Department of Bioengineering, and the Musculoskeletal Research Center , Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Seminar Series

All meetings will be Thursdays from 4:00 – 5:00 PM in Scaife Auditorium #5

Next Meeting: September 17, 2009
17 Harvey Borovetz, PhD; Sanjeev Shroff, PhD; William Federspiel, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Bioengineering
January
8

Rory Cooper, PhD
Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, Bioengineering, mechanical Engineering, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Pittsburgh

15

Arthur Kuo, PhD, Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan

22

Samuel Tisherman, MD
University of Pittsburgh Physicians
Division of General Surgery

29

Timothy Billiar, MD
George Vance Foster Professor and Chair
Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh and
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine

February
5

Jonathan Dingwell, PhD, Associate Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Kinesiology and Health Education

12

Timothy Corcoran, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering
School of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh

19

Katherine Yutzey, PhD, Professor
Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology
Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center

26

Guy Salama, PhD, Professor
Department of Cell Biology and Physiology
University of Pittsburgh

March
5

Cameron Riviere, PhD
Associate Research Professor, The Robotics Institute
Associate Research Professor (by courtesy), Department of Biomedical Engineering
Director, Medical Instrumentation Laboratory
Carnegie Mellon University
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology
University of Pittsburgh

19

Yadong Wang, PhD, Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pittsburgh

26

Margot Damaser, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Cleveland Clinic

April
2

X. Edward Guo, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University

9

McGowan Institute Distinguished Lecture
Dr. Marie Csete
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

16 Kyriacos Athanasion, PhD, Professor
Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering
Rice University
September 2009
3

Robert Labadie, MD/PhD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Department of Otolaryngology -Head and Neck Surgery

10

Kris Dahl, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University
Departments of Chemical and Bioengineering

17

Harvey Borovetz, PhD; Sanjeev Shroff, PhD; William Federspiel, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Bioengineering

24

Henry Zeringue, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Bioengineering

October 2009
1

Lance Davidson, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Bioengineering

8

No Seminar – BMES

15

Johnny Huard, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery, Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Pathology and also Director, Stem Cell Research Center

22

Cheng Dong, PhD
Penn State University
Department of Bioengineering

29

Philip LeDuc, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Mechanical Engineering

November 2009
5

Linda Griffith, PhD
Professor of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Director, Biotechnology Process Engineering Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology

12

Stefan Zappe, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Biomedical Engineering

26

No Seminar – Thanksgiving

December 2009
22

Steven Little, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Departments of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Immunology, and The McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine

29

Rosa Pinkus, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Professor of Medicine/Neurosurgery
Associate Director, Center for Bioethics and Health Law
Director, Consortium Ethics Program

  Past Schedules