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Medical Device Town Hall, Wed Oct 15, 1-3pm; 208 Light Hall
Aug. 29, 2014—Join Ken Holroyd, MD CTTC Medical Director for a Medical Device Regulatory Affairs Program (MDRAP) Town Hall Meeting to learn about the program offerings. Wednesday October 15, 1-3pm 208 Light Hall
VUBME seeks outstanding faculty candidate
Aug. 14, 2014—FACULTY POSITION in BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY The Department of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University (VUBME) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position. VUBME seeks an outstanding candidate who can add to existing strengths in translational research working at the interface between surgery and engineering. This search is closely associated with the Vanderbilt Institute in...
ViSE Seminar Series: NSF/NIH Predoc Fellowship Workshop, SC 5326, Thursday August 21, 11:50. Refreshments provided.
Aug. 14, 2014—Speakers: Bob Webster, PhD Associate Prof of ME Jack Noble, PhD Assistant Prof of EECS Thursday, August 21st, Stevenson Center 5326 Snacks & refreshments at 11:50 Noon seminar start
VISE NIH Grant Workshop & Peer Review Seminar, Tuesday, August 19, 2014, Stevenson Center 5326 – Noon
Aug. 14, 2014—VISE NIH Grant Workshop & Peer Review Seminar Speaker: Mike Miga, PhD Date & Time: Tuesday August 19th, Noon Place: Stevenson Center 5326
VISE RIP Seminar, Thursday, July 24th, Stevenson Center 5326, 11:50 social, Noon start
Jul. 22, 2014—Title: VISE Summer RIP seminar Series Date & Time: Thursday July 24th, Noon Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Descriptions: Title: Mastoid Segmentation for Robotic Acoustic Neuroma Surgery Speaker: Kepra McBrayer Years completed: 1, EECS Advisor: Benoit Dawant, PhD Title: How To Recognize a Liver Speaker: Yifei Wu Years completed: 3, BME Advisor: Mike Miga,...
ViSE Research in Progress Seminar Series, FRIDAY July 11, 12:00pm SC 5326. Refreshments provided.
Jul. 8, 2014—Title: VISE Summer RIP seminar Series Date & Time: Friday July 11th, Noon Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Descriptions: Title: Toward the Development of a Three-Dimensional Computational Model of Biomechanical Stresses during Vocal Fold Vibration: Part I Speaker: Carolyn K. Novaleski Years completed: 2, Hearing & Speech Sciences Advisor: Bernard Rousseau, PhD Title: Toward...
TIME CHANGE! ViSE Research in Progress Seminar Series, Thursday June 26, 9:30am SC 5326. Refreshments provided.
Jun. 18, 2014—With World Cup USA vs Germany starting at 11am Thursday we have changed the RIP seminar time! Title: VISE Summer RIP seminar Series Date & Time: June 26th, SOCIAL: 9:30 am, Seminar begins at 9:40 Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Descriptions: Title: Towards the development of an image guidance system for breast cancer surgeries Speaker: Rebekah Conley Years...
ViSE Research in Progress Seminar Series, Thursday June 12, 11:50, SC 5326. Refreshments provided.
Jun. 10, 2014—Welcome to the ViSE summer series! The summer series is a bit more creative/instructive in nature. With the amount of research occurring within ViSE we are implementing a Research-In-Progress (RIP) Seminar. For this year we are highlighting graduate students that have completed 2-3+ years, and will be conducting a dual short-seminar format. Title: VISE Summer...
Webster accepts appointment as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Jun. 4, 2014—ViSE Affiliate Robert J Webster, III recently accepted an appointment as an Associate Editor position with the prestigious journal, IEEE Transactions on Robotics. IEEE Transactions on Robotics is published by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and covers both theory and applications on topics including: kinematics, dynamics, control, and simulation of robots and intelligent machines and...
ViSE Summer Research Series
Jun. 3, 2014—This summer we will have a series of research-in-progress reports from many of our 2nd and 3rd year students. This represents a great chance to present some of the first passes at ideas, and then brainstorm for suggestions towards improvement. We will have these sessions over lunch. This is a great opportunity for students and...
Brain clots meet their match with robot needle
Apr. 16, 2014—It’s a popular desert made from gelatin, but for ViSE-affiliated scientists at Vanderbilt University, it’s also proving to be the ideal medium for testing a highly sophisticated robot, a steerable needle called the Active Cannula. The needle is designed to navigate through the brain to reach and remove potentially fatal blood clots, leaving the surrounding...
