2009 Summer Bioengineering

Conference Lake Tahoe, California

June 17 – 21, 2009

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It is truly an honor to serve the Bioen-gineering Division (BED) and ASME as Division Chair this year. I also have the honor of being the first female chair of the Division since its official in-ception in 1966 as the Biomechanical

& Human Factors Division, renamed the Bioengineering Division in 1973. We are fortunate to have had strong leadership over these years that guided the Division to become the robust unit it is today. Our signature conference – the Summer Bioengineering Confer-ence (SBC) – premiered in 1993 with 275 attendees in Breckenridge, Colo-rado. Our leaders at the time had the

foresight to envision what our com-munity needed – a unique forum for the biomechanics community to hear high caliber research in a relaxed atmosphere at attractive resorts. The results speak for themselves – the conference transitioned from a biannual to an annual event, has grown to over 700 attendees in 2008 at Marco Island Florida, and has strengthened the Division’s ability to support new initiatives and events to benefit its membership, such as the Van C. Mow Medal, the Student Pa-per Competition, and outstanding plenary speakers at our SBCs. Fur-ther evidence of BED’s strength is in our flagship journal – the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering – under the capable leadership of Dr. Michael Sacks. The Journal has the highest

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E D I T O R ’ S N O T E Welcome to another installment of bioengineering news from your friends at your favorite ASME divi-sion!

This newsletter aims to keep us abreast of the latest successes and challenges of our ASME divi-sion and to facilitate participation in division affairs. E-mail ad-dresses of all technical and ad-ministrative committee chairs can be found on the back cover.

Thanks to all have contributed to this newsletter, and congratula-

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impact factor among the ASME’s Transactions. Please look to Dr. Sacks report (p. 13) for other ex-citing news about the Journal. A second journal, completing Vol-ume 2 this year, is the Journal of Medical Devices which continues under the able leadership of co-editors Drs. Arthur Erdman and Gerald Miller.

The voice of the Bioengineering Division is being heard within ASME administration, along with the other divisions of the Society. A major restructuring of ASME has taken place over the past few years to streamline its func-tions and provide a larger voice to divisions whose members vol-unteer significant time to the So-ciety (see the ASME BEG report, p. 21). After many years of back/forth discussions with ASME Pub-lications, the infamous 1903 “green” form of copyright transfer has been transformed just this September 2008 to eliminate one of the significant disadvan-tages it posed to divisions. For SBC 2009, only one author is

required to sign on behalf of all the authors of a submitted ab-stract. By SBC 2010, it is ex-pected that the form will become electronic. This will lead to a sig-nificant time saving on the au-thors’ parts, SBC Organizing Com-mittee’s part, and even ASME, and streamlining all around.

The issue of professional licensure within bioengineering continues being discussed among the lead-ers of several professional socie-ties (such as ASME, BMES, AIChE, IEEE). In June 2008, a second summit meeting was held in Chi-cago Illinois between NCEES (National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying) and society representatives about de-veloping the PE exam and/or FE (fundamentals) module. The first summit was held in 2006 in Clem-son South Carolina. Last year, BED polled its membership about this issue in an electronic survey, with the majority of BED members not recommending the move for-ward to establish bioengineering PE licensure at this time; this infor-mation was provided to the 2008 summit meeting attendees. How-ever, other societies are pressing forward with NCEES. A consortium has been formed, with every major society with a stake in this licen-sure having the opportunity to join to help guide direction. Member-ship in the consortium has admin-istrative and potentially financial implications. The ASME Bioengi-neering Division has not officially joined but continues to provide input as a major society.

As a tribute to the Bioengineering Division in preserving its history, I have generated a list of our prior Chairs and years of service (see

page 3). Many past chairs pro-vided me with the data as ASME’s records were incomplete – a big thank you to Drs. Peter Torzilli and Ken Diller for much informa-tion. If errors or omissions re-main in the list, please let me know as soon as possible. Also, I would ask each prior Chair to send me a photograph that may be included with the list. I plan to have this added to BED’s website for posterity.

The successes of the Bioengi-neering Division are due in no small part to the tireless commit-ment of its membership who vol-unteer their time and lend their expertise – from those that serve on the Executive Committee, to the organizers of the Summer Bioengineering Conferences, to the chairs of Technical Commit-tees and Administrative Commit-tees, to the Editor and Associate Editors of our journals, to the re-viewers of conference abstracts and Journal submissions, to BED representatives on ASME commit-tees and external agencies. I am particularly fortunate to follow in the footsteps of recent out-standing chairs – Drs. James Moore, Gerard Ateshian, and Louis Soslowsky. They continue to have the best interests of the Division at heart in offering their suggestions, guidance, and time as the Bioengineering Division continues to serve its members in new ways. I am also grateful for the ideas shared by other past Division leaders and very pleased to continue receiving your input.

Jennifer S. Wayne, Chair ASME Bioengineering Division

2008 – 2009

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Bioengineering Division History 1956-66: Human Factors Division 1966: Official inception ○ Original bylaws created ○ March 28-29: First ASME

Annual Biomechanical and Human Factors Conference, New York City

– Total Attendance: 144 – ASME Members: 63 ○ June: Division renamed to

the “Biomechanical & Human Factors Division”

○ Chairs: – Willard Larson, 1965-66 – Lawrence Slote, 1966-67

1973: Division renamed to the “Bioengineering Division”

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because the student chapter hosted a pizza and beverage study break around finals week that was free to members. I really had no idea what kinds of activities a professional society might undertake. Over the years, I have come to realize that there is much we can accomplish sim-ply because of the quality of the membership. To this day, I find it a real pleasure to interact with the BED membership. This is a group that works hard in a posi-tive way to impact our field. Hats off to you!

I am pleased to leave BED in the highly capable hands of our first female BED chair, Jennifer Wayne. Jennifer has been a real asset to BED for many years. I encourage you all to participate in BED governance. There are so

many wonder-ful ways to show your support, from o r g a n i z i n g student paper competitions to specialized technical ses-sions at SBC in your area. BED is one of the few professional organiza-tions in the biomedical arena that opens its arms to the participa-tion of the younger members. All you have to do is show up and be reliable. I would also like to point out that BED is perhaps the only professional organizations with its own rock and roll band!

James E. Moore, Jr. BED Chair, 2007-2008

I am proud to have served as chair of the BED in 2007-2008. It was a highly rewarding experi-ence that I will treasure forever. As with many volunteer efforts, this duty requires sacrificing one’s time to some degree. In this case, I consider the time well spent if for no other reason than I had the opportunity to have a positive impact on so many won-derful BED members. I will not deny that there were some frus-trations involved, but when the positive accomplishments result in a better conference, an im-proved journal, or simply a better experience for a single BED member, the frustrations fade from memory.

My experience with ASME goes back to my days as a student. Honestly, I initially joined ASME

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2008-2009 Jennifer Wayne 2007-2008 James Moore 2006-2007 Gerard Ateshian 2005-2006 Louis Soslowsky 2004-2005 Ajit Yoganathan 2003-2004 Sohi Rastegar 2002-2003 Maury Hull 2001-2002 Vijay Goel 2000-2001 Noshir Langrana 1999-2000 Kenneth Diller 1998-1999 Peter Torzilli 1997-1998 Michael Lai

1996-1997 Ray Vanderby

1995-1996 Steve Goldstein 1994-1995 Bob Spilker 1993-1994 Jerry Miller 1992-1993 Art Erdman 1991-1992 David Butler 1990-1991 1989-1990 Morton Friedman 1988-1989 Albert King 1987-1988 Jack Lewis 1986-1987 Savio Woo 1985-1986 Don Giddens

1984-1985 Van Mow 1983-1984 John Brighton

1982-1983 Lawrence Thibault 1981-1982 Albert Schultz 1980-1981 Edward Grood 1979-1980 Robert Mates 1978-1979 Seth Goldstein 1977-1978 Robert Nerem 1976-1977 James H. McElhaney 1975-1976 Edward F. Byars 1974-1975 Donald F. Young 1973-1974

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Conference (SBC). Awardees are selected from a pool of nominees by committees of experts from the BED (chaired by the individu-als listed below). To nominate yourself or a colleague for a 2010 award, please contact the chairs of the appropriate commit-tee no later than September 1, 2009.

