[BIC-announce] Seminar in Biomedical Engineering - Wednesday October 24th - 1 pm- Room 333

[Christophe Grova]

Dear all,

Our  next Biomedical Engineering Dpt seminar is today

Wednesday - October 24th,  at 1 pm

Location: Room  333 Lyman Duff Building (Biomedical Engineering Dpt, 3775  University Street).

Speaker: Pr. Leon Glass PhD,  Department of Physiology, McGill University

Title : Understanding and Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death
Abstract:
Sudden cardiac death kills hundreds of thousands of North Americans
each year. This number could be reduced significantly if a medical
device - the implantable cardioverter defibrillator - had been implanted
prior to the sudden death. However, since we do not have good ways of
predicting who will suffer sudden cardiac death or when, physicians
face a major problem in deciding in whom to implant a cardiac
defibrillator. This problem is made more severe since implantable
cardioverter defibrillators are expensive, and complications, though rare,
do add to the risk of using the devices in those who would not
benefit. In this talk I will describe attempts to understand cardiac
arrhythmias - especially those responsible for sudden cardiac death. A
goal is to understand the mechanisms of arrhythmias sufficiently well
in an individual patient, that it is possible to better assess the
risk of sudden death in that patient. To help understand arrhythmias,
I use methods that include analysis of electrocardiographic records of
patients who experienced sudden cardiac death, recording activity in
tissue culture models of cardiac arrhythmias, and the formulation of
mathematical models of cardiac arrhythmia employing a range of
techniques from number theory to nonlinear dynamics.


A list of upcoming seminars can be found at : http://www.mcgill.ca/bme/news/seminars

See you there

Christophe Grova

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Christophe Grova, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering Dpt
Neurology and Neurosurgery Dpt
Montreal Neurological Institute
Centre de Recherches en Mathématiques
Biomedical Engineering Department - Room 304
McGill University
3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4
email : christophe.grova at mcgill.ca<mailto:christophe.grova at mcgill.ca>
tel : (514) 398 2516
fax : (514) 398 7461

web:
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