3/11/2010
Michael Insana has been chosen as head of the Department of Bioengineering at Illinois. The appointment is effective March 16, 2010.
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Michael Insana has been chosen as head of the Department of Bioengineering at Illinois. The appointment is effective March 16, 2010.
"Professor Insana has been serving as interim head for more than a year, and I am pleased that he has accepted my offer to head the department," stated Ilesanmi Adesida, dean of the College of Engineering.
Insana has also served as the director of graduate studies within the department.
"I look forward to the opportunity of working with campus faculty to build a strong department on par with others in the College of Engineering," said Insana, who is an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Bioimaging Science and Technology group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
His laboratory research focuses on the development of novel ultrasonic instrumentation and methods for imaging soft tissue microstructure, viscoelasticity, and blood flow. The goal is to understand basic mechanisms of cancerous lesion formation, metastatic progression, responses to therapy, and sources of image contrast. Research includes the fundamentals of imaging system design and performance evaluation, signal processing, detection and estimation. The lab uses polymer hydrogels to develop models of visco- and poroelastic behavior of soft tissues for cancer imaging.
Insana's lab also investigates spatio-temporal filtering for noise reduction and enhanced spatial resolution with applications in breast elasticity imaging and arterial-wall shear-stress estimation.
Before joining the Illinois faculty in 2004, Insana was a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of California, Davis. After completing his PhD in medical physics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Insana served as a research physicist at the FDA, and, later, as a professor of radiology and physiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
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Contact: Michael Insana, Department of Bioengineering, 217/244-0739.
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