Thurmon E. Lockhart is an American biomedical engineer, researcher and educator. He is the Inaugural MORE Foundation Professor of Life in Motion at Arizona State University, a guest professor at Ghent University in Belgium and, serves as a research affiliate faculty at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He is an associate editor of Annals of Biomedical Engineering and academic and guest editor of the Sensors journal He has worked significantly to bring research to practice with various businesses to reduce falls. Lockhart's work has been focused on the identification and quantification of sensorimotor deficits and movement disorders associated with aging and neurological disorders on fall accidents. He has worked on several projects concerning human locomotion, wearable sensors, gait and posture. He is the author of An Introductions to Statistics for Biomedical Engineering, and has published over 100 papers in scientific journals related to fall prevention. Translating his research, he pioneered a training technique to reduce falls by using the 'Slip Simulator' technology. The system is currently used by various companies to reduce occupational falls.
Education Lockhart was raised in South Korea. He moved to the United States in 1979. After completing his B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Texas Tech University in 1992, Lockhart received a M.S. in 1997 and a Ph.D. in 2000, both from Texas Tech University.
Career Lockhart joined Virginia Tech as an assistant professor in Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering in 2000, becoming associate professor in 2006 and full professor in 2013. He left Virginia Tech in 2014 to join Arizona State University as professor of biomedical engineering in school of biological and health systems engineering and Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. In 2008, Lockhart was appointed as a guest professor at Ghent University in Ghent, Belgium. In 2014, he joined the Barrow Neurological Institute as an adjunct professor in the department of neurobiology. Lockhart has been a research affiliate professor at college of medicine at Mayo Clinic Arizona since 2017. From 2010 to 2016, he was the editor for Ergonomics. He has been an associate editor of Annals of Biomedical Engineering since 2010, part of the editorial board of Journal of Biomechanics since 2015 and the guest editor of PLOS Computational Biology, and an Editor of Scientific Reports.
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