The BED is also pleased to an-nounce that six of our members were promoted to the grade of ASME Fellow this year. Instruc-tions for nominating a colleague for promotion are described in the Membership committee’s report on page 7.

The ASME Bioengineering Divi-sion (BED) is pleased to an-nounce the 2008 winners of the three society-level awards that it issues: Noshir A. Lagranga (H.R. Lissner Medal), Scott Delp (V.C. Mow Medal), and Gabriel A. Silva (Y.C. Fung Medal). These three awards were presented at our 2008 Summer Bioengineering

1986 Mark H. Holmes

1987 Steven A. Goldstein 1989 David N. Ku

1990 Jay D. Humphrey 1991 Michael Kwan

1992 Cheng Zhu 1993 John A. Frangos 1994 Mehmet Toner

1995 Cheng Dong 1996 Antony Keaveny

1997 Gerard A. Ateshian 1998 Louis J. Soslowsky

1999 Rebecca Richards-Kortum 2000 Farshid Guilak

2001 David F. Meaney 2002 Jeffrey A. Weiss

2003 Sangeeta N. Bhatia 2004 Richard E. Debski 2005 Jeffrey W. Holmes 2006 Beth Winkelstein

2007 Stavros Thomopoulos 2008 Gabriel A. Silva

The Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Award recognizes outstanding investigators, early in their ca-reers, for innovative quality re-search and a demonstrated com-mitment to bioengineering. This award was a division level award from 1985 to 1998, but has been a society level award since 1998.

The 2008 Y.C. Young Investigator Award was presented to Prof. Gabriel A. Silva, Ph. D., at the 2008 Summer Bioengineering Conference. Dr. Silva is professor of ophtalmology and bioengineer-ing at UCSD and is well known for his outstanding research, particu-larly in the area of cellular neural engineering. His work has been reported via many published pa-pers, review articles, invited com-mentaries, and book chapters and represents an excellent syn-thesis of the biology and engi-neering that has lead to impor-tant new insights of clinical im-portance. We congratulate Pro-fessor Silva, the 2008 ASME Y.C. Fung Young Investigator.

Jay D. Humphrey, Chair

Y. C. Fung Young Investigator Award Committee

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The Van C. Mow Medal is be-stowed upon an individual who has made significant contribu-tions to the field of bioengineer-ing through research, educa-tion, professional development, leadership in the development of the profession, mentoring of young bioengineers, and ser-vice to the bioengineering com-munity. The individual must have earned a Ph.D. or equiva-lent degree between ten and twenty years prior to June 1 of the year of the award. The award was established by the Bioengineering Division in 2004.

2005 Kyriacos A. Athanasiou

2006 Robert Lie-Yuan Sah 2007 Lori A. Setton 2008 Scott L. Delp

Prof. Scott L. Delp, Ph. D., is the 2008 recipient of the V. C. Mow Medal. Prof. Delp is the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Bioengineering and Mechani-cal Engineering at Stanford Uni-versity and Chair of the Bioen-gineering Department. He re-ceived a B.S. in mechanical en-gineering from Colorado State University in 1983. He subse-quently earned MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engi-neering from Stanford Univer-sity in 1986 and 1990, respec-tively. Prof. Delp then joined the faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University and subsequently moved to Stan-ford University in 1999.

Prof. Delp was one of the pio-neers of computer-assisted sur-gery used in orthopaedic surgi-cal navigation. Together with surgical colleagues, he per-formed the first computer-assisted knee replacement in North America. The patents that resulted from Prof. Delp's in-ventions were licensed to Med-tronic for worldwide distribution. More recently he developed a novel microendoscope that al-lows real-time measurement of muscle sarcomere length in vivo.

His research efforts have re-sulted in over 100 journal arti-cles, book chapters, and con-ference papers and he is on the editorial boards of five major journals. Prof. Delp’s research efforts have been recognized

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with The Calgary Award at the 2002 World Congress of Bio-mechanics, the Dana Adams Griffin Award in 1999, and the Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the American Society of Biomechanics in 1991. We was the David Morgenthaler II Faculty Scholar in 1999 and the Falk Faculty Scholar in 1995.

Prof. Delp is also a gifted teacher, mentor and academic leader. In 2002, Prof. Delp be-came the founding Chairman of Stanford University's Depart-ment of Bioengineering.

John M. Tarbell, Chair V. C. Mow Medal Committee

2005—2011

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The H. R. Lissner Medal was cre-ated in 1977 by the Bioengineering Division of ASME to recognize sig-nificant contributions to bioengi-neering. The H. R. Lissner Medal became a Society-wide award in 1987 through a donations from Wayne State University and the Uni-versity of California San Diego. The award is named in honor of Prof. Herbert R. Lissner of Wayne State University for his pioneering work in biomechanics that began in 1939.

Prof. Noshir A. Langrana, Ph.D., is the 2008 recipient of the H. R. Liss-ner medal. Prof. Lagranga is chair and professor of biomedical engi-neering at Rutgers University. He received a B.E. degree from the University of Bombay in 1968, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in 1971 and 1975, respectively. Prof. Langrana joined the Depart-ment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers in 1976. In 2005 he became the chair of the Department of Biomedical Engi-neering and has held an adjunct appointment in the Department of Orthopaedics, University of

Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Prof. Langrana’s research activities have focused on the lumbar spine with the goal of quantifying mechanical fac-t o r s r e l a t e d t o l o w e r back pain, with emphasis on spinal fusion mechanics, spinal implants, v e r t e b r a l b o n e , and the role of facet joints in load sharing. For these contributions, he was elected Fellow of the ASME in 1992 and of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 1 9 9 9 . H e h a s s e r v e d a s Associate Editor of Spine, The Spine Journal, and our own Journal of Bio-mechanical Engineering. He has been active in BED leadership positions for over 20 years, serving as BED chair in 2000, chair of the 2009 SBC. Prof. Langrana was honored as an educator in 2000 when he held the Mary W. Raisler Distinguished Teaching Chair in the Mechanical Engineering Depart-ment at Rutgers.

Ajit P. Yoganathan, Chair H. R. Lissner Award Committee,

2008—2011

Noshir A. Lagranga

1977 Robert W. Mann

1978 Y.C. Fung 1979 Robert F. Rushmer

1980 F. Gaynor Evans 1981 Max Anliker 1982 R.M. Kenedi

1983 Henning E. von Gierke 1984 Perry L. Blackshear

1985 Richard Skalak 1986 Albert H. Burstein

1987 Van C. Mow 1988 Alf Louis Nachemson

1989 Robert M. Nerem 1990 Albert B. Schultz

1991 Savio Lau-Yuen Woo 1992 John C. Chato

1993 Don P. Giddens 1994 Sheldon Weinbaum

1995 Robert E. Mates 1996 Albert I. King

1997 Ajit P. Yoganathan 1998 Malcolm H. Pope 1999 Stephen C. Cowin

2000 Morton H. Friedman 2001 W. Michael Lai

2002 Kenneth R. Diller 2003 Vijay K. Goel

2004 John M. Tarbell 2005 Steven A. Goldstein

2006 Peter A. Torzilli 2007 Maury L. Hull

2008 Noshir A. Lagranga

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Thomas P. Andriacchi is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chair of the Biomedical Engineer-ing Program, School of Engineering, and Profes-sor of Orthopedics, School of Medicine, at

Stanford University. Before moving to Stanford University, Dr. Andriac-chi was the Claude N. Lambert, M.D. – Helen Thomson Endowed Professor and Scientist in the De-partment of Orthopedic Surgery, Rush Medical Center, Chicago, IL. Dr. Andriacchi is a leading bio-

We are pleased to report that, since the last edition of this newsletter, the Bioengineering Division has been successful in promoting six more members to the rank of Fellow within ASME. As described on the ASME web-site, “[t]he Fellow Grade is the highest elected grade of mem-bership within ASME, the attain-ment of which recognizes excep-tional engineering achievements and contributions to the engi-neering profession.”

