Research Engineer
Tianyu Chen is the research engineer for the Orthopaedic Robotics Laboratory. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering. Tianyu is currently working on a variety of research projects in the lab involving the knee and shoulder joints.
PhD Candidate
Lidya is a graduate student from Istanbul, Turkey. She graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Mechanical Engineering. Lidya’s work focuses on the long-term durability of the effects of exercise therapy on rotator cuff tears depending on clinical, biomechanical, and patient-reported parameters.
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Luke Mattar is a post-doctoral associate in the department of Orthopaedic Surgery and his work was supported by a National Institutes of Health grant. Luke graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor's of Science in Biomedical Engineering with a concentration in Biomechanics. Luke's work is focused on predicting the outcome of exercise therapy for treatment of rotator cuff tears based upon in vivo kinematic analyses and various other parameters.
Visitor
Dr. St-Pierre completed his PhD in Biomedical Sciences in August 2023 under the supervision of Prof. Stéphane Sobczak and Prof. Mickaël Begon at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivieres, Canda. His thesis work focused on improving understanding of the biomechanics of anatomical structures of the hip during clinical assessment. More specifically, Dr. St-Pierre presented the variations in synovial fluid in the lateral and medial compartments of the joint capsule. In addition, he reported on ligament strains within the iliofemoral ligament using surface scanning.
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Jumpei Inoue is an orthopedic surgeon from Nagoya City University in Japan. His research interests are shoulder biomechanics using the robotic system and ultrasound. His current research focuses on individual capsule repair based on non-recoverable strain after glenohumeral joint dislocation.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Efstathios is the chief resident in the Orthopaedic Department of the University Hospital of Larisa, Greece. His Master's thesis focused on the biomechanics of the cervical spine, and his PhD project focuses on the clinical and functional outcomes of the arthroscopic repair of rotator cuff tears. His research interests include arthroscopy around the shoulder and knee and sports medicine.
Orthopaedic Surgery Resident
Gillian is a second year Orthopaedic Surgery resident at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center training to become an Orthopaedic Surgeon. She is currently working on shouldering dislocation project to correlate capsule surface area and non-recoverable strain.
Research Fellow
After graduating from medschool at the University of Regensburg (Germany) Anja started her orthpaedic residency at the university hospital Eppendorf (UKE, Hamburg, 2021) and Technical University of Munich (TUM, 2023). She is currently a research fellow and primarily involved in Pediatric Quad Tendon project. Her special interests include sports injuries of knee and shoulder..
Research Fellow
Karina Dias is a Medical Doctor from Brazil. She is an Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine Research Fellow with interests in knee and shoulder. She is currently working on histology for pediatric quad tendons project.
Undergraduate Researcher
Sarah Shegogue is a fourth year Undergraduate student studying Bioengineering with a focus on biomechanics and a minor in chemistry. Her current research focuses on rigid body assumptions in planning high tibial osteotomies
Graduate Researcher
Jingxuan Wang is a second-year Sports Medicine Master of Science student from Qingdao, China. His research interests include the prevention and rehabilitation of sports injuries. His current research focuses on investigating the relationship between shoulder external-to-internal rotators strength ratio and shoulder 3D kinematics in individuals with rotator cuff tears.
Undergraduate Researcher
Veronika is a fourth-year undergraduate student here at the University of Pittsburgh. Curretly she is working on porcine knee morphology and helping with analysis of POETT kinematics data.
Alumni
| Clinicians | Engineers |
| Bart Muller, MD (Netherlands) | Jonathan Brokaw |
| Shoko Horibata (Japan) | Lee Maccarone |
| Yoshimasa Fujimaki, MD (Japan) | Hillary Newsome |
| Marcus Hofbauer, MD (Austria) | Malcolm Dombrowski |
| Ingo Banke, MD (Germany) | Ryan Moss |
| Yaniv Michaeli (Israel) | Benjamin Engel |
| Bruno Ohashi, MD (Brazil) | Stephanie Rigot |
| Haukur Björnsson, MD (Sweden) | Margaret Anne Smith (Carnegie Mellon University) |
| Arnd Hoburg, MD (Germany) | Audra Sawyer (Boston University) |
| Daisuke Araki, MD (Japan) | Laura Bechard |
| Fabio Arilla, MD (Brazil) | Joe Takahashi |
| Daniel Günther, MD (Germany) | Stephanie Sexton |
| Masahito Yoshida, MD (Japan) | Trenton Gilstrap |
| Jason Zlotnicki, MD | Emily Anthony |
| Thomas Pfeiffer, MD (Germany) | Patrick Haggerty |
| Jan Hendrik-Naendrup, MD (Germany) | Chris Como (Michigan) |
| Amir Ata Rahnemai-Azar, MD | Jackie Shauble |
| Elmar Herbst, MD (Germany) | Kyle Berkow (Epic) |
| Conor Murphy, MD | Samik Patel |
| Tetsuya Takenaga, MD (Japan) | Toni Patterson, MS |
| João Novaretti, MD (Brazil) | Kevin Bell, PhD |
| Neel Patel, MD | R Matthew Miller, PhD (Worcester Academy) |
| Kanto Nagai, MD, PhD (Japan) | Jonathan Adam Gustafson, PhD (RUSH) |
| Tomoyuki Suzuki, MD (Japan) | Ryan Black |
| Theresa Diermeier, MD (Germany) | James Gorrenflo |
| Itamar Neto, MD (Brazil) | Benjamin Roadarmel |
| Robert Tisherman, MD | Sarah Hensley |
| Thomas Rauer, MD (Switzerland) | Catherine Smith |
| Guoming Xie, MD (China) | Joseph Greaves (Pennsylvania State University) |
| Christopher Gibbs, MD | Matthew Navarro (Clemson University) |
| Yuji Yano, RN (Japan) | Samantha Rowen (Northwestern University) |
| Soichi Hattori, MD (Japan) | Gal Partush (Israel) |
| Satoshi Takeuchi, MD (Japan) | Gerald Ferrer, PhD (ARCCA) |
| Phillip Winkler, MD | Michael Kassabian |
| Nyaluma Wagala, MD | Rachel Martello |
| Ehab Nazzal, MD | Taylor Lister |
| Keishi Takaba, MD (Japan) | Jocelyn Hawk (University of Arizona) |
| Gian Andrea Lucidi, MD | Satoshi Yamakawa, PhD (Osaka University) |
| Kengo Shimozaki, MD (Japan) | Tyler Wilps, BS (Temple University) |
| Satoshi Takeuchi, MD | Calvin Chan, MS |
| Svenja Hoger, MD (Germany) | Yukun Zhang, MS |
| Zach Herman, MD | Sene Polamalu, PhD |
| Yoshiyuki Yahagi, MD (Japan) | Yulia Yatsenko |
| Taylor Brightman | |
| Onyebuchi Ezeakudo | |
| Ben Newell | |
| Rachel Mcloughlin | |
| Abigail Book | |
| Jacqueline McHale | |
| Stephan Canton | |
| Sebastian Fearon | |
| Ryan Fry | |
| Ron Curel (Braude College, Israel) | |
| Gal Peretz (Braude College, Israel) | |
| Jayson Bagget | |
| Mark Morgan |