Tech4POD News
Tech4POD researchers join Breaking Bad cast member and disabilities advocate, RJ Mitte, at United Cerebral Palsy of Southeastern Wisconsin’s 30th Annual fundraising event, Taste of Milwaukee.
Front row: Jeff Kertis, Alyssa Paul, Deb Epps
Back row: Dr. Gerald Harris, Janelle Cross, Ryan Inawat, Ben McHenry, RJ Mitte, Tamara Cohen, Katie Konop, Carolyne Albert
Perhaps surprising to some, Tech4POD researchers have a lot in common with actor RJ Mitte of AMC’s award winning show Breaking Bad. And perhaps even more surprising, that commonality is advocating for people with disabilities.
At the national rehabilitation engineering research center, Tech4POD (Technology for Pediatric Orthopaedic Disabilities), the researchers are actively focused on innovative technologies to improve the care, rehabilitation, and quality of life for children with orthopaedic disabilities such as cerebral palsy (CP), clubfoot, spinal cord injuries and osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease).
While RJ Mitte plays a character with cerebral palsy in Breaking Bad, he himself also has CP (although a milder form of the disability). Mitte has become a strong advocate and spokesperson regarding disabilities. He is involved with several organizations that raise awareness of equality and diversity and is a Celebrity Youth Ambassador for United Cerebral Palsy, which educates, advocates and provides support limits for people with a spectrum of disabilities.
The Taste of Milwaukee fundraising event, held at the Hilton Hotel in March, offered delicious food from Milwaukee’s top chefs and proceeds help support the programs UCP offers to persons throughout southeastern Wisconsin, with not only with cerebral palsy, but other disabilities as well.
