Andrea Alford, PhD

Research Investigator, Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Marrow stromal cells, osteoblasts, and extracellular matrix

Thomas Armstrong, BSE, MPH, PhD

Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering, School of Engineering

Research Focus Areas: Ergonomics, biomechanics, work, occupational health, and musculoskeletal disorders

Ellen Arruda, BS, MS, PhD

Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering, School of Engineering

Research Focus Areas: Mechanical behavior of materials including polymers, tissue engineering of tendon and muscle constructs, constitutive modeling of growth, remodeling and functional adaptation in soft tissue, deformation mechanisms in polymers; crystal transformation mechanisms in semi-crystalline polymers, and Split Hopkinson pressure bar testing of polymers and elastomers for high strain rate applications including crashworthiness in automotive applications

James Ashton-Miller, PhD

The Albert Schultz Collegiate Research Professor and Distinguished Research Scientist in the departments of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Internal Medicine, and at the Institute of Gerontology, Director, Biomechanics Research Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Director, Bone & Joint Injury Prevention Center.

Research Focus Areas: Biomechanics including mobility impairments in the elderly; trips, slips, and falls; elderly decision-making and risk-taking in physical tasks; birth related injury; female stress urinary incontinence; spine biomechanics; athletic injuries; occupant vehicular safety.

Asheesh Bedi, MD

Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Tendon-bone healing, shoulder kinematics, hip kinematics, and allograft tissue

Clinical Focus Areas: Rotator cuff repair, shoulder instability, shoulder arthroplasty, shoulder trauma, elbow arthroscopy, elbow ligament surgery, knee ligament surgery, ACL, cartilage, and hip arthroscopy

Janet Biermann, MD

Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine

Clinical Focus Areas: Soft tissue and bone tumors of the limbs, pelvis, and shoulders, benign and malignant tumors, metastatic disease of bone, primary bone malignancy, sarcoma, and pathologic fractures due to malignancy in children and adults.

Research Focus Areas: Diagnosis of musculoskeletal tumors and differentiation from injury, treatment and prevention of pathologic fractures, and treatment and restoration of function following musculoskeletal neoplasia.

J. David Blaha, MD

Clinical Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine

Clinical Interests: Joint replacement surgery (primary and revision).

Research Focus Areas: Knee kinematics, total knee arthroplasty design and function, total hip arthroplasty design and function, and the biomechanical basis for implant osseointegration.

Nicholaas Bohnen, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Radiology & Neurology, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Geriatric falls, leukoaraiosis, and Parkinson disease

Clinical Focus Areas: Parkinson disease, dementia, and nuclear medicine

Katarina Borer, PhD

Professor, Movement Science, School of Kinesiology

Research Focus areas: Control of blood glucose by timing of meals and exercise and by nutrient energy, hormonal regulation of energy balance at rest and during exercise, and hormonal and mechanical stimulation of bone mineral in postmenopausal women.

Susan Brooks, BSE, MS, MSE, PhD

Associate Professor, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Mechanical properties of whole muscles and single muscle fibers primarily for investigations of the effects of aging, injury, and exercise conditioning on skeletal muscle structure and function

Susan Brown, PhD

Associate Professor, Movement Science, School of Kinesiology.

Research Focus Areas: Upper limb rehabilitation cerebral palsy, stroke, aging, and other internet delivery of rehabilitation interventions

James Carpenter, M.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery; Head Orthopaedic Team Physician, University of Michigan Athletic Department; and Chair, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Research Focus Areas: Shoulders anatomy, rotator cuff surgery and sports medicine.

Clinical Focus Areas: Knee and shoulder injuries, arthroscopy, shoulder replacement surgery and sports medicine.

Michelle Caird, BSE, MD

Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Treatment of scoliosis and spinal disorders in children, treatment of pediatric fractures, and causes and treatment of osteogenesis imperfecta.

Clinical Focus Areas: Treatment of idiopathic and congenital scoliosis, hip diseases in children, pediatric injuries, and lower extremity deformities and length inequality

Neal Chen, MD

Clinical lecturer, Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine.

Research Focus areas: Kinematics of the upper extremity and electromyography of the shoulder, clinical problems in shoulder arthroplasty, rotator cuff tears, distal radius fractures, and the baseball pitcher's elbow.

Clinical Research areas: Arthroscopic surgery, especially of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, and knee, and additionally baseball injuries, rotator cuff injuries, elbow ligament injuries, and sports hand and traumatic hand injuries.

Lexandra L. Creitz, BS, MA

Manager of Pediatric Therapy Services, CS Mott Childrens' Hospital

Clinical Research areas: Pediatric orthopedics, pediatric neurological disorders including cerebral palsy, acquired head injury, and spinal cord injury.

