[BIC-announce] Seminar in Biomedical Engineering - FRIDAY Oct 11th - 1 pm - Room 333 - BE CAREFUL OF THE CHANGE OF SCHEDULE

[Christophe Grova]

Dear all,

Exceptionally, we will have our next Biomedical Engineering seminar today.

FRIDAY - October 11th,  at 1 pm

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

Speaker: Dr. Sacha Nandlall PhD, postdoctoral fellow, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Title: Advanced Diagnostic And Therapeutic Applications Of Biomedical Ultrasound

Abstract:

Ultrasound is ubiquitous in many areas of medicine, where it has traditionally been employed for anatomical imaging. However, recent research in

biomedical acoustics has given rise to techniques that leverage the noninvasiveness, high resolution, and low cost of ultrasound in novel ways.

This talk will provide an overview of biomedical acoustics, including several emerging diagnostic and therapeutic uses of ultrasound technology

in medicine. Applications that will be discussed include:

• Monitoring and staging aneurysmal disease with Pulse Wave Imaging (PWI);

• Targeted ablation of cancer tumors with High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU);

• Other selected techniques such as ultrasound-assisted drug delivery through the

blood-brain barrier, electromechanical wave imaging of the heart, and acoustic

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).


Bio:

Sacha was born in September 1985 and grew up in Quebec City, Canada. He completed his undergraduate studies in electrical engineering at McGill

University. During the final year of his undergraduate degree, he performed research in McGill's Department of Biomedical Engineering with Prof.

Henrietta Galiana on applying signal processing techniques to detect and classify sleep apnea in children.

Sacha completed his studies at McGill in December 2006. From January to July 2007, he spent 6 months on a placement with Voluntary Service

Overseas (VSO) in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he worked with the Ministry of Development and Economic Planning as a government data

analyst.

In October 2007, Sacha became a doctoral student at the University of Oxford, earning the D.Phil. degree in August 2011. His research at Oxford

took place in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering with Prof. Constantin C. Coussios, and focused on developing enhanced methods of monitoring

damage in cells and tissues during ablation by High Intensity Focussed Ultrasound (HIFU).

Shortly after completing his doctoral studies, Sacha moved to Columbia University and joined the laboratory as a postdoctoral research scientist.

Since September 2011, he has been working on the pulse wave imaging and harmonic motion imaging projects


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

Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab (Multi FunkIm)
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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