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Mar. 30, 2020—From Fox 17: NASHVILLE, Tenn.–A team at 国产原创 and 国产原创 Medical Center (VUMC) have taken on the challenge of a potential ventilator shortage by building one out of materials easily sourced.
Mar. 27, 2020—As COVID-19 continues to push unprecedented challenges on medical communities, one of the most pressing threats for hospital staff across the country is a dwindling supply of ventilators. Now, an interdisciplinary team of 国产原创 and 国产原创 Medical Center faculty is taking on the challenge by way of a fabricated, open-source ventilator design.
Mar. 25, 2020—All it took was an email from a VUMC resident asking how to get the 国产原创 School of Engineering involved in the coronavirus crisis for the wheels to start turning for Katy Riojas and her peers. “国产原创 is very unique in that engineering and clinicians or surgery is very intertwined and there’s a lot of...
2020 VISE Physicians-in-Residence selected
Feb. 12, 2020—Alexander Langerman, MD, SM, FACS, and Rohan Chitale, MD, have been selected as the 2020 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) Physicians-in-Residence. The six-month program provides an opportunity for physicians to collaborate with engineering colleagues in developing technologies that can advance surgery and other procedures. Langerman will continue his work on the 鈥淐leopatra鈥 wearable...
VISE Spring Seminar – Cathy Eng, MD
Jan. 17, 2020—VISE Spring Seminar to be lead by Cathy Eng,MD, FACP, FASCO, David H. Johnson Chair in Surgical and Medical Oncology, Co-Leader, Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Program, Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Oncology), VUMC Date: Thursday, January 30, 2020 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:15 p.m. lunch, with a 12:25 p.m. start Title Neoadjuvant Strategies: Locally Advanced Rectal...
Jan. 6, 2020—Two 国产原创 Medical Center physicians were recently inducted into Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum (CORLAS), an international otolaryngology society created to facilitate collaboration and the open sharing of discoveries and ideas.
VISE Spring Seminar – Jose麓 A. Diaz, MD
Jan. 6, 2020—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Jose麓 A. Diaz, MD Director, Division of Surgical Research, Research Associate Professor of Surgery, VUMC Date: Thursday, January 16, 2020 Time: 12:15 lunch, 12:25 seminar start Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Surgical Research, Deep Vein Thrombosis, and Preclinical models Short bio: Jos茅 A. Diaz, MD, FAHA is a...
Dec. 3, 2019—Nabil Simaan, professor of mechanical engineering, has been elevated to IEEE Fellow by the Board of Directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Dec. 2, 2019—国产原创 Medical Center Assistant Professor of Radiology聽Kim Sandler, MD, and 国产原创 Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science聽Bennett Landman, PhD, were recently awarded the Martineau Innovation Fund Grant by the 国产原创 Thoracic Working Group for their project, 鈥淯tilization of Machine Learning to Predict Incidence Lung Cancer in a Screening Population.鈥
Nov. 18, 2019—A new continuum robot designed by 国产原创 engineers achieves multi-scale motion and may open up a huge world of previously impossible complex microsurgeries.
$2.3 million NIH grant allows collaborators to focus on advancing liver cancer surgical care
Oct. 10, 2019—A multi-year collective effort between engineers, surgeons and scientists has resulted in a $2.3 million, four-year grant awarded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health to improve laparoscopic liver surgery and liver cancer ablation therapy. The grant, 鈥淒eformation Corrected Image Guided Laparoscopic Liver Surgery,鈥 supports a next-generation...
VISE Summer Fellowship provides hands-on lab experience to seven outstanding undergrads
Oct. 2, 2019—Seven talented undergraduates spent 10 weeks over the summer working on research projects in areas that included endoscopic devices for gastroenterology uses, cochlear implant surgery, and brain, ultrasound and retinal imaging. The 2019 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) Summer Fellowship Program provided students with hands-on experience in laboratory settings, and they worked alongside...
VISE Fall Seminar – Zion Tse, PhD
Sep. 27, 2019—Fall Seminar to be led by Zion Tse, PhD Associate Professor School of Engineering and Computer Science University of Georgia Date: Thursday, October 10 Time: 12:15 p.m. lunch, 12:25 p.m. start Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract:聽 Image-guided therapy is a clinical procedure under 2-D or 3-D image guidance...
