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Megan Mitchell, PhD
Human Factors Researcher
Cerner Corporation
Overland Park, Kansas
Diana Berman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas
Denton, Texas
Annalise Fletcher, PhD in Speech and Language Sciences
Assistant Professor
University of North Texas
Denton, Texas
Ifana Mahbub, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of North Texas
Denton, Texas
Mark V. Albert, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Texas
Denton, Texas
Ting Xiao, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,University of North Texas
Denton, Texas
Gerard Francisco, MD
Professor and Chair
University of Texas Health Science Center McGovern Medical School
Houston, Texas
John Morris, PhD, FACRM
Senior Clinical Research Scientist
Shepherd Center
Atlanta, Georgia
Mohanraj Thirumalai, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama
Matteo Tomasi, PhD
CEO
EYEnexo
Boston, Massachusetts
Sam Colachis, IV, MS
Research Scientist
Battelle
Columbus, Ohio
Marc Gruner, DO, MBA, RMSK
Chief Medical Officer
Limber Health
Washington, District of Columbia
Nathan Hogaboom, PhD
Research Scientist
Kessler Foundation
West Orange, New Jersey
Kevin McCully, PhD
Professor in Kinesiology Department
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
Gloria Olness, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology,University of North Texas
Denton, Texas
William Padula, OD SFNAP FAAO FNORA
Director
Padula Institute of Vision Rehabilitation
Guilford, Connecticut
LaunchPad is an annual competition created to highlight innovative rehabilitation technologies developed by non-profit research and engineering labs and startup companies. It is an exciting opportunity for these companies and labs to pitch their company or idea to a panel of rehab industry experts and an audience of clinicians, researchers, engineers, and decision-makers to receive market feedback and win prizes.
LaunchPad is a 6-month, 2-stage competition. In the Spring of 2020, competitors submitted applications describing:
• Their innovative rehabilitation technology
• Their target user
• The problem addressed
• Evidence of efficacy and other user feedback
• Evidence of adoption, if any
A panel of expert reviewers chose five finalists from the applications received.
Finalists will present their technologies before a panel of interdisciplinary judges, including healthcare administrators, rehabilitation technology researchers and engineers, rehabilitation clinicians, medical doctors, and technology entrepreneurs to win prizes and gain valuable feedback from rehab professionals at the ACRM 2020 Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday, October 21, 2020.