The citations for these six new ASME Fellows are archived on the ASME website, and are repro-

duced below. Rita Patterson and Jennifer Wayne, whose citations were included in the last edition of the newsletter, were promoted to Fellow in last year, bringing the BED total to 8 over the past year.

Do you know of a BED colleague who meets this standard and who has a minimum of 10 years of active service to ASME? Please nominate him or her on the ASME fellow website: http://www.asme.org/Governance/Honors/Fellows/Fellows.cfm. Please inform the chair of the BED Membership Committee (Clark Hung) of your nomination

so that we can be certain to rec-ognize all BED Fellows in this newsletter and at the banquet of the Summer Bioengineering Con-ference.

Please join me in thanking Rita Patterson for her years of service to the BED through her leader-ship on this committee, and in congratulating her on her ap-pointment as BED Secretary Elect.

Clark T. Hung, Chair Membership Committee

2008—2011

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medical engineer in the fields of human locomotion and joint me-chanics. In the field of human loco-motion, he developed a biome-chanics research program to study human gait with application to the diagnosis of lower extremity abnor-malities and evaluation and design of total join replacements. He de-veloped advanced motion analysis systems for clinical use and is rec-ognized as one of the world’s lead-ing bioengineers in this field. His work in joint mechanics has fo-cused on the study of the relation-ship between ambulatory mechan-

ics and osteoarthritis. His research work has been published in over 130 journals papers. 38 books chapters and over 400 conference proceedings. He has also gradu-ated 13 students, received numer-ous awards honoring his research, participated on six journal editorial boards, served on numerous fed-eral and private research organiza-tions, and has been an active member of several engineering societies, including the Bioengi-neering Division of ASME. Univer-sity of Illinois at Chicago, Ph.D., 1974.

Scott Delp, the ASME Bioengineering Division’s Van C. Mow 2008 Medal Winner, is perhaps the world’s leader in muscu-loskeletal modeling. This began with his doctoral thesis work in the late

1980’s wherein he developed a software package entitled SIMM, Software for Interactive Muscu-loskeletal Modeling, which rapidly became the de facto standard for musculoskeletal modeling. Dr. Delp has used these models to lead major advances in simulations

for orthopedic surgical planning. He has also played a major role in the application medical imaging to musculoskeletal biomechanics. Finally, he has several patents for his research on robot-assisted sur-gery – a field in which he has been a leader since the early 1990’s.

professional activities serving as the Editor for Journal of Biome-chanical Engineering, and also in the Editorial Board of J. Biome-chanics, Cardiovascular Pathology, and Acta Biomaterialia in addition to numerous other professional contributions.

Michael Sacks has gained international reputation as a leader in the field of soft tissue mechanics employing several innovative ex-perimental measure-ment techniques and

computational modeling to charac-terize biological soft tissues. His

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Farshid Guilak has been responsible for major contributions in applying rigorous prin-ciples of mechanical engineering to the cell and tissue level, for developing novel mod-

eling and experimental studies of cellular mechanotransduction, and for the application of biomechani-cal principals to the field of tissue eng inee r i ng , now t e rmed “functional tissue engineering”. His work has uncovered many of the mechanisms by which biomechani-

cal and biochemical factors interact in controlling the health of joints of the body. His is also recognized for the discovery of adult stem cells in normal body fat, and the use of these stem cells for engineered tissue repair.

James E. Moore, Jr. For seminal contribu-tions to the understand-ing of the biomechanics of the cardiovascular system, particularly the flow patterns in the aorta and the coronary

arteries, and their influence on atherosclerosis; for the design of compliance-matching biomechani-cally advanced stents and the de-velopment of improved testing methods for implantable cardiovas-cular devices; for entrepreneurial activities and forging links between

academia and industry; and for sustained leadership in the bioen-gineering field, including central role in formation of ASME Region XIII (the international region), ser-vice on ASME Futures Team, and leadership of the Bioengineering Division of ASME.

work on the biomechanics of native and prosthetic heart valves and in the development of tissue engi-neered heart valves has earned him a reputation as a premier re-searcher in this field, as recog-nized by winning a Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award from the University of Pittsburgh. He is also distinguished himself in

Mehmet Toner has substantially contributed to the fields of low tem-perature biology and bioheat transfer, tissue engineering, and to biomicroelectromechani-cal systems (BioMEMS).

His research resulted in major sci-entific discoveries that resulted in

over 180 publications, 25 patents, and several products. Dr. Toner has provided leadership in biome-chanical engineering in the fields of cryobiology, biopreservation, tissue engineering and microelectrome-chanical (MEMs) devices. He has contributed pioneering work on the mechanisms of intracellular ice formation (cryoinjury), bioartificial

liver design, mammalian cell pres-ervation by freezing and dessica-tion, and cell on a chip (bioMEMS) applications which directly impact numerous applications in medicine. He has trained numerous Ph.D. and postdoctoral engineers who are now national academic and industrial leaders.

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ment for various pressure and flow parameters. This study illus-trates the interrelationship be-tween form and function in the early embryonic heart.”

The ASME Bioengineering Divi-sion presents a series of awards to the authors of outstanding re-search contributions to BED jour-nals and conferences. The Rich-ard Skalak Award is presented to the authors of the paper voted by the BED Honors Committee to be the best submitted to the

Journal of Biomechanical Engi-neering over the course of a year. Nominations for this award are submitted to the BED Honors Committee by the BED technical committees.

A series of awards are presented to B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. level stu-dents for research contributions

to the summer bioengineering conference. Awardees are se-lected by a panel of faculty volun-teers from throughout the BED. If you are willing to volunteer for judging at the 2009 SBC, please contact Beth Winkelstein, chair of the Student Paper Competition Committee.

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The Richard Skalak Award is pre-sented to the authors of the pa-per voted by the BED Honors Committee to be the best pub-lished in the Journal of Biome-chanical Engineering over the course of a year. The award is named in honor of the late Rich-ard Skalak (1923-1997), a pio-neer in the field of bioengineering and editor of Journal of Biome-chanical Engineering from 1983 to 1987.

This year's winners are Larry A. Taber (Washington University in St. Louis), Jinmei Zhang (University of Rochester), and Renato Perucchio (University of Rochester). This is the second time that Prof. Taber has re-ceived this honor. Only two other individuals have received this honor twice: Prof. Taber's late colleague from Washington Uni-versity in St. Louis, George I. Za-halak (1939-2002), and Shu Q. Liu from Northwestern.

The complete citation of the arti-cle and the abstract follow:

L.A. Taber, J. Zhang, and R. Pe-rucchio, “Computational Model for the transition from peristaltic

to pulsatile flow in the embryonic heart tube.” Journal of Biome-chanical Engineering 2007; 129(3), pp. 441-9.

“Early in development, the heart is a single muscle-wrapped tube without formed valves. Yet sur-vival of the embryo depends on the ability of this tube to pump blood at steadily increasing rates and pressures. Developmental biologists historically have specu-lated that the heart tube pumps via a peristaltic mechanism, with a wave of contraction propagat-ing from the inflow to the outflow end. Physiological measure-ments, however, have shown that the flow becomes pulsatile in character quite early in develop-ment, before the valves form. Here, we use a computational model for flow though the embry-onic heart to explore the pumping mechanism. Results from the model show that endocardial cushions, which are valve primor-dia arising near the ends of the tube, induce a transition from peristaltic to pulsatile flow. Com-parison of numerical results with published experimental data shows reasonably good agree-

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The 2008 Student Paper Competition (SPC) at the Sum-mer Bioengineering conference again represented a sig-nificant contribution to the success of the meeting overall. A total of 193 pa-

pers were submitted to the SPC for each of the three degree lev-els, BS, MS and PhD.

