BME - Key Persons
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- Accountant I, ENGR Business Services - OEBC
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- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Associate Department Head for Biomedical Engineering Graduate Affairs
- Associate Department Head for Biomedical Engineering Graduate Affairs / Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Associate Department Head for Graduate Affairs
Ali Bilgin (S'94-M'03-SM'08) received the B.S. degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1992, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, in 2002. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Department of Medical Imaging, University of Arizona. He has authored or coauthored more than 175 research papers in international journals and conferences. He holds ten granted and several pending patents. He was on the Organizing Committees of many conferences, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing L etters from 2010 to 2012, and the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from 2010 to 2014. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computational I maging. His research interests include signal and image processing, image and video coding, data compression, and magnetic resonance imaging.
Marcellin, M. W., & Bilgin, A. (2010). Digital intermediate (DI) processing and distribution with scalable compression in the post-production of motion pictures.
Bilgin, A. (2003). A simulation model of indoor environments for ultrasonic sensors.
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- Graduate Advisor
- Senior Academic Advisor
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- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Professor of Medicin
- Professor of Medicine / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Optical Sciences
Dr. Banerjee served as the Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology from November 2008 to November 2015. He obtained his medical degree from the University of London, UK, followed by postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Prior to joining the University of Arizona, Dr. Banerjee was in the Division of Gastroenterology at Washington University in Saint Louis for nine years, during which time he was promoted to Professor of Medicine. Dr. Banerjee's research interest is in the development of new optical techniques for the detection and treatment of gastrointestinal disorders. His clinical interests include gastro esophageal reflux disease, Barrett's esophagus, peptic ulcer disease, screening and surveillance of colon cancer, functional bowel disorders and diseases of the small intestine. Dr. Banerjee is the editor of a textbook on the nutritional management of digestive disorders. He is a Professor in the Department of Medicine (tenured) and a Professor of Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering. He is a member of the Arizona Cancer Center and the Graduate Inter- Disciplinary Program. Dr. Banerjee is Board Certified in Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine.
Cromey, B., McDaniel, A., Matsunaga, T., Vagner, J., Kieu, K. Q., & Banerjee, B. (2018). Pancreatic cancer cell detection by targeted lipid microbubbles and multiphoton imaging. Journal of biomedical optics, 23(4), 1-8.
Banerjee, B., Medda, B. K., Zhang, J., Tuchscherer, V., Babygirija, R., Kannampalli, P., Sengupta, J. N., & Shaker, R. (2016). Prolonged esophageal acid exposures induce synaptic downscaling of cortical membrane AMPA receptor subunits in rats. Neurogastroenterology and motility : the official journal of the European Gastrointestinal Motility Society, 28(9), 1356-69.
Zou, J., Wang, L. V., Kuczynski, J., Garcia-uribe, A., Chang, C. C., & Banerjee, B. (2010). Fast and minimally-invasive tumor margin detection using a novel micromachined "side-viewing" oidrs sensor probe. In 2010 Solid-State, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop Technical Digest, 418-421.
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- Associate Department Head of Speech, Language and Hearing
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- Administrative Support Professional
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- Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicin
- Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Colson, B. A. (2021). In the eye of the STORM: Tracking the myosin-binding protein C N terminus in heart muscle. The Journal of general physiology, 153(3).
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- Grant and Contract Administrator I, ENGR Business Services - OEBC
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- Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor, BIO5 Institute
Baker, C. A., & Aspinwall, C. A. (2015). Emerging trends in precision fabrication of microapertures to support suspended lipid membranes for sensors, sequencing, and beyond. Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 407(3), 647-52.
Li, Z., Muhandiramlage, T. P., Keogh, J. P., Hall, H. K., & Aspinwall, C. A. (2015). Aptamer-functionalized porous phospholipid nanoshells for direct measurement of Hg(2+) in urine. Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 407(3), 953-60.
Gallagher, E. S., Mansfield, E., & Aspinwall, C. A. (2014). Stabilized phospholipid membranes in chromatography: toward membrane protein-functionalized stationary phases. Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 406(9-10), 2223-9.
