HSC Lab’s Jinseok Oh is now Dr. Oh!

Portrait image of Dr. Jinseok Oh wearing wireframe glasses in blue denim shirt with red plaid sweater wrapped around shoulders
Dr. Jinseok Oh

Dr. Jinseok Oh, a member of the Human Sensorimotor Control Lab (HSC), successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on August 30, 2022. Oh’s cumulative  dissertation was titled Assessment of human finger position sense and the effect of vibro-tactile stimulation on proprioceptive acuity. Finger position sense, the awareness of where our fingers are in space, is imperative for daily activities requiring manual dexterity, such as typing or opening up a jar. A deficit in this sense, associated with different movement disorders or neurodegenerative diseases, would degrade the performance proportional to the amount of deficit. However, there is not yet an objective and quantitative measure of this sense. Oh’s work centered around the development of a new device and testing method to enable researchers and clinicians to assess the proprioceptive function of human fingers.

Oh has accepted a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The HSC Lab wishes him all the best for his future.