surgery

Fall Seminar: Ashwini D. Sharan, MD FACS

Nov. 4, 2016—Speaker: Ashwini D. Sharan, MD FACS President of North American Neuromodulation Society President Elect of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Professor of Neurosurgery Program Director Division Chief for EN2 Epilepsy and Neuromodulation Neurosurgery Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience Thomas Jefferson University Date: Thursday, November 10, 2016 Time: 12:05 start, noon lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326...

Nov. 4, 2016—A critical goal in modern surgery is to make procedures as safe and minimally invasive as possible, which often means using robotic tools. ��ԭ�� bioengineer Nabil Simaansays a negative side effect of doing surgery with tiny entry points into the body is that the surgeon loses his or her sense of touch and pressure...

VISE Fall Seminar Series: Fabien Maldonado, MD

Nov. 1, 2016—Speaker: Fabien Maldonado, MD Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery, VUMC Date: Thursday, November 3, 2016 Time: 12:05 start, noon lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Interventional Pulmonology: How the changing landscape of lung cancer provides unprecedented opportunities for translational and clinical research Speaker Biography: Fabien Maldonado, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery...

VISE Fall Seminar 8.23.16: Matthieu Chabanas, PhD

Aug. 23, 2016—Title: Vessel-based brain-shift compensation using biomechanical modeling and intraoperative ultrasound Speaker: Matthieu Chabanas, PhD, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Grenoble Institute of Technology, FR Date: Tuesday, August 23 Time: 12:10 start, noon lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract: During brain tumor surgery, planning and guidance are based on the pre-operative images...

Mayor appoints faculty, staff representatives to Metro boards

Jul. 22, 2016—Metro Nashville Mayor Megan Barry has made a number of appointments to boards, committees and advisory committees in recent weeks. Among them are a number of members of the ��ԭ�� and ��ԭ�� Medical Center communities, including: Sri Pallavaram, research associate for the ��ԭ�� Institute in Surgery and Engineering (VISE), to the Nashville New...

STORM Lab Hydrojet Team wins Best Overall Award at the Surgical Robot Challenge 2016

Jul. 7, 2016—The Science and Technology of Robotics in Medicine (STORM) Lab Hydrojet Team won Best Overall Award at the Surgical Robot Challenge 2016 for the Hamlyn Symposium of Medical Robotics. The international competition, held at the Imperial College in London, showcases the latest developments in Surgical Robotics. STORM Lab’s project “Low-cost gastric cancer screening in low...

New VISE grant gives clinical boost to surgical device development

Jun. 22, 2016—Engineering graduate students from across several disciplines will experience intensive training and mentoring with the potential to help them create devices, then get those out of the lab and into clinical settings. Offered through the ��ԭ�� Institute in Surgery and Engineering, this program for second- and third-year engineering PhD students includes sessions with surgeons and...

VISE affiliates win Best Paper Award at 2016 IEEE BHI

Jun. 13, 2016—Yuan Liu, PhD candidate in computer science, and Benoit Dawant, Cornelius ��ԭ�� Professor of Engineering and Director of the ��ԭ�� Institute in Surgery and Engineering, won the 2016 IEEE BHI Best Paper Award. The award was presented during the third IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics. The BHI is a special topic...

VISE affiliates Robert F. Labadie, Professor of Otolaryngology and J. Michael Fitzpatrick, Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, have published “Image-Guided Surgery: Fundamentals and Clinical Applications in Otolaryngology”.

Jun. 8, 2016—VISE affiliates Robert F. Labadie, Professor of Otolaryngology and J. Michael Fitzpatrick, Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, have published “Image-Guided Surgery: Fundamentals and Clinical Applications in Otolaryngology”. Image-guided surgery (IGS) is the term used for surgical procedures in which the surgeon employs tracked surgical instruments in conjunction with preoperative or intraoperative images in order to...