Brian Downie, ATC, PA-C, MS

Physician Assistant, MedSport, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Research Focus Areas: Outcomes research for surgical and non-surgical conditions of the shoulder and knee, rotator cuff disease, shoulder instability and the biceps.

Clinical Focus Areas: Care of surgical and non-surgical sports injury and arthritic conditions of the shoulder, elbow, hip and knee.

Anthony Drew, PhD

Assistant Professor, Movement Science, School of Kinesiology

Research Focus Areas: Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying eye movements in healthy human subjects and cortical mechanisms of attentional orienting.

James T. Eckner, MD

Clinical Lecturer, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Neurological rehabilitation - specifically sport concussion, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, and electrodiagnostic medicine

Clinical Focus Areas: Mild traumatic brain injury - especially sport concussion, and the role of reaction time assessment in sport concussion evaluation and management.

Peter Ehrlich, MD

Associate Professor, Surgery, Medical School and Director, Pediatric Trauma

Research Focus Areas:  Pediatric injury prevention influence choices in pediatric safety practices and clinical pediatric cancer trials

Clinical Focus Areas:  Pediatric cancer congenital anomaly surgery

Frances Farley, MD

Associate Professor and Chief of Pediatric Orthopaedics, Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Congenital Scoliosis

Clinical Focus Areas: Pediatric patients with a broad range of congenital, developmental, traumatic, and sports-related orthopaedic problems

John Faulkner, BA, BPHE, MSc, PhD

Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Skeletal muscle physiology, muscle mechanics, biogerontology, fatigue and endurance, altitude acclimatization, and muscle adaptation

Daniel P. Ferris, PhD

Associate Professor, Movement Science, School of Kinesiology
Research Focus Areas: biomechanics, locomotion, neuromuscular control

Clinical Focus Areas: gait rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, orthotics, prosthetics, amputee gait

Alfred Franzblau, MD, MS

Professor, Environmental Health Science, School of Public Health

Research Focus Areas: Occupational musculoskeletal disorders

Bruno Giordani, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Director, Neuropsychology Section, Associate Center Director, Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

Research Focus Areas: Developmental lifespan neuropsychology, cognitive factors associated with mobility difficulties in older individuals and clumsiness in young children, cross-cultural issues in neuropsychological assessment, brain mechanisms in cognition revealed by positron emission tomography studies, and neuropharmacological challenges

Clinical Focus Areas: Clinical neuropsychological evaluations of children and adults with emphasis on learning and attention disabilities and cognitive impairment associated with neurological disorders and problems such as attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, psychiatric disturbance, and developmental motor problems

Greg Graziano, MD

Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Ankylosing spondylitis of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine, spine biomechanics, spine fixation, minimally invasive surgery of the spine, kyphoplasty for metastatic spine disease and myeloma and rheumatological disease of the spine

Clinical Focus Areas: Adult spine disorders, spinal deformities, spinal fractures, ankylosing spondylitis, reconstructive surgery - primary and salvage of all areas of the spine, cervical spine flexion deformity, kyphoplasty, metastatic disease of the spine (especially myeloma), and minimally invasive surgical procedures

Andrew Haig, MD

Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Back Pain, electromyography, international medicine, health policy, disability, multidisciplinary teams, occupational health, ergonomics, and biomechanics.

Clinical Focus Areas: Back pain, spinal stenosis, electromyography, geriatrics, rehabilitation, and occupational medicine.

Brian Hallstrom, BSME, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine

Research Focus areas: Clinical outcomes, non-arthroplasty treatments for arthritis, and improved navigation techniques

Clinical Focus Areas: Surgical management of arthritis including joint sparing procedures, hip and knee replacement, less invasive surgery, and partial joint replacement and resurfacing

Anne Hartigan, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Ergonomics, work-related musculoskeletal injury and prevention

Clinical Focus Areas: Musculoskeletal medicine, spine disorders, and electrodiagnosis

Robert Hensinger, MD

Professor, Orthopaedics, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Pediatric Orthopedics

Clinical Focus Areas: Spine and lower extremity problems

Joseph E. Hornyak, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Pediatric disability, exercise physiology, Down Syndrome

Clinical Focus Areas: Down syndrome, neuromuscular diseases, pediatric disability, traumatic brain injury

Jeffry Housner, MD

Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Hip pain and tendonopathy

Clinical Focus Areas: Sports medicine, hip pain and patellar tendonopathy

Richard Hughes, BSE, MSE, PhD

Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Stochastic modeling, shoulder, cost-effectiveness, and biomechanics

Edward Hurvitz, MD

Associate Professor and Chair, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Fitness and obesity in cerebral palsy adults with cerebral palsy, and interventions and outcomes

