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Biomechanics of Arteries Mini-Symposium Flyers

(November 24, 2009)

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Biomechanics of Arteries – Mini-symposium Presenters:

King H. Yang is a Professor of the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and the Director of Bioengineering Center at Wayne State University. His research interests include injury biomechanics, contact impact biomechanics, and bone fracture biomechanics. Dr. Yang’s most recent research involves detailed modeling of the human body from head to toe in efforts to investigate mechanisms of injury related to motor vehicle and sports collisions. The human brain model his team developed is now on a permanent display at the Computer World of Smithsonian Institutes. Dr. Yang has received many awards for his work including the 1984 Volvo award in Biomechanics, and 2001 and 2007 John Paul Stapp Awards among others. He is a fellow or member of several prestigious scientific institutes including the American Institute for Medicine and Biological Engineering among others. He served as a Visiting Professor at several universities worldwide including the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology among others.

 
David Vorp is a tenured Professor of Surgery (General/Vascular) and Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Vorp earned both his BS and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis on vascular biomechanics from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Vorp’s research focuses on vascular biomechanics; specifically, he studies integrating mammalian vascular physiology with finite elasticity and other theories. He is currently studying the biomechanical evaluation of abdominal aortic aneurysm, the neurophysiology and biomechanics of the urethra and SUI, and the bioengineering and biologic studies of aneurysm weakening. Dr. Vorp is a member of several prestigious organizations, such as the American Society of Artificial Internal Organs among others. He is on the Executive Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Bioengineering Division.

 
Jafar Vossoughi is the president of the Biomed Research Foundation and a professor at the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland. Dr. Vossoughi earned his PhD in applied mechanics from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He is an expert in many areas of Biomechanics including Vascular Mechanics, and Cardiovascular Devices among others. He has received several awards including the Arthur Guyton Award on Cardiovascular Physiology. Dr. Vossoughi has served as a reviewer for many prominent scientific journals and government agencies. He is a member of the American Heart Association along with nine other prestigious organizations. Dr. Vossoughi is also the author, editor and co-editor of 15 books, 18 book chapters, and published over 250 research papers, mostly in Biomedical Engineering, Experimental Mechanics, and Applied Mechanics.

 
Michael Sacks is the John A. Swanson Endowed Chair in Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his B.S. and M.S. in engineering mechanics from Michigan State University. Dr. Sacks then received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He has received several honors including the Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Sacks’ overall research focus is characterization and modeling of the structure-function-biomechanics of native and engineered soft tissues, and linking these studies to underlying cell-tissue mechanobiological interactions. In particular, his laboratory has focused on the mechanical behavior and function of the native aortic and mitral heart valves, including the development of the first constitutive (stress-strain) models for these tissues using a structural approach.

 
Alexander Rachev is a Professor of Biomechanics at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from the Polish Academy of Sciences and his D.SC. from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Rachev has worked as a professor in several universities worldwide including institutes in Bulgaria, the United States, and in Switzerland. He is a member of several professional and academic organizations including the Biomedical Engineering Society and the World Council of Biomechanics. Dr. Rachev’s research interests include cardiovascular biomechanics, mechanical properties of living tissues, blood flow in arteries, growth and remodeling, arterial grafting and stenting, and tissue engineered functional grafts. Dr. Rachev has also published more than 150 journal papers and conference presentations with proceedings in the field of mechanics and biomechanics.

 
Richard Kent is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia, with additional appointments in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Emergency Medicine. His research interests include injury biomechanics, especially of the thorax and abdomen, and variation in injury tolerance associated with both pediatric development and senescence. He is a fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers and of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, Associate Editor of Traffic Injury Prevention, and a member of the Stapp Richard Kent is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia, with additional appointments in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Emergency Medicine. His research interests include injury biomechanics, especially of the thorax and abdomen, and variation in injury tolerance associated with both pediatric development and senescence. He is a fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers and of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, Associate Editor of Traffic Injury Prevention, and a member of the Stapp Advisory Committee.

 
Warren Hardy is currently a faculty member at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT) and the Wake Forest University (WFU) School of Medicine (Childrens Institute for Pediatric Trauma and the Department of Surgery). He is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech and is part of the core faculty of the School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences. He serves as the director of the VTWFU Center for Injury Biomechanics on the VT campus. He continues to study human response to impact, design cash dummy components, implement FE models related to crash response and injury mitigation, and examine restraint design and restraint/occupant interaction. He focuses on traumatic brain injury, traumatic rupture of the aorta, and abdominal injury. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles and three book chapters. He has won the John Paul Stapp Award three times for his publications.

 
Mohammad Kiani received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1983 and M.S. and Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Louisiana Tech University in 1997 and 1990, respectively. He was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester from 1990 to 1993. Dr. Kiani has received a number of scholarly research and teaching awards including the prestigious Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association and his research has been funded by a number of government agencies and private foundations. He has published close to 50 peer reviewed scientific articles and has made more than 145 presentations at scientific meetings. Dr. Kiani is a fellow of the American Heart Association, a senior member of IEEE and several other scientific and engineering organizations and serves as a reviewer for several funding agencies and a number of scientific and engineering journals.