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SUMMARY:Seminar - Reducing the Pain of Cardiac Electrical Therapies
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nSince the discovery that electrical currents were important for cardiac function there has been\nintense interest in the development of cardiac electrical therapies. The most common cardiac\nelectrical therapies today are pacing and defibrillation\, which act to restore mechanical\nfunction and blood flow by correcting pathological electrical dysrhythmias. Each year over\n100\,000 implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are implanted in the US alone\, and\ndespite significant research\, both ICDs and noninvasive pacing therapies are limited by the\ncommon issue of pain. The pain of electrical therapies is a well-studied yet poorly-understood\nlimitation that has created underserved clinical populations. My work to reduce pain uses\nbiophysically detailed computational models\, isolated muscle and heart preparations\, and\nlarge animal in vivo experiments. A novel method to quantify pain in animals was developed\nbased on extensive evidence suggesting that aberrant skeletal muscle contraction underlies\nshock-induced pain. This measurement\, the rate of force development (RoFD)\, was then\nused to develop a novel waveform to reduce pain caused by defibrillation. I will discuss this\nprior work\, other studies to reduce the pain of external cardiac pacing\, and ongoing work to\ntranslate our findings to human clinical application. \nSpeaker\nDr. Hunter is a 2010 graduate of the University of Maine’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. After\ngraduation he pursued his doctorate in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University where his research focused on\ncardiac electrophysiology\, specifically novel electrical therapies for cardiac arrhythmia. After he completed his Ph.D. he began\nresearch on atrial ablation therapies in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Cardiology department. He is also a lecturer in the\ndepartment of biomedical engineering and a consultant for a startup company that was founded on his Ph.D. research. \n 
URL:https://gsbse.umaine.edu/event/seminar-reducing-pain-cardiac-electrical-therapies/
LOCATION:Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium ESRB/Barrows Hall\, Orono\, ME\, 04468\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Student
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SUMMARY:Webinar: SPARK Global – A new worldwide initiative to improve translation of medical research to benefit patient health
DESCRIPTION:About:\nThis workshop will be very useful to learn about the SPARK programs to facilitate faculty to move ideas into products (therapies\, diagnosis\, devices)  with actual funding. SPARK initiative started in Stanford\, but many institutions in different countries worldwide have established individual SPARK programs and we are now moving to Global SPARK. We established SPARK at the University of Vermont 4 years ago and the number of faculty who have entered the entrepreneurship area has markedly grown. \n\nSpeaker Bio:\nMichael Wallach\, Ph.D.\, has over 30 years of experience in molecular parasitology with a wealth of experience in both academic and industrial science. He was the inaugural director of a key research institute\, Institute for the Biotechnology of Infectious Diseases\, at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in 2002. In 2008\, Michael established a new course in Bio-Innovation and Entrepreneurship where graduates work in small teams to form creative innovative ideas for medical health products. This course has been given locally and internationally culminating in 2016 with a course given at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In 2013\, he was appointed as the inaugural director of the SPARK Sydney program\, which was established by UTS and the University of Sydney\, to emulate the Stanford SPARK program. Furthermore\, Michael played a key role in building SPARK Global\, which is expected to be formally established\, with the participation of 10 countries\, in 2017.
URL:https://gsbse.umaine.edu/event/online-seminar-spark-global-new-worldwide-initiative-improve-translation-medical-research-benefit-patient-health/
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SUMMARY:Student Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:All Meetings Video-Conferenced to GSBSE Sites\, except January\, April\, and September In-Person Meetings. \nTo connect to the conference from your Polycom enter the IP address of our bridge : 169.244.81.112. You will hear the automated attendant when you connect. When prompted\, press the # key on your remote (this brings up the keypad/touch tone control). Now enter the conference ID 8666464 followed by the # key. This will place your unit in the conference. To participate via telephone (audio only) dial 207-866-6464.
URL:https://gsbse.umaine.edu/event/student-monthly-meeting/2017-10-13/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171017T100000
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SUMMARY:UMaine Webinar: Using NVivo as a Research Tool
DESCRIPTION:About:\nThis webinar Using NVivo as a Research Tool will cover how NVivo can assist with your research in the following ways: \n\nLiterature Review: Efficiently organize and tag literature\, easily keep track of critical quotes\, and track ideas across many articles\nCoding: Code your literature\, interviews\, surveys\, and any other data you may collect in a single\, convenient location and analyze all your data for multiple articles in one NVivo project\nAnalyzing Data: Using queries to uncover potential themes\, understand words in context\, and explore relationships\nFindings: Gather together all your research findings in a single location\, making it easy to link your literature and your data\, and to easily find quotes to illustrate themes\nPublish: With all your data organized and analyzed in an NVivo project\, writing happens quickly and easily
URL:https://gsbse.umaine.edu/event/umaine-webinar-using-nvivo-research-tool/
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