Clinical Focus Areas: Children and adults with cerebral palsy

Herbert Kaufer, MD

Adjunct Clinical Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine

David Kohn, PhD

Professor, Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry

Research Focus Areas: Bone, failure, biomechanics, exercise, bone quality, aging, regeneration, and biomaterials

Ken Kozloff, PhD

Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Non-invasive optical imaging of bone metabolism, effects of anti-resorptive agents on bone, skeletal drug delivery, cellular response of bone to damage, pediatric osteopenia and osteogenesis imperfecta, and effects of exercise on bone

Jeff Kutcher, MD

Assistant Professor, Neurology, School of Medicine and Director, Michigan NeuroSport

Research Focus Areas:  Neurologic sequelae of sports injuries and the management of neurologic diseases in the athlete.  Particular areas of research include concussion, migraine headache, and sleep disorders.

Elaine Ledwon-Robinson, MS

Director, Speech-Language Pathology, and Pediatric NeuroRehabilitation Program, Department of Speech-Language Pathology

Research Focus Areas: Outcomes in pediatric traumatic brain injury and public policy regarding rehabilitation

Clinical Focus Areas: Pediatric traumatic brain injury: Functional outcome service delivery in children and adults with communication impairment pediatric rehabilitation

Simon Levine, PhD

Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas:  Assistive technologies for people with disability: computer access, augmentative communication, environmental control, mobility, seating and postural support. Includes assistive technologies for daily living activities, education, vocation, recreation and transportation

Clinical Focus Areas:  Design, development and analysis of assistive technology systems for people with disability. Direct brain interface for control of assistive technologies

Dean Louis, MD

Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Occupational disorders, nerve compression, congenital hand problems and wrist disorders.

Clinical Focus Areas: Hand surgery, wrist problems, elbow problems, congenital hand differences, occupational hand/wrist disorders, arthritis, nerve entrapment dupuytren's contracture and upper extremity reconstructive surgery.

Scott McLean, PhD

Assistant Professor, Athletic Training & Movement Science

Research Focus Areas: Mechanisms of non-contact ACL injury; Gender dimorphic contributions to injury risk; neuromuscular and mechanical contributions to injury in the young overhead athlete.

Bruce Miller, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Team Physician, University of Michigan Athletic Department, Team Physician, Eastern Michigan University Athletic Department, Team Physician, USA Ski Team, Team Physician, USA Rugby Team, and Program Director, Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship

Research Focus Areas: Clinical outcomes in sports medicine surgery of the shoulder and knee, cartilage injury and repair and rotator cuff disease.

Clinical Focus Areas: Sports injuries of the knee, shoulder, and elbow arthritis surgery of the knee, shoulder, and elbow, rotator cuff surgery and shoulder replacement surgery. Shoulder Replacement Surgery.

Christopher Mendias, PhD, ATC

Assistant Professor, Athletic Training, School of Kinesiology

Research Focus Areas: Skeletal muscle contractility, tendon mechanics, skeletal muscle and tendon molecular biology.

Clinical Focus Areas: Prevention of skeletal muscle atrophy and fibrosis, tendon adaptation and maladaptation to mechanical loading.

Megan Moore, PhD

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, College of Arts, Science and Letters, University of Michigan- Dearborn

Research Focus Areas:  Skeletal biology, effects of obesity on adult and adolescent skeleton, biomechanics of obesity, forensic anthropology, body mass estimation from the skeleton

Hal Morgenstern, Ph.D.

Professor, Epidemiology and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health

Research Focus Areas: Studies of outcomes and practice patterns among hemodialysis patients, the effects of marijuana use on the risks of lung and upper-aerodigestive-tract cancers, cancer incidence in the community surrounding an aerospace/former nuclear facility, medical versus chiropractic care in the treatment of low-back pain, the use of cervical manipulation versus mobilization in the treatment of neck pain, the effects of occupational exposures to low-level ionizing radiation and chemicals on cancer mortality in nuclear and aerospace workers, health-impact assessment of planned interventions, the incidence of tardive dyskinesia among psychiatric patients treated with atypical versus conventional antipsychotics, and methods of ecologic design and analysis in epidemiology.

Martijn Müller, PhD

Research Investigator, Radiology, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas:  Neuroimaging of motor control, in particular of posture and gait in falls, normal aging and Parkinson disease, biomechanics, and cognition and mood

Clinical Focus Areas:  Fall prevention in normal aging and Parkinson disease.

Susan Murphy, ScD, OTR

Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Arthritis symptom management and physical activity interventions and physical activity measurement

Mark Palmer, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Movement Science, School of Kinesiology

Research Focus Areas: Adaptation, computational modeling, mechanisms of injury, musculoskeletal disease, musculoskeletal health and performance

Riann Palmieri-Smith, PhD, ATC

Assistant Professor in Athletic Training, Movement Science, and Orthopaedics, Director of the Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, and Co-Director of the Human Neuromechanics Laboratory.

