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

Headshot of Dr. Karen KrugerKaren Kruger, Ph.D.
Co-Director—Orthopaedic & Rehabilitation Engineering Center
Research Associate Professor, Marquette University

Headshot of Dr. Jessica FritzJessica M. Fritz, Ph.D.
Center for Motion Analysis at MCW
Assistant Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin

Headshot of Dr. Jeffrey TothJeffrey M. Toth, Ph.D.
OREC's Biomaterials & Histology Laboratory (BIMA)
Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin

Headshot of Dr. Mei WangMei Wang, Ph.D.
OREC's Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory (OBL)
Associate Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin

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, 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

Mary Wesley, B.B.A.
Research Administrator, 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 Capek      

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

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Janet Le      

Focus: Form and Function Relationships in Pediatric Foot Deformity

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Megan Leighton      

Focus: A Control Paradigm for Joystick Operation of a Wheeled Vehicle that Includes Environmental Sensing in Young Children with Sensory-Motor Challenges

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Nathan Nichols      

Focus: Joint Space Analysis of Pediatric Flatfoot

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Nicholas Slavik      

Focus: Bone Morphology of Pediatric Flatfoot

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Maxine Olson      

Focus: Development of a Kinetic and Musculoskeletal Segmental Foot Model

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Undergraduate Students

Julia Asimacopoulos
Jorge Torres Carrion
Drew Donahoe
Carly Sampson