【Time】13:30-14:30, April 03, 2014 (Tomorrow)

【Venue】Room N412, Shunde Building

【Title】 Image-guided Evaluation of Musculoskeletal Disorder and Surgery: Bridge Engineering and Clinical Worlds

【Speaker】Dr. Kang Li, Assitant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

【Host】Dr. Zhizhong Li

【Abstract】Evidence-based medicine is a widely accepted clinical decision making approach, which seeks to evaluate the strength of evidences of the risks and benefits of different treatment strategies so that the best available evidence gained from scientific research studies can be applied to clinical decision making smoothly.  Although this approach has been used in many healthcare specialties, it is not well adopted in the treatment of musculoskeletal injuries, which are the most common healthcare problem in the United States. Many current treatment guidelines lack explicit evidence-based recommendation for treating various musculoskeletal injuries and disorders.  Current clinical diagnosis and evaluation methods for most mobility injuries may not be able to detect the injury-induced critical kinematic changes and characterize the consequences after injuries and treatment.  There is an urgent need to develop a method enabling accurate acquisition of in vivo joint kinematics in the clinical environment.  This presentation demonstrates how an image-guided method integrating medical imaging, optimization, and motion analysis can fulfill such a need and improve musculoskeletal injury and surgery evaluation.  An ongoing project aiming to develop a near real-time high-accuracy musculoskeletal system measurement and analysis instrument is also discussed.

【Bio】Dr. Kang Li is an assistant professor of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University and an adjunct assistant professor of the Department of Orthopaedics at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.  He is also a graduate faculty member of the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science at Rutgers University. He is the director of the Human and Healthcare Engineering Lab and serves as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. Dr. Li’s research interests lie in the field of healthcare engineering including biomechanics, rehabilitation, computer-aided surgery, bio-mechatronics, medical imaging, and healthcare system engineering.  His research has been published in well-respected journals including IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Journal of Biomechanics, Journal of Orthopaedic Research, American Journal of Sports Medicine, and Human Factors.  He is a finalist for the New Investigator Recognition Award (NIRA) by the Orthopaedic Research Society (2011) and a co-recipient of the 2011 O’Donoghue Sports Injury Research Award by the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.  His research has been funded by NSF, NIH, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Charles and Johanna Busch Memorial Fund, and Rutgers Faculty Research Grant and Research Council Grant programs.