Seminars
VISE Seminar Series
2025 Spring Seminar Schedule
- January 23, Thursday
Nanshu Lu, PhD
Carol Cockrell Curran Chair in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin - February 13, Thursday
VISE Vision hosts: VISE Alumni Panel
with Sarah Goodale, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer’s Center, Dept of Neurology, VUMC
Vishwesh Nath, PhD, Sr. Research Scientist, NVIDIA
Philip Swaney, PhD, Manager, Licensing and Strategic Initiatives, Center for Technology Transfer & Commercialization, Vanderbilt University - February 27, Thursday
Stephen Aylward, PhD
Global Alliance Manager Developer Relations: MedTech Ecosystem, NVIDIA - March 20, Thursday
Yayun Du, PhD
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University - April 10, Thursday
Jon Heiselman, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University - April 24, Thursday
Alison Pouch, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania
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 5326
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.