ViSE Guest Speaker Dr. Simon Warfield to present Thursday April 17, 11:50, SC 5326. Refreshments provided.
Apr. 7, 2014—Advances in Pediatric Image Processing at Children’s Hospital Boston Thursday April 17th 2014 Stevenson Center 5326 11:50-1:10 pm Snacks & refreshments at 11:50 Noon seminar start About Simon Warfield Dr. Warfield is a Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, the Director of the Computational Radiology Laboratory (CRL), and the Director of Research of the...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014: “Minimizing Physical Disability with Robotic Arms, Legs, and Exoskeletons,” Professor Michael Goldfarb
Mar. 25, 2014—“Minimizing Physical Disability with Robotic Arms, Legs, and Exoskeletons”Professor Michael Goldfarb Reception – Light Hall, North Lobby – 4:30-5:30 p.m. Lecture – Room 208 – Light Hall – 5:30-6:30 p.m. The Chancellor’s Lecture Series is proud to feature Vanderbilt Professor Michael Goldfarb as the final lecturer of the 2013-2014 academic year. Recently recognized by Popular...
ViSE Seminar Series: Issues of access and visualization in managing diseases of the pancreas: Engineering approaches to therapy, SC 5326, Thursday March 27, 11:50. Refreshments provided.
Mar. 21, 2014—Title: Issues of access and visualization in managing diseases of the pancreas: Engineering approaches to therapy Speakers: Dr. William Nealon, MD Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery, Associate Surgeon-in-Chief, VUMC Dr. Charles Caskey, PhD Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Date: Thursday, March 27th, 2014 Time: Noon start, 11:50 lunch social Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract:...
ME/EECS/VISE co-sponsored Robotics seminar, Monday March 17, 134 FGH (Jacob’s Believed in Me Auditorium) 3:10 p.m
Mar. 13, 2014—Dan Popa, Associate Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington, will present Multiscale Robotics: A view from Microns and Millimeters to Human size Monday March 17, 3:10-4 pm, Jacobs Believed in Me Auditorium/FGH 134. Abstract: Having been established more than half a century ago, the fields of control and...
ViSE Seminar Series: Temporal Patterns of Deep Brain Stimulation: From Mechanisms to Improved Therapy, SC 5326, Thursday March 13, 11:50. Refreshments provided.
Mar. 4, 2014—Title: Temporal Patterns of Deep Brain Stimulation: From Mechanisms to Improved Therapy Speaker: Warren M. Grill, Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Neurobiology, and Surgery, Duke University Date: Thursday, March 13th, 2014 Time: Noon start, 11:50 lunch social Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has developed from an experimental technique...
ViSE co-sponsors Discovery Lecture featuring Blake Wilson, Lasker Award award winner: March 13th, 4pm, 208 Light Hall
Mar. 4, 2014—Blake S. Wilson, DSc, Lasker Award winner will be featured at the March 13, 2014 Vanderbilt Discovery Lecture. The Lasker Awards are among the most respected science prizes in the world. Eighty-three Lasker laureates have received the Nobel Prize, including 31 in the past two decades. Title: “The development of the modern cochlear implant and...
ViSE affiliate students win SPIE Awards!
Feb. 25, 2014—A number of ViSE faculty and student members participated in the SPIE Medical Imaging: Image-Guided Procedures Robotic Interventions, and Modeling Conference in San Diego, Feb 15-20, 2014. Andrew Asman was a best student paper “all-conference” finalist at SPIE for his paper “Statistical label fusion with hierarchical performance models” with Vanderbilt co-authors Alexander S. Dagley and...
ViSE Seminar Series: Technology Challenges in Interventional Pulmonology, SC 5326, Thursday February 27, 11:50. Refreshments provided.
Feb. 24, 2014—Technology Challenges in Interventional Pulmonology Speakers: Otis B. Rickman, D.O. , Assistant Professor of Medicine & Thoracic Surgery , Director of Bronchoscopy, Co-Director Lung Cancer Screening Program & Bob Webster, PhD, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Otolaryngology Date: Thursday, February 27th, 2014 Time: Noon start, 11:50 lunch social Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract: Interventional...
ViSE Seminar Series: Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Disease, SC 5326, Thursday February 13, 11:50. Refreshments provided.
Feb. 10, 2014—Welcome Dr. Thomas J. Wang, MD who has joined Vanderbilt as the new Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. Dr. Wang comes to Vanderbilt from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where he directed the heart failure disease management program and served as the associate director of the heart failure/transplantation section. Biomarkers of...
