Amy grew up in Mukwonago, Wisconsin. In 2010, she earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering with Honors in Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, WI. At UW-Madison, Amy was mentored by Dr. Darryl Thelen in the Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab conducting research using electrical stimulation in biarticular muscles to evaluate counterintuitive muscle function. For her masters, she worked in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware in Newark, DE and earned her MSME in 2012. Her thesis work focused on post-stroke gait coordination and muscle contributions utilizing musculoskeletal modeling in the Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab, advised by Dr. Jill Higginson. Following, she worked at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital in the Motion Analysis Center as a clinical gait lab engineer for five years in Grand Rapids, MI. While collaborating at Mary Free Bed, Amy pursued her PhD in Engineering Mechanics at Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI. She earned her PhD in 2017 and was mentored by Dr. Tamara Reid Bush in the Biomechanical Design Research Laboratory. Her dissertation research quantified residual limb kinematics and kinetics for transtibial amputees with experimental and modeling approaches to evaluate fit and concerns related to ulcer formation. She developed, validated and implemented an experimental method using motion capture to quantify displacements and strains within a prosthetic socket for below knee amputees. In August 2017, Amy joined Dr. Andrew Anderson’s laboratory at the University of Utah as a postdoctoral researcher. In April 2020, Amy joined the Orthopaedic Research Laboratory as research faculty. Outside of the lab, Amy loves enjoying the outdoors with her amazing husband and their dogs. They can often be found mountain biking, hiking, rock climbing and skiing in the mountains of Utah.
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