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Spring Seminar – Lori Jordan, MD
Feb. 23, 2018—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Lori Jordan, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Director, Pediatric Stroke Program, 国产原创 Medical Center Date:聽Thursday, March 15, 2018 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:25 p.m. start,聽12:15 p.m. lunch Title: 鈥淪ickle Cell Disease, Cerebral Hemodynamics, and Stroke鈥 Abstract: Children and adults...
Spring Seminar – Diandra Ayala-Peacock, M.D.
Feb. 9, 2018—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Diandra Ayala-Peacock, M.D. Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology 国产原创 Medical Center Date:聽Thursday, February 22, 2018 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:25 p.m. start,聽12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Image Guidance in the Management of Gynecologic Malignancies Bio: Dr. Ayala-Peacock is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology specializing in...
Jan. 30, 2018—A new device that can image diseases of the retina more quickly will soon be tested during ophthalmic surgeries with 国产原创 Eye Institute collaborators. The prototype was designed by a 国产原创 engineering undergraduate, who is first author on a paper about the work she will present today at the largest photonics conference in the world.
VISE Spring Seminar – Jack Abbott, PhD
Jan. 30, 2018—to be delivered by Jake Abbott,聽PhD, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah Robotics Center Date:聽Thursday, February 8, 2018 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:25 p.m. start,聽12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Magnetic Manipulation in Medical Robotics Abstract: Microscale and mesoscale robotic devices that navigate the natural pathways of the human body...
BIEN Lab wins three awards at NANS 2018
Jan. 22, 2018—The BIEN Lab was honored three times during this year鈥檚 North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS) Annual Meeting. Dr. Dario Englot, assistant professor of neurological surgery, radiology and radiological sciences, and biomedical engineering, won the prestigious Kumar New Investigator Award for his paper titled, 鈥淎ltered structural and functional connectivity of brainstem arousal centers in temporal lobe...
VISE Spring Seminar – Jason A. Spector, M.D., FACS
Jan. 12, 2018—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Jason A. Spector, M.D., FACS Professor of Plastic Surgery, Otolaryngology, and Bioengineering, Weill Cornell Medical College (Hosted by VU Biomedical Engineering, co-sponsored by VISE) Date:聽Thursday, January 25, 2018 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: The Ultimate Plastic Surgery: Tissue Regeneration, Biomimicry and Precision Medicine....
Jan. 10, 2018—PhD candidates, including two VISE affiliates, work with law and business school students on tech commercialization
MASI Lab teams up with EnvoyAI to develop segmentation algorithms
Jan. 9, 2018—The MASI lab is collaborating on the development of deep learning algorithms for abdomen segmentation that leverage artificial intelligence to better understand and diagnose disease. The MASI lab, affiliated with the 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering, is working with a team from EnvoyAI, which aims to simplify access to new AI algorithms by providing...
Jan. 2, 2018—Using fluorescently labeled antibodies as a contrast agent can give cancer surgeons highly specific real-time detection of tumors that may accelerate diagnosis, preserve more healthy tissue, and improve patient outcomes. Dr. Eben Rosenthal, keynote speaker at the VISE symposium, discusses using near-infrared fluorescence to improve detection of cancer margins. (Joe Howell/国产原创) 鈥淭here is a tension...
VISE Spring Seminar: David Sarment, DDS, MS
Jan. 2, 2018—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by David Sarment, DDS, MS President, Xoran Technologies Date:聽Thursday, January 11, 2018 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: 鈥淧oint of Care Computed Tomography: Imaging Where You Need It鈥 Abstract: Intra-operative Computed Tomography (iCT) in head and neck surgery is scarcely...
BONUS VISE Seminar: Elena A. Kaye, PhD
Dec. 4, 2017—VISE Seminar to be delivered by Elena A. Kaye, PhD, Assistant Attending Physicist, Department of Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 (notice different day) Time: 12:10pm start, noon 鈥 folks, cookies and coffee on this one… Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Achieving Sufficient Margins...
Nov. 10, 2017—Ultrasonic energy can be harnessed to alter brain activity and treat disease 鈥 but first, scientists need to learn how it works.
VISE Fall Seminar – Andrew Larson, PhD
Nov. 9, 2017—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Andrew Larson, PhD Professor of Radiology and Electrical Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Date:聽Thursday, November 16, 2017 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:10 p.m. start,聽Noon lunch Title: Development of Image-Guided Therapies for Liver Cancer Abstract: Image-guided loco-regional therapies are playing an increasingly critical...
Nov. 2, 2017—A 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) team is developing an image guidance interface for the da Vinci robotic surgery system to make partial kidney removal a less invasive 鈥済old standard鈥 when small tumors are involved.