Research Focus Areas: Neuromuscular consequences of joint injury relating to arthrogenic muscle inhibition; mechanisms of post-traumatic osteoarthritis.

James K. Richardson, MD

Associate Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical School

Research Focus Areas: Peripheral neuropathy, gait, fall risk, and focal neuropathies

Clinical Focus Areas: Gait and balance, spine and electrodiagnosis

Waldomar Roeser, MD

Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, Medical School

Research Focus Areas: Clinical research in sports medicine and knee and shoulder arthroscopic surgery.

Clinical Focus Areas: Sports medicine, knee surgery, shoulder surgery and arthroscopic surgery.

Randy S. Roth, PhD

Clinical Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Patient beliefs in chronic pain and medical illness, cognitive factors in chronic pain and myofascial pain syndromes, educational achievement and pain disability; psychosocial factors in adjustment to breast reconstruction, pain and depression, practitioner-patient communication

Clinical Focus Areas: Myofascial pain disorders, pain rehabilitation, cognitive behavioral treatment of chronic pain, illness and disability, stress-related disorders

Rachael Seidler, PhD

Associate Professor, Movement Science, School of Kinesiology

Research Focus Areas: cognitive neuroscience of action, motor control, motor learning, aging, Parkinson’s disease, and cognitive training

Clinical Focus Areas: Plasticity, Parkinson’s Disease

Jon Sekiya, MD

Associate Professor, Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine.

Research Focus Areas: Bony defects and glenohumeral instability, arthroscopic management of shoulder instability, failed shoulder instability surgery, meniscus deficiency and meniscal allograft transplantation, PCL injury and surgical reconstruction, multiple ligament knee injuries, multi-center outcomes in hip arthroscopy, and hip biomechanics and instability

Clinical Focus Areas: Hip, knee, and shoulder joints

Jie Shen, PhD

Associate Professor, Computer & Information Science School, College of Engineering & Computer Science

Research Focus Areas:Nondestructive Evaluation of Material Damage, Volume Graphics/3D Imaging, Damage Mechanics, and Numerical Analysis.

Clinical Research areas: Digital Diagnosis and Quantification of Bone Damage.

Kathleen Sienko, BS, SM, PhD

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering

Research Focus Areas: Medical device design and development, wearable balance prostheses and rehabilitation aids for balance-impaired patients, vibrotactile sensory substitution, vestibulopathic gait, age-related changes in balance function, bioastronautics, human spaceflight countermeasures, and affordable medical technologies for the developing world.

Mary C. Spires, MD

Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Medical education; burn injury, and motor vehicle trauma and rehabilitation

Clinical Focus Areas: Trauma/burn rehabilitation, electromyography and amputees

Kristin Tomey, PhD

Assistant Research Scientist, Epidemiology, School of Public Health

Research Focus Areas: physical functioning; neighborhood environment; coping and compensation; assistive devices; survey measurement

Melanie Urbanchek, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Surgery, School of Medicine.

Research Focus Areas: Skeletal muscle, peripheral nerve, and tendon.

Clinical Focus Areas: Incisional hernia and prosthetics.

Pat Van Volkinburg, MS

Clinical Associate Professor and Academic Program Coordinator, Physical Education, School of Kinesiology

Clinical Focus Areas: Teaching and instruction

Research Focus Areas: Pedagogy

Robert Werner, MD, MS

Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, School of Medicine

Clinical Focus Areas: Pain management, and electrodiagnosis

Research Focus Areas: Work related musculoskeletal injury, epidemiology, carpal tunnel syndrome, and tendinitis

Ed Wojtys, MD

Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Head of the University of Michigan Sports Medicine Program, Medical Director of MedSport and Associate Director, Bone & Joint Injury Prevention & Rehabilitation Center

Research Focus Areas: Knee injuries in sports, the female athlete, training and conditioning, sports medicine epidemiology and osteoarthritis of the knee.

Clinical Research Areas: Knee ligament injuries, knee dislocations, meniscal injuries, degenerative knee joint disease, pediatric and adolescent knee trauma and female knee injury susceptibility.

Lynda J. Yang, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery, School of Medicine

Research Focus Areas: Pediatric Brachial Plexus Palsy

Clinical Focus Areas: Brachial plexus palsy and entrapment neuropathy

Ronald Zernicke PhD, DSc

Director, Bone & Joint Injury Prevention & Rehabilitation Center
Professor, Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering and School of Kinesiology

Research Focus Areas: Adaptation of bone to exercise, disuse, diet, and disease, and joint injury and post-traumatic osteoarthritis