Upcoming events
Second Annual Bakken
Surgical Device Symposium (Cardiac
Valves: Past, Present, and Future)
December 8-9, 2008
Design
of Medical Devices Conference
April 14-16, 2009
Latest lab news
Eric Richardson was awarded with the University
of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
for his translational research on evaluating drugs, delivery
systems, and conditions that combine to make promising new
therapies available for patients with heart rhythm disorders.
Sara Anderson accepted a position with
Covidien in Boulder, Colorado as a R&D Engineer. She will
begin in late May or early June. Congratulations Sara!
Sara Overgaard accepted a position as Reliability
Engineer in the CRDM Division of Medtronic, Inc. Congrats
Sara!
The Visible Heart Laboratory was featured on KSTP 5 Eyewitness
News on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. A video of is available on
the KSTP
website.
Congratulations to Sara Anderson,
Alex Hill (PhD, 2003), and
Paul Iaizzo who just learned that
their manuscript "Microanatomy of human left ventricular
coronary veins" was accepted for publication in Anatomical
Record.
Sara Anderson successfully defended her
PhD thesis "Effects of pacing lead position and cardiac
anatomy on left ventricular venous pacing" on Friday,
April 11, 2008.
Paul Iaizzo and Alex Hill (PhD,
2003) represented the Visible Heart Laboratory and Medtronic,
Inc. at the ACC Annual Meeting in Chicago (March 29-April
1, 2008), where they facilitated an interactive display for
ACC attendees.
Kudos to Yong-Fu Xiao, Daniel Sigg
(post-doc, 1999), Mike Ujhelyi, Josh Wilhelm, Eric
Richardson, and Paul Iaizzo on the
acceptance of their manuscript "Pericardial delivery
of Omega-3 fatty acid: A novel approach to reduce myocardial
infarct sizes and arrhythmias" for publication in AJP:
Heart and Circulatory Physiology.
Mike Eggen passed his oral prelims with
flying colors on Friday, February 1st. Congrats and good luck,
Mike!
Paul Iaizzo recently accepted a position
in the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS);
effective immediately, he is the new IEEE Chair of the Technical
Committee on Cardiopulmonary Systems. Congrats Paul!
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An
article from the Visible Heart® Lab was featured on the October
2006 cover of theHeart
Rhythm Journal
Handbook
of Cardiac Anatomy, Physiology, and Devices, 1st edition
An
article from the Visible Heart® Lab was featured on the December 2007
cover of Europace
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