BIOENGINEERING
From medical devices to the engineering of bio-mechanical functions.
Professor Patrick Prendergast, BA, BAI, PhD, CEng, FIEI, FTCD
Rm 259 DIT Bolton Street (6.15pm)
Thursday 20th October 2005
This lecture will review some aspect of the mechanical design of medical implants, particularly load bearing implants such as hip prostheses and cardiovascular stents. Consideration will be given to some new design concepts for implants, such as patient-specific implants and engineering biological functionality into implants.
Professor Patrick Prendergast is Associate Professor in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and is Director of the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering (TCBE) and Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Dublin. He obtained a BAI in 1987 and a PhD in 1991 both from the University of Dublin. Before joining the staff at Trinity College Dublin, he held post-doctoral positions at the Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy, and the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
On a sabbatical year in 2000, he was a visiting Professor at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Warsaw, Poland, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. He is member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Biomechanics, Clinical Biomechanics, European Cells and Materials, Journal of the Royal Society: Interface and Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology. He was awarded the European Society of Biomechanics Research Award (now the Perren Award) in 1996 and Parsons Medal in Engineering Sciences from the Royal Irish Academy in 2003. He is past President of the Section of Bioengineering of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland and of the European Society of Biomechanics. - see www.biomechanics.ie.
Tea/coffee at 5.45, Lecture at 6.15. This is a Public Lecture and all are welcome.
Contact Dr. David Kennedy (4023846) for further details.
