报告人：张春教授
时间：2017-6-7（周三）上午10:00
地点：玉泉校区教一411会议室
Additive Manufacturing Enabled Biological Tissue-Mimicking Aortic Root: Design,
Manufacturing and Potential Applications
Abstract
Additive manufacturing is finding more and more applications in medical fields, particularly personalized healthcare, due to its capabilities of producing patient-specific products/devices, and prototypes/phantoms. This talk presents an innovative method of producing tissue-mimicking heart valves with sensing capability by integrating metamaterial design, multi-material 3D printing and printed electronics techniques. The physiological phantoms can help surgeons or cardiologists make informed diagnosis and optimum planning for surgeries. In addition, the tissue-mimicking heart valves can provide effective means for surgeon training and patient education. This method is demonstrated by an application case of optimum planning of a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure for treating aortic stenosis conditions to reduce post-surgery paravalvular leak. The ongoing research of this project is to explore the application of the virtual physiological heart valves to developing and validating predictive models for medical device cyber-physical systems.
In addition to the presentation of the above research, an overview of Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute and School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech and discussion of affiliated faculty research will be presented.
Biography of Speaker
Dr. Chuck Zhang is Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also an affiliated faculty member of Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI), a university-level interdisciplinary research institutes at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining to GT-ISYE, He served as Professor and Chair of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department and Deputy Director of High-Performance Materials Institute at Florida State University. Dr. Zhang’s current research interests include additive manufacturing (3D printing and printed electronics), cyber-physical systems, scalable nanomanufacturing, and advanced composites and multifunctional nanocomposites manufacturing. As a PI or co-PI, he has conducted and managed over 40 research projects sponsored by a number of federal agencies including National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Office of Naval Research (ONR), and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), as well as industrial companies such as ATK Launch Systems, Cummins, Delta Airlines, Lockheed Martin, and Siemens.
Dr. Zhang is a fellow of Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE). He currently serves as the co-lead of the “Soft Robotics Technology Working Group” for the newly established NextFlex Manufacturing Innovation Institute.He has published over 175 refereed journal articles and 200 conference papers. Dr. Zhang also holds 22 U.S. patents.