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Paolo Bonato

Dept. of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation | Harvard Medical School at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital & Editor-in-Chief | IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology

Paolo Bonato

Dept. of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation | Harvard Medical School at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital & Editor-in-Chief | IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology
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Biography

Paolo Bonato, Ph.D., serves as Director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston MA. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School, an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, an Associate Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences.

He has held Adjunct Faculty positions at MIT, the University of Ireland Galway, and the University of Melbourne. His research work is focused on the development of rehabilitation technologies with special emphasis on wearable technology and robotics. Dr. Bonato served as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. He serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics and as Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology.

Dr. Bonato served as an Elected Member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) AdCom (2007-2010) and as IEEE EMBS Vice President for Publications (2013-2016). He served as President of the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology (2008- 2010). He received an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy in 1989 and a Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from Universita` di Roma “La Sapienza” in 1995.