| Principle Investigators | |||
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Maury Hull, PhD Office: 530-269-1497 Email: mlhull@ucdavis.edu Publications of Professor M. L. Hull Since 1998 |
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Stephen Howell, MD Office: 916-801-4966 Email: sebhowell@mac.com |
| Postdoctoral Fellows | |||
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Valentina Campanelli, PhD University of Verona Email: valcampanelli@ucdavis.edu |
| Current Undergraduate Students | |||
| Graduate Student Advisees Over the Past 10 Years | |
| Deva Chan, MS Thesis in Biomedical Engineering, 2008. Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY. | “Strains in Articular Cartilage of Intact Diarthrodial Joints Using Displacement Encoded MRI” |
| Nils Hakansson, PhD Dissertation in Biomedical Engineering, 2008. Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS. | “The Effect of Muscle Electrical Stimulation Patterns Computed Using a Forward Dynamic Simulation on Endurance and Metabolic Response in Spinal Cord Injured Subjects During Recumbent Pedaling” |
| Conrad Smith, PhD Dissertation in Biomedical Engineering, 2009. Research and Development Engineer, Stryker Endoscopy, San Jose, CA | “Lengthening at the Sites of Fixation and an Increase in Anterior Laxity Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: An In Vivo Study using Roentgen Stereophotogrammetric Analysis” |
| Michelle Roland, MS Thesis in Biomedical Engineering, 2010. Instructor in STEM, Green Mountain High School, Lakewood, CO. | “Virtual Axis Finder: A New Method for Finding the Rotational Axes of the Tibiofemoral Joint” |
| Sue Marion, PhD Dissertation in Biomedical Engineering, 2010. Biomechanical Engineer, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE. | “A Mathematical Model for Fatigue of Electrically Stimulated Muscle” |
| Daniel Bonny, MS Thesis in Biomedical Engineering, 2013. Development Engineer, THINK Surgical, Fremont, CA. | “Design, Calibration, and Validation of an Instrumented Spatial Linkage that Accurately Measures Changes in the Rotational Axes of the Tibiofemoral Joint” |
| Stephanie Gu, MS Thesis in Biomedical Engineering, 2014. Application Systems Engineer, Stryker MAKO, Fort Lauderdale, FL | “Simulation of Alignment Methods Used in Total Knee Arthroplasty and Their Effect on Limb and Knee Alignment” |
| Josh Roth, MS Thesis in Biomedical Engineering, 2014. Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI | “The Limits of Passive Motion of the Normal Tibiofemoral Joint: A Benchmark for Modeling and for Total Knee Arthroplasty” |
| Abheetinder Brar, MS Thesis in Biomedical Engineering, 2015. Development Engineer, THINK Surgical, Fremont, CA. | “Analysis of Reference Axes for use in Total Knee Arthroplasty Using Computer-Based Bone Models” |
| Emily Meike, MS Thesis in Biomedical Engineering, 2015. PhD Student in Mathematics. | “Increases in Laxity Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction After 7 Years: An Analysis Using Roentgen Stereophotogrammetry” |
| Josh Roth, PhD Dissertation in Biomedical Engineering, 2016. Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI | “How Well Does Kinematically Aligned Total Knee Arthroplasty Prevent Clinically Important Changes in Passive Knee Function? An In Vitro Biomechanical Study of Tibiofemoral Laxities and Contact” |
| Jeremy Riley, MS Thesis in Biomedical Engineering, 2016. Research Engineer, Align Technologies, San Jose, CA | “Do Varus-Valgus and Internal-External Malalignments of the Femoral Component in Kinematically Aligned Total Knee Arthroplasty Cause Clinically Important Changes in Contact Force Imbalance and Laxities of the Tibiofemoral Joint” |
| Chih Ming Hseih, MS Thesis in Biomedical Engineering, 2016. Development Engineer, THINK Surgical, Fremont, CA. | “Validation of a Surgical Robot for Total Hip Replacement Surgery” |
| Derrick Ross, MS Thesis in Biomedical Engineering, 2016. Assistant Development Engineer, Western Cooling Efficiency Center, University of California, Davis, CA. | “Validation of Tibial Contact Force Location in Single Plane Fluoroscopy” |
| Stephanie Nicolet-Petersen, MS Thesis in Biomedical Engineering, 2018. Graduate Research Engineer, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, Davis, CA. | “Contact Kinematics of the Tibiofemoral and Patellofemoral Joints for an Asymmetric Posterior Cruciate-Retaining Kinematically Aligned Total Knee Arthroplasty and the Native Contralateral Knee. An in vivo Study Using Single-Plane Fluoroscopy During Dynamic Weight-Bearing Activities” |