Artificial Muscle Research Institute: Structure

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
University of New Mexico
Board of Directors of AMRI

President

Provost

Vice-President for Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Dr. R. Philip Eaton

Vice Provost for Research

Dean of School of Medicine, Dr. Paul B. Roth

External Member

Professors and Doctors
Engineering		Medical
Prof. Mohsen Shahinpoor Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UNM	Prof. John E. Wood Director of Manufacturing Engineering Program	Prof. Ed Benzel, MD Head of Neurosurgery Department, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Prof. Buck Schreyer Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UNM	Prof. Randall Truman Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UNM	Prof. Moheb Moneim, MD Head of Department of Orthopedic Surgery, UNM
Prof. Greg Starr Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UNM	Prof. Ron Lumia Dept. of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, UNM	Prof. Stuart Pett, MD Heart Surgery Department
Dr. Hy Tran Sandia National Laboratories	Prof. Kwang Kim Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada-Reno	Prof. Keikhosrow Firoozbakhsh, MD Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Prof. Gabriel Lopez Dept. of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, UNM	Prof. Arsi Razani Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UNM	Prof. Marcus Keep, MD, Department of Neurological Surgery
Prof. Roger V. Gonzalez Engineering Division, LeTurneau University	.	Dr. Daniel Burkhoff, MD Director, Heart Physiology Lab. Columbia University Presbyterian Heart Center
.	.	Dr. Jie Wang, MD Division of Circulatory Physiology and The Heart Failure Center, Columbia University, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
.	.	Dr. Johm Oldershaw, MD Department of NeuroSurgery, UNM
.	.	Dr. Howard Yonas, MD Chairman: Department of NeuroSurgery, UNM
.	.	Dr. Christopher Taylor, MD Department of NeuroSurgery, UNM
.	.	Dr. Paul Turner, MD Division of Neuro Surgery, UNM

Affiliate Scientists

Dr. Patricia E. Cladis Advanced Liquid Crystal Technologies - ALCT	Dr. Y. Bar-Cohen NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) California Institute of Technology
Dr. J.O. Simpson Composites and Polymers Branch NASA Langley Research Center	Dr. J. Smith Composites and Polymers Branch NASA Langley Research Center
Dr. Sorin Istrail Sandia National Laboratories	Prof. Dr. Heino Finkelmann Institut fur Makromolekulare Chemie Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany
Prof. Dr. Helmut Brand Department of Physics University of Bayreuth, Germany	Prof. Dr. Mihail D. Nicu Laboratory of Biotechnology Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
Prof. Dr. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes - NOBEL Laureate Director, l'Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, France	Prof. Dr. Masuo Aizawa Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Dr. Yoshihito Osada Division of Biological Sciences Hokkaido University, Japan	Prof. D. De Rossi University of Pisa, Italy
Dr. Satoshi Tadokoro Dept. Computer & Systems Eng., Kobe Univ., Japan	Prof. Dr. Toribio Fernandez Otero University of the Basque Country, Faculty of Chemistry Dept of Sci. & Tech. of Polymers, Lab. Electrochemistry
Professor Miklos Zrinyi Department of Physical Chemistry Technical University of Budapest, Hungary	.Prof. Dr. David E. Thompson Dean of Engineering, Idaho State University
Dr. Ali Meghdari, Visiting Research Professor Center for Intelligent Biomedical Devices and Musculoskeletal Systems, Division of Engineering Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado	Dr. Kumar Krishen Chief Technologist NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas
Dr. Piergiorgio Tozzi, MD Cardiovascular Surgeon Centre Hospitalier Universitaire CHUV Lausanne, Switzerland	Prof. Dr. Ludwig Von-Segesser Chief Cardiovascular Surgeon Centre Hospitalier Universitaire CHUV Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr. Alireza Ghaffariyeh, MD Ophthalmologist and Microsurgeons Shiraz, Iran

Affiliate Post Docs and Students
Post Doc.	Doctoral		Master		Undergrads
Brett Schreyer	Lisa Fay	Jeff Lantz	German Chamorro	Tariq Rashid	Adriana Zuniga
Amid Keshavarzi	Sainan Feng	Mehran Mojarrad	David Hickerson	Robert Sanchez	Claudia Sun
Gouping Wang	Massoud Ahghar	Kanglin (Collin) Xu	Joel Wirth	F. Carter Hughes	Sarany Singer
.	Casildo Romero	Wayne Leger	Mark Anderson	Clint Hall	Keli Alark
.	George D'Amore	Rafael Sandoval	Brendan Joyce	Bryan Romero	Nouvelle Gebhart
.	.	.	Irfan Khan	Madhav Yadlapali	Carl R. Chapel
.	.	.	Dhamodharan Sampath Ku Vayalur	Nilesh Joshi	Carl Moss
.	.	.	Jude Royston	Rajat Kohli	Ethan Kottke Outstanding New Mexico High School Student
.	.	.	Kurt Eberl	.

Artificial Muscles Research Institute
School of Engineering
School of Medicine
The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Tel:(505)277-3966 Fax:(505)277-1571

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