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Spring Seminar: Smita De, MD/PhD and Ryan Hsi, MD
Apr. 10, 2017—Speakers: Smita De, MD/PhD VISE Fellow, Instructor of Urologic Surgery and Ryan S. Hsi, MD Assistant Professor of Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Date: Thursday, April 13, 2017 Time: 12:15pm lunch, 12:20pm start Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Needs and Progress in Urologic Surgery Speaker Bios: Dr. Smita De is currently the VISE fellow...
Spring Seminar: Jack Noble, PhD
Mar. 24, 2017—Jack Noble, PhD Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Date: Thursday, March 30, 2017 Time: 12:15pm lunch, 12:20pm start Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Computer-Assistance Techniques for Cochlear Implant Interventions Abstract: Cochlear implants (CIs) are neural prosthetics that induce the sensation of hearing by stimulating the auditory nerve using an array of electrodes implanted in the...
Spring Seminar: Richard Leahy, Ph.D.
Mar. 17, 2017—Richard M Leahy, PhD Dean’s Professor, Electrical Engineering and Radiology Director, Signal and Image Processing Institute University of Southern California, Los Angeles Title: Analyzing Brain Mapping Data Abstract: Magnetic resonance imaging allows us to safely acquire data from which we can study anatomy, function and connectivity in the living human brain. But how do we convert...
Spring Seminar: Ming Li, Ph.D.
Mar. 13, 2017—Ming Li, chief of bioengineering Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Program, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health Date: Monday, March 27 Time: 4:10 p.m. Location: Featheringill Hall Room 136 Title: “Medical Robotic Control and System Integration” Abstract The recent technology advancement on medical robotics facilitates minimally invasive surgery and intervention. Since the medical...
Surgery of the Future
Mar. 13, 2017—Surgery of the Future is an interactive experience that highlights research technologies funded by NIBIB that improve surgical procedures. Move through a virtual operating room to learn about technologies including new imaging tools, robotics, biomaterials, and more. Robert Webster’s research is featured.
VISE rocks SPIE Medical Imaging Conference racking up five student awards
Mar. 7, 2017—Twenty-five students from five laboratories affiliated with the Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering (VISE) attended the SPIE Medical Imaging 2017 Conference in mid-February. Five Vanderbilt students across Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering were selected for scientific awards out of almost 450 papers presented this year. The week-long conference showcases cutting edge-research, world-class...
Spring Seminar: Catie Chang, Ph.D.
Mar. 3, 2017—Catie Chang, Research Fellow National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH Date: Thursday, March 16, 2017 Time: 12:15 p.m. lunch, lecture begins at 12:20 p.m. Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Uncovering new dimensions of human brain function from fMRI data Abstract: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a powerful technique in human neuroscience. The richness...
Spring Seminar: Dario Englot, M.D., Ph.D.
Feb. 28, 2017—Dario Englot, MD, PhD, Fellow and Clinical Instructor in Functional Neurosurgery, Department of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Date: Thursday, March 2, 2017 Time: 12:15pm lunch, 12:20pm start Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Brain network disturbances in surgical epilepsy: Integrating electrophysiology and neuroimaging techniques Abstract: Epilepsy is a common and debilitating neurological disorder that...
EECS/VISE Spring Seminar: Rolando Estrada, Ph.D.
Feb. 24, 2017—Speaker: Rolando Estrada, PhD, Research Scientist, Teledyne Scientific and Imaging Date: Monday, February 27, 2017 Time: 4:15pm Place: FGH, Room 136 Title: Automating Retinal Vessel Analysis: Topology Estimation and Artery-Vein Classification Abstract: The retinal vasculature is clinically important, not only for diagnosing ocular diseases, including diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma, but also for monitoring conditions with...
VISE affiliate Bennett Landman, Ph.D., uses big data to solve big medical problems in the MASI lab
Feb. 14, 2017—As an initial member of the Vanderbilt Institute on Surgery and Engineering, the Medical-image Analysis and Statistical Interpretation (MASI) lab seeks to transform medical imaging from pixels to information to improve patient care. We lead Personalized Medicine with Medical Imaging Informatics (PM2I2) efforts in translational research to explore innovative, clinically useful techniques. Our primary technical...
Visiting bioengineering professor talks about treating the heart
Feb. 13, 2017—Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering (VISE) brought Karen Christman, Ph.D., professor of bioengineering and associate dean for students, UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering, to Vanderbilt for a two-day visit. While on campus, Professor Christman met with various members of the engineering department, participated in a mentoring luncheon, and concluded her visit by...
Spring Seminar: Ron Alterovitz, Ph.D.
Feb. 10, 2017—Speaker: Ron Alterovitz, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Date: Thursday, February 23, 2017 Time: 12:20pm start, 12:15pm lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract: Advances in robotics have the potential to improve healthcare delivery, from enabling surgical procedures that are beyond current clinical capabilities to autonomously assisting...