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- Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Dr. Latt earned his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2002. He then completed residency training in orthopaedic surgery at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has fellowship training in sports medicine from Kaiser San Diego, and foot and ankle surgery from Duke University.
Dr. Latt specializes in the care of athletic injuries of the shoulder, knee, ankle and foot. He is particularly interested in complex lower extremity reconstruction and realignment, cartilage injuries, patellofemoral disorders, degenerative disorders of tendon and arthroscopy of the ankle, knee and shoulder. He has a special interest in dance medicine and is the medical director of the dance medicine clinic at the University of Arizona.
In addition to his medical degree, Dr. Latt earned a PhD in bioengineering form the University of Pittsburgh. He has experience in both human movement analysis and joint biomechanics. His current research interests include the development of ultrasound for the functional imaging of tendons, the study of joint contact pressures in the ankle and the patellofemoral joints, the study of the viscoelastic properties of bone, and the use patient reported outcomes following lower extremity surgery.
Dr. Latt has served in a number of leadership roles in professional societies through which he has sought to improve the evidence base for orthopaedic care by increasing the quantity and quality of orthopaedic research performed. He is currently the chair of the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Research Committee and a member of the managerial board of the Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Research Network. He is the also the vice chair of the AAOS Board of Specialty Societies Research Committee.
Dr. Latt is also very committed to improving orthopaedic research through medical publishing. He is a long time reviewer for both sports medicine and foot and ankle journals (AJSM, OJSM, FAI, CORR, and FAS), he has been on the editorial board of the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine since its inception, and in 2016, he became the founding editor of Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics, the online open access sister journal to Foot & Ankle International.
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- Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
Margolis, D. S., Wu, E. W., & Truchan, L. M. (2013). Axonal loss in murine peripheral nerves following exposure to recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 in an absorbable collagen sponge. The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume, 95(7), 611-9.
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- Professor of Plant Sciences
- Professor of Plant Sciences / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor, BIO5 Institute
- Radiology Medical Research Lab 128
Sun, G., & Galbraith, D. W. (2021). Flow Cytometry and Sorting in Arabidopsis.. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2200, 255-294. doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-0880-7_12
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- Senior Academic Advisor
- Undergraduate Advisor
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- Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Elizabeth Hutchinson is an assistant professor in the department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona and leads the multi-scale brain imaging lab, which uses pre-clinical imaging - especially MRI - to better understand brain disorders and develop translationally relevant imaging markers. Dr. Hutchinson has an educational background in the physical sciences and neuroscience and her research interests include neuroimaging and pre-clinical models of brain disorders. She has contributed primarily in the areas of diffusion MRI methods and traumatic brain injury (TBI) models and in her work has identified several novel markers of brain pathology that follow brain trauma. Within these broad research areas, her research interests include: radiologic-pathologic correspondence studies to associate imaging markers with their biological underpinnings, the development of processing and analysis tools for multi-brain studies, the identification of imaging markers in human-similar models of injury and fixed specimen studies to establish the translational relevance of novel imaging markers. Her current research activities continue to explore and apply advanced neuroimaging approaches through the use of translationally relevant models and pre-clinical neuroimaging across a range of spatial scales and modalities.
Jenkins, J., Chang, L., Irfanoglu, M. O., Pierpaoli, C., & Hutchinson, E. B. (2016). Harmonization of methods to facilitate reproducibility in medical data processing: Applications to diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 3992-3994.
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- Bioscience Research Labs 319
- Professor at the University of Arizona
- Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
- Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Roberto Guzman has been a Chemical Engineering professor at the University of Arizona since 1989. He has faculty joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering and in Pharmacology and Toxicology (recently) Departments at the University of Arizona. He also has an academic appointment as an international faculty in the Nanotechnology Program at the University of Sonora, Mexico. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, at the University of Uppsala, Sweden and at the University of Technology in Compiegne, France, where he also has a visiting scholar appointment. He received a PhD in Chemical Engineering/Biotechnology from North Carolina State University (NCSU) where he continued as a postdoc for a year before joining the University of Arizona. He received an MSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Chicago and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. His present research is in Nanoparticle Bio/Technology and protein purifications with emphasis in metal-hybrid nanoparticles for diagnostics and target drug delivery therapy and discovery of biomarkers from biological fluids. Professor Guzman background has strong bases in molecular recognition, affinity technology, synthetic chemistry, applied biochemistry and mathematical modeling. The areas of research studied in his laboratory fall in the boundaries between synthetic chemistry, biology, medicine, polymer sciences and engineering and incorporate both experimental and theoretical work analysis.
