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Ross Andersen, Ph.D.

Ross Andersen, Ph.D. joined McGill University in 2007 as a Tier I Canada Research Chair and is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at McGill University, where he also holds a joint appointment in Medicine. He and has also been on the Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His research has focused on the role that physical activity plays in weight management. His work has been funded by the American Hearth Association and the National Institutes of Health to examine strategies to improve exercise adherence and to examine the dose of exercise required to promote long term weight control. Dr. Andersen has numerous publications and presentations in the area of physical activity and weight management, including publications in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Annals of Internal Medicine, Obesity Research, Medicine, Science in Sports and Exercise and many other peer-reviewed journals. He has authored three text books and several book chapters and serves on the editorial board for several research journals. He is known for his work in introducing Lifestyle Physical Activity to overweight adults to promote weight maintenance and long term adoption of physical activity.

Dr. Andersen has also been associated with several investigations to develop novel medical devises. He has headed up projects to design equipment to assess and monitor body fluid levels as well as the size and health of large wounds. Recently, he has been involved with developing a next-generation mechanical arm that will look, feel, perform and be controlled like a natural limb.

Dr. Andersen is a Fellow with American College of Sports Medicine and served as the President of ACSM Mid Atlantic Chapter. For eight years served on the board of Directors for the American Council on Exercise and during that time Co-Edited their Clinical Exercise Specialist Text book.

Kenneth M. Nelson, MD, MPH, CFE

Dr. Kenneth M. Nelson’s healthcare experience spans over 30 years including 20 years as the Medical Advisor, Office of Inspector General, US Department of Health and Human Services and ten years in leadership positions in government contractors Palmetto Government Benefits Administrators – where he served as Medical Director for the Statistical Analysis Durable Medical Equipment Regional Carrier concerns at TriCenturion – an entity responsible for the coding of items of durable medical equipment, orthotics, prosthetics, and supplies as these relate to the Medicare program. In this role, Dr. Nelson focused on program integrity and compliance issues. At SADMERC, he was intimately involved in the coding, coverage and pricing of Durable Medical Equipment.

His current interests include the appropriate coding and payment for new and improved items of Durable Medical Equipment and related procedures under HCPS and CPT coding systems. Based on five years of service as the only non-federal employee serving on the Alpha-Numeric work group that codes durable medical equipment and other items for CMS (Medicare) reimbursement, he is aware of the pitfalls that may be encountered in that process. In order to successfully contend with federal coding, policy and reimbursement concerns, product developers need early integration of the coding and marketing plans.

Lonnie J. Love, Ph.D.

Lonnie Love is a Distinguished Research Scientist in the Robotics and Energetic Systems Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1995. In his time at Georgia Tech, Dr. Love investigated the design and control of haptic interfaces, force reflecting teleoperation and laparoscopic surgical simulation systems. In his subsequent 14 years at ORNL, he has conducted research in the areas of fluid powered human assistive systems, ship motion compensation for human controlled devices, learning controls, telerobotics, micro-assembly, and smart and adaptive fluidic systems.

Dr. Love is the co-inventor of mesofluidics and nanofermentation. Mesofluidics is the miniaturization of fluid powered systems which enable very powerful, lightweight and compact robotic, prosthetic and wearable systems. Nanofermentation is a revolutionary new approach using bacteria to facilitate the synthesis of novel nanomaterials. His work in nanofermentation was selected by R&D Magazine as one of the top 100 new technologies and top 25 nanotechnologies in 2006. Dr. Love has over 50 peer reviewed book chapters, journal and conference articles and holds numerous patents and invention disclosures in the area of robotics and fluidic actuation. He is presently the chairman of NSF’s Scientific Advisory Board for their Engineering Research Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power, which combines seven universities with 58 industrial partners focusing on renewing the US research expertise in the area of hydraulics and pneumatics.