Patient Specific Design and 3D Printing of Pediatric Implants and Devices
Abstract
My research interests focus on
image-based computational design and 3D biomaterial printing for patient specific devices and
regenerative medicine, with specific interests in pediatric applications. Clinical application interests
include airway reconstruction and tissue engineering, structural heart defects, craniofacial and facial
plastics, orthopaedics, and gastrointestinal reconstruction. We specifically utilize patient image data
as a foundation to for multiscale design of devices, reconstructive implants and regenerative medicine
porous scaffolds. We are also interested in multiscale computational simulation of how devices and
implants mechanically interact with patient designs, combining these simulations with experimental
measures of tissue mechanics. We then transfer these designs to both laser sintering and nozzle
based platforms to build devices from a wide range of biomaterials. Subsequently, we are interested
in combining these 3D printed biomaterial platforms with biologics for patient specific regenerative
medicine solutions to tissue reconstruction.