Kit Vaughan

Christopher L. 'Kit' Vaughan (born 21 April 1953), is Emeritus Professor of

Born in 1953 to Peter Leslie Vaughan, a mining engineer, and Margaret Baillie Vaughan at Blyvooruitzicht in the Western Transvaal, South Africa, Christopher Leonard 'Kit' Vaughan was educated at Michaelhouse, and then attended Rhodes University where he graduated in 1975, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in applied mathematics and physics.^{[citation needed]}

While a student at the

Vaughan spent the years 1986 to 1989 as an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Clemson University, where he published Dynamics of Human Gait that, with the software package Gait Laboratory, was recognised as a seminal contribution to the field. Between 1989 and 1995 he was Professor of Orthopaedics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia where he directed the motion analysis laboratory and published significant findings on the treatment of children with cerebral palsy.^{[citation needed]}

In 1996 Vaughan returned to South Africa to accept appointment as the Hyman Goldberg Professor of

Vaughan is considered an authority on the biomechanics of human locomotion for which he was recognised with the award of a Doctor of Science in Medicine degree in 2009.^[1] He served as President of the International Society of Biomechanics from 1999 to 2001.^[2][3]

Vaughan was the founding director in 2000 of the Medical Imaging Research Unit at the University of Cape Town.

In 2006 Vaughan was elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field,

Vaughan was nominated for the Innovation Prize for Africa 2016.[10]

Publications

• Vaughan CL, "The biomechanics of running gait", CRC Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, 12(1):1–48, 1984
• Vaughan CL, Davis BL, O'Connor JC, Dynamics of Human Gait,
  ISBN 0-87322-368-3
  , Human Kinetics Publishers, Illinois, 152 pages, 1992
• Sepulveda F, Wells D, Vaughan CL, "A neural network representation of electromyography and joint dynamics in human gait", Journal of Biomechanics, 26: 101–109, 1993
• Vaughan CL, Subramanian N, Busse ME, "Rhizotomy as a treatment option for children with cerebral palsy", Gait & Posture, 8(1): 43–59, 1998
• Vaughan CL, GaitCD, a CD-ROM containing four separate packages: Animate; GaitBib; GaitBook; and GaitLab,
  ISBN 0-620-23561-6
  , Kiboho Publishers, Cape Town, 1999
• Vaughan CL, "Theories of bipedal gait: an odyssey", Journal of Biomechanics, 36(4): 513–523, 2003
• Vaughan CL, Langerak N, O’Malley MJ “Neuromaturation of human locomotion revealed by non-dimensional scaling”, Experimental Brain Research, 153: 123–127, 2003
• Vaughan CL, O’Malley MJ “A gait nomogram used with fuzzy clustering to monitor functional status of children with cerebral palsy", Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 47(6): 377–383, 2005
• Vaughan CL, Blaszczyk MB “Dynamic similarity predicts gait parameters for Homo floresiensis and the Laetoli hominins”, American Journal of Human Biology, 20(3): 312–316, 2008
• Vaughan CL,
  ISBN 978-1-86094-988-3
  , Imperial College Press, London, 304 pages, 2008