UCSF Collaborators

 

Ying Lu, Ph.D

Biostatistics Group, Dept. of Radiology

University of California, San Francisco

Ying Lu obtained is bachelor's degree in Mathematics at Fudan University, Shanghai, China and his Ph.D in biostatistics at University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a Professor in Residence in the UCSF Radiology Department. He is also the Director of the Biostatistics Core Facility Program of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Lu also has over 143 peer reviewed papers in publications.

 

 

John Kornak, Ph.D

Biostatistics Group, Dept. of Radiology

University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Kornak is an Assistant Professor in Residence at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in the Department of Radiology with a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Kornak is the Director of the Department of Radiology Biostatistics Recharge and a member of the Biostatistics Unit. He is trained in mathematics and statistics and has been actively working on developing and applying statistical methods for medical imaging for over 10 years. He provides statistical consultation services and teaches statistical methods for radiologists at UCSF. Dr. Kornak specializes in the research areas of spatial statistics methodology, Bayesian image analysis for MRI, and the longitudinal analysis of clinical imaging data.

 

 

Finite Element Modeling

Joyce Keyak, Ph.D

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery University of California, Irvine

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Dr. Keyak received her undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and her doctorate in bioengineering at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley. She currently serves as an Associate Professor in Residence in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Keyak pioneered a technique for rapidly creating patient-specific structural engineering models (finite element models) of the hip. This technique and variations of it are now used around the world to study bone. Dr. Keyak's current research often relies on this modeling technique and is directed toward improving the lives of patients with bone disease.

 

 

Spaceflight Research

 

Peter R. Cavanagh, Ph.D
Lerner Research Institute

Cleveland Clinic

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Peter R. Cavanagh, Ph.D., D.Sc. (Med.)*. Peter R. Cavanagh attended Loughborough College and the Royal Free Medical School at the University of London. He is currently the Virginia Kennedy Chairman of Biomedical Engineering, Academic Director of Diabetic Foot Care, and Co-Director of the Center for Space Medicine at The Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. He is also Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Kinesiology, Biobehavioral Health, Medicine, and Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation at The Pennsylvania State University. He has authored or edited over 400 papers, abstracts, chapters, and books. He served as President of both the American Society of Biomechanics and the International Society of Biomechanics. He also served as Chair of the Council on Foot Care of the American Diabetes Association. He is the recipient of the Muybridge Medal of the International Society of Biomechanics, the Borelli Award from the American Society of Biomechanics, the Dyson Award from The International Society for the Biomechanics of Sport and has presented the Wolff and Dill Lectures for the American College of Sports Medicine and the Roger Pecoraro Lecture to the American Diabetes Association. He chairs the Science Council of the Universities Space Research Association Division of Space Life Sciences. In 2004, he was named Team Leader of the Bone Loss Team of the National Biomedical Space Research Institute.

 

 

Carlos Grodsinsky, Ph.D

ZIN TECHNOLOGIES

Cleveland, OH

Carlos M. Grodsinsky, Ph.D. is the Vice President - Technology at ZIN Technologies a NASA and DOD prime contractor specializing in avionics and power systems. ZIN has developed, fabricated and operated more than 95 man-rated space flight payloads for STS, ISS and MIR. Carlos has been working with NASA JSC and GRC over the past several years in the area of exercise countermeasure ground and space flight hardware development. Carlos earned Physics and Mathematics, and Mechanical Engineering degrees during his undergraduate career and then earned his post graduate degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace engineering from Case Western Reserve University in the area of active vibration isolation and control for microgravity environment operations and payloads. ZIN and Carlos is current working with JSC on the next generation Treadmill to be flown on ISS in 2009.

 

 

Justin Funk

ZIN TECHNOLOGIES

CLEVELAND, OH

 

Justin Funk received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio University in 2005. He was a co-op for Zin Technologies, Inc. in 2004, and returned to work for Zin in December of 2006. The bulk of his work has been in the NASA side of Zin's business, providing mechanical and fluid system support to various space flight experiments. Justin is also pursuing a Master's in Business Administration from Cleveland State University with the hopes of it leading into project management.

 

Tamara Harris, M.D

National Institutes of Health

Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry

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Dr. Harris received her M.D. degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York in 1978. She trained in internal medicine at Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, New York and in geriatric medicine at Harvard University, Division on Aging, where she was a Kaiser Fellow in Geriatric Medicine. She also obtained a M.S. in Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health and has a M.S. in Human Nutrition from Columbia University College of Physician's and Surgeons. From Harvard, she joined the Office of Analysis and Epidemiology at the National Center for Health Statistics. Dr. Harris moved to the National Institute on Aging in 1991, where she is Chief of the Geriatric Epidemiology Section.

 

Vilmundur Gudnason

Icelandic Heart Association

IHA webpage

Dr Gudnason has been the director of the Icelandic Heart Association Research Institute since 1999. Previously Dr Gudnason was the director of the Genetic Laboratories of the Icelandic Heart Association from 1995-1999. Dr Gudnason has been an associate professor in Cardiovascular Genetics at the University of Iceland since 1997 and a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Public Health and Primary Prevention, University of Cambridge, England since 2002. Dr Gudnason received his MD degree from the University of Iceland in 1985. He received his PhD in genetics from University College London in 1995. Dr Gudnason has published widely in peer reviewed journals and written several chapters in books, mainly on genetics and the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease.

 

Adrian D. LeBlanc, Ph.D

Division of Space Life Sciences

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Adrian D. LeBlanc, Ph.D. was named Director of the DSLS on February 28, 2002. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Iowa State University, and the University of Kansas. In addition to his DSLS directorship, he is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. LeBlanc brings to the DSLS considerable experience with both ground-based and onboard space flight experiments. His primary research interests have investigated the loss and recovery of bone and muscle tissue in weightlessness.