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iomedical engineering
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Phone: 212-854-4460
E-mail: bme@columbia.edu
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Interim Chair
Andreas H. Hielscher
Departmental
Administrator
Shila Maghji
Business Manager
Kidest Shenkoru
Administrative
Coordinator for
Student Affairs
Jarmaine Lomax
Administrative
Assistant for
Fiscal Affairs
Michelle Cintron
Administrative
Assistant for
Departmental
Affairs
Paulette Louissaint
Laboratory
Manager
Keith Yeager
Computer Systems
Administrator
Robert J. Foster
Chair of
Undergraduate
Studies
X. Edward Guo
Chair of Graduate
Studies
Helen H. Lu
Ombuds
Lance Kam
Professors
Gerard H. A. Ateshian
X. Edward Guo
Andreas H. Hielscher
Clark T. Hung
Andrew F. Laine
Edward F. Leonard
Van C. Mow,
Stanley Dicker
Professor
Gordana Vunjak-
Novakovic
Associate
Professors
Henry Hess
Christopher R. Jacobs
Elisa E. Konofagou
Helen H. Lu
Jeremy J. Mao
Barclay Morrison III
Paul Sajda
Assistant
Professors
Elizabeth Hillman
Hayden Huang
Lance C. Kam
Samuel K. Sia
Lecturer in
Discipline
Aaron Matthew Kyle
Joint Faculty
Dimitris Anastassiou,
Professor of Electrical
Engineering
Aniruddha Das,
Assistant Professor of
Psychiatry
Shunichi Homma,
Professor of Medicine
Elizabeth S. Olson,
Assistant Professor of
Otolaryngology/Head
and Neck Surgery
Lawrence Schwartz,
Professor of Radiology
Michael P. Sheetz,
Professor of Cell
Biology
R. Theodore Smith,
Associate Professor of
Ophthalmology
Adjunct
Professors
Ernest Feleppa
Shiro Matsuoka
Adjunct Associate
Professor
Nicolas W. Chbat
Affiliates
Peter K. Allen, Professor
of Computer Science
Robert DeLaPaz,
Professor of Radiology
Kung Ming Jan,
Associate Professor of
Clinical Medicine
Jung-Chi Liao,
Assistant Professor
of Mechanical
Engineering
Zheng Feng Lu,
Associate Professor of
Clinical Radiology
John Pile-Spellman,
Professor of Radiology
and Neurosurgery
Henry M. Spotnitz,
Professor of Surgery
Biomedical engineering is an
evolving discipline in engineering
that draws on collaboration
among engineers, physicians, and
scientists to provide interdisciplinary
insight into medical and biological
problems. The field has developed its
own knowledge base and principles
that are the foundation for the academic
programs designed by the Department
of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia.
The programs in biomedical
engineering at Columbia (B.S.,
M.S., Ph.D., Eng.Sc.D., and M.D./
Ph.D.) prepare students to apply
engineering and applied science to
problems in biology, medicine, and
the understanding of living systems
and their behavior, and to develop
biomedical systems and devices.
Modern engineering encompasses
sophisticated approaches to
measurement, data acquisition and
analysis, simulation, and systems
identification. These approaches
are useful in the study of individual
cells, organs, entire organisms,
and populations of organisms. The
increasing value of mathematical
models in the analysis of living systems
is an important sign of the success of
contemporary activity. The programs
offered in the Department of Biomedical
Engineering seek to emphasize the
confluence of basic engineering
science and applied engineering with
the physical and biological sciences,
particularly in the areas of biomechanics,
cell and tissue engineering, and
biosignals and biomedical imaging.
Programs in biomedical engineering
are taught by its own faculty, members
of other Engineering departments,
and faculty from other University
divisions who have strong interests and
involvement in biomedical engineering.
Several of the faculty hold joint
appointments in Biomedical Engineering
and other University departments.
Courses offered by the Department
of Biomedical Engineering are
complemented by courses offered by
other departments in The Fu Foundation
School of Engineering and Applied
Science, and by many departments
in the Faculty of Medicine, the School
of Dentistry and Oral Surgery, and the
Mailman School of Public Health, as well
as the science departments within the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
The availability of these courses in a
university that contains a large medical
center and enjoys a basic commitment to
interdisciplinary research is important to
the quality and strength of the program.
Educational programs at all levels
are based on engineering and biological
fundamentals. From this basis, the
program branches into concentrations
along three tracks: biomechanics, cell
and tissue engineering, and biosignals
and biomedical imaging. The intrinsic
engineering 2011–2012