Thursday Lecture Series: Biomedical Research and Technology: Creation, Development and Applications   

Dr. Kevin Ward, Michigan Medicine and Biomedical Engineering

Death from critical illness and injury such as those from trauma, sepsis, traumatic brain injury, cardiac arrest and others exceed that of cancer and heart disease. Due to the complexity of these diseases, little progress has been made in developing technologies that could improve outcomes. The Weil Institute is a transdisciplinary research enterprise composed of clinicians, basic scientists, and engineers dedicated to researching solutions combined with entrepreneurship that accelerate the potential for moving new discoveries to the bedside. Examples of successes, failures, and barriers will be presented and discussed.

Dr. Ward is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Biomedical Engineering and the Executive Director of the Max Harry Weil Institute for Critical Care Research and Innovation at the University of Michigan.

Speaker will be presenting in-person and streamed live through Zoom

Prof. J. Brian Fowlkes, Michigan Medicine Radiology and Biomedical Engineering

When we think of tiny bubbles like those in a glass of beer, we might never expect the power such a small object could produce given the right conditions. From the erosion of ship propellers to industrial cleaning to breaking of kidney stones and liquification of tissue, we will explore a few of the many ways bubbles can be used to affect their surroundings and be engineered to provide diagnostic and therapeutic tools in medicine.  

Dr. Fowlkes conducts research on diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound including quantitative imaging such as volumetric blood flow for OB/GYN and traumatic brain injury and bubble production for drug release and high intensity ultrasound including histotripsy.  He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, the American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineering, the Acoustical Society of America, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Speaker will be presenting in-person and streamed live through Zoom