Jeff Holmes
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine
University of Virginia
Seminar Information
The Center for Engineering in Medicine launched in August 2017 with a $10M investment from the University of Virginia. We are building on the physical proximity of our Schools of Engineering, Medicine, and Nursing to build an ecosystem for generating, developing, and translating innovative ideas at the engineering-medicine interface. In less than two years, we have launched 26 new funded partnerships involving 72 faculty from 24 departments and divisions. In this seminar, I will discuss our early experiences and outcomes building these partnerships, helping them compete for external funding, and exploring alternatives to seed grants for promoting engineering-medicine collaborations. I will also discuss Embedding, a framework for experiential learning designed to improve team functioning, promote new collaborations, and challenge the traditional single-PI / dual-training model of interdisciplinary education.
Jeff Holmes is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at the University of Virginia. He obtained his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 1989, his Ph.D. in Bioengineering in 1995 and his M.D. in 1998, both from UC San Diego. In his first faculty position at Columbia University from 1999 to 2007, he helped found and build a new Biomedical Engineering department. In 2007, Dr. Holmes moved to the University of Virginia, where he heads the Cardiac Biomechanics Group. He studies the interactions between mechanics, function, and growth and remodeling in the heart, using a combination of computational and experimental models. Dr. Holmes was awarded the Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Award in 2005, an American Heart Association Established Investigator Award in 2006, and the Van C. Mow medal in 2018. He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Dr. Holmes is Director of the Center of Engineering in Medicine at the University of Virginia, a $10M effort to foster collaboration between engineers and clinicians to improve prevention, diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of disease.