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- Professor of Physiology
- Professor of Physiology / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor, Physiological Sciences Graduate Interdisciplinary Program
Eggers, E. D., Klein, J. S., & Moore-Dotson, J. M. (2013). Slow changes in Ca2(+) cause prolonged release from GABAergic retinal amacrine cells. Journal of neurophysiology, 110(3), 709-19.
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- Co - Leader, Cancer Imaging Program
- Co - Leader, Cancer Imaging Program / Professor of Medical Imaging / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Interim Co - Chair of Basic Medical Sciences
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- Chairman, Department of Surgery
- Chairman, Department of Surgery / Professor of Surgery / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Medical Research Building 325
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- Assistant Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology
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- Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicin
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- Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
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- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Janet M. Wang-Roveda is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998 and 2000, respectively. She was a recipient of the NSF career award and the Presidential Early Achievement Award for Science and Engineering at White House in 2005 and 2006, respectively. She was the recipient of the 2008 R. Newton Graduate Research Award from the EDA community, and the 2007 USS University of Arizona Outstanding Achievement Award. She received the best paper award in journal of clean energy in 2013, ISQED 2010 as well as best paper nominations in ASPDAC 2010, ICCAD 2007, and ISQED 2005. Her primary research interests focus on robust VLSI circuit design, biomedical instrument design, Smart grid, VLSI circuit modeling/design and analysis, and low power multi-core system design. She has over 120 publications.
Li, A. o., Roveda, J. M., Powers, L. S., & Quan, S. F. (2021). Obstructive sleep apnea predicts 10-year cardiovascular disease related mortality in the Sleep Heart Health Study: a machine learning approach. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, jcsm--9630.
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- Assistant Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicin
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- Surgeon
- Professor of Surgery
- Professor of Surgery / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Vice Dean, Research and Graduate Studies
Dr. Wertheim is a surgeon-scientist, biomedical engineer, and Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson. Dr. Wertheim is a transplant surgeon, and he directs a multidisciplinary laboratory in biomedical engineering, studying the response of cells to grow into mature tissue to develop cells for therapy and transplantation.
He received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MD and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He trained in general surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and completed a fellowship in abdominal transplant surgery at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center.
Dr. Wertheim's research laboratory is centered on biomedical engineering, developing biomaterials for tissue engineering applications. His laboratory also investigates the growth and differentiation of cells into mature tissue liver, kidney and vascular tissue within biomaterial scaffolds to model disease or develop cells for therapy and tissue transplantation. Dr. Wertheim is a member of the NIH (Re)Building a Kidney (RBK) Consortium that develops kidney cell types and biomaterials to repair and regenerate renal tissue. In 2019, Dr. Wertheim was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for his kidney-related research.
Das, P., DiVito, M. D., Wertheim, J. A., & Tan, L. P. (2021). Bioengineered 3D electrospun nanofibrous scaffold with human liver cells to study alcoholic liver disease in vitro. Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro, 13(7), 184-195.
Das, P., DiVito, M. D., Wertheim, J. A., & Tan, L. P. (2020). Collagen-I and fibronectin modified three-dimensional electrospun PLGA scaffolds for long-term in vitro maintenance of functional hepatocytes. Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications, 111, 110723.
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- Professor of Psychology
- Professor of Psychology / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor, Applied Sciences Graduate Interdisciplinary Program
Cazin, N., Llofriu Alonso, M., Scleidorovich Chiodi, P., Pelc, T., Harland, B., Weitzenfeld, A., Fellous, J. M., & Dominey, P. F. (2019). Reservoir computing model of prefrontal cortex creates novel combinations of previous navigation sequences from hippocampal place-cell replay with spatial reward propagation. PLoS computational biology, 15(7), e1006624.
