EMERGENCY INFORMATION - Key Persons
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- Director, Regulatory Support Services, CTSI
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- Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Studies
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Amy L. Lerner is an associate professor of biomedical engineering and the academic director of the Center for Medical Technology & Innovation. Her background includes undergraduate degrees in engineering and design as well as four years as a design engineer for the Shuttle Space Suit program, before receiving her PhD and post-doctoral training at the University of Michigan. As the first hire for the University of Rochester's programs in biomedical engineering, she has been involved in programmatic and curricular developments in both biomechanics and design education. Her research focuses on computational biomechanical modeling based on gait analysis and a variety of medical imaging modalities, including magnetic resonance imaging. Funding from NSF, NIH and industry sponsors have supported her studies to characterized gender and ethnic differences in anatomy, the role of the meniscus in pressure distributions and the effects of obesity on risks for knee osteoarthritis. Current research goals include using design of experiments methods to develop computationally efficient models that might make personalized treatment guidelines possible. Dr. Lerner has provided leadership in design education both nationally through the BME-IDEA and here at Rochester where the senior design program has become a model for the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. In her role as the founding academic director of the CMTI, she has helped create the curriculum for the new MS in medical technology and innovation and has supervised each of the graduates from the program to date.
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- Associate Professor of Data Science
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Senior Director, Upstream Marketing - Structural Heart, Medtronic
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- Professor
- Professor of Optics / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Andrew Berger, professor of optics, arrived in Rochester in July, 2000. He holds physics degrees from Yale (BS, 1991) and MIT (PhD, 1998). At the latter, Dr. Berger did his doctoral work in the G.R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory under the late Michael Feld, developing method to measure glucose and other chemicals' concentrations in blood using laser spectroscopy. Prior to coming to the Institute of Optics, he spent two years developing handheld systems to analyze breast tissue content at the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Center in Irvine, CA, with Bruce Tromberg, thanks to a postdoctoral fellowship from the George E. Hewitt Foundation for Medical Research.
At Rochester, Professor Berger has been recognized with two of the university's college-wide teaching awards, the Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching (2007) and the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2016). He spent the academic year 2013/14 in Jena, Germany, as a guest professor and research alumni fellow at the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technologies and the Abbe Center of Photonics.
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Anne Luebke is an associate professor in both Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neurobiology and Anatomy. Her research focuses on auditory and vestibular efferent feedback mechanisms at both the systems and molecular level. Her work has provided insights into the efferent receptor molecules needed for protecting the ear from background noise, to molecules important for hearing-in-noise behaviors and control of gaze stabilization. Moreover, she has investigated how cochlear efferent system feedback might be enhanced in people with high musical aptitudes, and impaired in people with autism spectrum disorders. She has published expertise in molecular cloning, biochemical methods, immunohistochemistry, confocal imaging, vestibular and auditory testing, and virally-mediated gene transfer. She has been continuously funded from the NIH from her first award R01 (awarded 1996) to the present. Luebke received two undergraduate degrees (BA-chemistry; BS-chemical engineering) from Oklahoma State University. She has worked as a chemical engineer in Germany (Linde AG) and Belgium (P&G Brussels). She received her PhD in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University studying systems vestibular physiology with Dr. David A. Robinson. She then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular biology, immunohistochemical and imaging methods with Dr. Kenneth Muller at the University of Miami. Luebke joined the faculty at the University of Rochester in 2003.
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- Graduate Program Coordinator
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- Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
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- Assistant Professor of Imaging Sciences
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- Visiting Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Biography
Benjamín Castañeda joins the University of Rochester Department of Biomedical Engineering faculty in July 2024, and is currently a Visiting Professor. He obtained his M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology (2004) and his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from University of Rochester (2009). He is currently a full professor of the Department of Engineering and Director of Academic Affairs of the School of Science and Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. In this university, he founded the Medical Imaging Laboratory and the Biomedical Engineering undergraduate program. For his research work, he has been twice finalist for the Young Investigator Award from the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2007, 2011). He obtained an honorable mention from the worldwide engineering contest of Mondialogo (sponsored by UNESCO and Daimler, 2007), obtained an honorable mention in the SPIE Medical Imaging International Conference (2008). In 2013, Dr. Castaneda received the Academic Innovator Award from the Peruvian Government for his continuous work in the development of medical technology (SINACYT/CONCYTEC, 2013). The same year, he won the Best Patent from the Peruvian Government (INDECOPI, 2013) for an automated staining system for tuberculosis detection. The same invention received a silver medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva (2014). He is also the founder of Medical Innovation & Tecnology, a Peruvian start-up focused on the development of telemedicine technology for rural areas. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he led PUCP's effort to build 350 mechanical ventilators which were used in more than 20 hospitals in Peru.
