Robert J. Goitz Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, Plastic Surgery and Bioengineering. MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1992. Dr. Goitz’ research focuses on orthopaedic surgery, upper extremity, biomechanics, and compressive neuropathies. Angela M. Gronenborn UPMC Rosalind Franklin Professor and Chair, Department of Structural Biology, Distinguished Professor of Structural Biology and Professor of Bioengineering; PhD (Organic Chemistry), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 1978. Areas of interest: Structural biology of proteins and nucleic acids: structure, dynamics, recognition, binding, and function. Her laboratory combines NMR spectroscopy and other structural methods with Biophysics, Biochemistry, and Chemistry to investigate cellular processes at the molecular and atomic levels in relation to human disease. Kilichan Gurleyik Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering (Primary). D.Sc. (Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Imaging Science & Engineering), Washington University (2003). Dr. Gurleyik (Dr. G) serves as the Education Director of the Center for Medical Innovation (CMI). He specializes in Medical Device/Product Design and Development, Systems Design and Engineering incorporating MixedTechnology, Signal and Image Processing, Electronic Systems & Devices, Imaging Science & Technology, and Biomedical Engineering. Alan Hirschman Professor of Bioengineering; Executive Director, Center for Medical Innovation, Swanson School of Engineering. PhD (Electrical Engineering/Biomedical Engineering) 1978, Carnegie Mellon University. Fellow of the AIMBE. Before coming to the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Hirschman retired from a career of 31 years in engineering, management, and business development at MEDRAD, Inc, a developer of medical devices within the Bayer family of companies. He is an inventor of many of MEDRAD’s core technologies, with 50+ US patents issued. Dr. Hirschman’s current interest is in medical product development and educating new product entrepreneurs. Tin-Kan Hung Professor of Bioengineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering. PhD (Mechanics and Hydraulics), University of Iowa, 1966; M.S. (Civil Engineering), University of Illinois, 1962; B.S. (Hydraulic Engineering), National Cheng Kung University, 1959. Dr. Hung’s research activities have been focused on computational fluid mechanics, flow separation and vortices, nonlinear peristaltic flows, particle transport by peristalsis, fluid mechanics of heart valves and ventricular pumping, pulsating blood flows in stenotic arteries and curved arteries, fluid mechanics of intra-aortic/intra-vena-cava balloon pumping, three-dimensional spiral flows, microcirculation, biomechanics of spinal cord injury, membrane oxygenation, unsteady flow with moving boundaries, earthquake hydrodynamics in reservoir, and sloshing waves in oscillating tank. Theodore Huppert Associate Professor, Radiology and Bioengineering. PhD (Biophysics), Harvard University, 2007. Dr. Huppert develops his research in the Magnetic Resonance Research Center in the Physiology of the BOLD Effect. His research focuses on improving the understanding of the underlying physiology and biomechanical principles that govern the cerebral hemodynamic response to neuronal signals. Tamer S. Ibrahim Associate Professor, Bioengineering and Radiology; Director of the RF Research Facility. PhD (Electrical Engineering), the Ohio State University, 2003. Dr. Ibrahim’s research activities have mainly
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