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Pictured, left to right: P. Hunter Peckham, Ph.D., Ronald J. Triolo, Ph.D., Graham H. Creasey, M.D., J. Thomas Mortimer, Ph.D., Raymond Onders, M.D., and Michael W. Keith, M.D. (Not pictured: John A. Davis, M.D., and Jerry Silver, Ph.D.) |
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Faculty members´ work offers hope to those with spinal cord injuries
The Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation presented its prestigious Maurice Saltzman Award to a team of scientists, engineers and physicians who through their extraordinary collaborative efforts have provided hope to individuals with spinal cord injuries. The eight individuals have shared their visions and skills through their research, development and application of biomedical breakthroughs at the Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation Center, a consortium of Case Western Reserve University, MetroHealth Medical Center, and the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
The center's director is P. Hunter Peckham, Ph.D., who is a professor of biomedical engineering and orthopedics at Case. The other faculty members who were recognized: Graham H. Creasey, M.D., associate professor of medicine and a research physician at the VA and MetroHealth; John A. Davis, M.D., assistant professor of orthopedics and chief of the spine section in MetroHealth‚s orthopedics department; Michael W. Keith, M.D., professor of orthopedics and biomedical engineering at Case and chief of the hand section in MetroHealth‚s orthopedics department; J. Thomas Mortimer, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering; Raymond P. Onders, M.D., assistant professor of surgery and director of minimally invasive surgery at University Hospitals of Cleveland; Jerry Silver, Ph.D., professor of neurosciences and an adjunct professor of neurosurgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and Ronald J. Triolo, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical engineering in orthopedics and a biomedical engineer at the VA Medical Center.
The mission of the Cleveland FES Center is to develop technology that improves the quality of life of individuals with disabilities through the use of functional electrical stimulation and enables the transfer of this technology into clinical deployment. Related research and development at the center include restoration of hand grasp, standing transfer and walking, postural shifting and maintaining skin health, and bladder and bowel control. The Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research and Development Service and the National Institutes of Health support the primary activities of the center.
The Saltzman Award was established in 1983 in recognition of community leader Maurice Saltzman‚s contributions to the health needs of Cleveland. The annual award is presented to a person or organization that, in the judgment of the selection committee, has in the recent past projected and achieved some piece of work of signal value or merit to the health interests of the Greater Cleveland community. School of Medicine faculty members have won the Saltzman every year, except two, since the inception of the award in 1983.
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