Biosketch

Dr. Stanhope became the founding director of the Physical Disabilities Branch, a collaborative research endeavor between the NIH Clinical Center’s Rehabilitation Medicine Department and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in 2001. In 2006, he was appointed director of NICHD’s Mechanics of Motion Program. Prior to 2001, Dr. Stanhope developed and led the Biomechanics Laboratory in the Clinical Center’s Rehabilitation Medicine Department for more than 16 years. His doctoral research studies concentrated on biomechanics, human anatomy and exercise physiology.

He leads a multidisciplinary team of scientists, clinicians, engineers and movement specialists working in the areas of biomechanics and biomedical engineering, human movement disorders and oral motor function, and focusing on improving the lives of people with physical disabilities and reducing the cost of health care.

Dr. Stanhope has published and presented more than 100 research manuscripts and abstracts. He was a founding member of the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society and the Italian Society of Clinical Movement Analysis. He is a member of the editorial board for the journal Gait & Posture and maintains adjunct faculty appointments in biomedical engineering at Catholic University of America and on the graduate faculty at the University of Maryland Medical School.

Honors and Awards

Clinical Center Director’s Award for Science, 2004; Istituto Scientifico Italiano Colonna Vertebrale (ISICO) Best Paper Award, 2004; Gate and Clinical Movement Analysis Society Best Paper Award, 2001; GCMAS Presidential Award, 1998

Selected Publications

BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS

Stanhope SJ. Advanced Methods in Computer Based Movement Analysis in Education and Clinical Practice. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 2005;6(3-4):313-17.

Stanhope SJ. An American Perspective. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 2005;6(3-4):349-51.

Siegel KL, Kepple TM, Stanhope SJ. A new understanding of gait compensations for lower extremity impairments. Orthopaedic Division Review, November/December:15-16, 2003.

Stanhope SJ. Technical and Methodological Issues in Clinical Gait Analysis. (Proceedings) Italian Clinical Movement Analysis Society (SIAMOC) 2002;1:9.

Stanhope SJ. A Trans-Rehabilitation-Research-Domain (TRRD) Model for Physical Disabilities Research. (Proceedings) Building Rehabilitation Research Capacity, NIH sponsored conference, 2001.

Stanhope SJ, Benvenuti F, ed., Clinical Movement Analysis for Rehabilitation Medicine, UO di Geriatria, Florence, Italy, 2000.

Kepple TM, Stanhope SJ. Move3D Software. In: Winters JM and Crago PE, editors. Biomechanics and Neural Control of Posture and Movement. New York: Springer-Verlage, 2000:659-660.

Stanhope SJ. Clinical Movement Analysis in the 21st Century. (Proceedings) Italian Clinical Movement Analysis Society (SIAMOC) 1999;1:9-12.

Cooper RA, Quatrano LA, Stanhope SJ, Cavanagh PR, Miller F, Kerrigan DC, Esquenazi A, Harris GF, Winters JM. Gait Analysis in Rehabilitation Medicine. Amer J of Physical Med and Rehabilitation 1999;78(3):278-280.

Quatrano LA, Stanhope SJ, ed., Gait analysis in Rehabilitation Medicine. National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research. Bethesda, MD, 1996.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Siegel KL, Kepple TM, Stanhope SJ. Using induced accelerations to understand knee stability during gait of individuals with muscle weakness. Gait & Posture, 2006;23(4):435-440

Mazzà C, Stanhope SJ, Taviani A, Cappozzo A. Biomechanical Modelling of Sit-to-Stand to Upright-Posture for Mobility Assessment of Persons with Chronic Stroke. Archives of PM&R, 2006;87(5):635-641.

Manal K, Chang C, Hamill J, Stanhope SJ. A Three Dimensional Data Visualization Technique for Reporting Movement Pattern Deviations. Journal of Biomechanics, 2005;38(11):2151-2156.

Shibanuma N, Sheehan FT, Stanhope SJ. Limb positioning is Critical for Defining Patellofemoral Alignment and Femoral Shape. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 2005;(434):198-206.

Mazzà C, Benvenuti F, Bimbi C, Stanhope SJ. Association Between Subject Functional Status, Seat Height and Movement Strategy in Sit-to-Stand Performance. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2004;52(10):1750-1754.

Manal K, Stanhope SJ. A Novel Method for Displaying Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Data. Gait & Posture, 2004;20(2):222-226.

Shibanuma N, Sheehan FT, Lipsky P, Stanhope S. Sensitivity of Femoral Attitude Estimates to MR Image Plane Location Relative to Condylar Surface. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2004;20:300-305.

Siegel KL, Kepple TM, Stanhope SJ. Joint Moment Control of Mechanical Energy Flow During Normal Gait. Gait & Posture, 2004;19(1):69-75.

Holden J, Selbie S, Stanhope SJ. A Proposed Test for the Clinical Movement Analysis Laboratory Accreditation Process. Gait & Posture, 2003;17:205-213.

Balzini L, Vannucchi, L, Benvenuti F, Benucci M, Monni F, Cappozzo A, Stanhope SJ. Clinical Characteristics of Flexed Posture in Elderly Women. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2003;51(10):1419-1426.