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Lewis Wheaton

Professor and Center Director
Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GA, United States

Dr. Lewis A. Wheaton received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2005. He was a fellow at the National Institutes of Health (Medical Neurology Branch, 2001-2005) studying neural function and recovery of motor control after stroke. In mid-2005 he was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Maryland) where he performed neuroscience research in aging and stroke motor control in Veterans.
In 2008, Dr. Wheaton joined the School of Applied Physiology (now Biological Sciences) at Georgia Tech as an Assistant Professor. He became tenured in 2014 and is currently Full Professor in Biological Sciences. Dr. Wheaton is the Director of the Cognitive Motor Control Laboratory at Georgia Tech, engaged in state and federal funded research focused on understanding aspects of human upper limb motor rehabilitation in amputation and stroke. His lab has employed numerous high school, undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral fellows. He is the course director for 4 courses in the School of Biological Sciences (Human Neuroimaging, Movement Disorders, Human Neuroanatomy, and the History of Neuroscience). He is also the Dorector for the Center for Promoting Inclusion and Equity in the Sceinces, Georgia Tech College of Sciences.

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