2009 Injury Biomechanics Symposium

May 18^th & 19^th 2009

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• The Injury Biomechancs Research Lab is pleased to announce the dates for the 2009 Injury Biomechanics Symposium.  The symposium will be held May 18-19, 2009.  The reception event will be held May 17, 2009. 
  
   
  • This symposium is intended to stimulate and reward strong injury biomechanics research among students and recent graduates. 
    
    
  • Attendees can expect original biomechanics research in a forum intended to foster communication between developing and established researchers.
    
    
    
    
  • A list of oral and poster presentation topics is available on a link to the left.
    
    
  • Keynote Speaker

Guy Nusholtz

     Mr. Nusholtz is an executive consultant and senior manager in the Experimental and Computational Mechanics department at Chrysler. He is the project director of many of the computational and experimental scientific investigations of dynamic impact response. He has a background in biomechanics, crash, restraints, impact computational and experimental procedures, and ATD's. He has developed: 3D motion tracking systems, computational procedures for evaluating airbag response, airbag fabric analysis methods, statistical airbag sensor evaluation, non-linear material characterization for FEA, abstract foam material models, signal processing procedures for crash analysis, statistical procedures for evaluation of biomechanical and accident  data, fleet models for evaluation of generalized vehicle attributes  and methods of comparing ATD response.
 

• The following guest speakers will be discussing IRB topics such as use of volunteers, PMHS, and animal subjects:

Mary Roach

     Mary Roach is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook:  Science Tackles the Afterlife, and Bonk:  The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.   Stiff has been translated into 17 languages, and Spook was a New York Times Notable Book of 2005. Bonk was chosen as a 2008 best book by the San Francisco Chronicle, the St. Louis-Post Dispatch, and the Boston Globe.
     Mary has written for Outside, National Geographic, Wired, New Scientist, The New York Times Magazine, and NPR's "All Things Considered," among many others.  She is a contributing editor at the science magazine Discover, a Frequent Contributor to the New York Times Book Review, a National Magazine Award finalist, and a winner of the American Engineering Societies' Engineering Journalism Award.
 

Dr. Karla Zadnik, OD PhD

     Karla Zadnik, OD PhD, is the Associate Dean and the Glenn A. Fry Professor in Optometry and Physiological Optics at The Ohio State University College of Optometry. She received her OD and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley School of Optometry. She chairs the Biomedical Sciences Institutional Review Board (IRB) and the IRB Policy Committee for Ohio State.
     Professor Zadnik is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry, a Diplomate of its Section on Cornea and Contact Lenses, the President-Elect of the Academy, and chair of the American Optometric Association’s Council on Research. She received the American Optometric Foundation’s Glenn A. Fry Award in 1995 and Bausch & Lomb’s Visionaries Award in 2004. She served on the National Advisory Eye Council of the National Eye Institute/National Institutes of Health from 2000 to 2004.
     Dr. Zadnik is the Study Chairman for a multi-center study funded by the National Eye Institute—the Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Ethnicity and Refractive Error (CLEERE) Study. She chaired the first-ever multi-center study based in optometry funded by the National Eye Institute from 1994 through 2007, the Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) Study. She also directs two National Eye Institute-funded training grants for clinician-scientists seeking a PhD and the Vision Research Infrastructure (core) grant from the NEI to support biostatistics and epidemiology in the College of Optometry.

Dr. Kathleen Smiler, DVM, DACLAM

     Dr. Kathleen Smiler is a consultant in laboratory animal medicine and has held positions in numerous capacities including: 

• Consultant and attending veterinarian, Insight Institute for Neuorsurgery and Neuroscience
• Senior Director of Bioresources & Administration, Wyeth-Ayerst Research
• Manager of Bioresources and Histopathology, General Motors Research Laboratories

     Dr. Smiler has received numerous awards including the Harriet A. Myer Achievement Award for Outstanding Professional achievement (1990), the Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine Distinguished Alumni Award (1996), and the American Association of Laboratory Animal Science Joseph J. Garvey Award (2000).

Dr. Valerie Bergdall, DVM, DACLAM

     Dr. Valerie Bergdall is board certified by the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine and currently serves as the director for University Laboratory Animal Resources at The Ohio State University. She is also an Associate Professor in Clinical, Veterinary Preventive Medicince at The Ohio State University and has extensive experience in the research field, leading multiple projects and authoring numerous publications over the past 20 years.

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  Poster and Oral Presentations with Open Discussion of the Research
  
  
• Student Presenters from 11 Universities, including international participation:
                  -Government
                  -Industry
                  -Academia
  
  
• Reception, Dinner Banquet, Awards Lunch

Click to download the 2009 IBS Informational Flyer
 

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Symposium Sponsors

 

Denton ATD, Inc.

 

Nissan Technical Center North America, Inc.

 

Toyota

            

Symposium Partners