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Awards

November 2015 Innovators under 35

September 2017 Illustrious Citizen Award

April 2018 Women in innovation and creativity

Degrees:

2018
Doctorate     Engineering sciences
PhD. in Automation and Robotics. Thesis title: Musculoskeletal modeling of human upper limb and development of the control system of a robotics exoskeleton for shoulder rehabilitation.
2013
Master     Engineering sciences
Master in Automation and Robotics Title of the Master's degree final project: "Study of the biomechanics of the human shoulder. Modeling and simulation of the Upper Brachial Plexus Injury."
2006
Undergraduate     Engineering sciences
Electronics Engineering Title of the final degree project: "Development of project guide lines for the design and construction of a Telepresence system through Internet 2 for surgical procedures in operating rooms."

Publications resulting from Research
[1] Marie André Destarac, Cecilia E. García, Jorge García, Ricardo Espinoza and Roque J. Saltarén. “ORTE: Robot for Upper Limb Rehabilitation. Biomechanical Analysis of Human Movements”. IEEE Latin America Transactions, vol.16, no.6, pp. 1638-1643, Jun. 2018.

[2] Marie André Destarac, Cecilia E. García Cena, Adrián Mérida Martínez, Luis J. Monge Chamorro and Roque Saltarén Pazmiño. “Analysis of the influence of external actuators on the glenohumeral joint movements”. Advances in Automation and Robotics Research in Latin America. I. Chang, J. Baca, H. A. Moreno, I. G. Carrera and M. Cardona (Eds.) Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp.71-82. ISBN 978-3-319-54377-2.

[3] Jorge García Montaño, Cecilia E. García Cena, Luis J. Monge Chamorro, Marie André Destarac and Roque Saltarén Pazmiño. “Mechanical Design of a Robotic Exoskeleton for Upper Limb Rehabilitation”. Advances in Automation and Robotics Research in Latin America. I. Chang, J. Baca, H. A. Moreno, I. G. Carrera and M. Cardona (Eds.) Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp.297-308. ISBN 978-3-319-54377-2.

[4] Marie André Destarac, Cecilia E. García Cena and Roque Saltarén Pazmiño. “Simulation of the Length Change in Muscles during the Arm Rotation for the Upper Brachial Plexus Injury”. Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II. J. Ibáñez, J. Gonzalez-Vargas, J.M. Azorín, M. Akai and J. L. Pons (Eds.) Springer International Publishing, 2016, vol. 15, pp. 1263-1268. ISBN: 978-3-319-46668-2.

[5] Luis J. Monge, Cecilia E. García Cena, Marie André Destarac and Roque Saltarén Pazmiño. “Simulation of Rehabilitation Therapies for Brachial Plexus Injury under the Influence of External Actuators”. Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II. J. Ibáñez, J. Gonzalez-Vargas, J.M. Azorín, M. Akai and J. L. Pons (Eds.) Springer International Publishing, 2016, vol. 15, pp. 1043-1047. ISBN: 978-3-319-46668-2.

[6] Marie André Destarac, Cecilia E. García Cena, Roque Saltarén Pazmiño and Rafael Aracil. “Kinematic and Kinetic simulation of Upper Brachial Plexus Injury in the Arm Rotation”. Open Conference on Future Trends in Robotics. R. Fernández and H. Montes (Eds.) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, mayo 2016, pp. 11-18. ISBN: 978-84-608-8452-1.

[7] Luis J. Monge, Marie André Destarac, Cecilia E. García Cena and Santiago Hernández. “Modelling and Simulation of servomotors for a Rehabilitation Exoskeleton”. Open Conference on Future Trends in Robotics. R. Fernández and H. Montes (Eds.) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, mayo 2016, pp. 29-36. ISBN: 978-84-608-8452-1.

[8] Marie André Destarac, Cecilia E. García Cena, Roque Saltarén Pazmiño, Mónica J. Reyes Urbina, Javier López López and Ricardo Espinoza Gómez. “Modeling and Simulation of Upper Brachial Plexus Injury”. IEEE Systems Journal, vol.10, no.3, pp. 912-921, Sept.2016.

[9] Cecilia E. García Cena, Roque Saltarén Pazmiño, Marie André Destarac, Edgar Loranca Vega, Ricardo Espinoza Gómez and Rafael Aracil Santonja. “Skeletal Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Upper Limb of Human Shoulder under Brachial Plexus Injury”. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ROBOT 2013, Advances in Robotics. M.A. Armada et.al (Eds.). New York Springer-Verlag, 2013, vol.1, pp.195-207.

[10] Johanna Viau Colindres. Corey Rountree, Marie Andre Destarac, Yiwen Cui, Manuel Perez Valdez, Mario Herrera Castellanos, Yvette Mirabal, Garrett Spiegel, Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Maria Oden. “Prospective Randomized Controlled Study Comparing Low-Cost LED and Conventional Phototherapy for Treatment of Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia”. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics (Q3), vol.58, no.3, pp.178-183, Jun. 2012.