Andrew D. Delgado, MS

PhD Candidate
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York

My research interest is to understand spinal cord injury (SCI) and the clinical implications that result from these injuries. Additionally, I seek to develop therapies to improve prognosis after SCI, as well as develop instruments to facilitate a better understanding specific areas important for SCI. My goal is to improve the understanding of the medical consequences after SCI on a systems level in humans. This understanding is needed in order to control them for the clinical benefits of patients affected by neurological conditions. In my studies, I use powered lower-extremity exoskeleton technology to better understand the roles these devices can have in the acute inpatient rehabilitation setting; furthermore, my other focuses have been on survey development. My aim is to determine the role of medical devices and survey instruments in their applicability for functional motor recover and sensitivity/specificity of pertinent outcomes that can assist in collection of important outcomes for clinicians and researchers