Deborah E. Kenney, MS, OTR/L

kenney5 -at- comcast.net

Deborah Kenney has been an occupational therapist at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System for the last 17 years - working both in the clinic and at the VA Rehabilitation Research & Development (RR&D) Center where she has collaborated on numerous design and research projects with the engineers and graduate students. Her work has included testing and integrating technology into the rehabilitation setting in the areas of Parkinson's Disease, CVA (stroke), Spinal Cord Injury, hand therapy, and balance as related to aging. Ms. Kenney currently splits her time between her clinical work with post-stroke survivors (REACH) and the RR&D Center. She is also a frequent guest lecturer with the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Santa Clara.

Douglas F. Schwandt, MS

650/464-3578

doug.schwandt -at- gmail.com

Doug Schwandt began his career in Rehabilitation Engineering with a Stanford ME210 (now ME310) design project, on a student team creating the Handbike, the first arm-powered two-wheeled bicycle for lower-limb disabled. After graduation, he continued the Handbike development, and went on to design various other devices for the disabled with the Design Development team at the Palo Alto VA Rehab R&D Center, including finger-spelling hands, hyper/hypo gravity devices and specialty cycle ergometers. Over the years, Doug has also consulted on various exciting and challenging projects outside of the VA, including exercise concepts for long-term space travel, MRI compatible fixtures and mobility devices, and robots for physical therapy. No longer a VA employee, Doug continues to work as a consultant to universities and companies as a free-lance consulting design engineer, and part-time as a springboard diving coach.

Isaac Penny

ipenny -at- stanford.edu

Isaac Penny is a MS student in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Isaac holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, is an NSF/NDSEG Fellow, as well as an Astronaut Scholar. His current research involves microfluidics, machine learning, and computer vision. Isaac took ENGR110/210 last year where he developed an iPhone application to help individuals with visual impairements access the phone's functionality. Isaac's hobbies include backpacking, amateur astronomy, and reading books on the interplay of science and faith.

Updated 11/20/2009

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