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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar Series: Clinical Stream - Soowan Choi
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Seminar Series: Clinical Stream\nGraduate Seminar Series for the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME). This day is for clinical stream presenters.\nIf you would like to invite your Principal Investigator\, please add their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nPresentation Title: Validity Assessment of a 3D Depth Sensor for Movement Tracking in Children with Cerebral Palsy\nAbstract: Bootle Blast (BB) and Bootle Boot Camp (BC) are interactive video games to support rehabilitation for children with cerebral palsy (CP) using a low-cost 3D depth sensor\, the Orbbec Persee+. The aim of this study is to establish the clinical utility and accuracy of the Orbbec Persee+ as a sensor for tracking therapy exercises and movement during game play. Thirty children (with CP and typically developing) will execute 15 repetitions of therapeutically relevant upper and lower limb exercises within the context of playing 7 mini-games. Kinematic measurements will be computed from the joint coordinate data of the Orbbec and a gold standard marker-based motion analysis system for comparison. The accuracy of the Orbbec will be determined through the Pearson’s correlation coefficient (R)\, coefficient of variation (CV)\, root mean squared error (RMSE)\, Bland-Altman plot (BAP)\, and a paired t-test (p<0.05).\nSupervisor Name: Elaine Biddiss\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nZoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89610372821?pwd=azd4SCtYVWtreVovaGNPV1c2NGY2Zz09\nMeeting ID: 896 1037 2821\nPassword: 483329\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-seminar-series-clinical-stream-soowan-choi/
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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar Series: Clinical Stream - Shaurya Gupta
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Seminar Series: Clinical Stream\nGraduate Seminar Series for the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME). This day is for clinical stream presenters.\nIf you would like to invite your Principal Investigator\, please add their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nPresentation Title: OCT Imaging of Injured Rat Spinal Cord\nAbstract: TBD\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Albert Yee and Dr. Victor Yang\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: PhD\nZoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89610372821?pwd=azd4SCtYVWtreVovaGNPV1c2NGY2Zz09\nMeeting ID: 896 1037 2821\nPassword: 483329\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-seminar-series-clinical-stream-shaurya-gupta/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230126T120000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar Series: Cell and Tissue Stream - Azin Mirzajavadkhan
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Seminar Series: Cell and Tissue Stream\nGraduate Seminar Series for the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME). This day is for cell and tissue stream presenters.\nIf you would like to invite your Principal Investigator\, please add their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nPresentation Title: Analyzing the impact of multimodal metastatic treatment on femoral bone quality\nAbstract: Skeletal bone metastases may appear in up to 1/3 of all cancer patients and can cause pain\, fractures\, neurologic impairment\, and reduce quality of life. Skeletal metastasis can present as: osteolytic (bone destroying)\, osteoblastic (bone generating)\, or as a mixture of the two. Treatment of metastases are aimed to decrease pain\, provide skeletal stability\, locally control tumor growth\, and improve mobility. Treatment methods include local therapies\, such as radiation therapy (RT) and radiofrequency ablation (RFA)\, systemic drugs (i.e.\, bisphosphonates (BPs))\, and chemotherapeutic agents (i.e.\, docetaxel). RT is the standard care for bone metastasis. It uses high doses of ionizing radiation to diminish osteoclasts activation while reducing tumor volume. RFA uses the heat produced by an alternating current which induces ionic modulation causing targeted ablation of tissues. BPs reduce bone reabsorption by limiting osteoclastic action which leads to an increase in bone mineral density (BMD) overtime. Chemotherapy treatments such as docetaxel can cause myelosuppression and decrease BMD and bone strength. However\, this can be ameliorated by BP treatment. In our laboratory to date\, we have primarily evaluated the impact of cancer treatments on bone quality focused on osteolytic disease\, demonstrating differences in both the mineral and organic phases of bone with subsequent impact on bone mechanical properties. We have further shown that RFA leads to improved mineralization profiles with respect to mineral content and homogeneity in a novel preclinical rodent model of osteoblastic femoral metastases. With multiple treatment options for skeletal metastasis\, it is crucial to understand the effects of new\, existing\, and combinational therapies on both tumour destruction and bone quality. This information can lead to improvement in diagnosis\, fracture risk assessment\, treatment planning and delivery.\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Cari Whyne\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nZoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89610372821?pwd=azd4SCtYVWtreVovaGNPV1c2NGY2Zz09\nMeeting ID: 896 1037 2821\nPassword: 483329\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-seminar-series-cell-and-tissue-stream-azin-mirzajavadkhan-2/
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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar Series: Cell and Tissue Stream - saba rafieian
