Cathy Bodine, PhD, CCC-SLP, Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering, Design and Computing at the University of Colorado (CU), is the Executive Director of the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities and holds the Coleman-Turner Endowed Chair in Cognitive Disability. She also holds appointments in the Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Pediatrics, and Orthopedics at the CU School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus. She serves as Director of the Center for Innovative Design and Engineering (CIDE), which focuses on assistive, medical, and accessible mainstream technologies, interdisciplinary research, translational applications, and design innovation. Dr. Bodine is also the Director of Innovation Ecosystem for the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) and is developing transdisciplinary educational programs focused on innovative technology, disability, and aging in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Dr. Bodine began her career in assistive technology (AT) in 1985. She joined the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center faculty in 1996. Today, she is internationally recognized for her leadership in the AT field and vigorously pursues her passions for new product design, research, service to families and persons with disabilities, and the professional AT community at large through her leadership of the CIDE.

Dr. Bodine inaugurated the NIDILRR-funded Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Advancing Cognitive Disabilities (RERC-ACT) and has served as the Principal Investigator on multiple federally funded awards; all aimed at improving the lives of individuals living with disability through assistive, mainstream, and medical technologies.