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Patrick Anderson

Alumnus

Program:

doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering

Education:

BS in Mechanical Engineering, Calvin College

Dissertation title: Compliance Characterization and Specification for Surgical Continuum Robots via Modeling, Control, and Design
Defense date: November 11, 2020
Advisor: Robert Webster III

Training Program:

NIH/NIBIB T32EB021937

Awards:

National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow (2017)

Preceptor:

Robert Webster, Richard A. Schroeder Chair in Mechanical Engineering
VISE Steering Committee Member

Lab:

Medical Engineering and Discovery (MED) Lab

VISE Project Vault: Anderson’s working on developing tools to give surgeons more dexterity when they’re trying to do complex surgical maneuvers. This project is a collaborative effort between the MED lab and Duke Herrell, MD, Urologist, VUMC.