On February 2nd, 2000, the North Jersey, New York, and Long Island Chapters of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) of the IEEE together with the New York Academy of Medicine's Sections on Biomedical Engineering and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation will host a program on "Tele-Rehabilitation: Prospects and Progress." The speaker will be Dr. Michael Rosen.
About the Talk Tele-rehabilitation is the application of telehealth tools and techniques to deliver rehabilitation services to both practitioners and patients in remote clinics and homes. In this presentation, Dr. Rosen will discuss the concepts, distinctions, terminology, and technologies that define the new field of Tele-rehabilitation. He will provide examples of the clinical services that can be provided via tele-rehabilitation, including: (1) Counseling, (2) Training, (3) Assessment and monitoring of function and health status, (4) Delivery of therapeutic interventions. Dr. Rosen will also outline the technical, regulatory and economic obstacles that need to be overcome to fully realize the potential of tele-rehabilitation. A demonstration of current methods for real-time video interaction and sharing of data over telecommunication lines, with and without benefit of computers, will be given. Attendees will have an opportunity to interact with individuals remote from New York City via these links. Finally, the speaker will present a sample of the research and development projects now underway at the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Tele-rehabilitation at the Catholic University of America, National Rehabilitation Hospital and Sister Kenny Institute in Washington, DC, sponsored by the Department of Education National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
About the Speaker Michael J. Rosen, PhD, is the Director of the Rehabilitation Engineering Service at the Catholic University of America, National Rehabilitation Hospital and Sister Kenny Institute in Washington DC. He received his undergraduate education at Brown University, and did his graduate work at Northwestern University, completing his PhD in Electrical Engineering, with a specialty in Biomedical Engineering in 1972. In 1975 he joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT. He has specialized in understanding the mechanisms of disability and applying engineering science and design to reduce the functional deficits which result. His areas of particular interest are communication technologies for motorically non-vocal individuals, mechanics and orthotic modification of pathological tremors, design of assistive products, and tele-rehabilitation. Dr, Rosen has held teaching positions at MIT, the University of Tennessee in Memphis, where he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopedics, and at the Catholic University of America. He has collaborated with physiatrists, neurologists, orthopedists, and allied health professionals in his teaching and research efforts, emphasizing a friendly team approach to solving patients' problems.
Time: 7:15 PM Registration (no charge), 7:30 PM Program, Wednesday, February 2, 2000.
Place: New York Academy of Medicine, Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, Manhattan. TRAVEL HINTS: If coming by car, there may be limited free parking in NYAM enclosed lot at 2 East 103rd Street. By subway, take #6 to 96th St (Lex. Ave line). Walk to 5th Avenue, walk to 103rd St. [a better route than the wavy path through a housing project on 103rd St.]
Information: Joel H. Levitt (212) 479-7805 (24 hr voice mail).
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