Home Department: Biomedical Computation
Mentor: Charles Taylor, Associate Professor of Bioengineering and of Surgery

Home Department: Computer Science
Mentors: Fiona Baumer (Neurology - Pediatric Neurology) and Andrea Goldstein-Piekarski (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Juan G. Santiago
Talk Title: Fast, specific, and efficient affinity purification of target DNA from whole human blood by combining isotachophoresis and affinity chromatography
Event: 18th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences

Awarded in 2012
Talk Title: Ion altered fluorescence imaging (IAFI): A non-invasive, visualization method which simultaneously images scalar fields and quantifies local ion concentrations
Event: 65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics

Dr. Hentz's current research interests include: Nerve regeneration and repair, evaluation of repair methods, modalities to enhance peripheral nerve regeneration, development of improved methods to analyze nerve regeneration; implementation of functional neuromuscular stimulation to paralytic deformities; and computer modeling of upper limb function.