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Mohsen Shahinpoor, Ph.D.
is a Regents Professor for Life in the School of Engineering
as well as a Professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery in the School of Medicine at
the
University of New Mexico.He is currently a Research Professor
of Neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine,University of New Mexico as well as
the Director of the World's
first
Artificial Muscles Research Institute (AMRI),
His main fields of research are:
1-The
applications of ionic polymeric conductor (metal) composites (IPCC's,
IPMC's) as distributed nanosensors, nanoactuators and artificial
muscles to spine stabilization and fusion, medicine, surgery,
neurosurgery and
muscular atrophy and dystrophy.
2-The
applications of smart materials (shape memory alloys, SMA's, metal
hydride artificial muscles and electroactive materials) and structures
to spine stabilization (scoliosis) and fusion, medicine, neurosurgery
and muscular atrophy and dystrophy.
His special interests include:
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* Applications of biomaterials, advanced robotics and ionic polymeric artificial muscles to surgery
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* Electronic regeneration of severed spinal cord
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* Application of smart materials to scoliosis and other spinal abnormalities and malfunctions
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* Surgical correction of endovascular arterial vascular malformation, blockage, aneurysms, arteriovenous fistulas and other related vascular problems.
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He
has served as principal research scientist at the Johns Hopkins
University, the Northwestern university and a professor at California
Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of ASME, a Fellow of Institute
of PHysics (IOP), a licensed professional engineer, PE, a Senior Member
of SME, a Biomedical Engineering Consultant and a member of the
prestigious N.Y. Academy of Sciences.
"Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there,"
- Rumi
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty." -- Albert Einstein
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