Faculty and Staff Profiles

• Introduction to Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology (U) - The University of Memphis
• Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Tools (U) - The University of Memphis
• Electrical & Computer Engineering Concepts(U) - The University of Memphis
• Bioelectricity (U/G) - The University of Memphis
• Biomedical Engineering Analysis (G) - The University of Memphis

• VaNTH Subcontract for Freshman Course Development - NSF VaNTH ERC for Bioengineering Education Technologies (Vanderbilt), Co-PI, 20% - $357,250 - 9/03-2/08
• Data Visualization: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Reducing the Cognitive Load when Extracting Meaning from Large Data Sets - NSF (CCLI), Co-PI, 4% effort - $99,995 - 9/04-8/07
• Role of Cardiac Fibrosis in Arrhythmogenesis - NIH (NHLBI), PI 20%effort - $199,838 - 7/06 - 7/10

• Wang B, Tedder ME, Tahai M, Perez CE, Wang G, de Jongh Curry AL, Guan J, To F, Elder SH, Willams LN, Simionescu DT, Liao J: Structural and biomechanical characterizations of porcine myocardial extracellular matrix.  J Mater Sci: Mater Med. 23:1835-1847, 2012
• Fitch DA, de Jongh Curry AL.  An esophageal probe for measuring three-dimensional electric fields during external cardiac defibrillation.  Physiol Meas. 2012 Mar;33(3):535-43.
  
  Fitch DA, Soberman J, De Jongh Curry AL. Esophageal Electric Fields are Predictive of Atrial Defibrillation Thresholds. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2012 Mar;35(3):335-40.
• Deshmukh PA, Bellary SR, Schwender FT, Kamalov G, Magotra M, de Jongh Curry AL, Sun Y, Weber KT. Spironolactone prevents the inducibility of ventricular tachyarrhythmia in rats with aldosteronism.  J Cardiovasc Pharmacol. 2011 Nov;58(5):487-91.
• Wang B, Borazjani A, Tahai M, de Jongh Curry AL, Simionescu DT, Guan J, To F, Elder SH, Liao J: Fabrication of cardiac patch with decellularized porcine myocardial scaffold and bone marrow mononuclear cells.  J Biomed Materials Res Part A 94(4):1100-10, 2010.
  
• Qualls J,Russomanno DJ, de Jongh Curry AL, Konakanchi D. Visualisation of defibrillation simulation using multiple transthoracic electrodes. Int J Computer Aided Engineering and Technology 2 (1): 66-77, 2010.
• Russomanno DJ, de Jongh Curry AL, Anastova G, Hunt LC, Goodwin JC:  DefibViz:  a visualization tool for the assessment of electrode parameters on transthoracic defibrillation thresholds.   IEEE Trans Info Tech Biomed 12:76-86, 2008. 
• Russomanno DJ, Franceschetti D, de Jongh Curry AL, Lambert A:  The development of an interdisciplinary data visualization course with an ongoing community-based project component.  Computers in Education Journal 16:29-39, 2006.
• de Jongh Curry AL, Malkin RA:  Defibrillation.  In:  Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering.  New York:  John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.
• Hunt LC, Curry ALD: Electrode placement significantly affects transthoracic atrial defibrillation thresholds. Cardiovasc Eng 10:62-68, 2005.
• Malkin RA, Kramer N, Schnitz B, Gopalakrishnan M, Curry AL: Advances in electrical and mechanical cardiac. Physiol Meas 26:R1-R14, 2005.
• Malkin RA, de Jongh Curry AL: Factors influencing the frequency dependence of the cardiac threshold to alternating current stimulation between 10 Hz and 160 Hz. Med & Biol Comp & Eng 41:640-645, 2003.
• de Jongh AL, Ramanathan V, Hoffmeister BK, Malkin RA: Left ventricular geometry immediately following defibrillation: shock-induced relaxation. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 284:H815-H819, 2003.
• de Jongh AL, Entcheva E, Replogle JA, Booker RS, KenKnight BH, Claydon FJ: Defibrillation efficacy of different electrode placements in a human thorax model. PACE 22[Pt. II]:152-157, 1999.
• Replogle JA, Russomano DJ, de Jongh AL, Claydon FJ: Extracting isovolumes from three-dimensional torso geometry using PROLOG. IEEE Trans Info Tech Biomed 2:10-19, 1998.