette, Colorado
- WillowWood, Mount Sterling, Ohio
- Zimmer Biomet, Warsaw, Indiana
In addition to its external partners, more than 50 professionals are also participating, from associates who comprise its core faculty, to clinicians and other employee affiliates who are active participants in the Hanger Institute’s national education efforts and clinical affairs initiatives.