Harper, B., & Fellous, J. M. (2019). Ground truth construction and parameter tuning for the detection of sleep spindle timing in rodents. Journal of neuroscience methods, 313, 13-23.
Lester, A. W., Howard, M. D., Fellous, J., Bhattacharyya, R., & , . (2013, 2013). A Computational Model of Perirhinal Cortex: Gating and Repair of Input to the Hippocampus. In 2013 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN).
Harper, B., & Fellous, J. (2018, Oct). A method for the precise detection and validation of spindle timing in rodents. Society for Neuroscience. San-Diego, CA.
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- Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jeffrey J. RodrÃguez (M'90-SM'02) received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Texas at Austin in 1984 and 1990, respectively, and the M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986, all in electrical engineering.,Since 1990, he has been a faculty member with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, where he is currently the Director of the Signal and Image Laboratory. His research area includes signal/image/video processing and analysis, with a particular emphasis on automated image analysis. From 2003 to 2008, he was the Co-Director of Connection One, a National Science Foundation research center. From 2005 to 2011, he served on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing. He has served on the organizing committees for numerous other technical conferences.,Dr. Rodriguez served as the General Chair for the 2016 IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation and the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. From 1996 to 2000, he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
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- Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Director, BIO5 Institut
- Director, BIO5 Institute / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Biosystems Engineering
Jennifer Barton received the BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and University of California Irvine, respectively. She worked for McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) on the Space Station program before returning to The University of Texas at Austin to obtain the Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 1998. She is currently Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Optical Sciences, and Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering at the University of Arizona. She has served as department head of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Vice President for Research, Interim Vice President for Research, and is currently Interim Director of the BIO5 Institute, a collaborative research institute dedicated to solving complex biology-based problems affecting humanity.
Barton develops miniature endoscopes that combine multiple optical imaging techniques, particularly optical coherence tomography and fluorescence spectroscopy. She evaluates the suitability of these endoscopic techniques for detecting early cancer development in patients and pre-clinical models. Additionally, her research into light-tissue interaction and dynamic optical properties of blood laid the groundwork for a novel therapeutic laser to treat disorders of the skin's blood vessels. She has published over 90 peer-reviewed journal papers in these research areas. She is a fellow of SPIE- the International Optics Society, and a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Loh, T. Y., Goldberg, M. S., Falsey, R. R., Barton, J. K., Sagerman, P., & Goldberg, G. N. (2019). Insight into the mechanisms of type III minocycline-induced pigmentation removal: A case of repeated immediate pigment clearing with the Q-switched 755-nm alexandrite laser over a 13-year period. JAAD case reports, 5(10), 865-867.
Vega, D., & Barton, J. K. (2020). Using customized computational analyses to evaluate the feasibility and risk of endoscopes with an SNR analysis as an example (Conference Presentation). In Design and Quality for Biomedical Technologies XIII, 11231.
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- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Professor
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Medicine / Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Jil Tardiff, MD, PhD, is a professor of medicine and cellular and molecular medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson and a member of the Clinical and Translational Institute at the BIO5 Institute. She attended the University of California at Berkeley where she completed her B.A. in Genetics in 1984. She subsequently completed her M.D. and a Ph.D. (in Cell Biology) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City in 1992. Dr. Tardiff pursued her housestaff training at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. As one of the first participants in the ABIM Clinician-Scientist pathway as a Markey Fellow, she completed an internal medicine residency coupled to a combined clinical-research fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at Columbia. In 2001 she joined the faculty at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine as an assistant professor of medicine and physiology and biophysics. She remained on faculty at Einstein, achieving the rank of associate professor. In 2012 Dr. Tardiff joined the faculty at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, where she currently holds the Steven M. Gootter Endowed Chair for the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death.
As a physician-scientist, Dr. Tardiff's work focuses on the mechanisms that underlie the development of the most common form of genetic cardiomyopathy, those caused by mutations in proteins of the cardiac sarcomere, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). These complex disorders affect one in 500 individuals of all ages and represent the most common cause of sudden cardiac death in the field. Her studies detailing the mechanisms of disease pathogenesis at the level of individual cells using transgenic mouse models has been continuously funded by the NIH since 2001 and the work has been cited in support of new clinical trials to evaluate novel treatment modalities for this challenging cardiomyopathy. More recently, in collaboration with Steven Schwartz in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Arizona, her lab has developed computational approaches to modeling and eventually predicting disease severity based on protein structure. To fully translate these basic research findings to the clinical realm, one of her main goals remains the development of an HCM Center of Excellence at the University of Arizona where patients from all over the southwest can obtain lifelong cutting edge medical care for this complex and often devastating disorder.
