RIC Patient Stories

Eric Edmundson

Eric Edumundson

Eric, a military veteran, received a complex combination of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and anoxic brain injury (ABI) due to a roadside bomb explosion in Iraq.

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Michele Lee

Michele Lee

Michele Lee found a career and an aptitude for art through RIC's Second Look program.

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Eric Weil

Eric Weil

Eric, a pediatrician working in Chicago, participated in RIC's prime-of-life program to recover the abilities that drive his life.

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Natalie Davis

Natalie Davis

Natalie Davis took part in rehabilitation including robot-assisted therapy to advance her ability.

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Omar Al-Dhafiri

Omar and his father traveled from Kuwait to Chicago for Omar's care after he sustained a traumatic brain injury.

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Photograph of Ferdinando Mussa-Ivaldi

Ferdinando Mussa-Ivaldi, PhD

  • Professor, Physiology, PM&R and BME, NU
  • Founder & Director, Robotics Lab, SMPP, RIC

Research Interests

Ferdinando Mussa-Ivaldi, PhD is currently researching Motor Learning and Control; Rehabilitation Robotics; Body-Machine-Interfaces; Neural Engineering, Systems and Computational Neuroscience..

Research Studies

Education & Training

Education

Politecnico di Milano and University of Genova, Italy
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering , 1988
Universite de Provence, France
Deplome Etudes Superieures (Masters) in Behavioural Sciences , 1982
University of Turin, Italy
Graduate Degree (Laurea) in Physics , 1978