2012 John Bischof, PhD - Events

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ASME 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference
Ken Diller’s 70 th Birthday Celebration Event
A special session will celebrate Dr. Diller’s contribution to the development of
“Biotransport” over his long and amazingly productive career and map-out the
future areas of research at 9:15am on Thursday. The speakers include his long
time colleagues and friends Dr. Rubinsky, Dr. Toner and Dr. Bischof as well as
his former students, Dr. Wong, Dr. Nichole Rylander and Dr. Chris Rylander.
Kenneth R. Diller is a Professor of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering and
the Joe J. King Professor in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. The
primary areas of focus in his research include the frozen banking of human
tissues for transplantation, analysis of the microvascular basis of burn injury and
how it may be exploited for the optimization of therapy, development of
thermodynamic models of dynamic processes at the microscopic and
macroscopic scales in biological systems, and computer vision techniques for
quantitative measurement and interpretation of microscopic images. He has
published more than 200 refereed articles and book chapters and edited six books on these topics.
Lloyd Back’s Cardiovascular Diagnostics Special Session
Lloyd Back and his contributions to cardiovascular diagnostics and related fieles will
be honored in a special session Thursday at 11:00am. After graduating from the
University of California, Berkeley, in 1962, Lloyd Back, PhD., joined the Jet
propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, where he supervised
and carried out experimental and analytical investigations of a variety of fluid
mechanics problems, particularly in diseased animal and human arteries. He also
held an adjunct faculty position at University of Southern California (USC). He was
involved in early basic research in conjunction with Drs. Blankenhorn and Crawford
of the USC School of Medicine, Cardiology Dept. This work included flow in branch
junctions, curved vessels, and atherosclerotic coronary artery castings. In addition,
his research encompassed areas involving ventricular and arterial wall fluid
dynamics, flow and transport studies for oxygen, lipoproteins and platelet embolic
production in diseased human arteries, flow through prosthetic human heart valve
and flow measurements in aorta-coronary bypass graft casting. After retirement from JPL in 1992, Lloyd
became interested in evaluating the influence of catheters in diseased coronary vessels.
Robert Spilker’s Computational Modeling Special Session
Friday’s podium session at 9:15am entitled “Computational Modeling of
Biological Tissues” is in tribute to the contributions Robert Spilker has made
to the field of computational biomechanics and the bioengineering
community. Bob received his undergraduate degree in the Department of
Aeronautics, University of Illinois (B.S. 1971) and his graduate training in
the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (Sc.D. 1974). He was faculty in Department of Civil
Engineering, Mechanics, and Metallurgy at the University of Illinois at
Chicago (1976-84), and in 1984 joined the faculty of Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in the Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Aeronautical Engineering and Mechanics. Bob was Chair of the Biomedical
Engineering Department at RPI from 1994 - 2004. Bob has served the
biomechanics community extensively, including past chair of the ASME Bioengineering Division and U. S.
National Committee on Biomechanics. Bob is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and the Biomedical Engineering Society.