Dissertations
7. W. David
Merryman (8/2007).
Dissertation title: “Mechanobiology of the Aortic Valve
Interstitial Cell”
Currently
Assistant
Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of
Alabama at Birmingham
6. George Engelmayr
(11/2005).
Dissertation title: “Optimizing engineered heart valve
tissue extracellular matrix” Currently
Post-doctoral Fellow,
Division of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT
5. Hsiao-Ying Shadow
Huang (1/2004)
Dissertation title: "Micromechanical simulations of heart
valve tissues"
Currently
Post-doctoral Assistant, Dept. of Materials Science and
Engineering, MIT
4. Wei Sun (10/2003)
Dissertation title: "Biomechanical simulations of heart
valve biomaterials"
Currently
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Connecticut
3. Claire Gloeckner
(4/2003)
Dissertation title: "Tissue biomechanics of the urinary
bladder wall"
Currently employed as Biomaterials Engineer at Bard
Urological Division
2. David Smith
(5/2001)
Dissertation title: "A generalized thin-walled membrane
shell approach for in-vivo stress analysis of anatomic structures"
Currently employed as Senior Research Engineer with the Ethicon
Endoscopic Division, Johnson and Johnson, Cinncinati, OH
1. Kristen L. Billiar
(6/1998)
Dissertation title: "A structurally guided constitutive
model for aortic valve bioprostheses: Effects of slutaraldehyde
treatment and mechanical fatigue"
Currently Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, WPI.
Previously Senior Research Engineer at Organogenesis, Inc.,
Canton, MA (1998-2002)
Theses
12. Kashayar Toosi
(January 2006)
Thesis title: “The effects of long-term spinal cord
injury on the urinary bladde wall tissue mechancs”
11. Jon Grashow
(April 2005), Thesis title: “Evaluation of the biaxial
mechanical properties of the mitral valve anterior leaflet
under physiological loading conditions”
10. Thanh
Lam (December 2004). Thesis title: “Mechanical
Properties of Native Porcine Aortic and Pulmonary Heart Valve
Leaflets”
9. Daniel Hildebrand
(December 2003) Thesis title: "Design and evaluation
of a novel pulsatile bioreactor for biologically active heart
valves"
8. Brent Sugimoto
(April 2003) Thesis title: "Effects of leaflet stiffness
on the dynamic motion of the aortic heart valve"
7. Tiffany Sellaro
(April 2003) Thesis title: "Effects of collagen orientation
on the medium-term fatigue response of heart valve biomaterials"
6. Greg Fulchiero
(Professional track with project, 2002). Project title: "Alterations
in collagen fiber crimp morphology with cyclic loading in
zero and low pressure fixed porcine bioprosthetic heart valves"
5. Claire Gloeckner
(1998) Thesis title: “Mechanical and structural analyses
of an acellular collageneous biomaterial: Intestinal submucosa”
4. David Smith
(1997) Thesis title: “The effects of in-vitro accelerated
testing on the porcine bioprosthetic heart valve”
3. Rony Abovitz (1996)
Thesis title: “Analysis of a proposed endosseous dental
implant design: The effect of internal implant geometry on
internal and external stress distributions”
2. Eric Heister
(1996) Thesis title: “Bovine pericardium as a bioprosthetic
material: localization of optimal tissue selection sites”
1. Susan
Otano (1995) Thesis title: “The
collagen fiber architecture and mechanical behavior of human
cranial dura mater allografts”
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