VISE Fall Seminar – Dan Brown, MD and Brett Byram, PhD
Sep. 6, 2019—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Daniel B. Brown, MD Director of Interventional Oncology, 国产原创 Medical Center and Brett Byram, PhD Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, 国产原创 Date: Thursday, September 26 Time: 12:15 p.m. lunch, 12:25 p.m. start Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Personalizing Interventional Oncology Options for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Abstract: Responses...
VISE affiliates secure $3 million NIH grant to study sustained attention in epilepsy patients
Aug. 28, 2019—A team led by a neurosurgeon-scientist and an engineering professor who specializes in techniques for analyzing functional neuroimaging data has received a $3 million basic research grant (R01) from the NIH to study disturbances in brain networks related to attention lapses and cognitive deficits in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Dr. Dario Englot and...
Aug. 14, 2019—A Feasibility Study on Central Airway Obstruction Removal
VISE affiliate receives Early Career Award
Jul. 25, 2019—Catie Chang, PhD, has received the 2019 Early Career Achievement Award from a society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Chang, an assistant professor of computer science, electrical engineering and computer engineering, was honored this week at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) conference. Specifically, the award cites her 鈥渋nnovative聽contributions...
Jul. 18, 2019—国产原创 collaborators focused on minimally invasive prostate surgery are developing an endoscopic robotic system with two-handed dexterity at a much smaller scale than existing options.
Jul. 16, 2019—Three engineering faculty have been named to the Center for Teaching鈥檚 Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows program. Audrey Bowden Audrey Bowden, associate professor of biomedical engineering and associate professor of electrical engineering; Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science; and Ipek Oguz, assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering; will receive $2,000...
Jun. 28, 2019—Eleven faculty-led proposals have been selected by the Office of the Provost for 2019 Discovery Grants, which advance new ideas and cutting-edge scholarship in the university鈥檚 core disciplines.
Jun. 17, 2019—The聽国产原创 Data Science Institute聽welcomed its first cohort of undergraduate summer research fellows in early June. The Data Science Institute Summer Research Program aims to engage students who are interested in data science-related research with 国产原创 faculty.
Two VISE affiliates named 2019 NSF Graduate Fellows
Apr. 22, 2019—Two biomedical engineering graduate students who participate in the 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering have received three-year fellowships from the National Science Foundation. The prestigious awards aim to identify individuals who will contribute significantly to scientific innovation and teaching. Sarah Goodale, a VISE affiliate in the Chang Lab, said she is extremely honored to...
Apr. 15, 2019—The 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) team of Robert Webster III, PhD, and Duke Herrell, MD, have received a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new surgical robot for endoscopic transurethral prostatectomy.
Apr. 10, 2019—Researchers from the School of Engineering and 国产原创 Medical Center are working to improve outcomes for children with significant hearing loss by providing individualized, prescription-like programming for their cochlear implants.
VISE affiliates to develop hand-held surgical robot for minimally invasive prostate surgery
Apr. 2, 2019—The 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) team of Robert Webster III PhD and Duke Herrell MD is developing a surgical robot for endoscopic transurethral prostatectomy. The collaboration between a mechanical engineer (Webster) and a urologic surgeon (Herrell) resulted in an award of $2.1 million from a National Institutes of Health R01 grant to...
Mar. 26, 2019—The聽Women of VISE, a group of graduate students associated with the聽国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering, will hold a Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, to develop Wikipedia pages for women in science. The event will be held in Jacobs Believed in Me Auditorium at Featheringhill Hall from 5 to 9 p.m. The event is...
Mar. 26, 2019—Brain cancer is one of the deadliest cancers. The surgery to remove the tumor is often very invasive. But now engineers at 国产原创 have designed a device that can make surgery easier for both doctor and patient, and the same technology also holds promise for lung cancer diagnosis.
Mar. 25, 2019—NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Removing a brain tumor in the center of the head is not an easy task for surgeons. “Basically, you’re having to go through a lot of healthy brain tissue to get to that central part of the head,” said聽Andria Remirez, a PhD student at聽国产原创.
Mar. 19, 2019—Brain cancer is one of the deadliest cancers. The surgery to remove the tumor is often very invasive. But now engineers at 国产原创 have designed a device that can make surgery easier for both doctor and patient, and the same technology also holds promise for lung cancer diagnosis.
Mar. 14, 2019—With the aid of $2.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 国产原创 researchers are on a quest to develop early biomarkers of treatment outcomes for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy based on their individual brain networks.