James Sulzer, PhD
Dr. James Sulzer is Staff Scientist at the MetroHealth Rehabilitation Institute and Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. He is an associated investigator with the Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center at Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center (LSCVAMC). Prior to his arrival back in his hometown, Dr. Sulzer was faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (now Shirley Ryan AbilityLab), and was an ETH Fellow for his postdoctoral training at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ). He has a wife and three young children.
Dr. Sulzer’s lab, the Rehabilitation with Insight from Robotics and Engineering (Rewire) Lab has three research lines: understanding post-stroke Stiff-Knee gait and developing novel interventions, enriched environmental training for those after traumatic brain injury, and a hybrid indoor-outdoor driving simulator for children with neurological impairments. The lab has expertise in robotics, gait biomechanics, reflex neurophysiology, neural operant conditioning, and computational modeling.
Dr. Sulzer is also personally active as an advocate for the disability community following his young daughter’s severe traumatic brain injury in 2020. He has shared his experience as a seminal article on caregiver challenges in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, a separate article in The Atlantic, and an op-ed on the importance of inclusion of lived experience into the research process in STAT News/Boston Globe.
Lab website: rewire-lab.org
Published work: Google Scholar Profile
