External Advisory Board​
Chair of Board:
Richard Schulz, Ph.D.
Director, UCSUR
Distinguished Service Professor, Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh
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Industry Members​:
Stephen Ewell
Executive Director
Consumer Technology Association Foundation
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Peter Kallestrup
Co-founder & CEO
i-Function, Inc.
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Katie Wainwright, Ph.D.
UX Researcher
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John Richards, PhD FACM FBCS
Distinguished Research Staff Member
Member IBM Academy of Technology
IBM Research AI
T.J. Watson Research Center, New York
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Community Members​​:
Michelle Arnot
Senior Director of Community Relations
Circle of Care
Philicia L. Deckard, LSW CBIST
Executive Director
Brain Injury Association of Illinois
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Amy Wald, MSW
Director, Connect Through Tech Programs
DOROT, Inc.
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William (Bill) Wertman, MSW
Chief Executive Officer
Big Bend Hospice
Academic Members​​:
Michelle S. Bourgeois, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Professor of Communications Sciences and Disorders
University of South Florida
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Steven R. Levine, MD
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Emergency Medicine; Executive Vice-Chair of Neurology
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
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Albert “Skip” Rizzo
Research Professor
USC University of Southern California