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Seminar Series: Cell and Tissue Stream\nGraduate Seminar Series for the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME). This day is for cell and tissue stream presenters.\nIf you would like to invite your Principal Investigator\, please add their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nPresentation Title: Craniomaxillofacial restoration: Innovative tool development to aid nasal reconstruction\nAbstract: The craniomaxillofacial (CMF) anatomy is a complex 3D structure composed of soft tissues covering an intricately shaped skeletal foundation. Traumatic injury can negatively impact CMF form and function (psychosocial and physical well-being). In post-traumatic reconstructive nasal reconstruction\, septal cartilage (which provides the foundation of structure and support to the nasal airway) is often deficient and struts from costal (rib) cartilage are used to re-create the central “L strut” support through a labor-intensive manual approach. The major disadvantage of using costal cartilage is its tendency to warp and various clinical techniques have been suggested to try to carve straight struts from costal cartilage (overcoming warping) to recreate the “L strut”. Specifically\, cartilage harvested autologously from the synchondrosis junction between the 6th and 7th rib of the patient cut into slices a few millimeters thick has been used to recreate the struts of the nasal septum. In this\, transverse slicing has shown significantly less graft warp and the ability to yield multiple struts from one piece of harvested rib. It has been postulated that the lower tendency for graft warp using this technique may be due to the directionality of slicing\, preserving the balance of cross-sectional forces. Manual preparation of grafts may result in an imbalance of these forces resulting in the unwanted warp (due to cartilage anisotropy) and the consequent paucity of useable graft material.\nSupervisor Name: Drs. Cari Whyne and Jeff Fialkov\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nZoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89610372821?pwd=azd4SCtYVWtreVovaGNPV1c2NGY2Zz09\nMeeting ID: 896 1037 2821\nPassword: 483329\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-seminar-series-cell-and-tissue-stream-saba-rafieian-2/
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SUMMARY:Data-Driven Approaches to Studying Neighborhoods and Health Inequalities – Prof. Dustin Duncan
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Inequity Speaker Series with Associate Professor Dustin Duncan\, from the Department of Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit\, Columbia University. \nREGISTER HERE.  \nDate: January 27\, 2023 \nTime: 11 am – 12 pm \nFormat: Hybrid (in-person & virtual) \nTalk Title: Data-Driven Approaches to Studying Neighborhoods and Health Inequalities \nAbstract: The field of neighborhoods and health (sometimes referred to as spatial epidemiology) has grown exponentially in the last twenty years\, especially since the publication of the first edition of Neighborhoods and Health edited by Ichiro Kawachi and Lisa Berkman in 2003. There is a large literature on the influence of neighborhoods on health to date. Indeed\, many reviews and technical reports of accumulated neighborhoods and health research have been conducted. This talk will provide an overview on the range of established and emerging quantitative methods used in neighborhoods and health research\, including emerging methodological approaches deriving measures of neighborhood environments from postings on social media platforms and crowd-sourced web-based data. These data-driven approach to studying neighborhoods and health will be applied to health inequalities research.   Speaker Profile: Dustin T. Duncan\, ScD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health\, where he directs Columbia’s Spatial Epidemiology Lab and co-directs the department’s Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit. Dr. Duncan is an internationally recognized Social and Spatial Epidemiologist. His research broadly seeks to understand how social and contextual factors especially neighborhood characteristics influence population health. Dr. Duncan’s intersectional research focuses on Black cisgender gay\, bisexual and other sexual minority men and transgender women of color. His work appears in leading public health\, epidemiology\, medical\, geography\, criminology\, demography\, and psychology journals. Working in collaborations with scholars across the world\, he has over 200 high-impact articles\, book chapters and books (>100 first or senior-authored)\, and his research has appeared in major media outlets including U.S. News & World Report\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times and CNN. Dr. Duncan’s recent work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health\, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, the HIV Prevention Trials Network\, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation\, the Verizon Foundation\, and the Aetna Foundation. He has received several early career and distinguished scientific contribution\, mentoring and leadership awards including from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)\, the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS).
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/data-driven-approaches-to-studying-neighborhoods-and-health-inequalities-prof-dustin-duncan/
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SUMMARY:Modeling in Medicine: Case Studies in Cancer and COVID-19
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URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/modeling-in-medicine-case-studies-in-cancer-and-covid-19/
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