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Director of Neuromotor Recovery Laboratory
Boston University
Dr. Awad is a movement scientist and physical therapist. He is the founding director of Boston University’s Neuromotor Recovery Laboratory—a cross-disciplinary research group that works to develop, study, and translate rehabilitation therapies and technologies. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at Boston University and an affiliated faculty member of the Center for Neurophotonics. He has a secondary appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is a founding core faculty member of the Harvard Move Lab, and is an Associate in the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is also on the research staff at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and is an Associate in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Awad serves as Associate Editor for leading open access journals at the intersection of rehabilitation and technology, including Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation and the IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology. He is a member of the Stroke Rehabilitation Scientific Advisory Board for ReWalk Robotics and serves as Chief Science Advisor for MedRhythms.