In each degree level, the papers were further subdivided into rele-vant theme groupings, and the abstracts were reviewed by three judges. Based on the composi-tion, structure, and technical merit, 161 abstracts were se-lected for presentation at the meeting. All selected papers were presented at the meeting in poster format, except for the highest scoring abstracts in the doctoral level.

The six authors of the doctoral level having the highest scores in

each theme category were asked to present their work in three concurrent, highlighted podium sessions. Top presentations, both podium and poster formats, were scored by a minimum of three judges. The total score from the abstract and the on-site presen-tation determined the winners. In each degree level, and in each theme category, cash prizes were awarded to the top 3 placements in each category and degree level at the Summer Bioengineering Conference Banquet.

Historically, the SPC abstracts have represented approximately a third of the total submitted ab-stracts to the SBC. In 2008, nearly 31% of the submitted ab-stracts were for the SPC. This represents a tremendous amount of work by the judges who volun-teered to review the numerous abstracts and presentations. This year, a total of 106 judges from 70 institutions graciously volun-teered their time to the SPC by

reviewing abstracts and on-site judging.

The review of the 2009 SPC ab-stracts will begin shortly. If you would like to contribute to judg-ing these papers, please contact the overall chair of the 2009 competition: David Shreiber (shreiber@rci.rutgers.edu).

Beth Winkelstein, Overall Chair Student Paper Competition

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2007—2008 Committee:

Overall Chair Beth Winkelstein University of Pennsylvania

Ph.D. Chair David Shreiber Rutgers University

M.S. Chair Ender Finol Carnegie Mellon University

B.S. Chair Tammy Haut-Donahue Michigan Tech University

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Beth Winkelstein

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Podium Competition Poster Competition Biofluids and Imaging

1st Place Aaron Wang, Stanford University Alex Barker, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder

2nd Place Fuxing Zhang, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder Filippo Consolo, Politec di Torino

3rd Place Jennifer Erhart, Stanford University Gilwoo Choi, Stanford University

Honorable Mention

Ram Balachandran, University of Minnesota Sudhaker Chhabra, University of Delaware

Honorable Mention

Ashish Das, University of Cincinnati Craig Goergen, Stanford University

Solid Mechanics, Design, and Rehabilitation

1st Place Mark Baldwin, University of Denver David Hoey, Trinity College

2nd Place Thorsten Schwenke, Rush University Kartik Varadarajan, MIT

3rd Place Barry Doyle, University of Limerick Wilco Kroon, CARIM

Honorable Mention

Scott Bevill, Stanford University Rebecca Austman, Univ. of W. Ontario

Honorable Mention

Oluseeni Komolafe, Drexel University Colin McDonald, Univ. of Western Ontario

Honorable Mention

Nathan Netravali, Stanford University

Tissue Engineering and Cellular Biomechanics

1st Place Benjamin Elder, Rice University Carolyn Sargent, Georgia Tech

2nd Place Margaret Julias, Rutgers University Ronald Kwon, Stanford University

3rd Place H. Sundararaghavan, Rutgers University Zeeshan Syedain, University of Minnesota

Honorable Mention

M. El-Kurdi, University of Pittsburgh Liming Bian, Columbia University

Honorable Mention

Raghav Goel, University of Minnesota Gary Monteiro, Rutgers University

Honorable Mention

Jawaad Sheriff, SUNY - Stony Brook

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Biofluids and Imaging

1st Place Jessica Shih, Stanford University

2nd Place Ana Saaibi, University of Florida

3rd Place Shuning Li, Indiana University

Honorable Mention

A. Ayyalasomayajula, University of Arizona

Honorable Mention

Polina Segalova, Stanford University

Solid Mechanics, Design, and Rehabilitation

1st Place P. Raghava, University of Alabama

2nd Place Rika Wright, Johns Hopkins University

3rd Place Nicholas Drury, University of Pittsburgh

Honorable Mention

Jonathan Kuo, Clemson University

Honorable Mention

Rebecca Taylor, Stanford University

Tissue Engineering and Cellular Biomechanics

1st Place Laura Yanoso, University of Rochester

2nd Place Donna Haworth, University of Pittsburgh

3rd Place Andrea Tan, Columbia U

Honorable Mention

Jennifer Hurley, University of Cincinnati

Honorable Mention

Pui Leng Leong, Boston University

MASTER’S LEVEL

BACHELOR’S LEVEL Biofluids, Imaging, and Cellular Biomechanics

1st Place Ka Yaw Teo, University of Texas

2nd Place Lowell Edgar, Rutgers University

3rd Place Joyce Xie, University of Toronto

Honorable Mention

Ryan Koppes, RPI

Honorable Mention

Laura Ricles, Lehigh University

Solid Mechanics, Design, and Rehabilitation

1st Place Daniel Wheeler, UC San Francisco

2nd Place Joel Palko, University of Pittsburgh

3rd Place Patricia Ho, Stanford University

Honorable Mention

Daniel Hill, University of Alabama

Honorable Mention

Ricky Martinez, University of Texas

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discussions with Phillip DiVietro, Managing Director, ASME Pub-lishing, to make these very nec-essary changes to the journal publication procedures. Immedi-ate changes include:

1. JBME, which is currently bi-monthly, will begin monthly publication beginning with the January 2009 issue.

2. The annual page budget, cur-rently at 1,100 published pages, will be increased im-mediately to 1,500 published pages.

3. ASME has approved the jour-nal revenue sharing funds to support the publication of Special Issues, which will be published above and beyond the monthly issues. This will allow us to publish high-impact special issues without interfering with normal issue publication.

Changes planned to be imple-mented include:

1. Modify ASME Journal Produc-tions to so that once a manu-script is accepted, it will be sent immediately to produc-tion and the proof generated. Once the corrected proof is return by the authors, it will be placed immediately on-line and submitted to MED-LINE for on-line citation. The on-line version will be swapped with the actual pub-lished version once the as-signed issue is published.

2. Establishment of a “Legacy” JBME paper award for high-

impact papers published a minimum of 5 year ago. It was proposed that this award be named after a major fig-ure in Biomechanics.

3. Building an endowment for JBME’s Skalak best paper award.

Finally, I am pleased to inform that we are in the process of ap-pointing several more Associate Editors to start in January 2009 to help ease the load and im-prove review times. Announce-ment of the new Associate Edi-tors will be made once the ASME Publications Committee has ap-proved them.

I look forward to reporting more good news in the very near fu-ture.

Michael S. Sacks, Editor University of Pittsburgh

The Journal of Bio-mechanical Engi-neering reports the results of original research involving the application of mechanical engi-neering knowledge, skills, and principles to the analysis, de-

sign, development, and function of native and engineered biologi-cal systems across all dimen-sional scales. Subject areas in-clude: native and artificial or-gans, prostheses, bioinstrumen-tation and measurements, bio-heat transfer, biomaterials, tis-sue biomechanics, bioprocess engineering, cellular and bio-molecular mechanics, design and control of biological and physio-logical systems. The journal pre-sents full length original research articles, technical briefs, an-nouncements, calls for papers, calendars of events, and letters to the Editor.

Along with the Associate Editors and the BED, I have a mission to make JBME a premier biomedical engineering journal. For this year, several changes are in the works, including cover art. More importantly, in collaboration with the New Directions and the Ex-ecutive Committees, I submitted a letter outlining changes needed to make JBME competitive with other major Biomedical Engineer-ing Journals, and designating a one-year timeframe for imple-mentation of these changes. This letter was well received by ASME and I have already engaged in

Michael S. Sacks

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adverse results of health care. The Design Innovation category features papers focusing on novel devices, including some with limited clinical or engineer-ing results.

Over the past year, three new Associate Editors have been ap-proved.

Danny Bluestein, Ph.D. Stony Brook University

Jaydev Prataprai Desai, Ph.D. University of Maryland

Cheng Dong, Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University

The Co-Editors invite you to sub-mit papers to this new Journal, which does not have a backlog of papers waiting to be published.