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- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Professor of Optics / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Engineering Manager, Medtronic
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- Professor of Optical Engineering / Professor of Optics
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- General Manager, Centrifugation, Thermo Fisher Scientific / Department of Biomedical Engineering
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- Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Neuroscience
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- Visiting Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Visiting Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Cherice Hill joins the University of Rochester Department of Biomedical Engineering faculty in January 2024, and is currently a Visiting Professor. She received a BS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia, and her MS and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Tech, focusing on movement mechanics in diverse populations as they relate to injury and disease risk. She extended her training with a postdoctoral fellowship in the multidisciplinary Clemson-MUSC Bioengineering Program studying temporomandibular joint function, structural and mechanical influences of ligamentous structures, and related health disparities. Her ongoing research on lower extremity and temporomandibular joint mechanics aims to improve diverse representation and optimize research translational equity to mitigate health disparities.
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- Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Marketing, Communications & Outreach Manager
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Department of Surgery
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- Associate Professor of Otolaryngolog
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- Assistant Dean, Grants and Contracts
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- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- James P. Wilmot Distinguished Professor
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Danielle Benoit is the James P. Wilmot Distinguished Professor within the Department of Biomedical Engineering with appointments also in chemical engineering and the Center for Musculoskeletal Research. Her research specializes in the rational design of polymeric materials for regenerative medicine and drug delivery applications. Her work has provided insights into the translation of tissue engineering strategies for bone allograft repair, development of pH-responsive nanoparticles for nucleic acid and small molecule delivery, and novel targeting strategies for bone-specific delivery of therapeutics.
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Senior Director of R & D Innovation and Platforms, Carestream
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- CEO, ARCCA
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- Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
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- Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology / Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- George Eastman Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences / Professor of Neuroscience / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- COO, 54 Gene
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- Associate Professor of Dermatology
Diane Dalecki, PhD is a professor of biomedical engineering, and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Rochester. She is also the director of the Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound. Professor Dalecki's laboratory is dedicated to advancing the use of ultrasound in medicine and biology. Primary goals of the laboratory are to develop novel diagnostic ultrasound techniques and discover and advance new applications of ultrasound for therapy and tissue engineering. She is a fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Professor Dalecki completed her BS in chemical engineering, and MS and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester.
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- Associate Professor of Neuroscience
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- Professor of Imaging Sciences / Professor of Urology / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Wilson Professor of Electronic Imaging / Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Professor of Imaging Sciences / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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- Student Programs Assistant
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research in the Lalor lab seeks to explore quantitative modelling approaches to the analysis of sensory electrophysiology in humans. Such a framework has two important advantages over more traditional approaches to this type of research:
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Edward Brown earned his BS with honors in physics from Wake Forest University, and his PhD in physics from Cornell University. He was a post-doctoral fellow and instructor at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in the Department of Radiation Oncology before joining the University of Rochester Department of Biomedical Engineering, where he is now an associate professor with tenure. Dr. Brown's research focuses on tumor metastasis, and how it is influenced by the extracellular matrix, neuronal activity, and stress signaling. To study these phenomena he develops and uses novel optical techniques. He invented the multiphoton fluorescence recovery after photobleaching technique (Brown et al Biophys J 1999), demonstrated the first application of multiphoton laser-scanning microscopy to tumor biology (Brown et al Nat Med 2001), and pioneered the application of second harmonic generation (SHG) to study the tumor extracellular matrix (Brown et al Nat Med 2003). He developed the first technique to allow the quantification of SHG emission directionality in intact tissue (Han et al Optics Exp 2010) and demonstrated that SHG directionality predicts metastatic involvement in certain types of breast cancer (Burke et al J Biomed Opt 2013). Furthermore he demonstrated that the most prognostic information comes from the tumor/host interface, and that SHG directionality combined with a surrogate for a market leading genomic predictor provides better prognostic power than either predictor alone (Desa et al 2020) . He has been named a Pew Scholar in the biomedical sciences, a Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program "Era of Hope" Scholar, and an NIH Director's New Innovator.
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- Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Interests: The overarching goal of the Fiebelkorn lab's research is to understand how the brain flexibly allocates its limited processing resources to improve behavioral outcomes.
