Dennis Carter
Academic Appointments
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Member, Bio-X
- Professor, Bioengineering
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Professional Overview
Administrative Appointments
- Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Bioengineering (2004 - present)
Professional Education
| Ph.D.: | Stanford University, Biomedical Engineering (1976) |
| M.S.E.: | Stanford University, Bioengineering (1973) |
| B.S.: | University of Michigan, Aerospace Engineering (1971) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Scientific Focus
Current 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 low permeability of healthy meniscus and labrum limit articular cartilage consolidation and maintain fluid load support in the knee and hip. J Biomech. 2012; (8): 1450-6
- Changes in articular cartilage mechanics with meniscectomy: A novel image-based modeling approach and comparison to patterns of OA. J Biomech. 2011; (12): 2307-12
- An approach to quantifying bone overloading and hypertrophy with applications to multiple experimental studies. Bone. 2010; (2): 322-9
- The pathogenesis of osteoarthritis in cerebral palsy. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2009: 79-83
- A new software tool (VA-BATTS) to calculate bending, axial, torsional and transverse shear stresses within bone cross sections having inhomogeneous material properties. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin. 2008; (5): 463-76
- Hydrostatic pressure enhances chondrogenic differentiation of human bone marrow stromal cells in osteochondrogenic medium. Ann Biomed Eng. 2008; (5): 813-20
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