Dr Mohammad Al-Amri is a senior research fellow and postgraduate research programme manager at Cardiff University's School of Healthcare Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Engineering from the University of Surrey and a B.Sc in Electronic Engineering from Yarmouk University. He currently serves on the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM)’s board of trustees. He is the director of the Science, Technology and Engineering Research and Innovation Council of the IPEM.
Dr Al-Amri directs the Sensor Physiotherapy Intervention (SPIN) Research Group, where his research spans both virtual reality and wearable technology to help in understanding human movement and gait applied to musculoskeletal and neurodegenerative conditions. Much of his research has been on establishing the feasibility of using the latest affordable movement analysis technologies combined with purposely developed real-time biofeedback to advance healthcare by providing new approaches for quantifying clinical functional outcomes. This involves the development of a novel application based on using combined motor-cognitive tasks to detect subtle impairments in patients following brain injury and to develop physical biomarkers of cognitive decline. He has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines, particularly physiotherapy and software.
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