Dr. Tardiff was awarded $1.4 million (NIH grant number HL075619) to continue her lab's study of "Integrative Approach to Divergent Remodeling in Thin Filament Cardiomyopathies." Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is an often devastating and common cardiac genetic disease. The goal of this research is to improve the understanding of how independent mutations cause this complex disorder and discover better therapeutic options, especially in young people.
Greenberg, M. J., & Tardiff, J. C. (2021). Complexity in genetic cardiomyopathies and new approaches for mechanism-based precision medicine. The Journal of general physiology, 153(3).
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- Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
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- Acting Program Director of Physiology
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- Assistant Research Professor, BIO5 Institute, Arizona Statistics Consulting Laboratory Statistician
- Assistant Research Professor, BIO5 Institute, Arizona Statistics Consulting Laboratory Statistician / Assistant Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Senior VP Health Sciences Director, Health Sciences Design
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- Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
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- Assistant Research Professor of Surgery
- Assistant Research Professor of Surgery / Assistant Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Research Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
- Research Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery / Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Professor of Medical Imaging
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- Professor, Department of Mathematics
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Gainer, C., deSilva, C., & Romanowski, M. (2010, unknown). Augmented microscopy - simultaneous acquisition of bright field and luminescence lifetime images.. In Annual Meeting of the American Society for Laser Surgery and Medicine.
Martirosyan, N., Watson, J., Skoch, J., Lemole, G. M., Romanowski, M., & Anton, R. (2014, unknown). Augmented integration of ICG videoangiography with operative microscope allows simultaneous real-time assessment of vascular structures and blood flow.. 82nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. San Francisco: American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
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- Professor of Medical Imaging
- Professor of Medical Imaging / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Vice Chair of Research, Department of Medical Imaging
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- Department Head
- Department Head of Biomedical Engineering
- Department Head of Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Associate Dean, Research
- Associate Dean, Research / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Bioscience Research Labs 166
Mark Van Dyke was born and raised in Michigan and graduated from Central Michigan University with a Bachelor of Science degree (chemistry, biology) in 1988. He began his professional career as an analytical chemist at the Dow Chemical Company in Midland, MI. As part of the Environmental Sciences Department, he served as a study director for research programs supporting US Environmental Protection Agency approval of new herbicides. In 1991, he moved to the Dow Corning Corporation and began work in toxicology, silicone biomaterials, and medical devices. After receiving the Dow Corning Fellowship, he attended graduate school at the University of Cincinnati in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, earning his PhD in 1998. That same year, Dr. Van Dyke joined Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, TX, the largest independent non-profit research and development lab in the US. During his tenure with SwRI, Dr. Van Dyke was a principal investigator and study director for several large biomaterial development programs. His primary area of interest was in the development of naturally-derived biomaterials and their application to wound healing and tissue engineering. In 2004, Dr. Van Dyke joined the faculty of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine where he expanded his investigations into the use of keratin biomaterials for regenerative medicine applications. In 2012 he joined the faculty of Virginia Tech in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics where his research included investigation of the solution behavior and self-assembly of keratin nanomaterials and their development into products for medical devices, tissue engineering, drug and cell delivery, and trauma applications. In 2020, Dr. Van Dyke joined the University of Arizona as the Associate Dean of Research in the College of Engineering, and a Tenured Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Van Dyke has published more than 80 papers and book chapters, is an inventor or co-inventor on 34 issued US patents and more than 80 US and international patents pending, many related to keratin biomaterials and their application to tissue engineering and trauma, and a co-founder of three startup companies. His teaching interests include regenerative medicine, biomaterials and healthcare entrepreneurship.
