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Michelle Jillian Johnson, PhD

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  • They are not employed by Penn Medicine.
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  • Director, Rehabilitation Robotics Lab
  • Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Dr. Johnson is a Penn Medicine physician.
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Meet Dr. Johnson

Michelle J. Johnson, Ph.D., has secondary appointments as an Associate professor in Bioengineering and in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at University of Pennsylvania. She has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, with an emphasis in mechatronics, robotics, and design, from Stanford University.  She completed a NSF-NATO post-doctoral fellowship at the Advanced Robotics Technology and Systems Laboratory at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy.  She directs the Rehabilitation Robotic Research and Design Laboratory located at the Pennsylvania  Medicine Rehabilitation. The lab is also affiliated with the General Robotics Automation Sensing Perception (GRASP) Lab.  Dr. Johnson’s lab specializes in the design, development, and therapeutic use of novel, affordable, intelligent robotic assistants for rehabilitation in high and low-resource environments with an emphasis on using robotics and sensors to quantify upper limb motor function in adults and children with brain injury or at risk for brain injury.  Dr. Johnson has spent over twenty years applying technology solutions to aid in the understanding of disability and impairment after brain injury. 

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