Collaborators
Iraklis Pipinos, MD Vascular Surgeon-Scientist. Mitochondrial dysfunction in chronically ischemic skeletal muscle, open versus endovascular repair for abdominal aortic aneurysms, carotid stenting, walking impairment in claudication. |
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Mechanical engineer. Advanced nanomaterials and nanomanufacturing; experimental and theoretical analysis of electrospinning process; continuous polymer, carbon, and ceramic nanofibers; hierarchical materials and composites; damage and fracture mechanics; fatigue analysis and life prediction; multiscale NDE; cardiovascular biomechanics and tissue mechanics; bionanomaterials. |
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Anastasia Desyatova, PhD Mechanical Engineer. Design of materials for improved strength, fatigue life and fracture toughness; multiscale material characterization; cell remodeling; computational vascular biomechanics; durability of trauma stent-grafts. |
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Carol Lomneth, PhD Basic Scientist. Human anatomy, instrument development, surgical training. |
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Robert Bowen, MD Forensic pathologist. Forensic pathology, cytopathology, clinical pathology and anatomical pathology. |
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Kaspars Maleckis, PhD Biomedical engineer. Development of nanostructured biomaterials and biomimetic vascular graft materials; Characterization of cardiovascular materials and endovascular devices; Electrospinning of biological and synthetic polymer nanofibers; Mechanical and structural characterization of individual nanofibers. |
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Nebraska Organ Recovery System (NORS) NORS is a federally designated organ procurement organization for Nebraska and Pottawattamie County in Iowa. They are a not-for-profit agency responsible for the evaluation, recovery, preservation, coordination, and distribution of all solid organs, as well as bone, tendon, heart valves, and connective tissue for transplantation. |
Research Resident
General Surgery Resident Femoropopliteal artery endovascular repair outcomes
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Research Associates
Sylvie Sim, MSE. Research engineer. Biodynamic characterization of human arteries; tissue engineering; cell and tissue viability; lab management |
Current Student Trainees
Eric Anttila |
Engineering Graduate Student, UNL, 2015-present Comparative analysis of stents under limb flexion induced loadings in human femoropopliteal arteries |
Majid Jadidi Miandashti |
Engineering Graduate Student, UNL, 2016-present Vascular mechanics |
Courtney Keiser |
Engineering Graduate Student, UNL, 2018-present Synthetic vascular prosthesis |
Thomas Kalil |
Engineering/Biology Student, Notre Dame/UNO, 2017-present Vascular device testing and data acquisition/processing |
Alumni
Nick Phillips |
2012-2015 | Mechanical testing of arteries; assessment of femoropopliteal artery deformations; morphometry characterization |
Grant Bowen |
2014, 2015 | Mechanical testing of arteries and data analysis; histological analysis; measurements of arterial retractions |
Sheridan Nusz |
2014, 2015 | Mechanical testing of arteries and data analysis; manufacturing of arterial markers; morphometry analysis; lab supply management; histological analysis; 3D image reconstructions |
Joseph Marion |
2015 | Morphometric characterization of long-term trauma stent-graft effects |
Patrick Kirkland |
2015 | Morphometric characterization of long-term trauma stent-graft effects |
Nick Bohlim |
2015 | Mechanical characterization of atherosclerotic plaques |
Maheen Akhter |
2015 | Physical model of the femoropopliteal artery |
Katherine Thorson |
2015 | Morphometry characterization |
Micah Adamson |
2013, 2014 | Morphometry characterization |
Tom Knowles |
2013, 2014 | Morphometry characterization |
Jamil Neme | 2013, 2014 | Morphometry characterization |
Justin Kitson |
2013, 2014 | Mechanical testing of arteries; histological analysis; laboratory management |
Austin Reilly |
2015 | Morphometry characterization |
Peter Adamson |
2015 | Histopathology characterization |
William Poulson, MD |
2015-2017 | Assessment of limb flexion-induced deformations; development of a perfused cadaver model; mechanical testing of arteries; vascular and endovascular devices and techniques. |
Andreas Seas |
2014-2018 | Computational characterization of arterial tissue; data analysis and reduction algorithms; image analysis and quantification algorithms. |