The Biomechanics of Traumatic Brain Injury
MIE Department Seminar
February 2, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location
Zoom at https://uic.zoom.us/j/7342400988
Address
Chicago, IL 60612
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Location: Zoom at https://uic.zoom.us/j/7342400988
Presenter: Matthew Panzer, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
Abstract: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) presents an urgent public health concern, with 1.5 – 3.6 million concussions occurring annually in the United States from impacts sustained during falls, motor vehicle accidents, and competitive sport. Understanding the biomechanics of TBI can have a substantial influence on how we predict, diagnose, and prevent brain injury - from assessing head impact severity measured from wearable sensors, to evaluating the efficacy of helmets, and to assessing the safety of cars. In this talk, we will discuss the ways biomechanical engineers are determining the relationship between head impact exposure in the sports and automotive environment to brain deformation and TBI. We will examine the dynamics of the human brain subject to injurious loading using experimental and computational techniques and show why some head impacts are worse than others. Finally, we discuss how exposure in animal models can be scaled to humans using biomechanical principles, and what this may mean for existing preclinical injury models
Speaker Bio: Dr. Panzer is an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia. He graduated with his PhD from Duke University in biomedical engineering in 2012, and with his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada where he is originally from. He is the deputy director at the UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics, which is the world’s largest academic injury biomechanics laboratory, and is a member of the UVA Brain Injury and Sports Concussion Center. Panzer’s research focuses on identifying the mechanisms and criteria that are responsible for injuries that occur from impacts in sports, automotive crashes, and military events. The ultimate objective of these efforts is to provide the science and tools necessary to develop solutions that will mitigate the severity and risk of injury. A substantial portion of Panzer’s research is toward understanding the biomechanics that cause traumatic brain injury, employing a combination of state-of-the-art experimental, analytical, and computational methods using human and animal surrogates.
Date posted
Jan 20, 2021
Date updated
Jan 26, 2021