Advancing Research and Innovation for Aging and Disability (ARIAD)

A CU Denver Research and
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.

Project Information

ARIAD’s consortium of experts will converge to explore, develop, and deploy safe, productive, and efficient technologies to support the needs of those living with, or aging into, disability.

Leveraging and evolving CU Denver and Anschutz’s nationally recognized foundational programs is a key component of ARIAD’s plan. CIDE with its knowledge of assistive technology and human factors and design provides a vital strategic partnership. When partnered with the rest of the ARIAD group, the project team is equipped with expertise ranging from engineering to medicine to humanities and adult education. Collectively, ARIAD will forge new paths and propel creation of new knowledge to change lives by improving overall wellbeing and independence for those aging into or living with disability.

The outcome will not only make CU Denver a global destination for disability and aging technology innovation but will also make significant strides toward addressing the Grand Challenge facing our world today - how do we redesign our world when, for the first time in human history, our planet has more people over 65 than under the age of five?

Contact us to learn more or to join the effort!

Email Dr. Cathy Bodine: cathy.bodine@cuanschutz.edu
Email Dr. Caroline Clevenger: caroline.clevenger@ucdenver.edu

The Challenge

Public speaker in wheelchair in group with other adult lecturers.

One Billion

People live with disabilities worldwide.

Society is Aging

By 2030, one out of every five Americans will be at or above retirement age

Demand Fuels Innovation

One in two older adults will experience disability as they age.

Team Members

Kendall Hunter PhD

Associate Professor Bioengineering

Bioengineering (CEAS)

Email Address:kendall.hunter@cuanschutz.edu

Primary Phone:3037244197

Alt Phone:3039173798

Mailing Address:

CU Anschutz

Research Complex II

12700 East 19th Avenue

6016

Aurora, CO 80045

Bio

Dr. Hunter is an Associate Professor in Bioengineering at CU Denver – Anschutz. Trained as a mechanical engineer (fluid and solid computational mechanics, vibration, and acoustics), he now works in bioengineering. Since obtaining his PhD, he has worked in industry on the simulation and analysis of ship shock, measured and modeled the structural properties of the human pulmonary and systemic vasculatures, obtained detailed mechanics descriptions of the cardiac system from processing of echocardiographic and magnetic resonance images, and many more. These projects utilized his skills in engineering mechanics, computer programing, data management, and advanced statistics including unsupervised machine learning techniques. More recently, he is involved in an imaging guidance augmented reality (AR) project with the DoD as lead developer and a second AR team project supported by the Coleman Institute. For the ARIAD project, he will apply his skills in all noted technology subject areas but especially with social assistive robotics and translational science.

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