Ocular Engineering Grand Rounds Paper Competition
On Thursday, June 18, seven Biomedical Engineering (BME) graduate students participated in the Ocular Engineering Grand Rounds, which included a paper/presentation completion and a cash award for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.
This year’s judges included Katelyn Swindle-Reilly, PhD (assistant professor, BME), Archie Tram, PhD (recent BME PhD graduated) and Pengfei Jiang (Graduate Research Associate).
FIRST PLACE:
“Influence of Deformation-Induced Concave Curvature on the Air-Puff Load Experienced at the CornealApex.”
Atieh Yousefi
Cynthia J Roberts, PhD, professor, BME and Ophthalmology
Matthew A. Reilly, PhD, assistant professor, BME
SECOND PLACE:
“Multimodal imaging and functional analysis of check NMDA retinal damage model”
Tyler Heisler-Taylor
Richard Wan, student, Optometry
Elizabeth Urbanski
Sumaya Hamadmad
Mohd Hussain Shah
Hailey Wilson
Julie Racine
Colleen Cebulla, MD, PhD, Ophthalmology
THIRD PLACE:
“A Potential New Biomechanical Parameter: Change in Central Corneal Thickness During Air Puff Induced Corneal Deformation”
Monica D. Okon
Cynthia J Roberts,PhD, professor, BME
HONORABLE MENTION:
“High Compression and Shear in the Anterior Optic Nerve Head during IOP Elevation”
Sunny Kwok (not pictured)
Yanhiu Ma, postdoc, BME
Xueliang Pan, PhD, assistant professor, Biostatistics
Jun Liu, PhD, professor, BME
Congratulations to all of the participants!