Personnel

Leadership | Key Personnel | Adjunct Appointees | Graduate Students | Undergraduate Students

Meet faculty, lab directors, principal investigators and key administrative staff of the Marquette-MCW Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Engineering Center.

Leadership

 

Headshot of Dr. Gerald HarrisGerald F. Harris, Ph.D., P.E.

Co-Director—Orthopaedic & Rehabilitation Engineering Center
Professor Emeritus, Marquette University

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Headshot of Dr. Karen KrugerKaren Kruger, Ph.D.

Co-Director—Orthopaedic & Rehabilitation Engineering Center
Research Associate Professor, Marquette University

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Headshot of Dr. Jessica FritzJessica M. Fritz, Ph.D.

Center for Motion Analysis at MCW
Associate Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin

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Headshot of Dr. Jeffrey TothJeffrey M. Toth

OREC's Biomaterials & Histology Laboratory (BIMA)
Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin

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Headshot of Dr. Mei WangMei Wang, Ph.D.

OREC's Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory (OBL)
Associate Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin

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Key Personnel

 

Karl Canseco, M.D.

Assistant Research Professor, Marquette University
Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Engineering Center

Molly Erickson, B.S., M.Ed.

Research Engineer, Marquette University
Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Engineering Center

Maja Goršič, Ph.D.

ARRT Postdoctoral Fellow, Marquette University 
Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Engineering Center

Katie Konop, M.S.

Sr. Research Engineer and OREC Research Administrator, Marquette University
Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Engineering Center

Linda M. McGrady, B.S.

Research Engineer, Medical College of Wisconsin
Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Engineering Center

Jacob Rammer, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee
Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Engineering Center

Karla Bustamante Valles, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Professor, Marquette University
Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Engineering Center

Adjunct Appointees

Joycie Eulah Abiera, M.D.

Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, OREC, Marquette University
Clinical Associate Professor and Attending Physiatrist
University of the Philippines—Manila
College of Medicine and Philippine General Hospital

Jeffrey Ackman, M.D.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, OREC, Marquette University
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Shriner Children's—Chicago

Haluk Altiok, M.D.

Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, OREC, Marquette University
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Shriner Children's—Chicago

Mercedes Rodriguez Celin, M.D.

Adjunct Research Assistant Professor, OREC, Marquette University
Geneticist, Shriners Children's—Chicago

Joseph Krzak, P.T., Ph.D., P.C.S.

Adjunct Professor, OREC, Marquette University
Professor, Physical Therapy, Midwestern University

John Rose, S.J., Ph.D.

Adjunct Research Professor, OREC, Marquette University
Director & Professor, Xavier Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India

Brooke Slavens, Ph.D. 

Adjunct Professor, OREC, Marquette University
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee

Peter Smith, M.D.

Adjunct Professor, OREC, Marquette University
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Shriner Children's—Chicago

Carlo Emmanuel Sumpaico, M.D.

Adjunct Clinical Professor, OREC, Marquette University
Orthopaedic Surgeon,
University of the Philippines—Manila
College of Medicine and Philippine General Hospital

Graduate Students

Matthew CapekMatthew Capek 

Focus: Post-surgical Form and Function of Planovalgus Foot Deformities in Patients with Cerebral Palsy

Adilei GongoraAdilei Gongora

Focus: Plantar Pressure Analysis of Foot Deformities

Janet LeJanet Le   

Focus: Form and Function Relationships in Pediatric Foot Deformity

Nathan NicholsNathan Nichols 

Focus: Joint Space Analysis of Pediatric Flatfoot 

Proxy HeadshotNicholas Slavik  

Focus: Bone Morphology of Pediatric Flatfoot    

Undergraduate Students

Nolan Anderson Marcos Guerrero Carly Sampson
Olivia Espisito Claudia Kramer Autumn Schaaf