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Pablo Celnik, MD, from Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed CEO of Chicago-based Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. Dr. Celnik will leave JHU to take on his new role in October.

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Fatigue affects the health and quality of life for many people, but there are few effective treatments for it, experts say.

Two robotic arms – a fork in one hand, a knife in the other – flank a seated man, who sits in front of a table, with a piece of cake on a plate.

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New President and Board Members Elected to the Association of Academic Physiatrists Newswise — Gwendolyn Sowa, MD, PhD, Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) at the University of Pittsburgh/UPMC and Director of the UPMC Rehabilitation Institute, has been elected president of the Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP), the largest membership society for academic physiatry, at their 2021 Virtual Conference. Dr. Sowa succeeds Adam Stein,...

Employee Resource Group Connects a Diverse Hispanic Workforce at Johns Hopkins Medicine Employee Resource Group Connects a Diverse Hispanic Workforce at Johns Hopkins Medicine By April Lugo watched in horror as her great-grandmother tripped on the sidewalk recently, breaking bones in her face and spine. She scooped up her beloved relative and sped her to a nearby emergency room. With no interpreters available, she became the linguistic bridge between the injured woman and the harried clinician...

A quadriplegic man with minimal movement and feeling in his limbs fed himself for the first time in 30 years – and he did so using his mind. Robert Buz Chmielewski was involved in surfing accident as a teen, but in 2019 he underwent a 10-hour surgery to have six electrodes implanted into his brain to control a pair of robotic arms. Working with John Hopkins Medicine (JHM), Chmielewski is now able to operate both prosthetic arms and manipulate them to perform separate tasks, like feeding himse...

Quadriplegic patient uses brain signals to feed himself with two advanced prosthetic arms System merging artificial intelligence, robotics, and a brain-machine interface represents major step toward restoring function and autonomy for patients without the full use of their limbs Credit: Johns Hopkins APL Dec 28, 2020 For more than 30 years—following an accident in his teens—Robert "Buz" Chmielewski has been a quadriplegic with minimal movement and feeling in his hands and fingers. But l...