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- Research Assistant Professor of Urology / Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Mac Wade Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
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- Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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- Senior Laboratory Engineer
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- George Eastman Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences / Professor of Neuroscience / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
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- Student Programs Assistant
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- Senior Laboratory Engineer
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- Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
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- Executive Director of the Center for Medical Technology & Innovation
- Professor of Instruction, Biomedical Engineering Executive Director, Center for Medical Technology & Innovation
Greg Gdowski has nearly 30 years of experience in the area of biomedical engineering. His career began while working at a family business that manufactured silicone medical products (Sil-Med® Corporation). In 2001, Gdowski joined the faculty at the University of Rochester in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neurobiology and Anatomy where he established a laboratory in vestibular sensory processing. Gdowski mentored numerous students and taught courses in both biomedical engineering and neuroscience. He regularly served as a supervisor for senior design projects in Biomedical Engineering, one of which received a nationally competitive award. Gdowski established connections to the medical device industry by serving on the executive committees of the Rochester and Syracuse IEEE Societies. For the last several years, he have served as an active committee member for MedTech (an association composed of nearly 300 pharmaceutical, biotech and medical technology companies across Upstate NY). In 2010, Gdowski organized the Upstate New York Biomedical Engineering Career Conference that assembled over 200 academic and industry experts and students in the medical technology area.
From 2010-2012, Gdowski worked at Blue Highway where he managed the R&D team in translating and commercializing medical technologies from the academic environment into the product pipeline of Welch Allyn. Welch Allyn is a medical device manufacturer of visual and hearing diagnostic tools that are used in front-line care by primary care physicians. The project portfolio included: novel antimicrobial polymers, new techniques to be used in the early detection of diabetic retinopathy, applications of optical coherence tomography for diagnostic imaging of the eye and ear, non-invasive techniques for blood glucose monitoring, and techniques for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. Two projects are currently in the premarket prototyping phase and are targeted future products of Welch Allyn.
Gdowski currently serves as the executive director of the Center for Medical Technology & Innovation at the University of Rochester. The purpose of the Center is to coordinate educational and entrepreneurial activities related to the development of novel technological solutions to clinical problems. The Center brings together physicians, engineers, business leaders, and industrial partners to foster a unique training program and path by which medical technologies at the University of Rochester are cultivated and brought to the marketplace. A principal activity is the development of a master's degree program in medical technology innovation within the Department of Biomedical Engineering. The students within this program interact with both clinical and engineering faculty to identify critical needs in the clinic and to develop practical engineering solutions that will facilitate and improve health care delivery. A second goal of the center is to provide a service and pathway that helps the faculty and students transition their technology developed on the lab workbench to commercialization. The center fosters interactions with the medical device industry to facilitate a more readily traversed path to commercialization. One of the largest obstacles that a faculty member confronts when translating concepts conceived in the lab are the financial and time commitments required to prototype and miniaturize a technology as a pre-market device that can be clinically tested and later approved by the FDA. The CMTI helps bridge the gap to help de-risk and move concepts closer to commercialization.
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- Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Interests: My research is dedicated to improving the care of patients with musculoskeletal and neurological pathologies as well as their sequelae using Disability and Functional Outcomes Measurement (DFOMs).
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- Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
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- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor McGrath graduated from Arizona State in 1991 with a BS degree in mechanical engineering. He earned a master's degree in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1994 and a PhD in biological engineering from Harvard/MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 1998. He then trained as a Distinguished Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. Since 2001, Professor McGrath has been on the Biomedical Engineering faculty at the University of Rochester and served the department for over 10 years as the first director of the BME graduate program.
While historically, Professor McGrath's research focused on the phenomena of cell migration, since 2007 he has been leading the Nanomembrane Research Group - a highly interdisciplinary, multi-institutional team that is developing and applying ultrathin silicon ‘nanomembrane' technologies. Professor McGrath is also a co-founder and past president of SiMPore Inc. a company founded to commercially manufacture the nanomembranes. In 2019, he was also a recipient of the Edmund A. Hajim Outstanding Faculty Award, and in 2015 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
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- Associate Professor of Neuroscience
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Jan Fandrianto Distinguished Professor in Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
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- Interim Senior Information Technology Officer
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- Administrator, Senior Systems
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- Associate Professor of Instruction, Biomedical Engineering
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Senior Vice President, Scientific & Medical Affairs, AVITA Medical
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Jan Fandrianto Distinguished Professor in Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
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- Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Director, Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Neuroscience
Laurel Carney received her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from MIT and her masters and doctoral degrees, also in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She then took a postdoctoral fellowship in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, before accepting her first faculty position at Boston University in 1991. She was promoted to associate professor there and was also associate chair of graduate studies. In 2004 she moved to Syracuse University as a full professor in biomedical engineering and neuroscience. In 2007 she came to the University of Rochester as a full professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She has received numerous honors and awards both for her research and her teaching. She has won outstanding professor of the year awards at both Boston University and the University of Rochester. She is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
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- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist, Medtronic
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- Associate Professior of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicin
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- Research Assistant Professor
- Research Faculty
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Mac Wade Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Graduate Program Coordinator
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- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Herrera-Perez received a BSc in Chemical Engineering in 2009, and a MSc in Chemical Engineering in 2012 from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota. She completed her doctoral studies in Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University in 2016, primarily studying the role of the microenvironment on brain cancer migration and drug treatment. Before joining the department of Biomedical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in 2022, Dr. Herrera-Perez extended her training as a postdoctoral research associate in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University, where she developed genetic tools to manipulate cell forces during morphogenesis in Drosophila embryos. Dr. Herrera-Perez is the recipient of the 2021 Career Award at the Scientific Interface of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Her current research interests focus on the study of molecular and mechanical cues that drive functional cellular self-organization across length scales.
