Seminars

VISE Seminar Series

2026 Spring Seminar Schedule

• January 29, Thursday
  Marcia O’Malley, PhD
  Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science,
  Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Bioengineering
  Rice University
• February 12, Thursday
  W. Hong Yeo, PhD
  G.P. “Bud” Peterson and Valerie H. Peterson Endowed Professor, Harris Saunders Jr. Endowed Professor
  Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
  Georgia Tech
• February 26, Thursday
  Charles Caskey, PhD
  Associate Professor, Radiology & Radiological Sciences
  Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center

If you would like to receive seminar announcements, email michelle.bukowski@vanderbilt.edu to be added to the list.

Seminars have a start time of 11:45 am (lunch) and will be located in LightHall 202

The VISE Seminar Series has a dual role in the School of Engineering as a major gathering activity for the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) and as a training component to the NIH-sponsored Surgical and Interventional Engineering Training Program (T32EB021937).  One of the central aspects to surgical/interventional engineering is the assembly of multi-disciplinary physician-engineer teams for the improvement of patient care.  As VISE comprises many laboratories across campus and the medical center, this engineering in surgery and intervention (ESI) thought-leaders seminar series has served as an activity for the faculty and trainees to come together to share, discover, and discuss trans-institutional research.  The series has several formats that include: traditional seminars, informal research discussions, novel dual-speaker talks given by engineer-physician teams, and educational activities (e.g. grant writing workshops, research in progress reports, dissemination of new research techniques, intellectual property and technology transfer workshops, NIH peer review workshop, industry-academic summits, etc.).

We should also note that at the conclusion of the academic year, the seminar series transitions to an instructional summer seminar series where rising 2^nd and 3rd-year trainees provide research in progress reports (RiPs).

One of the important outcomes of the seminar has been to introduce new faculty to VISE capabilities as well as foster new collaborative efforts toward pressing problems in surgery and intervention.  The seminar series meets approximately every two weeks and hosts both internal and external speakers.