Dr. Stacie Ringleb received her B.Sc. from Case Western Reserve University and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Drexel University in 2003 with an emphasis on biomechanics. Currently she is a post doctoral fellow in Mayo Clinic. Dr. Ringleb has already accumulated many awards and honors for her exemplary work. She presented her research at both the International Society of Biomechanics meeting in 2001 and at the World Congress in Biomechanics in 2002. At Drexel University’s Research Day in 2002 Dr. Ringleb won the best poster in basic and applied science category. She has maintained this attitude in her post doctoral fellowship in the Biomechanics Laboratory at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, where she is a member of the steering committee of the Mayo Research Fellow’s Forum. With all her outstanding accomplishments and personal attributes, Dr. Ringleb was a recipient of Drexel’s prestigious Koerner Graduate Fellowship which recognizes graduate students with the highest potential to become successful faculty members. A truly well rounded individual, Dr. Ringleb is active in extracurricular activities and is also a competitive rower. She has coached both high school students and adult rowers at the local rowing club. She is a bright scholar, an excellent role model and a true rising star!

What makes Dr. Ringleb stand out from her peers is her deep commitment to research. At Mayo, Dr. Ringleb used Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) to characterize the mechanical properties of muscle when effected by stroke, disuse atrophy, Graves Disease and Fibromyalgia. In addition she obtained funding to complete two pilot studies in foot and ankle research. She will use these data to submit a R03 (NIH) in the fall and will also contribute to the preparation of a R01 (NIH).

As a graduate student, Dr. Ringleb was involved in a collaborative research project between Drexel University and the Medical Image Processing Group in the Department of Radiology as well as the Department of Orthopedics at the University of Pennsylvania. Earlier Dr. Ringleb gained clinical experience through work in laboratories at Case Western Reserve University and Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia.

While in graduate school, Dr. Ringleb attended an NSF funded program, Engineering Education Scholars. As a part of this activity, she prepared a proposal which was selected by her peers as the “most fundable” project. Dr. Ringleb was also a founding member of a graduate student association. During her last year of studies, she organized a distinguished speaker seminar series as well as a seminar series designed to prepare graduate students interested in academic careers.
 

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