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Mark Buckley received his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University under the mentorship of Drs. Itai Cohen and Lawrence Bonassar in 2010 and worked under Dr. Louis Soslowsky as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania from 2010-2012. He joined the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rochester in January of 2013. He has co-authored publications on diverse topics ranging from three-dimensional tracking of swimming bacteria to the use of ultrasound elastography to quantify transverse compressive strain in the Achilles tendon. Dr. Buckley is particularly interested in the mechanics of soft biological tissues including cartilage, tendon and the cornea. His research emphasizes finding ways to control and exploit their complex mechanical properties to prevent graft damage during transplantation surgeries, diagnose injury and disease, guide rehabilitation protocols, and evaluate treatment and repair strategies.
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- Undergraduate Program Coordinator
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- Chairman, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Neuroscience
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Distinguished Teaching Professor
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- Professor of Ophthalmology / Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences / Professor, Center for Visual Scienc
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- Professor of Orthopaedics / Professor of Public Health Sciences / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Associate Professor of Biology
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- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor Giacomelli arrives from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Research Lab of Electronics where he was a research scientist conducting imaging research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the VA medical center in Boston. He finished his PhD in 2012 in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University where he worked on endoscopic imaging. Professor Giacomelli completed his B.S. in Computer Engineering and in Computer Science at the University of Arizona.
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- Chairman, Computer Scienc
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- Special Assistant to the Dean
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- Professor of Dermatology / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Optics
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- Chairman, Chemical Engineering
- Chairman, Department of Chemical Engineering / Professor of Chemical Engineering / Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
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- Assistant Professor of Surgery
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- Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor in Optical Engineering Science / Professor of Optics / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Professor of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuromedicine / Professor of Neurosurgery / Co - Director, Center for Translational Neuromedicine
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- Associate Dean, Education and New Initiatives
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Regine Choe received her BS in physics from the Pohang University of Science & Technology, Korea in 1996, and PhD degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania, in 2005. After finishing her postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania, she joined the biomedical engineering department of the University of Rochester as an assistant professor, in 2011. Her research is focused on the development of diffuse optical methods for the clinical application of breast cancer diagnosis and therapy monitoring.
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- Chairman, Mechanical Engineering
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- Chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Richard Waugh is professor and former (founding) chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rochester. He received his BS in engineering science in 1973 from the University of Notre Dame; and his doctorate in biomedical engineering from Duke University in 1977. After a brief time as a postdoctoral fellow, he joined the faculty at Rochester as a member of the Department of Biophysics in 1980. His research interests include biomechanics of cells and cell membranes, and cell adhesion, with emphasis on underlying mechanisms of hemolytic anemia, inflammation, and microvascular perfusion. He is an active member of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) having served on the Board of Directors of BMES from 10/01 -10/04, chair of the Finance Committee from 10/04 - 10/08, chair of the Executive Director Search Committee from 10/08-3/09, and president of BMES from October 2010 - 2012. He is a fellow of BMES, AIMBE, and AAAS, and is also a member of the Biophysical Society. He served on the Editorial Board of the Biophysical Journal, was formerly a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Whitaker Foundation and was a member of the HM study section. He is the founding chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rochester and played a pivotal role in the establishment and growth of the department and its degree programs.
