Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: David Camarillo
Talk Title: Optimizing padding thickness in football helmets to minimize angular acceleration
Event: CMBBE 2019

Awarded in 2018
Talk Title: Constant force shock absorbers for preventing traumatic brain injury
Event: 8th World Congress of Biomechanics

Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: The Effect Of Neck Musculature On Brain Tissue Strain In High-speed Sagittal Impacts
Event: 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Investigation of Football Head Impacts Through Development of a Dynamic Model”
Event: Biomedical Engineering Society 2016 Annual Meeting

Dr. Michael Fredericson is the first physician promoted to Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) at Stanford University and is currently Director of PM&R Sports Medicine in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Co-Director of the Stanford Longevity Center, and Founder of Lifestyle Medicine. He is also the Head Team Physician for the Stanford Track & Field and Swimming Teams and a Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance member.

The Howitt lab seeks to understand how interactions between intestinal epithelial cells and the gut microbiota can contribute to both health and disease.

Dr. Michael Rosen is a pediatric gastroenterologist and physician scientist, who has been devoted to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) research since beginning medical training over 20 years ago. He is also Director of the Stanford Center for Pediatric IBD and Celiac Disease. Dr. Rosen has expertise crossing mucosal immunology and epithelial biology, formal training and experience in clinical and translational investigation with human biospecimens, and direct insight regarding the important clinical challenges caring for children with complicated IBD.