Affiliation: University of Illinois and The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Dr. James L. Patton is Senior Research Scientist at Shirley Ryan Ability Lab (formerly RIC), Chicago and Professor in Bioengineering, the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Patton's research focuses on computational modeling of biomechanics, the neural control of actions, motor learning, and neuro-rehabilitation. He specializes in robotic manipulators and human machine-interactions to try to answer some of these questions.