Arthur G. Erdman, Co-Editor University of Minnesota

Gerald E. Miller, Co-Editor Virginia Commonwealth University

The Journal of Medi-cal Devices focuses on applied research and the develop-ment of new medi-cal devices or in-strumentation, this new journal pre-sents papers on devices that im-prove diagnostic, interventional, and therapeutic treat-ments. It provides special coverage of novel devices that allow new surgical strategies, new methods of drug delivery, or possible reductions in the complexity, cost, or

Arthur G. Erdman

J O U R N A L O F M E D I C A L D E V I C E S

Gerald E. Miller

2 0 0 8 S U M M E R B I O E N G I N E E R I N G C O N F E R E N C E — F I N A L R E P O R T

Flaking skin on noses and sand in laptop keyboards throughout the bioengineering community bear testament to a highly memorable gathering last summer from June 25-29 at Marco Island, Florida. This was the 10th ASME Summer Bioen-gineering Conference (SBC), and the conference's third year of an-nual programming.

The 2008 SBC was one of the larg-est yet, with more 550 poster and

podium presentations. As de-scribed in Beth Winkelstein's re-port (page 9), our emphasis on the truly excellent students of our bio-engineering programs around the world were again highlighted in the Student Paper Competition, in which more than 160 students at the B.S., M.Sc., and Doctoral lev-els presented their research.

Highlights of the conference in-cluded six workshops and two spe-cial symposia. The Nerem Sympo-sium celebrated Prof. Bob Nerem's 70th birthday and fea-tured a carefully assembled series of sessions dedicated to mech-anobiology and biomechanics of the endothelial cell, stem cells, and tissue engineering. The sym-posium was one of the highlights

of the conference, and stood as a fitting tribute to the substantial contributions of Prof. Nerem to these research areas and to the Bioengineering Division of ASME. Especially memorable was the Plenary Lecture by Dr. Anthony Atala, Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regen-erative Medicine on regenerative medicine.

Another highlight of the program was the Biotransport Symposium 2008: "Nano and Multiscale Fron-tiers in Biological Heat and Mass Transfer," which focused on bio-thermodynamics and bioheat and mass transfer at the microscale

Not even his duties as 2008 SBC Program Chair could keep David Vorp from attending doctoral

candidate Adele Doyle’s talk.

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and the molecular level. Program-ming in the SBC was done in col-laboration with the K17 Commit-tee of the Heat Transfer Division of ASME. Dr. Arun Majumdar, Profes-sor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley and Di-

r e c t o r o f t h e B e r k e l e y Nanosciences & Nanoengineering Institute, delivered a plenary lecture e n t i t l e d , "Opportunities and Challenges at the Nano-Bio Inter-face."

Our colleagues in industry were cen-tral to the success of two special events: the Technol-ogy Showcase and the Professional Speed Dating event and reception. In the former, our conference Event Patrons and Premier Sponsors from throughout the biomedical engineering industry presented their technology, both in theory and in practice. The 'Professional Speed Dating' event, conceptualized by the Industry Advisory Committee (founded at the 2007 SBC),

brought together individuals for a series of prear-ranged, short "dates" to lay the groundwork for post-conference correspondence and follow-up.

This year's conference included a special commemoration to honor the memory and legacy of Prof. Kevin Granata in the Granata Me-morial Session. Prof. Granata, a fellow bioengineer and ASME BED

par t i c ipant , was mur-dered after he left his office to investigate events during the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech. The com-memoration

brought together friends and col-leagues from around the world, and was a focal point of the con-ference both socially and scientifi-cally.

As described elsewhere in this newsletter, we had the pleasure to acknowledge the accomplish-ments and valued participation of Profs. Noshir Langrana, Scott L. Delp, and Gabriel A. Silva through the awarding of society and divi-sion medals.

We conclude with several notes of thanks. The phenomenal success of the conference was due in large part to the tremendous efforts of the members of the Program Com-mittee, Theme and Session Chairs and Co-Chairs, and the many re-viewers who worked hard to bring

to you a high-quality program. In a very real sense these volunteers are the heart and soul of the SBC. We would also like to acknowledge the tremendous support we re-ceived from industry sponsors: Ab-bott, Elsevier, Scanco Medical, Micrus Endovaxscular, Professional Engineering Publishing, Wiley-Blackwell, TestResources, Bose, Simpleware, CSM Instruments, bio-mat.net, and WPI, as well as from the National Science Foundation (ENG), the National Institutes of Health (NIBIB and NINDS), and the Virginia Tech/Wake Forest Center for Injury Biomechanics. Thanks also to ASB, USCNB, BMES, IEEE, and ASME. The support and guid-

ance provided by the ASME Bioen-gineering Division Executive Com-mittee, chaired by Prof. James E. Moore Jr., is also greatly appreci-ated.

B. Barry Lieber, Chair 2008 SBC

David A. Vorp, Chair 2008 SBC Program Committee

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Winners of doctoral paper awards like Craig

Georgen received baby alligators.

The technology showcase featured demonstrations of cutting edge equipment.

Rita Patterson recruited post-docs at the “Professional Speed Dating” gathering.

SBC chair Barry Lieber and local arrangements chair Charles Lee appear on the beach with the

rest of the conference attendees with the help of Adobe Photoshop®!

The 2008 SBC featured a session in memory of Kevin Granata.

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B I O T R A N S P O R T C O M M I T T E E ( F O R M E R L Y K - 1 7 )

Our committee this year received almost 60 abstracts, which is ap-proximately 10% of the total ab-stracts received by the conference. More than thirty of our members reviewed the abstracts. Our rejec-tion rate (8%) is consistent with other technical committees. The final SBC 2008 program includes 4 podium sessions in the Biotrans-port Symposium (8 papers) and 4 regular podium sessions (24 pa-pers) and both are organized by our committee. The regular podium sessions were: Characterization of Thermal Medical Applications, Bio-mass Transfer Processes in Tissue, Advances in Biotransport, and Bio-preservation. The podium sessions of the Biotransport Symposium in-cluded Biothermodynamics, Bio-heat transfer, Biomass transfer, and an open discussion.

In addition, 24 papers were ac-cepted as posters in the general

poster sessions and 6 papers were in the Ph.D, 3 in the M.S., and 3 in the B.S. Student Poster Competi-tion. Our members also served as reviewers and judges of student poster competitions. Ka Yaw Teo, an undergraduate student of Dr. Bumsoo Han, took the first place at the BS-level student paper compe-tition in the SBC 2008.

The Biotransport Symposium was a huge success and energized our committee. A website was estab-lished at UMN provide Biotransport related information to our mem-bers. We had a well-attended com-mittee meeting and significant in-crease in abstracts submission this year. We are excited to see ap-proximately 20% (152/680) of the participants to SBC 2008 identify-ing themselves as belonging to “Biotransport”. Our request of changing the name from K17 to “Biotransport” has been approved

by the BED execu-tive committee in August 2008. In September 2009, a strategy plan-ning committee consisting of all the previous and current chair of our committee held a teleconfer-ence to address future directions to better serve our members.

We continue our efforts to increase the active membership of the com-mittee. We encourage all members to participate in our future SBC meetings. Co-sponsoring sessions and integrating with other technical sessions were proposed and en-couraged.

