Second Bioengineering Day, December 8, 2007
On December 8, 2007, leading biomedical engineering researchers from
across the nation will join prominent regional academic, business
and research leaders for the Second Regional Bioengineering Day.
The event will be held at the Rieke Auditorium, University of Kansas
Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS.
The latest research in tissue regeneration and repair will be
discussed by leading biomedical engineering researchers from across
the United States.
Rieke Auditorium, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City,
KS
| 7:30a.m. |
Poster set-up, Stoland Lounge: directly outside of Rieke
Auditorium
|
| 8:00a.m. |
Continental breakfast
|
| 8:15 |
Opening Remarks and Welcome
EVC and Dean of the Medical School, Barbara
Atkinson
Provost Richard Lariviere
Tom Thornton, Kansas Biosciences Authority
|
| 9:15 |
Break
Posters available for viewing
|
| 9:30 |
Rod Lakes
Wisconsin Distinguished Professor,
Department of Engineering Physics and Biomedical Engineering ,
University of Wisconsin
Title of Presentation: “Tissue Viscoelasticity”
|
| 10:30 |
Break
Posters available for viewing
|
| 10:45 |
Rena Bizios
Peter T. Flawn Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
The University of Texas at San Antonio
|
| 11:45 |
Break for Lunch
Lunch is in Hixon Atrium
Larry Katz
“Appetite or Apatite----A Look Back on 50 Years in
Biomineralization”
|
| 12:45-1:30 |
Posters available for viewing and investigators at posters from
|
| 1:30 |
Steve Eppell
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Title of Presentation: “Bottom Up Bone or What Can Nano
Do for You?”
|
| 2:30 |
Break
|
| 2:45 |
Van Thompson
Professor and Chair
Department: Biomaterials and Biomimetics
New York University School of Dentistry
Title of Presentations: “Engineering Ceramic Materials:
Enamel Points the Way to Damage Tolerance and
Reliability"
|
| 3:45 |
Summary and recognition
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