Stacy Imler

Background

About Stacy Imler

Dr. Imler has expertise in injury biomechanics with a focused interest in understanding the role of extrinsic factors on human performance, injury, and recovery through measurement of biomechanical data collected during activities performed in a naturalistic environment. She has extensive project engagement in the areas of human motion and injury potential; evaluations of safety countermeasures and personal protective equipment; and analysis of real-world injury data. She has investigated these issues in the context of sporting and recreational activities, incidents involving industrial and agricultural equipment, and motor vehicle collisions. Dr. Imler has extensive experience in presenting her complex engineering and scientific opinions to a wide variety of audiences. In general, her analyses include evaluation of the injuries through an injury causation analysis or through determination of the mechanism of traumatic injury, as well as investigation of the effects of existing or hypothetical safety countermeasures such as personal protective equipment or restraints on injury outcome. Dr. Imler's research interests include evaluation of field accident data to determine injury risk during activities including sport, recreation, and in transportation settings for particular population groups (e.g, by sporting or recreation activity, age, protective equipment worn). Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Imler was a Graduate Research Assistant at the Soft Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia, where her research activities in orthopaedic biomechanics included studies focusing on the soft tissues in the knee. She evaluated the biosynthetic effects of external mechanical stimuli, including injurious as well as physiological loading on orthopaedic soft tissues. She has technical experience in design and development of devices to implement external mechanical stimuli, as well as experience in mechanical testing, tissue engineering, and biological assays.