Liang Zhu, Chair Biotransport Committee

2007—2010

Liang Zhu

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At the 2008 SBC in Marco Island, Florida there were a total of 62 pa-pers that were presented in 6 po-dium sessions and 2 poster ses-sions. Four podium sessions (6 papers each) were devoted to the symposium celebrating Dr. Robert Nerem’s 70th birthday, one session was on Growth and Remodeling and was co-chaired/organized by Michael Sacks (PITT) and Rudy Gleason (GIT)), and one session on Cell & Molecular Engineering. Three reviewers evaluated each abstract and the rejection rate was 5%. Many thanks to the following committee members who served as 2008 abstract reviewers: Jona-

than VandeGeest, Mohammad Mofrad, Steven Nicoll, Robert Car-gill, Rene van Donkelaar, Steve Abramowitch, Michael Sacks, Kris Billiar, David Corr, Guy Genin, Alisa Morss, Marc Levenston, Alex Spec-tor, Robert Mauck, Roland Kaunas, Kelly Shields, Samir Ghadiali, Dan Nicolella, Rudy Gleason, Tim Quinn, Nadeen Chahine, Philip LeDuc,and Chris Chen. In addition to these sessions, Timothy Quinn (NIST) and Mohammad Mofrad (UC Berkeley) co-organized a successful work-shop on Mechanotransduction: Tools and Measurement Needs with 4 invited speakers: Drs. Abdul Barakat (UC Davis), Peter Butler

(Penn State), Brian Helmke (UVA), and Song Li (UC Berkeley). The workshop was sponsored by NIST. Lastly, Dan Nicolella (Southwest Re-search Institute) will assume the Chair duties of the Cell & Tissue Engineering Committee vacated by Clark Hung who has joined the Ex-ecutive Committee (Member Af-fairs).

Clark T. Hung, Chair Tissue and Cellular Engr. Committee

2005—2008

Clark T. Hung

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With the help of many reviewers, session chairs and co- chairs, and par-ticipants, the 2008 Summer Bioengi-neering Confer-ence program in Design and Reha-bilitation was a

success. Sessions within Design and Rehabilitation included ses-sions on the analysis of human movement, a memorial session to Kevin Granata and an exciting series of sessions on robotic simulation of joint motion organ-ized by Mark Miller. In addition, programming for the conference included several joint sessions with Solids including design of biomechanical devices, design of orthopaedic devices and pros-thetics, and computational mod-eling in biomechanical design. The seven technical sessions (including those joint with Solids) and two poster sessions included 39 podium presentation and 23 poster presentations. The accep-tance rate for papers in these areas was 91.9%.

For the 2009 Summer Bioengi-neering Conference in Tahoe, a number of exciting plans are in the works. First, we will be look-ing for submissions in design, human movement analysis and rehabilitation. The following top-ics and subtopics are planned:

Human Movement • Motion Analysis and Emerging Methods

in Motion Measurement

• Computational Modeling in Human Move-ment

• Other – Human Movement

Design • Cardiovascular Design and Devices

• Musculoskeletal Design and Devices

• Prosthetics

• Robotics

• Spine Design and Simulation

• Other - Design

Rehabilitation • Neural Control and Prosthetics

• Rehab robotics

• Other - Rehabilitation

Spine Design and Simulation un-der Design will be organized by Boyle Cheng and Denis DiAngelo and be jointly sponsored by Sol-ids. They hope to develop an ex-citing program around the chal-lenges of designing and testing instrumentation for the spine. Under Human Movement, Rick Neptune is soliciting abstracts for sessions in Computational Mod-eling in Human Movement. Fi-nally, a workshop is being planned by B.J. Fregly and Darryl D'Lima to introduce a competi-tion using computational model-ing of the lower limb to predict in vivo, instrumented, total knee implant forces and moments.

On October 31-November 6th, the ASME International Mechani-cal Congress and Exposition (IMECE) will be held in Boston. In conjunction with other divisions in ASME, a track in biomedical and biotechnology engineering has been organized and chaired by Ahmed Al-Jumaily of Auckland University of Technology (with Sara Wilson as co-chair). Dr. Al-Jumaily has been very active in recruiting leadership for a num-ber of symposia including Vibra-tion and Acoustics in Biomedical

Applications, BioMEMS and Micro and Nano Systems in Medicine and Biology, Composites in Bio-materials and Bioengineering, Viscoelasticity of Biological Tis-sues, Dynamics and Control of Biomechanical Systems, Cardio-vascular Engineering and other topics in Bioengineering and Bio-technology. There are 138 ac-cepted abstracts and papers be-ing presented at this conference in addition to a plenary presenta-tion by Jeffrey J. Fredberg from Harvard School of Public Health. With this conference almost upon us, it is time to start thinking about the 2009 ASME IMECE conference in Orlando, FL. Any-one interested in organizing a symposium, proposing sessions, or participating in the review process for this congress is en-couraged to contact Ahmed Al-Jumaily (ahmed.aljumaily @aut.ac.nz) or Sara Wilson(sewilson@ku.edu).

We would like to express a final thanks for all of those that have partipated in helping make these two conferences a success. If you have any suggestions for committee activities, conference planning, or future goals of the committee, feel free to contact the Design and Rehabiliation C h a i r , S a r a W i l s o n (sewilson@ku.edu) or the co-c h a i r , L o r i n M a l e t s k y (maletsky@ku.edu).

Sara E. Wilson, Chair Design and Rehabilitation

Committee 2007—2010

D E S I G N & R E H A B I L I T A T I O N C O M M I T T E E

Sara Wilson

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At the 2008 SBC in Marco Island, Florida a total of 73 papers were presented in 9 podium sessions (one joint ses-sion with the Solids committee) and 2 poster sessions. Those were programmed into two major themes, and the following sub-themes:

• Biofluids in Health, Disease, and Devices

• Fluid Mechanics of Devices and Prostheses

• Fluid Mechanics in Arterial Dis-ease and Thrombosis

• Heart Valve and Ventricular Biofluid Mechanics

• Mechanobiology in Biofluids

• Microcirculation

• Respiration

• Biofluids Toolkit Development

• FSI and CFD Techniques in Bioflu-ids

• Multiscale Modeling in Biofluids

• Imaging Modalities and Image Reconstruction in Biofluids

• Experimental techniques in Bioflu-ids

• Cardiovascular and Device Engi-neering

The initial program announce-ment included several joint ses-sions- few reached realization (e.g., a call for Heart Valve Bioen-gineering abstracts by Sacks & Bluestein for joint fluid/solid ses-sions resulted in too few submis-sions to justify joint program-

ming, eventually programmed into exclusive solids or fluids ses-sions. Similarly, joint AAA session initiated by David Vorp ended up as AAA/VP exclusively fluids ses-sion).

There was a discussion regarding the need to have more effective way to facilitate the desired joint sessions programming, by allow-ing more possibilities via the online submission website. It was suggested that abstracts submis-sion for the joint sessions will be routed specifically to them (i.e., going back to session based pro-gramming, where part of the sub-missions may be ‘invited’ type of abstracts). Additionally, it was recommended that the sub-themes will appear in the ab-stracts submission website (currently only the themes ap-pear). This would be achieved by coordination with the next SBC Program and Information chairs, as well as direct communications with SBC 2009 chair- Noshir Lan-grana. Accordingly, the following recommendations were passed on to the Executive committee vis-à-vis planning for 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference (Lake Tahoe, June 17-21 2009): 1) Pro-gramming according to overarch-ing themes- with more flexibility (see above). 2) Increase pro-gramming with other technical committees (Solids Committee and the K-17 Technical Commit-tee, jointly sponsoring fluid/structure interaction, mass trans-fer, and other pertaining ses-sions/symposia).

According to ASME bylaws, fol-

lowing SBC 2009 David Stein-man, the current vice-chair, will become the next Biofluids com-mittee chair. This will be followed by elections for a new vice-chair.

