[BIC-announce] Special 1st Seminar in Biomedical Engineering - Friday Jan. 17th - 9h am - Room 333

[Christophe Grova]

Dear all, just a reminder that there is no Seminar today, our first seminar will be this coming Friday

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 We will have a special seminar for our first  Biomedical Engineering seminar of the year, scheduled this coming Friday Jan 17th at 9h am.

Friday – Jan 17th,  at 9 am (be carful of the change in schedule)

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

Speaker:  Dr. Nicole Li PhD,  Assistant Professor, University of Maryland-College Park, Visiting Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Title:  T
owards personalized medicine for voice restoration

Dr. Li is candidate for associate membership in Biomedical Engineering department, so attendance from our staff members and their students is highly encouraged.


Abstract:
Voice disorders are among the most common communication disorders across the lifespan. Teachers, actors, singers, teachers, politicians, journalists, and anyone who uses their voice intensively will experience a voice disorder at least once during the course of their careers. Patients’ responses to surgical, pharmaceutical or behavioral voice treatments however vary substantially, hampering clinicians in planning targeted voice care.
Most voice disorders involve physical injury of the vocal folds. In normal phonation, the vocal fold mucosa and ligament undergo vibrations at frequencies ranging from 20 to 3,000 Hz and amplitudes of a few millimeters. Recent advances have improved our understanding of mechanical and biological mechanisms in vocal fold injury and repair.  However, much work remains to link these mechanisms, to uncover essential mechanical and biological factors in pathogenesis and treatment responses for the disorder.
In this talk, a combined approach of in vivo, in vitro, and computer models we have developed to understand vocal fold mechanobiology will be described. The goal is to identify person-varying factors and predictors in pathogenesis of and recovery from vocal fold injury, which ultimately will be useful for near-future generations of personalized voice restoration models.


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:
http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/PeopleChristophe
http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/
MultiFunkIm Lab:
http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/HomePage

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