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Tuesday, March 25, 2014: 鈥淢inimizing Physical Disability with Robotic Arms, Legs, and Exoskeletons,鈥 Professor Michael Goldfarb
Mar. 25, 2014—鈥淢inimizing Physical Disability with Robotic Arms, Legs, and Exoskeletons鈥漃rofessor Michael Goldfarb Reception 鈥 Light Hall, North Lobby 鈥 4:30-5:30 p.m. Lecture 鈥 Room 208 鈥 Light Hall – 5:30-6:30 p.m. The Chancellor鈥檚 Lecture Series is proud to feature 国产原创 Professor Michael Goldfarb as the final lecturer of the聽 2013-2014 academic year. Recently recognized by Popular...
ViSE Seminar Series: Issues of access and visualization in managing diseases of the pancreas: Engineering approaches to therapy, SC 5326, Thursday March 27, 11:50. Refreshments provided.
Mar. 21, 2014—Title: Issues of access and visualization in managing diseases of the pancreas:聽 Engineering approaches to therapy Speakers: Dr. William Nealon, MD Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery, Associate Surgeon-in-Chief, VUMC Dr. Charles Caskey, PhD Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Date: Thursday, March 27th, 2014 Time:聽 Noon start, 11:50 lunch social Place:聽 Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract:...
ME/EECS/VISE co-sponsored Robotics seminar, Monday March 17, 134 FGH (Jacob鈥檚 Believed in Me Auditorium) 3:10 p.m
Mar. 13, 2014—Dan Popa, Associate Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington, will present Multiscale Robotics: A view from Microns and Millimeters to Human size Monday March 17, 3:10-4 pm, Jacobs Believed in Me Auditorium/FGH 134. Abstract: Having been established more than half a century ago, the fields of control and...
ViSE Seminar Series: Temporal Patterns of Deep Brain Stimulation: From Mechanisms to Improved Therapy, SC 5326, Thursday March 13, 11:50. Refreshments provided.
Mar. 4, 2014—Title: Temporal Patterns of Deep Brain Stimulation: From Mechanisms to Improved Therapy Speaker: Warren M. Grill,聽 Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Neurobiology, and Surgery, Duke University Date: Thursday, March 13th, 2014 Time:聽 Noon start, 11:50 lunch social Place:聽 Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has developed from an experimental technique...
ViSE co-sponsors Discovery Lecture featuring Blake Wilson, Lasker Award award winner: March 13th, 4pm, 208 Light Hall
Mar. 4, 2014—Blake S. Wilson, DSc, Lasker Award winner will be featured at the March 13, 2014 国产原创 Discovery Lecture. The Lasker Awards are among the most respected science prizes in the world. Eighty-three Lasker laureates have received the Nobel Prize, including 31 in the past two decades. Title:聽 “The development of the modern cochlear implant and...
ViSE affiliate students win SPIE Awards!
Feb. 25, 2014—A number of ViSE faculty and student members participated in the SPIE Medical Imaging: Image-Guided Procedures Robotic Interventions, and Modeling Conference in San Diego, Feb 15-20, 2014. Andrew Asman was a best student paper 鈥渁ll-conference” finalist at SPIE for his paper 鈥淪tatistical label fusion with hierarchical performance models鈥澛 with 国产原创 co-authors Alexander S. Dagley and...
ViSE Seminar Series: Technology Challenges in Interventional Pulmonology, SC 5326, Thursday February 27, 11:50. Refreshments provided.
Feb. 24, 2014—Technology Challenges in Interventional Pulmonology Speakers: Otis B. Rickman, D.O. , Assistant Professor of Medicine & Thoracic Surgery , Director of Bronchoscopy, Co-Director Lung Cancer Screening Program聽 &聽 Bob Webster, PhD, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering &聽 Otolaryngology Date: Thursday, February 27th, 2014 Time:聽 Noon start, 11:50 lunch social Place:聽 Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract:聽 Interventional...
ViSE Seminar Series: Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Disease, SC 5326, Thursday February 13, 11:50. Refreshments provided.
Feb. 10, 2014—Welcome Dr. Thomas J. Wang, MD who has joined 国产原创 as the new Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine.聽 Dr. Wang comes to 国产原创 from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where he directed the heart failure disease management program and served as the associate director of the heart failure/transplantation section. Biomarkers of...
Leuthardt to speak at ViSE Seminar Series, Monday January 27, 5:15pm
Jan. 16, 2014—Center for Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology:聽 Developing Models for Innovation in Academic Neurosurgery Speaker: Eric C. Leuthardt, M.D. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Date: Monday January 27th Time:聽 4:30 Social, 5:15 Seminar Start Place:聽 134 “Jacobs Believed in Me” Auditorium (FGH) and Atrium There is currently an acceleration of new scientific...
1st SPRING SEMESTER VISE SEMINAR, January 27, 2014, 5:15-6:10pm, FGH 134
Dec. 18, 2013—Speaker:聽 Dr. Eric Leuthardt, MD Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, & Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis Title:聽 Director of the Center for Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology Date:聽 Monday, January 27th, 2014 Time:聽 5:10-6:10pm Place:聽 Featheringill Hall 134, 鈥淛acobs Believed in Me鈥 Auditorium Website:聽 http://cint.wustl.edu
Annual Surgery and Engineering Symposium
Dec. 4, 2013—The 国产原创 Institute in Surgery and Engineering (VISE) and the Department of Surgery Research Collaborative will host the second annual 国产原创 Surgery and Engineering Symposium today, Wednesday, Dec. 11, from 3 to 7 p.m. in Light Hall- Room 208 and North Atrium. Nick Hopkins, Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery, Professor of Radiology, State University of New...
ViSE affiliates partner on grant awarded to the Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Nov. 21, 2013—The 国产原创 Medical & Electromechanical Design lab is a partner on a grant recently awarded by the Korean government to the Korea Institute of Science and Technology entitled “Development of Next-Generation Micro Surgical Robot Based on Open Platform”.聽 The purpose of the work is to develop a surgical robotic system with steerable end effectors for...
ViSE affiliates present results of the NSF-CPS Project
Nov. 19, 2013—The first year results of the NSF-CPS Project 鈥淐PS-Synergy: Integrated Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis of Miniature Medical Devices鈥 were presented at the Fourth Annual Cyber-Physical Systems Principal Investigators meeting in Arlington, VA. Here you can download the poster that has been presented.
ViSE affiliates win OLYMPUS Best Laparoscopy/Robotic Paper Award
Nov. 18, 2013—The study 鈥淟aparoscopic Wireless Palpation Device: Preliminary Assessment of Simulated Tumor Detection in an Elastic Modulus鈥 by A. Benson, M. Beccani, C. Di Natali, R. Pickens, P. Valdastri, S. D. Herrell received the OLYMPUS Best Laparoscopy/Robotic Paper Award at the 31st World Congress of Endourology in New Orleans, LA. Read more: 31st World Congress of...
ViSE Seminar Series: Challenges in Interventional Oncology: Soft-tissue Ablative Therapeutics, SC 5326, Thursday November 21, 11:50-1:10, Refreshments provided.
Nov. 18, 2013—Challenges in Interventional Oncology: Soft-tissue Ablative Therapeutics Presenters: Dr. Dan Brown, MD, Chief of Interventional Oncology VUMC Dr. Logan W. Clements, PhD Research Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Thursday November 21st, 2013 Stevenson Center 5326 11:50-1:10 pm Snacks & refreshments at 11:50 Noon seminar start