We would like to thank the many reviewers who participated in the rigorous review process of all the submitted abstracts:

Antaki, Jim (Pitt/CMU)

Chandran, KB (Iowa)

Elad, David (Technion)

Ethier, Ross (Imperial)

Evrensel, Cahit (Nevada)

Finol, Ender (CMU)

Friedman, Mort (Duke)

Ghadiali, Samir (Lehigh)

Giddens, Don (GATech)

Gijsen, Frank (Eindhoven)

Girdhar, Gaurav, Stony Brook ()

Gounis, Matt (MG)

Hyun, Sinjae (Mercer)

Keynton, Rob (Louisville)

Kieweg, Sarah (KU)

Kleinstreuer, Clement, )

Lee, Joon Sang (Wayne State)

Long, Quan (Brunel)

Manning, Keefe (PSU)

McGloughlin, Tim (Limerick)

Miller, Jerry (VCU)

Ovaert, Tim (ND)

Redaelli, Alberto (Milano)

Schima, Heinrich (Wien)

Sharp, Keith (Louisville)

Tang, Dalin (WPI)

Udaykumar, Holavanahalli (Iowa)

Vande Geest, Jonathan (U. Vermont)

Vlachos, Pavlos (Virgina Tech)

Xenos, Michalis (Stony Brook)

Danny Bluestein, Chair Stony Brook University

David A. Steinman, Vice Chair University of Toronto

F L U I D M E C H A N I C S C O M M I T T E E

Danny Bluestein

David Steinmann

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1) Cardiovascular Tissue Mechan-ics: Jeff Holmes,

2) Musculoskeletal Tissue Mechan-ics ­Soft Tissues: Richard Deb-ski,

3) Musculoskeletal Tissue Mechan-ics ­Bone and Joints: Elise Mor-gan

4) Injury, Trauma, and Occupa-tional Biomechanics: Cindy Bir

5) Design: Sara Wilson, and

6) Other Tissues: Victor Barocas.

Themes were modified for the SBC 2009 and a few new Theme Leaders were recruited. This year they will be:

1) Cardiovascular Tissue Mechan-ics: Jonathan Vande Geest,

2) Musculoskeletal – Soft Tissue Mechanics: Richard Debski,

3) Musculoskeletal – Bone and Joint Mechanics: Elise Morgan,

4) Injury, Trauma, and Occupa-tional Biomechanics: Cindy Bir,

5) Growth and Remodeling: Rudy Gleason, and

6) Other Tissues: Victor Barocas.

Please work with these folks and respond to their emails when they request your contributions to reviewing.

I have updated the Solids mem-bership list. There are currently 195 individuals on the Solids Membership list, most of which have been active participants over the last 3 years. If you have gotten an email from me in the last year, you are on the list. If you didn’t get an email from me,

The Solid Me-chanics Com-mittee contin-ues to have strong participa-tion in the Sum-mer Bioengi-neering Confer-ence. At the

2008 SBC in Marco Island our committee had 200 abstract sub-missions; up from 178 last year. Of these 65% (114) were ac-cepted as podium papers, 35% (62) were accepted as posters, and 12% (24) were rejected or withdrawn. Nineteen sessions were organized.

I would also like to thank the many reviewers (all EIGHY SIX of you!), without whom these ab-stracts could not be evaluated and programmed into sessions. Your service to our society is so important.

Congratulations to Jeff Holmes! He was elected Vice Chair of the Solids Committee by email vote. We had several outstanding can-didates and it was a tight race. Thanks to all who put their name on the slate and all who voted.

To help organize the abstract re-view process, last year I created “Theme Leader” positions in each of the major themes of our committee. The Theme Leaders worked with me to manage the abstract reviews and organize sessions. I would like to thank the following individuals for doing an excellent job for the SBC 2008:

but are interested in participating in our committee – please email me (delliott@upenn.edu). If you know of colleagues, particularly new investigators, who may be interested in getting more in-volved with the Solids Commit-tee, please have them get in touch with me. It is through the participation of our members that we develop the outstanding pro-gramming at the Summer Confer-ence.

It is not too late (yet!) If you have ideas for Workshops for the 2009 meeting, please send them to me.

I invite all interested in Solid Me-chanics to participate in the next meeting which will be held the day prior to the 2008 SBC. I am looking forward to working with you all! If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact me at delliott@upenn.edu.

Dawn Elliott, Chair Solid Mechanics Committee 2007—2010

S O L I D M E C H A N I C S C O M M I T T E E

T E C H N I C A L C O M M I T T E E R E P O R T S

Dawn Elliott

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The Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Raising the impact factor. The new editor (Michael Sacks), the associate editors, and the BED have a mission to make JBME a premier biomedical engineering journal, but JBME’s impact factor has slipped over the past few years, in part due JBME’s image as a “slow” Journal. As noted by Prof. Sacks, minimizing time be-tween submission and publica-tion is crucial for raising JBME’s impact factor now, and for pre-venting the obsolescence of our journal in the future after the Na-tional Institutes of Health switches to reduced length fund-ing proposals.

While the new editor has made substantial progress in reducing review times, ASME Publications policies and procedures retard the review process by clumsy web management, and further harm the journal by unacceptably long intervals between accep-tance and publication of articles.

At the request of The New Direc-tions Committee, Prof. Sacks drafted and sent a strongly worded letter outlining changes

needed to compete with JBME competitors (Annals of Biomedi-cal Engineering and Journal of Biomechanics) and designating a one-year timeframe for imple-mentation of these changes. The letter was signed by the BED Divi-sion Chair and sent to ASME Pub-lications. This letter was well re-ceived by ASME and Prof. Sacks has already engaged in discus-sions with Phillip DiVietro, Man-aging Director, ASME Publishing, to make these very necessary changes to the journal publica-tion procedures.

Best paper awards. Based upon the recommendations of Prof. Sacks, the committee proposes the BED establish a “Legacy” JBME paper award for high-impact papers published a mini-mum of 5 year ago. It was pro-posed that this award be named after a major figure in Biome-chanics. In addition, BED is working towards building an en-dowment for JBME’s Skalak best paper award.

ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference

Industry involvement. Improving and increasing industry involve-

The New Directions Committee met at the 2008 SBC to identify the most important areas of focus for the Bioen-gineering Division (BED) and to discuss actions that could be taken to build in these areas. The meeting was led by John Bischof and Michael Sacks.

Areas of focus.

The mission of the BED is to bring to bear mechanical engineering knowl-edge, skills, and principles on bio-medical systems. The two mecha-nisms through which the BED achieves its goals are the annual SBC and Journal of Biomechanical Engi-neering (JBME); the new Journal of Medi-

cal Devices is now providing an additional mechanism.

The BED has four administrative committees: Education, Honors & Awards, Membership, and New Directions (see report in this sec-tion). Reports of the Honors & Awards and Membership Com-mittees can be found in the “Society Awards” section of this newsletter (page 4).

Additionally, the BED selects rep-resentatives to other bioengi-neering organizations and to committees within ASME. Within ASME, the BED has representa-tives to the Thurston Award Com-mittee, the ASME annual meeting (the “IMECE”), and the Basic En-gineering Group (see report in

this section). Beyond ASME, the BED has representatives to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the U.S. National Committee on Biomechanics .

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terials meeting.

Plenary lectures. The committee suggested that some plenary lec-tures might be used in future to cross-pollinate our research com-munity with others, for instance by inviting an expert a relevant but scientifically distant field such as in animation, or even in closely aligned fields such as

MEMS, devices, and cellular therapies. To attract the best minds from other communities, industrial support and recogni-tion such as named lectureships were discussed.

Maury Hull, Chair, 2005 – 2008 New Directions Committee

John Bischof and Michael Sacks, Acting chairs at the 2008 SBC

ment at the SBC would further our mission. Ideas discussed for achieving improved and in-creased industry support include (1) improving opportunities for industry to recruit at the SBC, (2) allowing industry to name and support specific talks or ses-sions, and (3) including more ses-sions on translational activities, following the model of the Bioma-

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crease the efficiency of the com-munication. The mode of opera-tion of BEG involves the discus-sion and prioritization of action items with participation from technical divisions which are then relayed to ASME by mem-bers at large. BEG has ensured the involvement and representa-tion of divisions at higher levels than before with the primary aim of having an effect on how ASME conducts business with technical divisions.

One of the key issues which was brought to BEG’s agenda during 2008 was the simplification of the 1903 copyright process to have author sign on behalf of all co-authors. BED has communi-cated the importance of expedit-ing of the publication timeline for manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Biomechanical Engi-neering.

