Advanced Platform Technology Center
Matthew Schiefer, PhD
Dr. Schiefer is a researcher at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center (Gainesville, FL). His research is in the field of Neural Engineering, a sub-field of Biomedical Engineering, focusing on understanding the peripheral nerve response to eating and the development and assessment of stimulus waveforms applied to the vagus nerves to produce a sense of satiety and reduce obesity.
Dr. Schiefer is previously a Co-Investigator with:
- Drs. Dustin Tyler and Emily Graczyk, focusing on restoring sensation in amputees
- Dr. Ronald Triolo, focusing on developing and testing novel neural interfaces to restore motion to the lower limb in individuals with a spinal cord injury
- Drs. Dustin Tyler and Jonathan Miller, focusing on spinal cord stimulation to reduce chronic pain
- Dr. Kingman Strohl, focusing on hypoglossal nerve stimulation for treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
- Dr. Frank Jacono, focusing on vagal nerve stimulation to treat sepsis
Dr. Schiefer has expertise in computational neuroscience and 3D finite element method (FEM) modeling; acute (short-term) evaluation of stimulating neural interfaces in humans in the operating room; chronic (long-term) evaluation of stimulating neural interfaces and stimulus waveforms in humans in the upper and lower limbs; acute evaluation of recording neural interfaces in pre-clinical models; chronic evaluation of stimulating neural interfaces and stimulus waveforms in pre-clinical models. Dr. Schiefer's focus spans motor control, sensory restoration, and autonomic neuromodulation.
