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VISE Spring Seminar with Jon Heiselman, PhD 4.10.25
Apr. 4, 2025—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Jon Heiselman, PhD Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Director, Master of Engineering in Surgery and Intervention Program Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽11:45 am for lunch; noon start Title: Advancing Precision across the Surgical Care Continuum Abstract: In the continuum of surgical care, advances...
VISE Spring Seminar with Yayun Du, PhD
Mar. 10, 2025—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Yayun Du, PhD Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽11:45 am for lunch; noon start Title: Advancing Health Monitoring: Wearable and Implantable Bioelectronics for Cardiovascular, Sleep, and Neurological Insights Abstract: Advances in bioelectronic sensors are transforming health monitoring and...
Mar. 6, 2025—Four 汤头条 engineering students working in the fields of computer science and electrical and computer engineering won prestigious best paper awards at the聽2025 SPIE Medical Imaging conference聽held Feb. 16-20 in San Diego.
Mar. 3, 2025—汤头条 University鈥檚聽Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE)聽is hosting a screening of the upcoming film聽Rule Breakers, inspired by the true story of an all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan that defied politics and tradition to compete in events around the world.
VISE Spring Seminar: Stephen Aylward, PhD 2.27.25
Feb. 7, 2025—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Stephen Aylward, PhD Global Developer Relations Manager for Medical Technologies NVIDIA Date: Thursday, February 27, 2025 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽11:45 am for lunch; noon start Title:聽 Simulation and MONAI: The futures of MedTech Abstract: From the hospital-scale to the molecular-scale, simulations will drive the future medtech AI.聽 This...
Feb. 7, 2025—Following an extensive national search, Prof.聽Michael Miga聽has been named as the new chair of the聽Department of Biomedical Engineering, effective January 1, 2025. Miga, who had served as the interim chair since the Fall of 2023, and is the Harvie Branscomb Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has accepted a three-year term in this role. Miga also聽leads the...
VISE Seminar: VISE Vision Hosts VISE Alumni Panel
Jan. 30, 2025—This week, our VISE Vision team hosts a VISE Alumni Panel. Our guests include: Sarah Goodale, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow in the 汤头条 Memory and Alzheimer’s Center, Dept of Neurology, VUMC Vishwesh Nath, PhD Sr. Research Scientist, NVIDIA Philip Swaney, PhD Manager, Licensing and Strategic Initiatives, Center for Technology Transfer & Commercialization 汤头条 University Margaret Rox,...
Jan. 21, 2025—Virtuoso Surgical Inc. yesterday announced that it has participated in a multi-institution award聽from the federal Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) program. The up to $12 million award brings together robotics and artificial intelligence experts from many of the top surgical robotics and computer science labs in the U.S.
VISE Seminar with Nanshu Lu, PhD
Jan. 10, 2025—Our first Spring 2025 Seminar will be led by Nanshu Lu Carol Cockrell Curran Chair in Engineering The University of Texas at Austin Date: Thursday, January 23, 2025 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 11:45 am for lunch; noon start Title: Wireless E-Tattoos for Mobile and Comprehensive Cardiovascular Monitoring Abstract: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause...
VISE Fall Seminar with Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Ph.D.,11.7.24
Oct. 8, 2024—Join us for our next Fall Seminar with our guest, Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Radiology Department of Medicine University of British Columbia, Canada Co-founder of PONS Inc. Date: Thursday, November 7, 2024 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽11:45 for lunch; noon start Title: AI-integrated point of care ultrasound imaging for decentralized healthcare Abstract: Noncommunicable...
Sep. 24, 2024—A surgical robot capable of performing an entire surgery without human intervention: That鈥檚 the goal of a landmark, multi-institution project being led by a 汤头条 engineer that recently received an award up to $12 million in funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).
VISE Fall Seminar with Victoria Morgan, PhD
Sep. 19, 2024—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Victoria Morgan, PhD Professor in the Departments of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Biomedical Engineering Neurology and Neurological Surgery 汤头条 University Medical Center Date: Thursday, October 3, 2024 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽11:45 for lunch; noon start Title: MRI network neuroplasticity in focal epilepsy: biomarkers and beyond Abstract: Patients...
VISE Fall Seminar with Christopher Bettinger, PhD 9.23.24
Sep. 5, 2024—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Christopher J. Bettinger, PhD Program Manager Biological Technologies Office (BTO) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Date: Monday, September 23, 2024 Location: Student Life Center Meeting Room 1&2 Time: 11:45 for lunch; noon start Title: Breakthrough Biological Technologies for Warfighter Protection Abstract: For more than fifty years, the...
