Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/18/2016
9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Join us as we celebrate the next generation of Biomedical Engineers and Scientists!
Mark your calendars for the 5th Annual Pruitt Research Day, hosted by the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), to be held on Friday, November 18th, 2016!
Pruitt Research Day will celebrate the research being conducted in the BME department and the larger BME community at UF. We hold our celebration near the birth date of Dr. J. Crayton Pruitt Sr. whose vision and generosity helped found the BME department. Because Dr. Pruitt was always most excited about hearing and discussing our students’ achievements and research. Dr. Pruitt himself was not only a renowned cardiothoracic surgeon but also an inventor of catheters and instruments for use in cardiovascular surgery that include his co-invention of the Pruitt-Inahara shunt – still one of the world’s most popular shunts used during carotid endarterectomy. You can read more about Dr. Pruitt on our website here: http://bme.ufl.edu/about/J-Crayton-Pruitt-Sr.
Keynote Speaker: Gary J. Miller, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President, Research and Development, Exactech
Gary J. Miller, Ph.D. is a founder and has been executive vice president of research and development since February 2000. He was vice president of research and development from 1986 until 2000 and was a director from March 1989 until November 2007. Miller was associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and director of research and biomechanics at the University of Florida College of Medicine from July 1986 until August 1996. Miller received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida, his Master of Science (biomechanics) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Doctor of Philosophy in mechanical engineering (biomechanics) from the University of Florida.
Miller has previously held an adjunct associate professorship in the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Small Animal Surgical Sciences Division and has served as an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Aerospace, Mechanics and Engineering Sciences from 1995 until 2010 at the University of Florida. He currently serves on the Dean’s advisory board in the Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. He also serves on the College’s external advisory boards for the J. Crayton Pruitt Department of Biomedical Engineering and for the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, where he also is appointed as Courtesy Professor. Miller was a consultant to the United States Food and Drug Administration from 1989 to 1992 and has served as a consultant to such companies as Johnson & Johnson Orthopaedics, Dow-Corning Wright and Orthogenesis.
Call for Abstracts:
Please submit your talk and poster abstracts online at the link below by 5pm on Friday, October 14th. We will select six abstracts for presentation as talks from PhD students who have passed their qualifying exam and advanced to PhD candidacy. Abstracts not selected for talks will be considered for presentation during the afternoon poster session. We look forward to hearing about your exciting biomedical engineering research!
Abstract Submissions: http://bme.ufl.edu/pruitt-research-day/submit
Schedule of Events:
The location for all events leading up to the poster session is the Communicore building, room C1-15. The poster session and industry panel will be held in the Biomedical Sciences Building atrium and room JG32.
9:30-9:45 am – Welcome/Opening Remarks by Dr. Christine Schmidt, BME Chair
9:45-10:30 am – Keynote Talk, Gary J. Miller, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Research and Development, Exactech, Inc.
10:30-11:00 am – Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 am – Student Talks
11:45-1:00 pm – Pizza Lunch & Networking
1:00-1:45 pm – Student Talks
1:45-3:45 pm – Poster Session and Refreshments
3:45-4:00 pm – Presentation of Awards
4:00-5:00 pm – Industry Panel Discussion
