Upcoming events

3rd Annual Bakken Surgical Device Symposium
Focus: Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
December 7-8, 2009
Mayo Auditorium

2nd Annual Institute for Engineering in Medicine Symposium
Title: Current Stem Cell Therapies: The engineering behind them and improvements needed
December 10, 2009
Coffman Union

Design of Medical Devices Conference
April 13-15, 2010

Latest lab news

Darryl Finkton (LSSURP Student, 2007) just learned that he won a Rhodes Scholarship and will be attending Oxford to study for an MSc in Global Health and an MBA. Congratulations and good luck, Darryl!

Congratulations to co-authors Mike Eggen (PhD, 2009), Mike Bateman, Chris Rolfes, Steve Howard, Cory Swingen, and Paul Iaizzo on the acceptance of their manuscript "MRI assessment of pacing induced ventricular dyssynchrony in an isolated human heart" for publication in an upcoming issue of Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Clinical Note). Well done!

Uzma Usmani's summer LSSURP research project "Cardioprotective Pretreatment for Global Ischemia of Isolated Swine Hearts" has been accepted for a poster presentation at the American Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Student in November. Congrats Uzma!

Mike Eggen successfully defended his PhD thesis "Heart failure and associated structural and functional remodeling: assessment employing various magnetic resonance imaging methodologies" on September 28nd. Congratulations Dr. Eggen!

Maneesh Shrivastav (PhD, 2007) and Paul Iaizzo will have their manuscript "An interactive graphical user interface for comprehensive analysis of human and swine cardiac monophasic action potential" published in an upcoming issue of Computers in Biology and Medicine. Congratulations!

Mike Bateman passed his oral preliminary exam entitled "The importance of the electrical conduction system and valve anatomy in the development of transcatheter delivered valve therapies" on September 16th. Congratulations Mike!

Congratulations to Chris Rolfes who passed his oral preliminary exam on September 15th (Title: Intrapericardial delivery of cardioprotective agents for global ischemia). Great job, Chris!

Paul Iaizzo attended the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2009 conference (Minneapolis, MN, September 2-6) where he presented and also chaired Theme 5 of the technical program "Cardiovascular & Respiratory Systems Engineering."

Mike Eggen accepted a Senior Scientist position at Medtronic's CRDM Therapy Delivery Research & Technology division starting October 5th. Congratulations Mike!

Thanks to Cori Russell and Gary Williams for organizing the Visible Heart booth at the Minnesota State Fair on Thursday, September 3rd. The booth was expertly manned by students Steve Howard, Brian Chan, Devon Hutton, Cori Russell, and John Aho (Chicago Medical School) from our lab, in addition to second year University of Minnesota Medical students Megan Rooney, Arney Abcejo, Joe Schmidt, and John Schomberg. What a great team!

Congratulations to Mark Marshall, Dr. Ken Liao, Dr. Mike Loushin, and Paul Iaizzo on the publication of their manuscript "The effects of temperature on cardiac pacing thresholds" in Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology (in press, 2009).

LSSURP students Uzma Usmani and Jerfiz Constanzo presented their research posters at the Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Programs Poster Symposium on August 7, 2009. Uzma, from the New York Institute of Technology, presented on "Cardioprotective pretreatment for global ischemia of isolated swine hearts," and Jerfiz, from Universidad Metropolitana in Puerto Rico, presented "Improved methodologies to perform DTI imaging of perfusion fixed large mammalian hearts within a 3 Tesla MRI unit: minimization of motion artifacts." Great job, Uzma and Jerfiz!

Paul Iaizzo recently published the following two manuscripts with collaborating co-authors:
1) Global electrophysiological and hemodynamic assessment of ventricular pacing employing non-contact mapping, Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology, Co-authors Nick Skadsberg (PhD, 2004), Trent Fischer, and Dan Kaiser.
2) Radio frequency heating at 9.4T (400.2 MHz): In vivo thermoregulatory temperature response in swine, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Co-authors D Shrivastava, T Hanson, J Kulesa, L DelaBarre, and JT Vaughan.

Three abstracts were recently published in the June 2009 Journal of Medical Devices:
1) Visualization of coronary artery bypass grafts and coronary artery stents in re-animated and perfusion fixed human hearts; Co-authors Mike Bateman, Chris Rolfes, and Paul Iaizzo.
2) Visualization and hemo-dynamic evaluation of edge-to-edge mitral valve repair within reanimated swine hearts; Co-authors Mike Bateman, Jason Quill, James St. Louis, and Paul Iaizzo.
3) A novel combination therapy for post-operative arrhythmias; Co-authors Eric Richardson, Bryan Whitson, and Paul Iaizzo.

Handbook of Cardiac Anatomy, Physiology, and Devices, 2nd edition

An article from the Visible Heart® Lab was featured on the May 2009
cover of The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

An article from the Visible Heart® Lab was featured on the May 2008
cover of The Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

An article from the Visible Heart® Lab was featured on the December 2007
cover of Europace

An article from the Visible Heart® Lab was featured on the October 2006 cover of the Heart Rhythm Journal