Dr. Sommer Amundsen-Huffmaster PhD

Assistant Professor

Dr. Sommer Amundsen-Huffmaster is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Minnesota (UMN) in Minneapolis, MN, USA. She received a B.S in Dance and Engineering with a mechanical emphasis from Hope College, Holland, MI in 2007 and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, after which she did a post-doc with Dr. Colum MacKinnon in the Movement Disorders Lab at UMN. Sommer's research interests include applying engineering principles to analyze human movement (biomechanics) and looking at how treatments can modify the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Sommer enjoys canoeing, reading, and spending time with her husband and two small children.

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Dr. Sommer Amundsen-Huffmaster, PhD

Assistant Professor
 University of Minnesota

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UBC Balance and Falls Research Centre

UBC receives support for managing its research enterprise from the federal Research Support Fund.

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