In research, Dr. Waugh is a recognized leader in the study of cell and membrane mechanics and the structural basis for the mechanical behavior of cells and membranes. He has made major contributions to the understanding of membrane physical properties with an emphasis on relating changes in molecular structure and composition to their functional consequences. Much of his research centered on the red blood cell because it is an ideal model system for studying fundamental aspects of membrane behavior and because of the direct relevance red cell membrane stability has in understanding hemolytic anemia and vascular perfusion. He has also done fundamental work to characterize the basic properties of phospholipid bilayers, providing insight about the behavior of these basic structures found in all cell membranes. In addition, he was among the first to examine the mechanical properties of leukocytes and related cell types, again providing fundamental information about the relationship between the organization of cytoskeletal components and the consequent effects on rheological behavior. Most recently, he has turned his attention to leukocyte adhesion and the mechanisms that regulate the formation of adhesive contacts between cells and between cells and immobilized adhesive ligands. He was the first to quantify the interrelation of mechanical forces and the formation of adhesive contacts, and continues to explore how mechanics, surface topography, and chemical activation of cells combine to control adhesion.
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- Administrator, Senior Systems
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- Associate Professor of Neuroscience
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Ross joined the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience in 2016. He earned his PhD and MS in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University, and his BS in Sound Engineering from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Following his PhD, he completed a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Washington Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS). Among the awards and honors he has received are a grant from the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program of the National Science Foundation and the Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) from the National Institutes of Health. Ross has published his research in numerous scientific journals.
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- Professor of Imaging Sciences / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Vice Chair, Faculty and Professional Development, Department of Imaging Sciences
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- Professor of Neurology / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Neuroscience
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- Professor of Orthopaedics
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- Associate Professor
- Professor of Instruction, Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Neuroscience
Associate Professor Scott H. Seidman has been on the faculty of the biomedical engineering department at the University of Rochester since its creation in 2000. He earned his BS from Johns Hopkins and his MS and PhD from Case Western. His research interests include the detection of motion by the inner ear, and how this information is used by navigational and orientational mechanisms. Scott is co-director of the Technology Core of the Center for Navigation and Communication Sciences, funded by the National Institute of Deafness and other Communication Disorders, and helps disseminate technological development to other NIDCD cores. He has designed two laboratory-intensive courses, including the BME core course, Quantitative Physiology. He also co-teaches the year-long undergraduate Senior Design sequence.
Scott's engineering background is in bioinstrumentation and embedded devices. He has applied this expertise as co-inventor on two patent applications for medical devices, both in the area of neonatal monitoring. One of these devices comes directly out of a BME Senior Design Project, and he shares inventorship with four alumni of our design program and two UR Neonatologists. This device was recently awarded funding for further development from the University of Rochester Technology Development Fund, and is expected to attract future licensing. Another area of interest is assistive technology to help people with profound accessibility issues use computers, and he is currently working with a private company to bring a computer-based electronic musical instrument for people with high spinal cord injuries to the market.
He served as director of an international design educational initiative funded by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance in which students and faculty travelled between the University of Rochester and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) in Lima to identify global health needs of developing nations that could be addressed by the design programs of both schools. Seidman serves as the faculty advisor of the University of Rochester chapter of Engineers Without Borders.
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- Professor of Instruction, Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Neuroscience
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- Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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- Associate Professor of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Chairman, Biomedical Engineering
Stephen McAleavey is an associate professor of biomedical engineering. He earned the PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Rochester in 2002. From 2001 to 2004 he was a postdoctoral research associate in biomedical engineering at Duke University, where he contributed to the early development of ARFI imaging. In 2004 he joined the faculty of the biomedical engineering department at the University of Rochester. Here he has continued to develop advanced ultrasound imaging techniques, including Spatially Modulated Ultrasound Radiation Force (SMURF) imaging and single tracking location shear wave elastography imaging (STL-SWEI). He holds several patents for innovations in ultrasound imaging. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
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- Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
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- Undergraduate Program Coordinator
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- Director, the Institute of Optics
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- Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thomas Howard joined the University of Rochester in 2015 and is currently an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. He received a PhD in robotics from The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical and computer engineering and mechanical engineering from the University of Rochester. Previously he held appointments as a research scientist and a postdoctoral associate at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a research technologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a lecturer in mechanical engineering at Caltech. Professor Howard has taught courses on mechatronics, embedded systems, autonomous mobile robots, and robot control.
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- Director of Finance and Administration
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- Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics
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- Professor of Engineering / Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- Professor of Medical Optics / Professor of Optics
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- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Assistant Professor of Surgery, Pediatric Surgery
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- Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
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- Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
Interests: Biochemical Engineering, Fermentation, Biocatalysis, Bone Marrow Tissue Engineering, Molecular Biology
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- Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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- Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
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- Associate Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research