Emerging Technology and Best Practices Seminar Series

Friday, November 30, 2007
Optical Imaging for Medicine and Biology: Applications in Cancer Detection
8:00AM-4:00PM, Cocktail Hour 4:00-5:00PM
The Photonics Center
8 Saint Mary's Street, 9th Floor
Boston, MA 02215

Host:
Professor Jerome Mertz, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Boston University
College of Engineering
44 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215

Emerging Technology and Best Practices Seminar Series

Short Biography of Dr. Kenneth R. Lutchen

Dr. Kenneth R. Lutchen, is Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University.  He received his B.S. in Engineering Science from the University of Virginia, in 1977 and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1980 and 1983, respectively.

Dr Lutchen is one of the world’s leading biomedical engineers in the field of pulmonary physiology. He  has published over 110 peer-reviewed journal articles and has advanced novel experimental, imaging, and computational based methods for probing the structure-function relations governing lung disease, particularly asthma, emphysema, and ventilator induced lung injury. He has also patented new methods to perform mechanical ventilation.  He has given over 50 invited talks throughout the world on his research.

Dean Lutchen has been a faculty member of Boston University since 1984.  He was Chair of Biomedical Engineering from 1998-2006.  During that time Dr. Lutchen was the Principal Investigator and chief architect of a $14 million dollar Leadership Award from the Whitaker Foundation, one of only three programs to have this distinction. He was also the Principal Investigator of one of only 9 institutions to received a (up to $15 million) Translational Research Partnership Award from the Coulter Foundation.  Boston University is the only institution in the nation to have received both awards. He conceived and attracted an NIH Pre-Doctoral Graduate Student Training Grant in Quantitative Biology and Physiology.  During his Chairmanship in BME, the faculty size has grown from 22 to 32, extramural funding has increased from $8 million to over $24 million per year, and the graduate program has nearly doubled in size. The Department’s ranking in US News and World Report improved from 18th to 7th .

Dr. Lutchen is an accomplished educator. Between 1992 and 1997. For the past 22 years Dr. Lutchen has directed the department’s year long renown Senior Project Program. This Program synthesizes technical communication skills with independent research, design, and innovation and leads to a final conference attended yearly by over 60 representatives from Bioengineering companies. Dr. Lutchen has been the recipient of the College of Engineering’s Professor of the Year Award and the Biomedical Engineering Professor of the Year Award — twice, all via election by students.

Dr. Lutchen is currently Vice President of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) which represents some 36,000 Bioengineers.  He was formally Secretary/Treasurer of AIMBE and Chair of the Academic Council. He has served on the board of directors of the Biomedical Engineering Society, and is one of that society’s inaugural fellows.  From 2001-2002 he was the President of the Council of Chairs in (Undergraduate) Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering.  Dr. Lutchen also has served on scientific advisory board, review panels and study sections for the Whitaker Foundation, National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health and for several bioengineering departments and colleges of engineering nationwide.

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