The seventh episode of CIONIC’s podcast Superpowering the Human Body, features a conversation with Dr. Phillip Alvelda, CEO/Chairman of Medio Labs and CEO of Brainworks. Dr. Alvelda is a technology and industry innovator as well as an educator. He was a Program Manager at DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office where he developed national scale R&D programs…
Meet Mihai Ionescu, Head of Hardware at CIONIC A graduate of UC Santa Cruz (BS Computer Engineering ‘99), he has spent his career in hardware design and high-volume manufacturing where he was at the nexus of innovation in engineering and design. In his role at CIONIC, Mihai has a multi-faceted responsibility that includes product specs…
Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation by Richard Harvey MD, Joel Stein MD , Carolee Winstein Phd PT, George Wittenberg MD PhD, Richard Zorowitz MD The sixth episode of CIONIC’s podcast Superpowering the Human Body, features a conversation with Dr. Richard Zorowitz, Chief Medical Informatics Officer and attending physician at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital and professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine at Georgetown University School of…
How my daughter’s CP diagnosis fueled a mission to empower all those with mobility impairments to move more freely. Anyone who has met my daughter Sofia knows her as intelligent, joyful, and kind. She is an inventor, an artist, a ballerina, and skier. And she is one of over 1 million Americans living with Cerebral…
The fourth episode of CIONIC’s podcast Superpowering the Human Body, features a conversation with Dr. Stacy Menz, Physical Therapist and Founder of Starfish Therapies, an interdisciplinary pediatric therapy group. Stacy shares with us her approach to patient engagement through goal centered play, the successes and challenges of telehealth, and the shifting norms of inclusivity. Watch on Youtube…
The third episode of CIONIC’s podcast Superpowering the Human Body, features a conversation with Shriya Srinivasan, Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIT Langer Traverso Labs. Shriya shares with us her incredible work to restore sensation and mobility to individuals with limb amputations, through optogenetics and advanced prosthetics. We also discuss how design thinking and collaboration between academia and…
Building technology to enhance human performance and overcome disability demands a multi-disciplinary approach. From health advocates to technologists, medical professionals to engineers, innovation is accelerated through collaboration. I’m pleased to share the first episode of Superpowering the Human Body, a podcast I host that explores the intersection of science and technology for human augmentation. My first guest…
The term ‘full stack’ is commonly used to refer to an engineer who works on both back-end and front-end technologies. It’s someone who can tackle everything from circuit design, to database schema, to user interfaces, leading architecture and planning of the full system with incredible attention to detail. The driving characteristic is an individual who…