Joel S. Schuman Distinguished Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology, Eye and Ear Foundation Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology, Professor of Bioengineering; Director, UPMC Eye Center; Director, Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration. MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1984. Ophthalmology Residency, Medical College of Virginia, 1988; Glaucoma Fellowship, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1990. Dr. Schuman is an inventor of optical coherence tomography, the most rapidly adopted technology in ophthalmology. Dr. Schuman’s research interests include technology development, imaging of the eye, regenerative medicine, laser-tissue interactions, aqueous outflow, and clinical pharmacology. David E. Schmidt Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology and Bioengineering. PhD (Computational Mechanics), Carnegie Mellon University, 2009. Dr. Schmidt¹s research interests include middle ear pressure regulation, Otis Media, biodegradable metallic alloys and soft tissue mechanics. Research activities focus on computational-based methods to characterize soft tissue biomechanics as an integrated component of novel medical device development and clinical interventions for biomedical applications. A current research focus is the development of a physiologically consistent mathematical model of trans middle ear mucosa gas exchange that has the potential to explain physiologic processes under normal and pathological conditions. Through such predictive modeling and simulation we seek to enhance our understanding of middle ear pressure regulation, which is central to the advancement of Otis Media clinical intervention. A second research area involves the establishment of design specifications and performance requirements for a new class of bio-absorbable metallic trachea stenting devices. Walter Schneider Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology, Executive Committee Member, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Senior Scientist, Learning Research and Development Center. B.A., Psychology, University of Illinois, Ph.D., Psychology, Indiana University, Post-Doc., Neurophysiology, University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include cognitive neuroscience, cognitive control, semantic representation, attention and automaticity, skill acquisition, connectionist/hybrid modeling, brain imagining, and brain activity interpretation. Andrew B. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology; Director of the Motorlab in the School of Medicine. PhD (Physiology), University of Minnesota, 1984. Dr. Schwartz’ research is centered on cerebral mechanisms of volitional arm movement and cortical control of neural prosthetics. He uses electrode arrays to record action potentials from populations of individual neurons in motor cortical areas while monkeys perform tasks related to reaching and drawing. A number of signal-processing and statistical analyses are performed on these data to extract movement-related information from the recorded activity. This basic research has been translated to neural prosthetics and shown to help paralyzed individuals regain arm and hand movements. Ervin Sejdic Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Primary), Department of Bioengineering (Secondary), Department of Biomedical Informatics (Secondary), Intelligent Systems Program (Secondary). PhD (Electrical Engineering), University of Western Ontario (2008). Dr. Sejdic directs the iMED Laboratory (www.imedlab.org) and serves as the associate director of the RFID Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh. His research aims to develop computational biomarkers indicative of age- and disease-related changes and their contributions to functional decline under normal and pathological conditions. This aim will be achieved through the development of clinically relevant solutions by fostering innovation in computational approaches and instrumentation that can be translated to bedside care.
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