Kendra Calhoun, president of the Amputee Coalition of America (ACA), will offer a keynote address at Neuroprosthetics 2010, an international symposium organized by the Bioengineering Institute at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Massachusetts. Calhoun will be joined at the podium by Col. Jennifer Menetrez, MD, physical medicine and rehabilitation physician and director of the Center for the Intrepid at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC), San Antonio, Texas. BAMC is the U.S. Army’s most advanced outpatient rehabilitation center built specifically to treat service members who have lost limbs and suffered serious injuries, primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Kendra Calhoun, President and CEO of ACA.
“We are pleased and honored to have leaders like Kendra Calhoun and Colonel Menetrez addressing the symposium,” said W. Grant McGimpsey, PhD, director of the Bioengineering Institute, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and professor of biomedical engineering at WPI. “They will offer important perspectives from both the civilian and the military amputee populations to the scientists and clinicians working to improve the technology to help those populations.”
The international symposium, set for November 3 at WPI, will bring together scientists, engineers, and clinicians to share their research and discuss the challenges that must be overcome to enable the creation of a new generation of artificial limbs that more closely replicate the function of natural limbs.
For more information, visit the WPI Symposium website.
