Graduate Program.Student Profiles

Matt Fronheiser

3D Doppler Ultrasound Could Make Diagnostics Safer — Doctoral candidate Matt Fronheiser wants to lift a heavy weight from doctors’ shoulders and cast off the collar around their necks. He’s not campaigning for changes to Medicare or lobbying for reduced hospital shifts, however. He’s focused on the lead vests and collars doctors wear during fluoroscopy procedures to protect themselves from x-ray exposure.

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Jason Smith

Cancer Drives Grad Student's Choice of Research — Mention the word "cancer" to Jason Smith, a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering at Duke, and it invariably stirs in him this aura of deep reflection. Smith’s chemistry teacher in college, mission president from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at San Joaquin Valley in California, and grandfather all passed away from cancer.

 

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Helawe Betre

Chem-E to BME - A Path to Grad School — For soft-spoken New Yorker Helawe Betre, biomedical engineering research offers just the right amount of predictability vs. surprise to keep him intrigued for a lifetime.

 

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Kityee Au-Yeung

Chance To Build Drives Biomedical Engineer — Kityee Au-Yeung is building a pacemaker-like implant that will help monitor and study atrial fibrillation, a common cardiac disorder. To build it, she has had to study existing literature on similar research, determine her device’s major functions, design and build a prototype, and test it.

 

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Carol Chancey

Home-Taught Mechanic to Crash-Dummy Expert—Carol Chancey models neck muscles, and consults with the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration on their next generation of crash-test dummies.

 

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