Dennis Carter

Administrative Appointments

• Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Bioengineering (2004 - present)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Biomechanical Engineering
• Bioengineering

Research Interests

Professor Carter studies the influence of mechanical loading upon the growth, development, regeneration, and aging of skeletal tissues. Basic information from such studies is used to understand skeletal diseases and treatments. He has served as President of the Orthopaedic Research Society and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Publications

• The pathogenesis of osteoarthritis in cerebral palsy. Carter DR, Tse B. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2009: 51 Suppl 4 79-83
• An approach to quantifying bone overloading and hypertrophy with applications to multiple experimental studies. Chen JC, Beaupré GS, Carter DR. Bone. 2009
• A new software tool (VA-BATTS) to calculate bending, axial, torsional and transverse shear stresses within bone cross sections having inhomogeneous material properties. Kourtis LC, Carter DR, Kesari H, Beaupre GS. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin. 2008; 11 (5): 463-76
• Meniscectomy alters the dynamic deformational behavior and cumulative strain of tibial articular cartilage in knee joints subjected to cyclic loads. Song Y, Greve JM, Carter DR, Giori NJ. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2008; 16 (12): 1545-54
• Hydrostatic pressure enhances chondrogenic differentiation of human bone marrow stromal cells in osteochondrogenic medium. Wagner DR, Lindsey DP, Li KW, Tummala P, Chandran SE, Smith RL, Longaker MT, Carter DR, Beaupre GS. Ann Biomed Eng. 2008; 36 (5): 813-20