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- Professor of Medicin
- Professor of Medicine
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- Regents Professor of Medicin
- Regents Professor of Medicine / Clinical Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Marvin J. Slepian, MD, is Regents' Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering (Associate Department Head), with Professorships in Medical Imaging, Materials Sciences and Engineering, and Chemical and Environmental Engineering and McGuire Scholar in the Eller College of Management, at University of Arizona. Dr. Slepian is Founder and Director of the Arizona Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation (ACABI) - a "creativity engine," focused on novel solution development for unmet medical needs. Dr. Slepian attended Princeton (AB Biochemical Sciences and Science in Human Affairs '77) and received his MD from University of Cincinnati College of Medicine ('81 AOA). He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at New York University-Bellevue Hospital, where he served as Chief Resident in Medicine; clinical and research fellowships in Cardiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and clinical and research fellowships in Interventional Cardiology and a research fellowship in Artificial Organs at the Cleveland Clinic. In addition, Dr Slepian received post-doctoral training in Chemical Engineering and Polymer Chemistry at MIT, and Business and Management training at Harvard Business School.
In parallel with his clinical career Dr. Slepian has had an extensive research career leading to the development of innovative diagnostics and therapeutics for cardiovascular diseases. His work has focused on the development and use of novel biomaterials for tissue engineering, drug delivery and medical device development. His lab has developed many novel diagnostics and therapeutics which have found their way into clinical use today including: drug-eluting stent technologies, stent coatings, "polymer paving," surgical anti-adhesive barriers, stretchable and biodegradable electronics, "wearables," synthetic tissue sealants, myocardial revascularization and cell delivery methods and cardiovascular prosthetic devices - including the total artificial heart. Dr. Slepian's lab has also, for years, been heavily involved in basic science concentrating on three main areas: 1. the role of cell-matrix interactions in vascular disease, 2. basic aspects of cell-material interactions and 3. the impact of physical forces (notably shear and sound) on platelet activation.
Dr Slepian is author of more than 250 articles and textbook chapters published in journals such as Science, Nature Materials, PNAS, PlosOne, Circulation, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Cardiovascular Pathology, and serves on several editorial review boards. He is a prolific inventor with more than 100 issued and filed patents and has been the founder of numerous medical device companies including FOCAL (NASDAQ), Endotex, Angiotrax, Hansen Medical (NASDAQ), Arsenal, 480 BioMedical, MC10 and SynCardia, and has been involved with bringing many new devices through the FDA regulatory process into clinical use, including most notably the total artificial heart. He has received multiple awards for his academic and translational research including: the American Heart Association Award for the Most Significant Advance in Cardiovascular Medicine, the AZBio Pioneer Award (2017) for Lifetime Achievement in Biomedical Science Innovation, and in 2019 was named daVinci Fellow - the highest recognition of the University of Arizona College of Engineering; and received the Daniel Drake Medal - the highest distinction of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine for outstanding innovative medical research. In 2020 Dr. Slepian was selected as Founders' Lecturer - the highest honor of the U Arizona College of Medicine. Dr. Slepian is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and an elected member of BEMA - the Biomaterials Engineering Materials and Applications (BEMA) Roundtable, of the National Research Council of the National Academies. He is Past-President of the International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support (ISMCS) is and the Immediate Past-President of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO).
Chiu, W. C., Slepian, M. J., & Bluestein, D. (2021). Thrombus formation patterns in the HeartMate II ventricular assist device: clinical observations can be predicted by numerical simulations. ASAIO journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs : 1992), 60(2), 237-40.
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- Manager, Business and Financ
- Manager, Business and Finance
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- Associate Department Head for Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Affairs
- Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs
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- Medical Research Building 320
- Professor of Medical Imaging
- Professor of Medical Imaging / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Medicine
Phillip H. Kuo M.D., PhD. graduated in chemistry from Harvard and then earned an MD/PhD from the University of Virginia. Post-graduate training included residency in Internal Medicine at UCLA, fellowship in Nuclear Medicine and residency in Radiology at Yale. He has board certifications in Nuclear Medicine, Radiology, Internal Medicine, and Nuclear Cardiology. He joined the University of Arizona in 2008 and is now Professor of Medical Imaging and also faculty in Medicine and Biomedical Engineering. He currently serves as the Chief of Nuclear Medicine and Director of the Fellowship in Nuclear Radiology. Scientific interests span basic, translational and clinical research in molecular imaging.
