Human Performance Lab

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Fogelson Neuroscience Center

 

On July 15, 1998, the Human Performance Laboratory (HPL) of the Fogelson Neuroscience Center (FNC) was formally opened at Presbyterian Hospital with a social event for medical professionals and financial donors from the Dallas community. This represents the latest in a long series of intermediate "successes" leading us ever-more closer to the type of impacts we envisioned as part of our long-term goals established more than a decade ago.
 

 
The FNC HPL is fully equipped with measurement instruments developed at HPI. Perhaps more importantly, the major participants at Presbyterian (led by neurologist Dr. Malcolm Stewart have embraced our performance theory and modeling concepts. A unique opportunity exists to work together and use these concepts to achieve new paradigms in medical contexts.
 

 

Neurologist Malcolm Stewart leads the Fogelson Neuroscience Center at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

The FNC will have research and clinical components. HPI's human performance concepts and tools will be integrated into both. It will address problems of patients with motor disorders such as Parkinson's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis, as well as those of other patients undergoing rehabilitation. We envision testing a model in which the HPL is analogous to a radiology department. That is, it will receive referrals from other units and will have a "human performance specialist" on staff (i.e., the analogue to a radiologist, which will likely be a graduate level biomedical engineer).

 

Dr. Kondraske serves in the capacity of Director of Research and Development of this center. We anticipate also establishing at least one doctoral fellowship in the near future for an UTA/HPI student to pursue doctoral research within the FNC.

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