Assistive Technology & Advanced Wearables | John Ross Rizzo | TEDxNYU

Join John-Ross (JR) Rizzo as he explains his life story and how he made turned his disability into a super power through the use of assistive technology and advanced wearables. John-Ross (JR) Rizzo, M.D., M.S.C.I., is a physician-scientist at NYU Langone Medical Center’s Rusk Rehabilitation, where he is an Assistant Professor of Physical Medicineand Rehabilitation with a cross-appointment in the Department of Neurology and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (NYU-Tandon School of Engineering). He leads the Visuomotor Integration Laboratory (VMIL), where his team focuses on eye hand coordination, as it relates to acquired brain injury (ABI), and the REACTIV Laboratory (Rehabilitation Engineering Alliance and Center
Transforming Low Vision), where his team focuses on advanced
wearables for the sensory deprived and benefits from his own personal experiences with vision loss. He is also the Founder and Chief Medical Advisor of Tactile Navigation Tools, LLC, where he and his team work incessantly to disrupt the assistive technology space for those with visual impairments of all kinds, enhancing human capabilities. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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