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Vanderbilt is at the forefront of robotic surgery
Sep. 9, 2016—Robots are used in many large hospitals to deliver supplies and assist doctors with delicate surgical procedures. In the future, robotic surgery will become the routine rather than the exception. Some of those tools of tomorrow are being developed today at Vanderbilt University’s Medical Engineering and Discovery Lab (MED). It is one of several labs...
VISE names first fellow: Smita De explores the intersection of surgery and engineering
Sep. 8, 2016—The Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering is pleased to announce its first VISE Fellow, a biomedical engineer and M.D. who specializes in urology and spent a research year at the manufacturer of the da Vinci surgical robot. Smita De first developed an interest in medical device development as an undergraduate at Duke University, majoring...
Vanderbilt team competes at NSF I-CORPS
Sep. 7, 2016—I-Corps prepares scientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the laboratory, and broadens the impact of select, NSF-funded, basic-research projects.
VISE Fall Seminar Series: Thursday, September 8
Sep. 2, 2016—Title: Data-driven Healthcare: Perspectives from the Interface of Data Science, Research & Development, and Clinical Medicine Speaker: Nicholas Marko, MD, Chief Data Officer & Director of Neurosurgical Oncology, Department of Neurosurgery, Geisinger Medical Center Date: Thursday, September 8, 2016 Time: 12:10 start, noon lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Short Biography: Dr. Nicholas Mark, MD graduated...
Cochlear implant team shares insights in Ireland
Aug. 26, 2016—An interdisciplinary team at Vanderbilt that developed an innovative method of programming cochlear implants to help people hear better recently presented at Deerfield Residence, the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland’s official residence in Dublin. The presentation was part of Creative Minds, a series of discussions started by Ambassador Kevin O’Malley to promote cultural and scientific exchange...
VISE Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates seminar 8.26.16
Aug. 25, 2016—Date: August 26, 2016 Time: 12:10 start, noon lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Our undergraduates share what they worked on this past summer. The schedule is as follows: Talk 1: Gabriel Wamunyu – Secure Web Access of Medical Information on Distributed Databases Talk 2: Tianyi Chen – Background-Oriented Schlieren (BOS) Imaging for Optically Mapping Focused...
VISE Fall Seminar 8.23.16: Matthieu Chabanas, PhD
Aug. 23, 2016—Title: Vessel-based brain-shift compensation using biomechanical modeling and intraoperative ultrasound Speaker: Matthieu Chabanas, PhD, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Grenoble Institute of Technology, FR Date: Tuesday, August 23 Time: 12:10 start, noon lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract: During brain tumor surgery, planning and guidance are based on the pre-operative images...
Voices of the NIH Community “It’s ok to love a patient”
Aug. 15, 2016—EB Jackson and surgeon Reid Thompson remember EB’s husband, Todd Jackson, who died from brain cancer in 2014. Reid, who had treated Todd ten years earlier, recalls his devastation when he learned about the re-occurrence and the futility of further treatments, and EB reflects on Todd’s passing. Todd’s battle against cancer inspired him and EB...
Mayor appoints faculty, staff representatives to Metro boards
Jul. 22, 2016—Metro Nashville Mayor Megan Barry has made a number of appointments to boards, committees and advisory committees in recent weeks. Among them are a number of members of the Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center communities, including: Sri Pallavaram, research associate for the Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering (VISE), to the Nashville New...
Six profs attract National Institutes of Health grants for wide-ranging research
Jul. 21, 2016—Five biomedical engineering professors and an electrical engineering and computer science professor are celebrating news about newly approved or resubmitted Research Project Grants (R01) from the Nationals Institutes of Health. With the grants, their teams – in collaboration with Vanderbilt University Medical Center — are performing groundbreaking research in areas as diverse as percutaneous heart...
WSJ names Webster’s surgical robot one of six technologies worth watching
Jul. 8, 2016—The Wall Street Journal names Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Robert Webster’s surgical robot one of six new medical technologies worth watching.
Tennessean article: Neurotargeting uses data to combat neurological disorders
Jul. 8, 2016—A Vanderbilt University neurosurgeon and two Vanderbilt engineers have launched a medical database that they hope will have a significant impact on addressing neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and epilepsy.
STORM Lab Hydrojet Team wins Best Overall Award at the Surgical Robot Challenge 2016
Jul. 7, 2016—The Science and Technology of Robotics in Medicine (STORM) Lab Hydrojet Team won Best Overall Award at the Surgical Robot Challenge 2016 for the Hamlyn Symposium of Medical Robotics. The international competition, held at the Imperial College in London, showcases the latest developments in Surgical Robotics. STORM Lab’s project “Low-cost gastric cancer screening in low...
VISE Research in Progress (RIP) Summer Instruction Seminar Series. Thursday, June 30, SC 5326. 12:10pm start, Noon Lunch
Jun. 24, 2016—Rip #1: Title: Insights into Optic Nerve Pathology; PHOTON database Speaker: Shikha Chaganti, PhD candidate Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Rip #2: Title: Development of a Robotic System for Endonasal Surgery Speaker: Andria Remirez, PhD candidate Department: Mechanical Engineering _____________________________________________________________________________ Date: Thursday, June 30, 2016 Time: 12:10 p.m., noon Lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326
New VISE grant gives clinical boost to surgical device development
Jun. 22, 2016—Engineering graduate students from across several disciplines will experience intensive training and mentoring with the potential to help them create devices, then get those out of the lab and into clinical settings. Offered through the Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering, this program for second- and third-year engineering PhD students includes sessions with surgeons and...