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Jon Heiselman

Research Assistant Professor

Associate Director of the Master of Engineering in Surgery and Intervention Program

Previous Position:

Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Education:

PhD, Biomedical Engineering
Vanderbilt University, 2020

Dissertation title: “Mechanics-Based Estimation of Intraoperative Soft Tissue Deformation for Enhancing Navigation during Image-Guided Liver Intervention”
Defense Date: August 3, 2020
Advisor: Michael Miga, Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor Biomedical Engineering

BSE in Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2015

Area/Interest:

Laparoscopic image-guided surgery

Training Program:

NIH/NIBIB T32EB021937

VISE Affiliate:

Michael I. Miga, Harvie Branscomb Professor of Biomedical Engineering
VISE Steering Committee Member and VISE Seminar Series Chair 

Lab:

Biomedical Modeling Laboratory (BML)

Heiselman talks about being a VISE trainee. “The purpose of the training grant is for first and second year graduate students…to get exposure to the operating room and get a sense for the clinical problems we can solve as engineers.”