Track Chairs
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Nico Verdonschot
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Nico Verdonschot
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Track: Musculoskeletal 2: Joints and Whole Body
Prof. Verdonschot is a mechanical engineering and is an active member of the biomechanical community for over 3 decades. He is Scientific Director of the Technical Medical Centre of Twente University in the Netherlands and full professor at the Orthopaedic Research Laboratory of the Radboud University Medical Centre the Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Furthermore, he is visiting professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy and has an honorary doctorate of Aalborg University, Denmark. He is recipient of ERC Advanced Grant, entitled: ‘Biomechanical diagnostic, pre-planning and outcome tools to improve musculoskeletal surgery’ (BioMechTools).
He published almost 350 articles in the field of orthopaedic biomechanics. Furthermore, he is past-president of the European Orthopaedic Research Society and of the International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty (ISTA) and one of the founders of the Section ‘Orthopaedic Implants’ of the Orthopaedic Research Society.
His group has extensive expertise is on computer modeling of the human musculoskeletal system, bones and the functioning of orthopaedic implants. Together with orthopaedic companies his group has developed a number of computer simulations that simulate various aspects of orthopedic implant failure. With the same type of computer simulation techniques, CT-based bone strength can be estimated. This is of particular interest for patients suffering from metastasized cancer with weakened bones. These simulations can be applied to novel implants at a pre-clinical stage; before patients are put at risk. His group also utilizes multi-modal imaging techniques (ultrasound, MRI, CT, X-Ray) computer models of a human body can be generated. With these models muscle activation patterns and forces can be estimated. To enable application at a patient level, personalized models with various pathologies are under development. Utilization of AI techniques are implemented to speed-up the generation of these personalized models. -
Irene Vignon-Clementel
INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France
Irene Vignon-Clementel
INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France
Track: Cardiorespiratory 2: Clinical Applications
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David A. Vorp
University of Pittsburg, USA
David A. Vorp
University of Pittsburg, USA
Track: Tissue Engineering 2: Applications
Dr. David Vorp is the John A. Swanson Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and serves as the Associate Dean for Research in the Swanson School of Engineering. He is Fellow of AHA, AIMBE, ASME, and BMES, and is a member of the World Council of Biomechanics. He previously served as the Program Co-Chair for the WCB2018 in Dublin.
Currently, Dr. Vorp holds secondary appointments in the Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Surgery, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, and the Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute. He was a recipient of the ASME Van C. Mow Medal and served in leadership roles in the ASME Bioengineering Division (Chair, Secretary, Executive Committee Member), the Biomedical Engineering Society (Secretary, Board of Directors Member, Chair of the Meetings Committee), and the International Society for Applied Cardiovascular Biology (First non-MD President, Executive Council Member). Dr. Vorp serves as the Co-Director, Center for Medical Innovation, and directs his productive Vascular Bioengineering Laboratory at Pitt. Dr. Vorp has been a member of the Pitt faculty since 1992, first in the School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, where he was full Professor with tenure, and since 2011 in the Swanson School of Engineering.
The main focus of Dr. Vorp's research is the biomechanics, "mechanopathobiology," regenerative medicine, and tissue engineering of tubular tissues and organs, predominantly the vasculature. Along with two of his students and a faculty colleague, Dr. Vorp co-founded Neograft Technologies, Inc., based on biomechanically-guided vein graft remodeling technology developed in his laboratory. -
Shigeo Wada
Osaka University, Japan
Shigeo Wada
Osaka University, Japan
Track: Cardiorespiratory 1: Methodology and Modeling
Shigeo Wada received his Master and Doctor degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Osaka University in 1988 and 1991, respectively. After working at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in Ryukoku University, the Research Institute for Electronic Science in Hokkaido University and the Department of Bioengineering and Robotics in Tohoku University, he is currently a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Science and Bioengineering, and a Dean of School of Engineering Science at Osaka University. He has been carrying out computational and experimental analyses for the blood flow, mass transport, fluid structure coupling, organ, tissue and cellular deformation in the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. He has developed various computational approaches such as image-based simulation of the cardiovascular and airway flow, large-scale simulation of the multiple red blood cell flow, molecular dynamics simulation of the cell membrane, data assimilation of blood flow, and rule-based simulation for the progression in vascular diseases, aiming to establish personalized medical support technology. -
Peter Yingxiao Wang
University of California San Diego, USA
Peter Yingxiao Wang
University of California San Diego, USA
Track: Cell Biomechanics 1: Methodology and Modeling
