People
Karen L Troy, PhD
- Director, Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Laboratory
- Director, BME Graduate Studies
- Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Office: 4007 Life Sciences and Bioengineering Building
- Tel: 508-831-6093 Email: ktroy at wpi dot edu
- Twitter: @Troy_BiomechLab
- ResearchGate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karen_Troy
- ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8135-0066
- Publications in Pubmed are available here.
- View Dr. Troy’s CV
Courses Taught:
- BME 1001 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
- BME 3503 Skeletal Biomechanics Laboratory
- BME/ME 4504 Biomechanics
- BME 553 Biomechanics of Orthopaedic Devices
- BME 593 Scientific Communication
Karen L. Troy directs the Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Laboratory, where she investigates questions related to musculoskeletal health and structure, physical activity, and biomechanics, in healthy and clinical populations. She has expertise in computational biomechanics and finite element modeling, aging and fall avoidance, and medical imaging. She has worked on clinical trials targeting bone health in both healthy women and people with spinal cord injury. She collaborates with physicians in the areas of orthopaedic trauma, radiology, rheumatology, and physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Andrew Wilzman
Doctoral Student
Email: arwilzman at wpi dot edu
About Andrew
Logan Gaudette
Master’s Student
Email: lwgaudette at wpi dot edu
About Logan
Bryhannah Young
Master’s Student
Email: bayoung at wpi dot edu
About Bryhannah
Collaborators
- Paolo Bonato, PhD
- W. Brent Edwards, PhD
- Irene Davis, PT, PhD
- Adam Tenforde, MD
- Rebecca Fellin, PhD
- Ellen Gravallese, MD
- Anjana Jain, PhD
- Leslie R. Morse, DO
- Ara Nazarian, PhD
- Thomas J. Schnitzer, MD, PhD
- Jessica Ventura, PhD
- Jack Wixted, MD
- Jodi Dowthwaite, PhD
Lab Alumni
- Hannah Sattler, MS – Supplier Engineer II at Novo Nordisk
- Nicole Mattson, MS – Engineer at Engineer at Veryst Engineering
- Megan Pinette, BS – Research engineer at Rhode Island Hospital
- Maddie Hague, BS – Research engineer at Rhode Island Hospital
- Michael Distefano, BS – PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at Penn
- Megan Mancuso, PhD – Engineering Technical Writer, Mathworks Image Processing Team (Natick, MA)
- Tiffiny A. Butler, PhD — Senior director of Educational Equity at Rutgers University
- Joshua E. Johnson, PhD — Project Engineer at the Orthopaedic Biomechanics Research Laboratory (Univ. Iowa)
- Ying Fang, PhD — Postdoctoral research fellow at the Biomechatronics Laboratory (Northern Arizona University)
- Travis Henchie, MS — Research and Development Engineer, Boston Scientific
- Sabahat Ahmed, PharmD
- W. Brent Edwards, PhD — Associate Professor, University of Calgary
- Jessica Longworth, PhD — Field Medical Director at Pfizer
- Nathan Smith, MS — USARIEM
- Varun Bhatia, PhD — Principal Scientist at Medtronic
- KaLia Burnette, MEng – Sr. Research Associate at Biostage, inc.
- John Foy, MEng –Sr. Analyst, Global MedTech Strategy
- Kyle Murdock, MS
- Talia Vaughn, MS
