Areas of Specialization Academic and Professional Accomplishments Invited Scientific Reviewer for many national and international journals, including

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Mailing address: 440 Monmouth Drive Tel/Fax: +1 (724) 742-0414 Cranberry Township, PA 16066-5756 (U.S.A.)  BIOENGINEERING/BIOMECHANICS, PHYSIOLOGICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: cardiovascular and pulmonary hemodynamics, blood flow transport to the brain, eyes, rheology of blood and biological tissues, flow dynamics in collapsible vessels, computer-aided design codes, mathematical modeling and numerical computer-based predictions of physiological response to a wide variety of underlying complex physiological mechanisms, lubrication of articular joints and design of articular prostheses, macromolecular transport in the arterial wall, fluid dynamics of the eye, cardiac mechanics, particle deposition in the pulmonary airways, subcutaneous circulation, biomedical device development, biomedical instrumentation, environmental and toxicological impact of chemical uptake by the body uptake of volatile toxicant vapors by the inhalatory tract and the skin, physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling, risk analysis of toxicant exposures, risk analysis of toxicant exposures, impact biophysics (high strain-rate response of biological tissues), aerospace medicine: cardiovascular response to G-stress in both microgravity (space environment) and hypergravity (aviation physiology), inhalation toxicology, transdermal drug transport, biomolecular transport dynamics, controlled-release drug delivery systems (implantable) with pre-programmable time-varying outputs, medical device development and commercialization, injury causation analysis for litigation support Academic Credentials International activities, including numerous invited scientific lectures in 38 countries  Member of the Board of Directors of the Société française des microtechniques et de chronométrie (1981-86) France.  International Research Program in Orthopaedics, organized between France and Canada, under NATO sponsorship (1981-1983).