He also holds affiliate positions in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. His general interests involve robotic teaching, dynamic balance control, haptics, modeling of the human-machine interface, and robot-facilitated recovery from a brain injury. Dr. Patton is a member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Societies, as well as the Society for Neuroscience. He is a reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Engineering in Medicine Biology magazine, and IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. He also chairs the IEEE-EMBS technical committee on biomedical robotics.