The UNMC CAST affiliation provides a research, training, and clinical practice infrastructure that facilitates interaction and collaborative research among surgeons, physicians, engineers, and computer scientists. UNMC CAST supports research development and testing, surgical training and education, professional opportunities, collaboration, and technology transfer.
Research Interests
| Advanced surgical technology Bariatrics Biomedical sensors Computational simulation of surgery Computer-assisted surgery Critical care physiology Educational surgical training programming Endoscopic surgical techniques Gastrointestinal surgery Hip and knee reconstruction Human movement variability and coordination Infant motor development Material characterization Mechatronics Minimally invasive surgery |
Modular design Motor control Motor learning Optimal design Orthopedic implant simulation and testing Pathological gait analysis Robotic surgery Space robotics Surgical applications Surgical simulation Telemedicine Usability and ergonomic evaluation User-centered design Vascular device design 3D Reconstruction of human anatomy |