Leuthardt to speak at ViSE Seminar Series, Monday January 27, 5:15pm
Jan. 16, 2014—Center for Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology: Developing Models for Innovation in Academic Neurosurgery Speaker: Eric C. Leuthardt, M.D. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Date: Monday January 27th Time: 4:30 Social, 5:15 Seminar Start Place: 134 “Jacobs Believed in Me” Auditorium (FGH) and Atrium There is currently an acceleration of new scientific...
1st SPRING SEMESTER VISE SEMINAR, January 27, 2014, 5:15-6:10pm, FGH 134
Dec. 18, 2013—Speaker: Dr. Eric Leuthardt, MD Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, & Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis Title: Director of the Center for Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology Date: Monday, January 27th, 2014 Time: 5:10-6:10pm Place: Featheringill Hall 134, “Jacobs Believed in Me” Auditorium Website: http://cint.wustl.edu
Annual Surgery and Engineering Symposium
Dec. 4, 2013—The Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering (VISE) and the Department of Surgery Research Collaborative will host the second annual Vanderbilt Surgery and Engineering Symposium today, Wednesday, Dec. 11, from 3 to 7 p.m. in Light Hall- Room 208 and North Atrium. Nick Hopkins, Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery, Professor of Radiology, State University of New...
ViSE affiliates partner on grant awarded to the Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Nov. 21, 2013—The Vanderbilt Medical & Electromechanical Design lab is a partner on a grant recently awarded by the Korean government to the Korea Institute of Science and Technology entitled “Development of Next-Generation Micro Surgical Robot Based on Open Platform”. The purpose of the work is to develop a surgical robotic system with steerable end effectors for...
ViSE affiliates present results of the NSF-CPS Project
Nov. 19, 2013—The first year results of the NSF-CPS Project “CPS-Synergy: Integrated Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis of Miniature Medical Devices” were presented at the Fourth Annual Cyber-Physical Systems Principal Investigators meeting in Arlington, VA. Here you can download the poster that has been presented.
ViSE affiliates win OLYMPUS Best Laparoscopy/Robotic Paper Award
Nov. 18, 2013—The study “Laparoscopic Wireless Palpation Device: Preliminary Assessment of Simulated Tumor Detection in an Elastic Modulus” by A. Benson, M. Beccani, C. Di Natali, R. Pickens, P. Valdastri, S. D. Herrell received the OLYMPUS Best Laparoscopy/Robotic Paper Award at the 31st World Congress of Endourology in New Orleans, LA. Read more: 31st World Congress of...
ViSE Seminar Series: Challenges in Interventional Oncology: Soft-tissue Ablative Therapeutics, SC 5326, Thursday November 21, 11:50-1:10, Refreshments provided.
Nov. 18, 2013—Challenges in Interventional Oncology: Soft-tissue Ablative Therapeutics Presenters: Dr. Dan Brown, MD, Chief of Interventional Oncology VUMC Dr. Logan W. Clements, PhD Research Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Thursday November 21st, 2013 Stevenson Center 5326 11:50-1:10 pm Snacks & refreshments at 11:50 Noon seminar start
Posters accepted until Dec. 1 for Annual Surgery and Engineering Symposium
Nov. 3, 2013— The Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering (VISE) and the Department of Surgery Research Collaborative will host the second annual Vanderbilt Surgery and Engineering Symposium from 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, in Light Hall- Room 208 and North Atrium. Nick Hopkins, Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery, Professor of Radiology, State University of New...
Joint ME and ViSE Seminar: Medical Mobile Robots From Pill-size Down to Micron Scale, 134 FGH, Monday November 11, 3:10. Refreshments provided.
Nov. 2, 2013—Medical Mobile Robots From Pill-size Down to Micron Scale Speaker: Metin Sitti, Ph.D. Director of NanoRobotics Lab and Center for Bio-Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University Date: Monday November 11th Time: 2:50 Social, 3:10 Seminar Start Place: 134 FGH This talk will discuss ongoing research at the JHU Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology...
ViSE affiliate to speak at upcoming BME seminar
Nov. 1, 2013—The Biomedical Engineering seminar next week will be given by Brett Byram, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Byram will discuss his research in a talk entitled “Decluttering Diagnostic Ultrasound: Searching for the Polar Bear in the Blizzard”. The seminar will begin at 12:20 on Tuesday, November 5 in Stevenson Center 5326. Abstract: Medical...