How does the brain control movement?
What goes wrong in brain injury?
Can we alter the course of recovery?

James L. Patton received BS mechanical engineering & engineering science from University of Michigan (1989), MS in theoretical mechanics from Michigan State (1993), and PhD biomedical engineering from Northwestern University (1998). He is Richard and Loan Hill Professor of BioMedicalEngineering at the University of Illinois Chicago, and research scientist at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. He worked in automotive manufacturing and nuclear medicine before discovering control of human movement. His interests include robotic teaching, controls, haptics, modeling, human-machine interfaces, and technology-facilitated recovery from a brain injury. Patton is vice president of conferences for the IEEE-EMB society, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, and IEEE Transactions Medical Robotics and Bionics.

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