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Jean-Paul Wolinsky, left, and Jeff Siewerdsen, right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the seventh floor of the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Carnegie Building, in what once was a postoperative recovery room, biomedical engineering students are designing tools, algorithms, and imaging systems that could shape the future of surgery. A giant video screen is on 24\/7, linking the new Carnegie Center for Surgical Innovation <\/a>to the\u202fBME Design Studio\u202fon the Homewood campus.<\/p>\n

For\u202fJeff Siewerdsen<\/a>, a professor of biomedical engineering, it was not hard to imagine such a synergistic connection between engineers and surgeons. “Clinical collaboration has always been the inspiration for our research,” says Siewerdsen, who worked with neurosurgeon Jean-Paul Wolinsky<\/a>\u202fto create the center.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis space is right in the hospital,\u201d says Whiting School Dean Ed Schlesinger. \u201cMany engineers and clinicians are collaborating across the country. But at Hopkins, the relationship is woven into the fabric of our schools\u2026 That\u2019s what makes this uniquely Hopkins.\u201d<\/p>\n

Siewerdsen and Wolinsky’s vision for the laboratory began four years ago, when the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s main operating rooms were being moved from Carnegie to the new Zayed and Bloomberg clinical towers. The pair proposed increasing collaborations by converting vacated space into a joint education and research center\u2014creating a nationally unique, hospital-based surgery and biomedical engineering lab.<\/p>\n

Siewerdsen, who holds appointments in BME, Neurosurgery, Oncology, Computer Science, Radiology and Radiological Science, and the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, focuses his research on imaging systems to improve surgical precision, enhance patient safety, and enable new surgical approaches. He also heads the I-STAR Lab\u2014a collaboration focusing on new systems for X-ray imaging and cone-beam CT, image registration, and 3-D image reconstruction for surgery, radiotherapy, and diagnostic radiology.<\/p>\n

Several faculty members plan to bring their engineering expertise to the center: Xingde Li,<\/a> of biomedical engineering<\/a>, who leads a program in biophotonics;\u202fMuyinatu Lediju Bell<\/a>, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering<\/a>, who focuses on ultrasound imaging; Arvind Pathak, associate professor of radiology and radiological science, who works on multiscale neurovascular imaging; and Wojciech Zbijewski,<\/a> research faculty member in biomedical engineering with a focus on high-resolution imaging of bone health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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