Hart to be next president of Biomedical Engineering Society

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Biomedical Engineering Department Chair Richard Hart has been elected president of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). Hart is a BMES Fellow and most recently served as the Society’s secretary.

Rich Hart

Current BMES President Gilda Barabino, Dean of the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, will pass the leadership gavel to Hart at the 2014 Annual Meeting next October.

A graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Case Western Reserve University, Hart served as department chair at Tulane University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering from 1997-2006. He came to The Ohio State University in 2006 as chair of the newly created Department of Biomedical Engineering. He has completed two terms as an associate editor for the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering and is currently on the editorial board for Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering.

His research interests are in finite element analysis of biological tissues and structures, with a focus on the response of bone tissue to mechanical stimuli. In addition, he has collaborated on research projects in brain physics, spine mechanics, and ophthalmology. Most recently he is using MicroCT methods to develop computational models of hard tissues, as well as collaborating on a project to model the mechanical communication of cells seeded in collagenous gels.

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