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Advancing Research and Innovation for Aging and Disability (ARIAD)
A CU Denver Research and
Creative Work Grand Challenge
Creative Work Grand Challenge
The Goal
The ARIAD team aims to cultivate a powerful collaborative network of academic experts, community stakeholders, and local, national, and international industry advisors and partners to address the grand challenge of aging and aging into disability facing our world today. Funding and research support is provided by CU Denver in order to lay the foundation for building CU Denver’s reputation as a leader in research and creative work.The Challenge
Society is Aging
By 2030, one out of every five Americans will be at or above retirement ageDemand Fuels Innovation
One in two older adults will experience disability as they age.Team Members
Brecca Gaffney PhD
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering (CEAS)
Email Address:brecca.gaffney@ucdenver.edu
Dr. Gaffney is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at CU Denver. She also runs a laboratory connected to the Bioengineering department at CU Denver – Anschutz. Her research centers around the use of engineering-based principles to better understand the mechanical mechanisms of overuse injuries in medically complex populations. Her primary objective is to improve the efficacy of multi-modal interventions. To accomplish this, her research lab combines experimentally measured in-vivo biomechanics using motion capture, computational modeling, and medical imaging to determine how various movement pathologies impact the musculoskeletal system. She has over a decade of experience in human subjects research, authored over 25 peer-reviewed manuscripts, has successfully received numerous extramural grants, and has been awarded many prestigious awards within her field. For the ARIAD project, she will apply her expertise in the measurement, analysis, and modeling of human subject movement by providing access to her state-of-the-art 1,500 ft2 motion capture laboratory on the Anschutz Medical Campus.
Center for Inclusive Design and Engineering (CIDE)
CU Denver
The Hub, Bioengineering
1224 5th Street
Suite 130
Denver, CO 80204
303-315-1280
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