Dr. Thomas C. Bulea is a Staff Scientist in the Functional & Applied Biomechanics Section of the Rehabilitation Medicine Department at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD. He received his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Case Western Reserve University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health and a visiting post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Houston. Dr. Bulea’s research focuses on integration of neural interfacing and functional neuroimaging with rehabilitation robotics to develop new therapeutic tools and interventions for treatment of movement disorders and paralysis. A recent emphasis has been on development of pediatric exoskeletons for children with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and muscular dystrophy.