Dr. Michelle Harris-Love, PT, PhD

Michelle Harris-Love PT, PhD is Associate Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Science at George Mason University and directs the Mechanisms of Therapeutic Rehabilitation (MOTR) laboratory at National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington DC. She earned a Master of Science degree in Physical Therapy from the Mayo School of Health Sciences in Rochester, MN (1997) and her PhD in Rehabilitation Science from the University of Maryland (2004), with a specialization in Neuromotor Control. Her primary research interest is in mechanisms of motor recovery after stroke and the development of non-invasive brain stimulation as a method of testing and enhancing the effects of rehabilitation interventions.

Dr. Siddhartha Sikdar, PhD

Siddhartha Sikdar joined George Mason University in Spring 2008 and has joint appointments in Bioengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a PI at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and a guest researcher with the Rehabilitation Medicine Department at the NIH Clinical Center. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2005. From 2005-2007, he was a Senior Fellow in Bioengineering at the University of Washington and was the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship award from the American Heart Association. He was awarded the NSF CAREER Award in 2010 and Mason’s Emerging Researcher/Scholar/Creator Award in 2012.