Abstract

Dr Tilak Dutta and Ghazaleh Delfi (MASc student) will be leading the workshop focused on their foot clearance work.

Biography

Dr. Tilak Dutta is a Scientist at TRI and leads the Home and Community Team. He completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2012 at the University of Toronto focused on preventing back injury in caregivers and received funding from the WSIB to produce a set of videos for caregivers(link is external) to update their training with our current understanding of the causes of back injury. He is listed as an inventor on several patents including SlingSerter. 

Ghazaleh Delfi received her BSc in electrical engineering with a minor in mathematics from Sharif University of Technology. She joined the TRI Home and Community team in September 2017 and is currently pursuing her MASc in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Under supervision of Dr. Tilak Dutta, her thesis will focus on measuring foot clearance on outdoor walkways.

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