Abbas

Abbas joined the Fulton School in 2002 from the Center for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Kentucky, where he served as an associate professor. While there, he also served in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center. From 1993 to 1995, he served as an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. , and from 1992 to 1993 he served as an adjunct assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Prior to academia, he served as a biomedical engineer for Shriners Hospital in Philadelphia and the Cleveland Veterans Administration Medical Center in Cleveland. He is currently vice president and co-founder of customKYnetics, Inc.; an adjunct associate professor at the University of Kentucky and the director of clinical rehabilitation engineering at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Abbas' projects and professional interests in the Center for Rehabilitation Neuroscience and Rehabilitation Engineering are functional neuromuscular stimulation systems, neurophysiological function in spinal cord injury, neural network control system design, biomedical applications of engineering control systems, and neurophysiological systems modeling and simulation. Abbas holds or has held the following positions: section co-editor, Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement, 1996; assistant editor, Assistive Technology, 1999; chair, Special Interest Group on Functional Neuromuscular Stimulation, RESNA, 2000-present; invited participant, NINDS Workshop, UCLA Brain Research Institute, 2000; member, Scientific Program Committee, Internal Functional Electrical Stimulation Society, 2000; treasurer, Internal Functional Electrical Stimulation Society, 2000-present.