Professor and Director
209 Wenner-Gren Lab
Center for Biomedical Engineering
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0070
Telephone: (859) 257-2405
FAX: (859) 257-1856
Email: 
Education
- B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (Dissertation advisor: Rena Bizios)
Honors and Professional Activities
- Elected Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (2010)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B (Applied Biomaterials) (2009-present)
- Co-author of 2nd place Basic Science submission at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America
- Elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2008)
- Editorial Board, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A (2007-present)
- Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering study section, National Institutes of Health (inaugural panel, 2005-2007)
- Assistant Editor, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B (Applied Biomaterials) (2004-2009)
- Chair, Proteins and Cells at Interfaces Special Interest Group, Society For Biomaterials (1999-2001)
- Mentor of 1st place awardee (Kevin Lewis) in the 1999-2000 University of Kentucky Oswald Research and Creativity Program
- Editorial Board, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B (Applied Biomaterials) (1998-2004)
- Bourses de stage de recherche scientifique, Programme québécois de bourses d’excellence, Ministère de l’Éducation, Gouvernement du Québec (1998)
- Mentor of 2nd place awardee (Susan Wojcik) in the graduate student paper competition of the 34th Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium (1997)
- Research Initiation Award, National Science Foundation (1992)
- Sigma Xi (1990)
