Engineering in Cardiovascular Medicine

Thursday, August 6
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Friday, August 7
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Palmer Commons
100 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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The two-day event will be geared toward delivering high quality presentations, poster presentations, workshop-wide activities for engagement and networking, as well as focused sessions on building bridges between clinical and engineering trainees. This structure is designed to catalyze cross-disciplinary dialogue across engineering, clinical cardiology, and translational research.

Overview

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The Engineering in Cardiovascular Medicine workshop is a two-day event aiming to bring together PIs and trainees to share the latest developments in engineering and translational research in the topics of:

Devices & Technologies

Keynote: Elazer Edelman, is the Edward J. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Science at MIT, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Attending Physician in coronary care unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston
Albert Shih, U-M Professor, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering
Mario Fabiilli, U-M Associate Professor, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
Omer Berenfeld, U-M Professor, Professor of Internal Medicine, Biomedical Engineering and Applied Physics
Alvaro Rojas-Pena, M.D., U-M Research Associate Professor of Surgery and Director ECLS Laboratory. Section of Transplant Surgery
Lik-Chuan Lee, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Michigan State University

Computational Modeling and AI

Keynote: Naomi Chesler, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Director Edwards Lifesciences Foundation Cardiovascular Innovation and Research Center, UCI
Reza Avaz, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Vijay Vedula, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University
Feng Gu, U-M Research Fellow
Manuel Rausch, Associate Professor, Aerospace
Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, The University of
Texas at Austin
Michael Sacks, Moncrief Chair in Computational
Cardiology, Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin

Engineering Cardiovascular Tissues

Keynote: Christopher Chen, William F. Warren Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, College of Engineering Director, Biological Design Center
Zhong Wang, U-M Professor, Cardiac Surgery
Nenad Bursac, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Associate Professor in Medicine, Duke University
Andrew Putnam, U-M Leland Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Cardiovascular Medicine
Peter Ma, U-M Richard H. Kingery Endowed Collegiate Professor, Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, and Professor, Macroengineering, Materials Science Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, and Professor, Cardiovascular Center, School of Medicine
Aitor Aguirre, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Michigan State University
Kareen Coulombe, Associate Professor, Engineering, Brown University

Targeted Therapies

Keynote: Igor Efimov, Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Medicine (Division of Cardiology), Northwestern University
David K. Jones, U-M Pfizer Upjohn Early Career, Research Professor of Pharmacology, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Internal Medicine
Nathaniel Huebsch, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Washington University of St. Louis
Alison Vander Roest, U-M Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Chima Maduka, U-M Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Tzung Hsiai, Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine, Director, Caltech/UCLA Cardiometabolic Engineering Program and AHA SFRN Center for Multicultural Clinical Trials, UCLA

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Facilities & Accessibility

Location and Parking

At the Palmer Drive parking structure, pay-in-lane stations are installed at two lanes to process exit transactions. Stations accept debit/credit card (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express) payments. QR-coded validation tickets issued by department hosts provide discounted or free parking. The cost is $2.40 per hour. Exit assistance is available by pressing the pay station’s HELP (intercom) button.

For more information about visitor parking at the Palmer Drive parking structure located on Palmer Drive just west of Washtenaw Avenue, visit this site and this site.

Entrance of Palmer Commons, 100 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109. Visit this area map for more location details.

Directions and Accessibility

Palmer Commons offers flexible conference and meeting spaces. The workshop will be on the 4th floor—one flight above the main Palmer Commons entrance and the Windows Lounge room.

Palmer Commons is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and all event spaces are ADA accessible.

At a Glance

Day 1: Thursday, August 6

8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

8:00 – 8:45 a.m. |

Guests arrive, breakfast available

8:45 – 9:00 a.m. |

Welcome

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. |

Devices & Technologies

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. |

Lunch & Posters

1:30 PM – 4:30 p.m. |

Computational Modeling and AI

4:30 – 4:40 p.m. |

Closing Remarks / Reception Introduction

4:30 – 6:00 p.m. |

Poster Reception

***Day 2: Friday, August 7***

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.