Surgery And Engineering

VISE alumni positioned to transform medical procedures In working with clinicians, Winona Richey gained big-picture knowledge of workflow, patient experience and existing technology in the operating room. The interactions sparked ideas to improve tumor marking and surgery for breast cancer. Carli DeJulius shadowed a rheumatologist and multiple orthopedic surgeons at… Read More

For individuals with drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy, open brain surgery is the current standard of care to reduce seizures, and four of every five patients remain seizure-free after the procedure. But perceived risks of a craniotomy make many patients and referring physicians hesitant. More than 90 percent of U.S. patients… Read More

Trainees gain big picture knowledge plus work closely with surgeons Michael Miga (right) and Robert Labadie (left) lead a Clinical Interactions lecture that is part of a training program for engineering students. The results are in: Five cohorts of Vanderbilt engineering doctoral students have experienced ‘paradigm-shifting training’ in surgery and… Read More

Cochlear implants can help someone with serious hearing loss better understand human speech, converse on the phone, enjoy music and watch television. When successful, the device allows a user to perceive different types of sounds, such as doors slamming and dogs barking. In the United States, however, it is estimated… Read More

A team of Vanderbilt engineers, clinicians and imaging scientists is developing a focused ultrasound neuromodulation device as a non-invasive and non-addictive method for treating chronic pain. The device will look like an MRI head coil and combine functional MRI with ultrasound neuromodulation. The combination will allow researchers to simultaneously alter neuronal… Read More