Biomechanics

Department Faculty

Patrick Alford

Biomedical Engineering

Soft tissue biomechanics, tissue engineering, traumatic iInjury, morphogenesis

Victor Barocas

Biomedical Engineering

Soft tissue biomechanics, biotransport

Bob Tranquillo

Biomedical Engineering

Cardiovascular tissue engineering

Faculty with Graduate Education Responsibilities

Alptekin Aksan

Mechanical Engineering

Biostabilization and biopreservation

Roberto Ballarini

Civil Engineering

Biomechanics

Alan Bank

Medicine

Arterial elastic mechanics, biomechanics of atherosclerotic plaque rupture, congestive heart failure, endothelial function

Joanie Bechtold

Orthopaedic Surgery

Biomechanics of osteoarthritis, fracture stabilization and joint replacement

Will Durfee

Mechanical Engineering

Biomechanics and neuromuscular physiology of human movement, electrical stimulation of paralyzed muscles to return function to the spinal cord injured, product design

Paul Iaizzo

Surgery

Skeletal and cardiac muscle physiology, pathophysiology of inherited muscle disorders, human thermoregulation and biomedical correlates of wound prevention

Jack Lewis

Orthopaedic Surgery

Musculoskeletal biomechanics, orthopaedic engineering

Paula Ludewig

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Musculoskeletal injury and rehabilitation

Tom Novacheck

Orthopaedic Surgery

Gait analysis

David Nuckley

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Spinal mechanics, pediatric neck injury care, therapeutic strategies for low back pain resolution

Richard Poppele

Neuroscience

Neurophysiology of sensory-motor functions

Michael Schwartz

Orthopaedic Surgery

Biomechanics, gait analysis

Fotis Sotiropoulos

Civil Engineering

Computational fluid dynamics

Gerald Timm

Urologic Surgery

Technological solutions to urologic disease, disorders of the pelvic viscera, diagnosis and treatment of urinary incontincence and sexual dysfunction