People

 FACULTY AND STAFF

• Suresh Raghavan, Ph.D.

   

  • Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Iowa
  • Associate Faculty Research Engineer, BioMOST Division of the CCAD

• Jia Lu, Ph.D.

   

  • Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Iowa
  • Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics & Computational Science Graduate Program
  • Associate Faculty Research Engineer, BioMOST Division of the CCAD

• Benjamin Dickerhoff 

• B.S. in Biomedical Engineer- University of Iowa. 
• Research Engineer, BioMOST Division of CCAD

 PH.D. CANDIDATES 

• Ryan Amelon 
  • B.S. in Biomedical Engineering- University of Iowa
  • Projects
    • Lung Mechanics
    • Atrial Septum Occluder Device Testing

• Kathleen Lin
  • B.S. in Biomedical Engineering- University of California, Davis
  • Projects
    • Effects of Oversizing on Graft Folding for Barbed and Barbless Grafts
    • Stent Strut Design Impact on Endovascular Graft Susceptibility to Folding

• Manasi Ramachandran
  • B.E.- Anna University, Chennai, India 
  • Projects
    • Shape Analysis of Cerebral Aneurysms

• Rohini Retarekar
  • B.E. Biomedical- SGSITS, Indore, India  
  • Projects
    • Study of Hemodynamics of Brain Aneurysms
    • Mechanical Testing of Microspheres for Embolization of Cerebral Aneurysms
    • Compliance Testing of Synthetic Grafts

M.S. CANDIDATES 

• Gaurav Vinodkumar Sharda 
  • Pursuing joint B.S./M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Projects
    • Assessment of Intracranial Aneurysm Shape as an Indicator of Rupture Risk-- Segmentation & Registration of two orthogonal views of Cerebral Angiograms

• David Welch
  • B.A. in Physics- Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Projects
    • Pre-aneurysm Vessel Reconstruction

B.S. CANDIDATES 

• Benjamin Berkowitz 
  • Pursuing joint B.S. in Biomedical Engineering w/ Cardiovascular Biomechanics emphasis
  • Projects
    • Three-dimensional Geometric Computer Model of Cerebral Vasculature
    • Multimedia Graphical User Interface for Online Data Input

• Tatiana Correa
  • Pursuing joint B.S. in Biomedical Engineering w/ Pre-med emphasis
  • Projects
    • Pre-aneurysm Vessel Reconstruction

• Andrew Jennings
  • Pursuing joint B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
  • Projects
    • Fabrication and Testing of Simulated Blood Flow Loop

• Tony Melchoirri
  • Pursuing joint B.S. in Biomedical Engineering w/ Cardiovascular Biomechanics emphasis
  • Projects
    • Analysis of the Amplatzer Atrial Septal Occluder