Dr. Wang obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Mechanics and Fluid Mechanics from Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering in 2002 and continued his postdoctoral work at UC San Diego working under Bioengineering Professor Shu Chien and Professor Roger Y. Tsien in the Department of Pharmacology. He is current a professor at the department of Bioengineering at UCSD and a fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Before joining the UC San Diego faculty in 2012, he was an associate professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Department of Bioengineering and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois. He was also affiliated with the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Neuroscience Program, the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, and Institute of Genomic Biology at UIUC. Dr. Wang is the recipient of the Wallace H. Coulter Early Career Award (both Phase I and Phase II), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and National Institutes of Health Independent Scientist Award. His research is supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and private foundations. -
Beth Winkelstein
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Beth Winkelstein
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Track: Neural Mechanics
Beth Winkelstein is a Professor of Bioengineering and Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her BSE in Bioengineering from Penn and earned a PhD in BME from Duke focused on neck injury biomechanics. She joined Penn’s faculty in 2002 after completing a post-doctoral fellowship in the neuroimmunology of pain in Anesthesiology & Pharmacology at Dartmouth. Dr. Winkelstein’s lab studies the biomechanical mechanisms of painful spine and joint injuries, and is defining the pathophysiological cellular mechanisms driving chronic pain, mechanotransduction of pain, and potential diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for these disorders. Her group has pioneered several preclinical models of painful tissue injuries, including whiplash models, that are the first injury models with clinically-relevant symptoms. Her group implements rigorous engineering analyses in these in vivo systems to define biomechanical metrics and relate them to complicated neuronal plasticity responses throughout the nervous system. Her group is utilizing new integrated imaging approaches to understand subfailure micro- and macro-scale biomechanical tissue responses, and has expanded that work to include functional imaging to identify cellular activation networks in the brain and spinal cord. Her lab has received funding from grants from the Whitaker Foundation, NSF, NHTSA, CDC, NIH (NINDS, NIAMS, NIBIB, NCCIH), CSRS, DOD, OMSF, and several industry partners. She has published over 125 peer-reviewed papers, 16 book chapters and the book Orthopaedic Biomechanics, and holds a patent. Dr. Winkelstein is a Fellow of the BMES and ASME, and was elected to AIMBE. She was awarded a Whitaker Young Investigator Award, NIH Career Award, NSF-CAREER Award, the ASME Fung Young Investigator Award for the most promising young Bioengineer, and the ASME Mow Medal for contributions to the field of bioengineering through research, education, professional development, leadership and mentorship. Dr. Winkelstein has served as primary research mentor for 45 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and over 70 undergraduates. She serves on the Editorial Board for Spine and serves as the Co-Editor of the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering since 2012. She has served as the Bioengineering Graduate Group Chair, the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education at Penn Engineering, and is currently the Deputy Provost at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been the faculty adviser for Penn’s BMES chapter since 2008. She has also served as the faculty adviser for Penn’s student SWE chapter. She is on the Board of Directors of the BMES is actively involved in the ASME-SBC and several clinical meetings. -
Tishya Wren
University of Southern California, USA
Tishya Wren
University of Southern California, USA
Track: Locomotion and Human Movement 1: General
Dr. Wren is Director of Research for the Children’s Orthopaedic Center at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and an Professor of Orthopaedics, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. She received her undergraduate degree (BA, 1992) from Amherst College in Computer Science and her MS (1994) and PhD (1997) degrees from Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Biomechanical Engineering.
Dr. Wren’s research focuses on technical and applied aspects of motion analysis, musculoskeletal development, and sports medicine. She has a particular research interest in children with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and other neuromuscular disorders and has conducted extensive research to understand how gait analysis influences clinical decision making, treatment, and outcomes. She has over 120 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Wren is a past president of the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society (GCMAS) and is an Associate Editor of the journal Gait and Posture. -
Ming Zhang
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Ming Zhang
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Track: Musculoskeletal 3: Modeling and Simulation
Ming Zhang is Chair Professor of Biomechanics, Head of Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Councilor of World Council of Biomechanics (WCB), President of World Association for Chinese Biomedical Engineers (WACBE), Chair of Chinese Society of Rehabilitation Engineering, Vice President of China Rehabilitation Devices Association, fellow of Hong Kong Institute of Engineers. His biomechanics lab develops computational models of musculoskeletal system and body supports applied to the fields of orthopaedics, sports science and rehabilitation engineering.
Prof. Zhang obtained his bachelor and master degrees from Beijing Institute of Technology and PhD in Medical Engineering from King’s College, University of London in 1995. He won a number of international awards, including the Natural Science Award (First-class) of 2015 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards by the Ministry of Education of China, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University President’s Awards for Excellent Performance/Achievement in Research and Scholarly Activities 2016.