The need for clarification of the coverage provided by the ASME level awards was introduced as

a n o t h e r agenda item that needs to be communi-c a t e d t o ASME. ASME has taken note of these is-sues and we hope to get the response and potential actions to rem-edy these is-sues in the c o m i n g months.

BED’s repre-sentatives to the BEG are Ozan Akkus (Purdue University) and James Moore (Texas A&M University).

Ozan Akkus and James E. Moore BED Representatives

to the ASME BEG 2008 – 2011

BED Participates in ASME Techni-cal Division Governance

The Bioengineering Division has recently re-initiated active partici-pation in the activities of the ASME’s Basic Engineering Group (BEG). Once the dust settled from the overhaul of the ASME govern-ing structure (Continuity and Change), it was clear that the technical divisions needed to coalesce their efforts in specify-ing the kind of support they ex-pect from ASME. BEG is one of the seven groups in which techni-cal divisions are represented (see figure). The primary mission of BEG is to serve as a mode of communication between ASME and its technical divisions. Repre-sentative of ASME are invited to the platform offered by BEG to receive feedback on the needs of technical divisions and assess-ment of the action items taken by ASME. Historically, this liaison was facilitated by vice presidents and BEG was introduced to in-

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James Moore, Jr.

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2009 SUMMER BIOENGINEERING CONFERENCE

Lake Tahoe, California, June 17-21, 2009 The Bioengineering Division of the American Society of Me-chanical Engineers invites you to attend the 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference which will be held in the spec-tacular Squaw Creek Resort, a majestic setting at the base of the mountain and minutes from the natural wonder of Lake Tahoe (www.squawcreek.com). An outstanding scientific pro-gram has been planned:

Symposia will include the “Mow 70th Birthday Symposium” to be held to honor Van Mow, PhD. This symposium will include sessions focusing on orthopaedic biomechanics, tissue me-chanics, cartilage mechanics, constitutive modeling, and tis-sue engineering, and will recognize the substantial contribu-tions of Dr. Mow to these research areas.

Plenary lectures will highlight two outstanding speakers with lectures relevant for all attendees. Martin Yarmush, MD, PhD will lecture on “A Challenging Biomedical Science and Research Environment: The Need for Cooperation, Mentorship and Research Translation.” Current times are challenging for all investigators regardless of field or ca-reer stage. Stagnant federal research budgets, downward trends the economy and aggressive research competi-tion conspire to “rock” the biomedical science and engineering research world. Now more than ever bioengineering communities need to establish programs to aid and mentor investigators. In addition, non-conventional research programs and sources of funds may be available to those who expend effort on research translation. Dr. Yarmush, from Rutgers University, is a leading investigator in molecular and cellular bioengineering with seminal contribu-tions to the fields of liver and skin tissue engineering, applied immunology, BioMEMS, genomics and proteomics technologies, stem cells and metabolic engineering. Kathy Pearson, PhD, will speak about “Developing Peripheral Vision.” This talk is about the need to build our ability to look for weak signals in the external environment regard-ing potential changes to a profession or an industry. We require awareness that in order to plan for the future we must not only focus on today's work – we require peripheral vision. This session introduces the concept of organ-izational peripheral vision in order to identify opportunities and threats faster. Dr. Pearson is from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and is a senior consultant for Decision Strategies International, a manage-ment consulting firm focused on scenario-based strategic planning and decision-making.

Workshops and Awards Lectures will encompass Obtaining the Ideal Faculty Appointment, Predicting In-Vivo Knee Loads, Fluid-Solid Interactions, Course Development in Bioengineering, and Teaching Undergraduate Biomechan-ics. In addition to the Lissner Lecture, new this year, the winners of the Fung Young Investigator Award and the Mow Medal will make scientific presentations in a Bioengineering Awards Lecture workshop.

Student Paper Competition Abstracts are solicited for student paper competitions at the levels of BS, MS and PhD. Students selected for the competition will be able to present their work in sessions where only student presenta-tions are given – both in dedicated student poster sessions and in highlighted PhD oral sessions. Cash awards will be made to the top papers. Further information and instructions for the submission process is available at http://divisions.asme.org/bed/events/2009/student09.htm.

Submission instructions may be found at http://divisions.asme.org/bed/events/summer09.html.

Important Dates: January 15, 2009 Submission of two-page abstracts (including Student Paper Competition),

March 31, 2009 Notification of Authors

Conference Chair: Noshir Langrana, PhD Program Chair: Dawn Elliott, PhD

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2009 SBC Abstract Themes and Subthemes When submitting your abstract, you will be required to select:

1) a “theme” from the list below (in blue), and 2) a “subtheme” associated with your chosen theme.

These will be used by the organizing committee to assign reviewers and develop the program.

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AWARDS COMMITTEE CHAIRS Lissner Award Committee Chair Ajit Yoganathan, Ph.D. ajit.yoganathan@bme.gatech.edu

Mow Award Committee Chair John M. Tarbell, Ph.D. tarbell@ccny.cuny.edu

Fung Young Investigator Chair Jay D. Humphrey, Ph.D. jhumphrey@tamu.edu BED REPRESENTATIVES U.S. National Committee on Biomechanics Representative David A. Vorp, Ph.D. vorpda@upmc.edu

IMECE Representative Noshir A. Langrana, Ph.D. langrana@rutgers.edu

AIMBE Representatives James E. Moore, Jr., Ph.D. jmoorejr@tamu.edu

Gerard A. Ateshian, Ph.D. ateshian@columbia.edu

ASME BEG Ozan Akkus, Ph.D. ozan@purdue.edu

James E. Moore, Jr., Ph.D. jmoorejr@tamu.edu

ASME Support Staff Lee A. Hawkins HawkinsL@asme.org

Jacinta McComie-Cates McComieJ@asme.org

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE CHAIRS Biotransport Liang Zhu, Ph.D. zliang@umbc.edu

Design & Rehabilitation Sara E. Wilson, Ph.D. sewilson@ku.edu

Fluid Mechanics Danny Bluestein, Ph.D. danny.bluestein@sunysb.edu

Solid Mechanics Dawn M. Elliott, Ph.D. delliott@mail.med.upenn.edu

Tissue and Cellular Engineering Daniel Nicolella, Ph.D. daniel.nicolella@swri.org

BED JOURNAL EDITORS Journal of Biomechanical Engineering Editor Michael S. Sacks, Ph.D. msacks@engr.pitt.edu

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Chair Jennifer S. Wayne, Ph.D jswayne@vcu.edu

Secretary B. Barry Lieber, Ph.D. blieber@miami.edu

Treasurer Mohamed Samir Hefzy, Ph.D mhefzy@eng.utoledo.edu

Secretary Elect Rita M. Patterson, Ph.D. ripatters@hsc.unt.edu

External Affairs David A. Vorp, Ph.D. vorpda@upmc.edu

Technical Affairs John C. Bischof, Ph.D. bischof@umn.edu

Member Affairs Clark T. Hung, Ph.D. cth6@columbia.edu

Student Affairs Michele J. Grimm, Ph.D. mgrimm@wayne.edu

Member-at-Large Michael S. Sacks, Ph.D. msacks@engr.pitt.edu

Journal of Medical Devices Co- Editors Arthur G. Erdman, Ph.D. agedrman@umn.edu Gerald E. Miller, Ph.D. gemiller@vcu.edu

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES

2009 SBC Chair Noshir A. Langrana, Ph.D. langrana@rutgers.edu

2009 SBC Program Chair Dawn M. Elliott, Ph.D. delliott@mail.med.upenn.edu

Education Jeffrey E. Bischoff, Ph.D. bischoff@engr.sc.edu

Honors & Awards Ajit Yoganathan, Ph.D. ajit.yoganathan@bme.gatech.edu

Membership Clark T. Hung, Ph.D. cth6@columbia.edu

New Directions Gerard A. Ateshian, Ph.D. ateshian@columbia.edu

Newsletter Editor Guy M. Genin, Ph.D. genin@wustl.edu

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