Kevin A. Mazurek, Ph.D.

Professional Background

Dr. Mazurek received his Bachelors in electrical engineering from Brown University in 2008 and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2013. During his Ph.D., Dr. Mazurek collaborated with researchers as a visiting graduate student at the University of Alberta to develop control strategies for electrically stimulating the spinal cord to restore walking movements. Dr. Mazurek received an NIH NINDS F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Pre-doctoral Fellowship to develop a hardware system for using intraspinal microstimulation to electrically activate the spinal cord in a coordinated manner for restore walking. Upon receiving his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Mazurek joined the laboratory of Professor Marc Schieber in the Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience to study the cortical mechanisms controlling hand and finger movements. Kevin received an NIH T32 NRSA training fellowship through the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester and then an NIH NINDS F32 NRSA Fellowship to study how intracortical microstimulation can deliver instructional information to different cortical regions for performing specific movements. He then became a KL2 scholar after receiving the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) KL2 Award to study how cortical areas communicate information to perform voluntary movements and how neurologic diseases or injuries affect this communication. Dr. Mazurek's career goal is to apply his interdisciplinary training to understand how different areas of the brain communicate information when performing the same movements for different reasons in order to develop rehabilitative solutions for individuals with neurologic diseases.

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