VISE Seminar: Bringing New Technology into the Interventional Radiology Suite: Integration vs Workflow. Thursday, April 14th, 12:20. SC 5326, Refreshments provided at 12:15.
TITLE: Bringing New Technology into the Interventional Radiology Suite: Integration vs Workflow
SPEAKER: Filip Banovac, MD, FSIR Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, VUMC & Michael I. Miga, PhD Harvie Branscomb Professor, Department of BME, VU
DATE: Thursday, April 14th, 2016
TIME: 12:20pm Start, 12:15 Lunch
PLACE: Stevenson Center 5326
ABSTRACT: Interventional Radiology, as a modern and technologically advanced area in patient care, significantly depends on adoption of new technologies. In turn, theses advances can be readily applied, as the techniques in interventional radiology are always evolving and are hungry to adopt better tools. However, much like in the operating room, standard processes before, during, and after the procedure have a certain degree of rigidity. Some of these are a result of regulatory mandates, but many are simply an evolution of how an interventionalist or a surgeon prefer to perform certain tasks. When a new technology is brought into this theater, it is not only imperative that it performs the intended function, but it has to do this without disrupting the workflow of the interventional suite. Without keeping this in mind, a good technology can fail, despite performing quite well on the bench top or the animal lab. In this dual format seminar, Dr. Banovac will address this balance between workflow and integration while Dr. Miga address an example some very recent work-flow friendly technology integration concerned with image-to-physical nonrigid registration for liver applications.
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Filip Banovac, MD, FSIR is the Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Vanderbilt University. He is a practicing interventional radiologist with research interests in augmented instrument navigation and precision delivery of instruments into imaging targets. Dr. Banovac received his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and attended medical school at Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. He completed the Holman Research Pathway Radiology Residency at Georgetown University. During that same time he completed the National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32) at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. He did his fellowship training in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Stanford. Dr. Banovac took a staff position at Georgetown University in 2004 and was appointed Associate Professor and Section Chief in 2008. He came to Vanderbilt in 2016 to assume the position of the Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. He served on numerous local and national committees. He pursued his research interests at the National Institutes of Health where he was a collaborator at the NIH Center for Interventional Oncology. In 2009 he was awarded the Gary Becker Young Investigator Award by the Society of Interventional Radiology. After Serving as the Research Policy Division Chair for the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Foundation, he became the vice chair of the SIR Foundation and is now the Chair of the Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation.
Michael I. Miga, PhD is the Harvie Branscomb Professor, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology & Radiological Sciences, and Neurological Surgery at Vanderbilt. He received his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Rhode Island in Mechanical Engineering in 1992, 1994, respectively. He received his Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in Biomedical Engineering in 1998. He joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University in the Spring of 2001. He is director of the Biomedical Modeling Laboratory, and co-founder of the Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering (VISE). He is also a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College. His research interests are in computational modeling and inverse problems for therapeutic applications and imaging.