Azadeh Akhavan Taheri Borojeni
University of California San Diego
Chantal Darquenne Laboratory
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Human respiratory tract is a multidisciplinary field that requires knowledge of both respiratory biology and fluid mechanics. I have been studying in different topics of fluid mechanics for around 15 years. Specifically, in the field of respiratory fluid mechanics, I have obtained my experience by completing the PhD program in the Mechanical Engineering with a focus on investigations of total aerosol deposition and validation of airway resistance models in anatomically realistic intrathoracic conducting airway replicas of children and adults. During the period I was working on this topic, I have gained knowledge about the application of fluid mechanics in human nasal airway and based on state-of-the-art rapid prototyping technique (3D printing), anatomically accurate CT-derived replicas were developed and fabricated. I joined the Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2015 as a Post-Doctoral Fellow to collaborate on virtual surgery research (NIH RO1-1R01EB009557) by applying CFD modeling to improve the outcomes of nasal surgery by quantifying nasal function pre- and post-surgery. Recently, I joined Dr. Chantal Darqunne’s lab as a Post-Doctoral Scholar-Employee at the Department of Medicine/UC San Diego working on the NIH funded project (U01ES028669) with a focus on the development of patient-specific multiscale computational models that can predict the deposition of inhaled aerosols in all regions of the respiratory tract of subjects that are either healthy or suffering from respiratory disease.
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