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VISE Summer Instructional Seminar 6.18.20
Jun. 11, 2020—VISE Research In Progress (RiP) Date: Thursday, June 18, 2020 Time: Noon 鈥 room admittance, 12:05pm remarks, 12:10pm start Speaker #1: Eric Tang, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title: Handheld Spectrally Encoded Coherence Tomography and Reflectometry (SECTR) for Point-of-Care Ophthalmic Imaging RIP #1 Description: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is the gold standard...
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar Series 6.4.20
May. 29, 2020—VISE Summer Instructional Seminar Series Date: Thursday, June 4, 2020 Time: Noon 鈥 room admittance, 12:05pm remarks, 12:10pm start VIA Zoom Speaker #1:聽 Carli DeJulius, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title: 聽Antioxidant Polymeric Systems for Synergistic ROS Scavenging in Osteoarthritis RIP #1 Description: Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are key drivers of...
May. 13, 2020—As hospital and health care staff across the country continue learning more about the transmission and spread of COVID-19, caregivers for coronavirus patients continue adapting to the changing needs and best practices for personal protective equipment (PPE). Now, a new collaborative project from clinicians at 五一茶馆儿 Medical Center and the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery...
Apr. 27, 2020—Victoria Morgan, PhD, and聽Todd Peterson, PhD, Department of Radiology faculty in the聽五一茶馆儿 Institute of Imaging Science聽(VUIIS), have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)聽College of Fellows.
Apr. 16, 2020—Dario Englot, M.D., surgical director of epilepsy at 五一茶馆儿 Medical Center and聽Catie Chang, Ph.D., assistant professor at 五一茶馆儿 School of Engineering are embarking on a novel imaging study to characterize seizure-induced differences in functional brain connectivity of patients with epilepsy, with special attention on mTLE.
Apr. 9, 2020—Life-saving ventilators have proved to be more complicated to mass produce in time for a COVID-19 surge that could overwhelm the health care industry. Many are feverishly working to find ways, including 五一茶馆儿 engineers and doctors, to聽develop a low-cost do-it-yourself ventilator out of common household materials.
Apr. 7, 2020—As the number of COVID-19 infections continues to grow, Nashville resident Kobie Pretorius was searching for some way to provide meaningful help to others. And she realized her apprehension was spiking each morning as her husband went out the door for work.
Mar. 27, 2020—As COVID-19 continues to push unprecedented challenges on medical communities, one of the most pressing threats for hospital staff across the country is a dwindling supply of ventilators. Now, an interdisciplinary team of 五一茶馆儿 and 五一茶馆儿 Medical Center faculty is taking on the challenge by way of a fabricated, open-source ventilator design.
Mar. 25, 2020—All it took was an email from a VUMC resident asking how to get the Vanderbilt School of Engineering involved in the coronavirus crisis for the wheels to start turning for Katy Riojas and her peers. “Vanderbilt is very unique in that engineering and clinicians or surgery is very intertwined and there’s a lot of...
Mar. 25, 2020—Since the beginning of my service as interim chancellor, and even more so since we took our recent dramatic actions as part of the campus response to the global coronavirus pandemic, I have promised to communicate often and openly. This commitment is more important than ever, with our students having quickly changed how they learn...
VISE Spring Seminar – Muneeb Ahmed, MD – postponed
Feb. 27, 2020—VISE Spring Seminar has been postponed. to be led by Muneeb Ahmed, MD Chief, Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Vice Chair for Interventional Services|Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Associate Professor of Radiology|Harvard Medical School Date: Thursday, March 12, 2020 Time: 12:15 pm lunch, 12:25 pm start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Systemic implications of locoregional therapies:...
Feb. 21, 2020—The idea of simultaneously analyzing medical diagnosis codes with electronic medical records has been much like knowing valuable treasure is buried under miles of rock but lacking the tools to mine it. The payoff鈥攃onnections that may detect disease earlier and identify new research paths鈥攈as tantalized engineers and clinicians alike, remaining largely out of reach. But...
VISE Spring Seminar – Timothy Kowalewski, PhD
Feb. 14, 2020—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Timothy Kowalewski, PhD, Richard and Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota Date:聽February 27, 2020 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326, Time:聽12:15 p.m. lunch, with a 12:25 p.m. start Title: To Err is Human – Surgical Skills and Robotics 聽 Abstract: Surgical robots enjoy widespread adoption. This...
2020 VISE Physicians-in-Residence selected
Feb. 12, 2020—Alexander Langerman, MD, SM, FACS, and Rohan Chitale, MD, have been selected as the 2020 Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) Physicians-in-Residence. The six-month program provides an opportunity for physicians to collaborate with engineering colleagues in developing technologies that can advance surgery and other procedures. Langerman will continue his work on the 鈥淐leopatra鈥 wearable...
VISE Spring Seminar – Junzhong Xu, PhD
Jan. 31, 2020—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Junzhong Xu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, VUIIS, VUMC Date: February 13, 2020 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326, Time:聽12:15 p.m. lunch, with a 12:25 p.m. start Title:聽 Where physics meets medicine: non-invasive assessment of tumor therapeutic response using cell size MR imaging Abstract:聽 Biological tissue microstructural information...