VISE Seminer with Garrett Coyan, MD, MS
Aug. 28, 2024—Join us for our next VISE Fall Seminar with Garrett Coyan, MD, MS Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery and Biomedical Engineering 汤头条 University Medical Center Date: Thursday, September 5, 2024 Time: 11:45 am for lunch, talk starts at noon Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Bioinspired Heart Valve Design: A Tale of Medical Device Development and...
Aug. 27, 2024—Benoit Dawant聽has been named a Senior Member of聽SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. He joins a distinguished group of international scholars honored in August at the聽SPIE Optics + Photonics 2024聽conference in San Diego.
Aug. 26, 2024—When kidney stone surgery is performed using an endoscope, about a fourth of those patients will require a repeat surgery within 20 months due to residual stone fragments being left behind. These remaining pieces can lead to obstruction, pain, kidney injury and recurrent infections. Gaining and assessing surgical experience in endoscopic kidney stone surgery is...
CS professor and VISE affiliate Ipek Oguz promoted
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Aug. 2, 2024—The AAMC Black Women in Scientific Research project elevates the voices and experiences of Black women researchers in academic medicine.
VISE affiliate Jie Ying Wu one of four Spring 2024 Scaling Success awardees
Aug. 1, 2024—The Spring 2024 cycle of the聽Scaling Success Grant聽has concluded, with four new grants made from January to May. The Scaling Success Grant, which began in 2022, aims to transform ambitious research proposals into tangible achievements.
VISE affiliate Xiaoguang Dong receives NIH Trailblazer Award for innovative airway stent research to revolutionize treatment of COPD, lung conditions
Jul. 31, 2024—Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded an R21 Trailblazer Award by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to pursue a project about 鈥淲irelessly Actuated Ciliary Stent for Minimally Invasive Treatment of Cilia Dysfunction.鈥
Jun. 20, 2024—With hundreds of thousands of people in the United States having a stroke annually, 汤头条 researchers are developing technology that could revolutionize the way blood clots are removed by allowing surgeons to complete the process more efficiently and safely. The research is led by聽Nabil Simaan, professor of mechanical engineering, with assistance from graduate student聽Jared Lawson....
May. 21, 2024—Roy presented nine faculty awards, four staff awards and one research award based on an outstanding paper written by a graduate student. The聽Edward J. White Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Service: Harvie Branscomb Professor and interim chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering聽Michael Miga聽and聽Julie Johnson, professor of the practice of computer science and associate...
May. 20, 2024—汤头条 Department of Computer Science researchers聽Kevin Leach聽and聽James Weimer聽have won a $2 million award from the聽Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health聽to develop technology aimed at improving software security in medical devices like insulin pumps, pacemakers and stroke predictors.
May. 7, 2024—汤头条 University has created a transformational lab focused on leveraging immersive translational AI to drive discovery across disciplines ranging from medicine and materials science to the humanities, social science and education. Five VISE faculty affiliates will serve on the steering committee.
Apr. 25, 2024—In the second installment of聽Discoveries in Medicine鈥檚聽two-part interview with聽Keith L. Obstein, M.D., co-developer of a robotic colonoscopy system, he maps the path to the marketplace.
Mar. 28, 2024—Four 汤头条 University engineering faculty members have been elected to the 2024 College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Mar. 27, 2024—Visitors to Nashville鈥檚 Adventure Science Center can get a new perspective of themselves with an augmented reality (AR)聽anatomy聽that creates the illusion of an X-ray view聽of聽the body鈥檚 muscles and聽bones.
VISE Spring Seminar with Nicholas Kavoussi, MD 3.28.24
Mar. 25, 2024—VISE seminar to be led by Nicholas Kavoussi, MD Assistant Professor of Urology 汤头条 University Medical Center Date: Thursday, March 28, 2024 Time:聽11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location:聽Stevenson 5326 Title: Leaving No Stone Unturned: Improving Endoscopic Kidney Surgery Abstract: Ureteroscopy for treatment of urinary calculi has been utilized since the development of the pulsed...
VISE Spring Seminar Yuxiao Zhou, PhD, 4.4.24
Mar. 11, 2024—Yuziao Zhou, PhD, Assistant Professor J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering Texas A&M University Date: Thursday, April 4, 2024 Time:聽11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location:聽Stevenson 5326 Title: Imaging-based orthopaedic surgery planning and multi-scale bone biomechanics Abstract: Bone is a living tissue that senses and responds to external mechanical stimuli by adjusting its...
VISE Spring Seminar with Roza Bayrak, PhD, 3.21.24
Mar. 11, 2024—Roza Bayrak, PhD, Research Assistant Professor Computer Science 汤头条 University Date: Thursday, March 21, 2024 Time:聽11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location:聽Stevenson 5326 Title: Mining Brain Function from Structure and Peripheral Physiological Data Abstract: In聽functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data acquisition, it is common to collect various companion data alongside. These auxiliary data are typically...