Spring Seminar: Karen L. Christman, PhD, FAHA
Feb. 2, 2017—Speaker: Karen L. Christman, PhD, FAHA, Professor of Bioengineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California Date: Thursday, February 9, 2017 Time: 12:20pm start, 12:15pm lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Biomaterials for Treating the Heart Abstract: Biomaterials have significant potential to treat various cardiac conditions, including both adult and pediatric. In particular, new therapies for...
Brain Surgery Robots
Jan. 30, 2017—Ground breaking technology that enables robots to perform high-risk surgeries more safely shows that robotic surgical tools play a major role in the future of medicine. Robert Webster, PhD., explains the groundbreaking Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH robot) he and his MED Lab team are developing.
Collaborations Gone Haywire
Jan. 27, 2017—Graduate students are often the point of contact for complex communications among researchers across campus, the nation and the world. But what happens when projects get off track? Biomedical engineering Ph.D. student and VISE affiliate Megan Poorman shared tips from her experience.
The Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering (VISE): Bringing Engineers and Surgeons Together to Improve Patient Care
Jan. 27, 2017—Innovation in processes, devices, and systems is at the center of recent advances that are transforming medical interventional procedures. The conception, development, realization, and evaluation of novel solutions that will further advance surgical and procedural patient care is complex and requires close trans-institutional interaction between clinicians, engineers, and scientists. This necessitates environments in which technical...
VISE Seminar: High Throughput Histological and Metabolic Imaging of Surgical Specimens
Jan. 13, 2017—Speaker: Michael G. Giacomelli Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Optical Imaging and Biophotonics Group Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Research Lab of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Date: Thursday, January 19, 2017 Time: 12:20 start, lunch 12:15 Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: High throughput histological and metabolic imaging of surgical specimens Abstract: Optical imaging of preserved,...
VISE Seminar: Computational Modeling to Enable Therapeutic Intervention: Applications in Radiation Oncology
Jan. 9, 2017—Title: Computational Modeling to Enable Therapeutic Intervention: Applications in Radiation Oncology Dual Speaker Format: Albert Attia, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, VUMC and Jared A. Weis, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, VU Date: Thursday, January 12, 2017 Time: 12:20pm start, 12:15pm lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract: Patients with intracranial metastasis treated...
Vanderbilt School of Engineering offers new master of cyber-physical systems degree
Jan. 4, 2017—A new master’s degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering is designed to prepare students to meet the dramatic rise in workforce needs in such high-profile fields as the Internet of Things – the advanced connectivity of devices and systems – the security of cyber domains, the smart grid and defense. Beyond courses in...
Fall Seminar: Ashwini D. Sharan, MD FACS
Nov. 4, 2016—Speaker: Ashwini D. Sharan, MD FACS President of North American Neuromodulation Society President Elect of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Professor of Neurosurgery Program Director Division Chief for EN2 Epilepsy and Neuromodulation Neurosurgery Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience Thomas Jefferson University Date: Thursday, November 10, 2016 Time: 12:05 start, noon lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326...
Nabil Simaan: Giving surgical robots a human touch
Nov. 4, 2016—A critical goal in modern surgery is to make procedures as safe and minimally invasive as possible, which often means using robotic tools. Vanderbilt University bioengineer Nabil Simaansays a negative side effect of doing surgery with tiny entry points into the body is that the surgeon loses his or her sense of touch and pressure...
VISE Fall Seminar Series: Fabien Maldonado, MD
Nov. 1, 2016—Speaker: Fabien Maldonado, MD Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery, VUMC Date: Thursday, November 3, 2016 Time: 12:05 start, noon lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Interventional Pulmonology: How the changing landscape of lung cancer provides unprecedented opportunities for translational and clinical research Speaker Biography: Fabien Maldonado, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery...
Fall VISE Seminar: Michael I. Miga, PhD
Oct. 19, 2016—Speaker: Michael I. Miga, PhD Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University Date: Thursday, October 20, 2016 Time: 12:05 start, noon lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract: Being able to obtain an independent National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant award can be daunting even to the most accomplished investigators. While having great research is...
New faculty: Kenny Tao uses optical coherence tomography to improve delicate eye surgeries
Oct. 13, 2016—Kenny Tao was incredibly close to becoming a surgeon instead of a biomedical engineer. The only thing standing in the way of medical school: a renowned adviser who convinced him to take a different path. Fortunately for Vanderbilt, the new assistant professor of biomedical engineering did change his mind and now brings both his improvements...
VISE Fall Seminar: Alexander J. Langerman, MD
Sep. 29, 2016—POSTPONED Speaker: Alexander J. Langerman Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology Date: Thursday, October 6, 2016 Time: 12:05 start, noon lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Speaker Bio: Dr. Alexander Langerman, MD is a head and neck surgeon and researcher who studies the operating room. He has a diverse surgical practice, with special interest in parapharyngeal and infratemporal fossa lesions,...
VISE Fall Seminar Series: Thursday, September 22
Sep. 19, 2016—Title: Engineering Precision Medicine in Epilepsy Speaker: Martin J. Gallagher, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Division, VUMC Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016 Time: 12:05 start, noon lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract: Epilepsy is a very heterogeneous disorder that is associated with a multitude of etiologies and can produce seizures...
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...
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...