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Acworth, Ga, Us

Acworth, Georgia, United States

Investigates, analyzes, and testifies in matters pertaining to injury biomechanics, vehicle crashworthiness, and crash reconstruction.

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Investigates, analyzes, and testifies in matters pertaining to injury biomechanics, vehicle crashworthiness, and crash reconstruction.

Hillside, Illinois

Analyze and reconstruct commercial, industrial, and vehicular accidents; analyze medical device product failures and product liability cases; testify as expert witness.

Oak Brook, Illinois

Analyze and reconstruct commercial, industrial, and vehicular accidents; analysis of medical device product failures and product liability cases; testify as expert witness.

Responsible for analyzing and reconstructing commercial, industrial, and vehicular accidents; analysis of medical device product failures and product liability cases; testifying as expert witness.

Angola, Indiana

Duties consisted of serving simultaneously as Director of the Biomedical Engineering Program (2007-2011), Graduate Program Director of Biomedical Engineering (2008-2011) and Graduate Program Director of Mechanical Engineering (2009-2011). Served as Chair of the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (2009-2010), all while teaching a full load of courses.

Tallahassee, Florida

Responsible for analyzing and reconstructing commercial, industrial, and vehicular accidents; analysis of medical device product failures; testimony as an expert witness.

Primary duties focused on teaching, researching, and developing a graduate program in biomedical engineering.➢ Served as faculty advisor for 150 students yearly with a 95% graduation rate and started the school’s student chapter for the Society of Women Engineers.

Responsibilities included research, guiding graduate student research projects, and teaching.➢ Research included experimental determination of injury mechanisms of the cervical spine (NSF and NIH); determination of the effect of heel height on gait and slip tendency in women; cadaver testing to determine the effectiveness of several spinal fixation plates, including their effects on intervertebral motion and ligament strain as well as testing of the instrumentation used to insert the fixation plates (for Synthes); conducted tests of the pull-out strength for total hip replacement joints with a new textured surface (for Johnson & Johnson).➢ Spent three summers at the Army Aeromedical Research Lab at Fort Rucker, Alabama analyzing neck injuries in helicopter pilots, including experimental determination of neck muscle myoelectric activity, performance, and head and neck motion for varying head-supported weight moments in a simulated helicopter environment. This research resulted in a redesign of the pilot's helmet and the method by which his night-vision goggles, heads-up aiming device, and chemical mask were suspended from his helmet.

Responsibilities included teaching, researching, and directing graduate student research projects.➢ Research included experimental determination of injury mechanisms of the lumbar and cervical spines (NSF and NIH); development of a finite element model to predict forearm fracture patterns in children; development of a finite element model of the brain to analyze coup and counter-coup injuries; vehicle crash testing and biomechanical analysis of occupants and their injuries.➢ Designed, developed, and made (or had made) small catheters for women and children for a urologist, two surgical retractors for an ENT surgeon, and surgical instruments for an orthopedic surgeon.

Responsible for product development testing and analysis of total hip replacement joints (primarily) and total knee replacement joints (secondarily) for best material choice and best orientation and shape of various components (for Howmedica).

Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics With Specialization In Orthopedic Biomechanics

Dissertation title: The Mechanical Effectiveness of Lumbar Spine Orthoses

M.S., Mechanical Engineering

Master's Thesis: Response of the Intervertebral Disc to P-A Shear Stress

B.S., Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Alpha Lambda Delta, Pi Tau Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, A.S.M.E.Chosen Outstanding Senior in Mechanical Engineering, 1976.

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