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Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering

Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering

Seminars

VISE Seminar Series

2024 Spring Schedule
  • February 8, Thursday, Ross Whitaker, PhD, Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah
  • February 15, Thursday, Brett Byram, PhD, Hoy Family Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
  • March 7, Thursday, Rachel Clipp, PhD, Technical Lead, Kitware, Inc.
  • March 21, Thursday, Roza Bayrak, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
  • March 28, Thursday, Nicholas Kavoussi, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • April 4, Thursday, Yuxiao Zhou, PhD, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University

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 Stevenson Center 5325

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 2nd 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.