VISE Fall Seminar – Stephen Aylward, PhD
Oct. 31, 2017—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Stephen Aylward, PhD Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Kitware Inc. Date:聽Thursday, November 2, 2017 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:10 p.m. start,聽Noon lunch Title:聽 Open Science and Computer-Augmented Point-of-Care Ultrasound Abstract: Open science is a bridge between academia and industry, and it is a way...
Oct. 27, 2017—Collaboration between a mechanical engineer at 国产原创 and a pulmonologist at 国产原创 Medical Center (VUMC) has resulted in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant that will be used to develop a steerable robotic needle to safely biopsy hard-to-reach lung nodules.
Oct. 24, 2017—Picture sitting back while a robotically controlled capsule endoscope swims through your patient鈥檚 gut, or conducting an upper endoscopy and viewing the procedure on your smartphone instead of investing in a monitor. If two experimental devices presented at Digestive Disease Week 2017 pan out in clinical trials, these scenarios could become reality.
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Oct. 16, 2017—Removing part of a kidney with minimally invasive robotic surgery rather than an entire kidney when operating for smaller tumors is often best for patients from a recovery and health standpoint, but many surgeons hesitate to do so because of the complexity of the robotic partial nephrectomy procedure. Investigators with the 国产原创 Institute for Surgery...
Oct. 11, 2017—The 国产原创 School of Engineering announces the appointment of 11 new members to its full-time teaching faculty.
Oct. 11, 2017—The Nashville Mini Maker Faire, held for the first time at The Wond鈥檙y, attracted more than 4,000 visitors and 93 exhibitors 鈥 a jump in attendance of more than 50 percent and double the maker participation over 2016. At least 25 percent of the exhibits had 国产原创 ties and many of them involved students, organizations...
VISE Fall Seminar – Caroline Chung, MD
Oct. 9, 2017—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Caroline Chung, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Date:聽Thursday, October 19, 2017 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:10 p.m. start,聽Noon lunch Title: “Personalizing radiotherapy for Cancer Care: The Next Frontier of Multidisciplinary Collaboration” Goals: 1. Review the evolution...
VISE Fall Seminar – Michael I. Miga, PhD
Sep. 28, 2017—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Michael I. Miga, PhD Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, 国产原创 Date: Thursday, October 5, 2017 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:10 p.m. start, Noon COFFEE & COOKIES Abstract: Being able to obtain an independent National Institutes of...
Two VISE undergraduates鈥 conference abstracts accepted as talks for SPIE Photonics West
Sep. 28, 2017—Kelsey Leeburg and Oscar Benavides will be heading to San Francisco in early 2018 to present talks for the SPIE Photonics West conference. Both students participated in the 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) Summer Undergraduate Program and are first authors of their respective papers. Leeburg and Benavides are members of the Diagnostic Imaging...
Sep. 27, 2017—The Diagnostic Imaging and Image-Guided Interventions (DIIGI) lab is located in the 国产原创 School of Engineering and is part of the 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) and the 国产原创 Biophotonics Center (VBC). Led by Dr. Yuankai (Kenny) Tao, our lab focuses on using light to visualize ophthalmic structures for research, diagnostic, and intraoperative...
VISE Fall Seminar – Mitch Edgeworth, MBA
Sep. 22, 2017—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Mitch Edgeworth, MBA, Chief Executive Officer, 国产原创 Hospital and Clinics Date: Thursday, October 26, 2017 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:10 p.m. start, Noon lunch
VISE 2017 Summer Undergraduate Program concludes with student-led seminar
Sep. 18, 2017—Eight students worked side-by-side graduate students and faculty on active research projects as part of the 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering鈥檚 2017 Summer Undergraduate program. Students in biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science spent ten weeks in VISE labs under the supervision of a VISE affiliate faculty member. The paid program...
VISE Fall Seminar – Lola Chambless, MD
Sep. 8, 2017—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Lola Chambless, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery 国产原创 Medical Center Date: Thursday,September 21, 2017 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:10 p.m. start, Noon lunch Title:聽 Minimally invasive brain surgery 鈥 a field in consolidation Abstract: The concept...
Sep. 6, 2017—The Wond鈥檙y, in collaboration with the 国产原创 Institute in Surgery and Engineering, recently won a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to become an Innovation Corps site.The designation marks 国产原创 as one of the premier academic institutions nationwide that nurture entrepreneurship. The聽I-Corps site grant聽will support programs to match students and faculty with teams of experienced...
VISE sponsors new group for women in science, medicine, and engineering
Sep. 5, 2017—Twenty women recently celebrated the creation of the 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering鈥檚 new group designed to support women in the STEM fields. The group adds a new way for women to build community among the ten VISE-affiliated labs as well as host discussion about translational research, networking, mental health, and navigating work environments....