Kuo, P., Van Heertum, R., Nguyen, B., Bateman, D., Symanowski, J., & Naumann, R. (2012, MAY). A pilot study assessing interreader variability in the evaluation of folate receptor status of ovarian cancer patients using Tc-99m-etarfolatide. JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE.
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- Research Specialist, Senior
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- Human Resources Generalist I, ENGR Business Services - OEBC
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- Professor of Physiology
- Professor of Physiology / Associate Professor of Pharmacology / Professor, BIO5 Institute
Dr. Ronald Lynch received a Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Cincinnati in 1984. He began training in optical imaging and MR spectroscopy of cardiac metabolism while at the NIH under the direction of Dr. Robert Balaban from 1984-1987. In 1987 Dr. Lynch moved to a staff position in the Biomedical Imaging Group with appointment in the Physiology Department at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center under the direction of Dr. Fredric S. Fay. While there, Dr. Lynch was involved in developing approaches for 3-dimensional optical imaging including deconvolution and confocal microscopy. In 1990 Dr. Lynch was recruited to the University of Arizona to develop a research program centered on the use and development of microscopic imaging and spectroscopy to study physiological problems. In 2000, Dr. Lynch was a visiting scientist at the Laboratory of Functional Molecular Imaging and the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center with Dr. Alan Koretsky at the NIH.
Dr. Lynch's primary appointment is in Physiology, with joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Pharmacology. He currently is the Director of the Arizona Research Institute for Biomedical Imaging (ARIBI), and is a member of the Arizona Cancer Center and Sarver Heart Center.
Research in the Lynch lab focuses on second messenger signaling in vascular smooth muscle cells and nutrient sensing cells (e.g., Pancreatic Beta-cells) with emphasis on alterations in signaling that occur during development of Diabetes. Under development are methods to modify and analyze beta cell mass in order to evaluate the initiation of the pre-diabetic state, and efficacy of its treatment. Analyses of subcellular protein distributions, second messenger signaling, and ligand binding are performed using state of the art microscopy and analysis approaches which is a second area of expertise. Over the past 3 decades, the Lynch lab has worked on developing unique microscopic imaging and spectroscopy approaches to study cell and tissue function, as well as screening assays for cell signaling and ligand binding
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- Professor of Medical Imaging
- Professor of Medical Imaging / Professor of Optical Sciences / Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Russell S. Witte graduated with Honors in Physics (BS, 1993) from University of Arizona and Bioengineering (PhD, 2002) from Arizona State University, where he used electrode arrays to study sensory coding and learning-induced plasticity in the brain. As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, he helped devise state-of-the-art techniques to image the nervous and musculoskeletal systems. Dr. Witte is now Associate Professor of Medical Imaging, Biomedical Engineering, and Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. His Experimental Ultrasound and Neural Imaging Laboratory (EUNIL) devises hybrid imaging methods that integrate light, ultrasound, and microwaves for advanced imaging with novel contrast. These noninvasive techniques, such as acoustoelectric imaging, thermoacoustic imaging, and ultrasound elastography, quantify changes in the electrical, optical and/or mechanical properties of tissue at high spatial resolution. The ultimate goal of Dr. Witte's research is to improve patient care by providing tools that improve diagnostic accuracy and treatment-decision making for a variety of conditions ranging from epilepsy and arrhythmia to tendinopathy and cancer.
Witte, R. S., Furdella, K. J., & Vande Geest, J. P. (2017). Tracking delivery of a drug surrogate in the porcine heart using photoacoustic imaging and spectroscopy. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 22(4), 041016. doi:10.1117/1.jbo.22.4.041016
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- Professor of Medical Imaging
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- Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering
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- Professor of Medical Imaging
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- Professor of Physiology
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- Assistant Professor of Optical Sciences
Vega, D., Sawyer, T. W., Pham, N. Y., & Barton, J. K. (2020). Use of embedded and patterned dichroic surfaces with reflective optical power to enable multiple optical paths in a micro-objective. Applied optics, 59(22), G71-G78.
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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