Upcoming events
2nd 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
The Visible Heart Lab hosted Dr. Earl Bakken for a visit
on September 2nd during which faculty, staff, and graduate
students had the opportunity to showcase their various research
projects. Research collaborators from Medtronic were also
on hand to describe their projects and their relationship
to the Visible Heart Lab.
Graduate students from the Visible Heart Laboratory manned
an educational booth at the Minnesota State Fair on August
28th as part of the University of Minnesota's Academic Health
Center (AHC) Day. Using heart models, images from the Atlas
of Human Cardiac Anatomy, and preserved human hearts, Eric
Richardson, Mike Eggen, and Meredith Thompson fielded
questions from fairgoers on cardiac anatomy. The goal was
to get people excited about science, medicine, and biomedical
engineering. Thanks also to Gary Williams
for leading this effort and setting up the booth!
Rebecca Li co-authored an article "Mechanical
Stress: An Independent Determinant of Early Bioprosthetic
Calcification in Humans" that was recently published
in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Other co-authors include
Kenneth Liao, Ranjit John, Devesh Amatya, Lyle Joyce, Soon
Park, Richard Bianco, and R. Morton Bolman. Congratulations!
The article "Novel visualization of intracardiac pacing
lead extractions: methodologies performed within isolated
canine hearts" was accepted for publication in the Journal
of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology. Congratulations
to co-authors Charles J. Love, Sarah Ahlberg
(PhD, 2007), Medtronic research collaborators Prasanga
Hiniduma-Lokuge and Scott Brabec,
and Paul Iaizzo!
Paul Iaizzo attended the Cardiostim 2008
Meeting (June 17-20, 2008) in Nice, France where he facilitated
a hands-on demonstration promoting research from the Visible
Heart Lab.
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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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