Healthy Aging Innovation Center
LTU Team

Our multi-disciplinary team is comprised of leaders, faculty and students all across the University encompassing the fields of healthcare, engineering, computer science, architecture, design and business.

Immersed within LTU’s rich history of innovation, this team has access to faculty and students across the University’s five colleges encompassing Engineering, Arts + Sciences, Architecture + Design, Business + IT, and Health Sciences. It also has access to LTU’s plethora of healthcare partnerships, labs and its nationally recognized hardware accelerator. It aims to leverage all of these resources to advance aging at home innovations for seniors.

Located on campus in Southfield within Oakland County MI, the Center is close to Wayne, Macomb, Washtenaw, Livingston, Genesee and Lapeer counties which are home to 41% of the state’s seniors.  The Center is surrounded by an abundance of highly ranked hospitals, located within a Michigan Economic Development Smartzone and centrally located in a burgeoning innovation ecosystem which includes Ann Arbor and the Detroit area. Michigan invested $1.62 billion in the life science and medical device industries in 2020 which ranked in the top 10 in the U.S.1

  1. Michigan Economic Development Corporation

Leadership Team

Ross
Sanders

Director of Centers and Industry Partnerships

Amy
DeWys

Director of Institutional Initiatives and Grants

Kim
Henderson

Program and Project Specialist

Kathryn
Wrench
Executive Director of Sponsored Research

Faculty

Corey
Bohil

Associate Dean of Research
Professor

Humanities Social Sciences and Communication
Math and Computer Science
Arts and Sciences
Wisam
Bukaita

Assistant Professor of Practice

Math and Computer Science
Arts and Sciences
Janelle
Elias

Program Director
Assistant Professor

Physician Assistant Studies
Health Sciences
Mohammad
Hassanzadeh

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Math and Computer Science
Arts and Sciences
Engineering
Eric
Martinson

Department Chair

Math and Computer Science
Arts and Sciences
Eric
Meyer

Associate Professor
Director, Experimental Biomechanical Laboratory
Research Program Officer, Healthcare Violence Reduction Center

Biomedical Engineering
Engineering
Heidi
Morano

Associate Professor of Practice

Engineering
George
Pappas

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineering
John
Sammut

Director, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center
Adjunct Faculty

Business and IT
Ian
Zang

Adjunct Faculty

Design
Architecture and Design

Additional Support

LTU President, Dr. Tarek Sobh

LTU Interim Provost, Karl Daubmann

LTU SVP for Research and Economic Development, Dr. Nabil Grace

LTU AVP of Economic Development, Mark Brucki

LTU College Deans

Contact

Ross
Sanders

Director of Centers and Industry Partnerships

Lawrence Technological University
21000 West Ten Mile Road,
Southfield, MI 48075-1058