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Education
- BS Electrical Engineering - Memphis State University - 1992
- MS Electrical Engineering - Memphis State University - 1993
- PhD Biomedical Engineering - The University of Memphis - 1997
Work Experience
- Senior Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering - University of Memphis - 7/93 - 8/98
- Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering - University of Memphis - 9/98 - 8/00
- Assistant Professor for Research, Physics - Rhodes College - 1/00 - 8/00
- Assistant Professor (temporary), Biomedical Engineering - University of Memphis - 9/00 - 8/02
- Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Biomedical Engineering - University of Memphis - 8/02 - 8/08
- Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering - University of Memphis - 9/08 - present
- Associate Professor (secondary appointment), Electrical & Computer Engineering - University of Memphis - 9/08 - present
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering - University of Tennesee Health Science Center - 9/09 - present
Honors/Awards
- Senior Member - IEEE - 2007
- Top 40 Under 40 - Memphis Business Journal - 2009
- Herff Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award - Herff College of Engineering, University of Memphis - 2011
- Herff Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award - Herff College of Engineering, University of Memphis - 2017
Teaching Experience
- Introduction to Biomedical Engineering - Undergraduate
- Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Tools - Undergraduate
- Electrical & Computer Engineering Concepts - Undergraduate
- Bioelectricity - Undergraduate/Graduate
- Biomedical Engineering Analysis - Graduate
- Engineering Problem Solving - Undergraduate
Support
- Improving Transthoracic Atrial Defibrillation: Optimizing Electrode Configurations - American Heart Association, Southeast Affiliate - Principal Investigator - 7/01 - 6/04
- VaNTH Subcontract for Freshman Course Development - NSF VaNTH ERC for Bioengineering Education Technologies (Vanderbilt) - Co-Investigator - 9/03 -2/08
- Data Visualization: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Reducing the Cognitive Load when Extracting Meaning from Large Data Sets - NSF (CCLI) - Co-Investigator - 9/04 - 8/07
- Role of Cardiac Fibrosis in Arrhythmogenesis - NIH (NHLBI) - Principal Investigator - 7/06 - 7/10
- MemphiSTEP: A STEM Talent Expansion Program - NSF - Senior Personnel - 6/08 - 5/15
- ENGAGE Spatial Skills Mini-Grant - Stevens Institute of Technology, NSF Extension Services Project - Principal Investigator - 7/12 - 12/13
- Defibrillation Modeling - St. Jude Medical - Principal Investigator - 12/12 - 4/13
- Tissue Engineered Cardiac Patches: Multifaceted Stimulation of Stem Cells in Decellularized Myocardium - NIH - Co-Investigator - 8/09 - 7/13
- Biomedical Engineering Projects for People with General and Age Related Disabilities - NSF - Co-Investigator - 9/12 - 8/18
- Research Initiation: Forming the Empathic Engineer - A Path to Gender Equity in the Profession - NSF - Co-Investigator - 9/16 - 8/19
Books Published
- Book Chapters
- Bo Wang, Lakiesha N. Williams,Amy L. De Jongh Curry, and Jun Liao: Preparation of Acellular Myocardial Scaffolds with Well-Preserved
Cardiomyocyte Lacunae, and Method For Applying Mechanical And Electrical
Simulation To Tissue Construct. In: Cardiac Tissue Engineering: Methods and Protocols. Series: Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 1181, Humana Press, 2014.
- de Jongh Curry AL, Malkin RA: Defibrillation. In: Wiley
Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering. New York: John
Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.
Journal Articles
- Myers MH, Jolly E, Li Y, de Jongh Curry A, andParfenova
H. Power spectral density analysis of electrocorticogram recordings duringcerebral hypothermia in neonatal seizures.
Ann Neurosci. 2017 May;24(1):12-19.
- Harsono M, Pourcyrous M, Jolly E, de Jongh Curry A, Fedinec A, Liu J, Basuroy S, Zhuang D, Leffler C, and Parfenova
H. Selective head cooling during neonatal seizures
prevents postictal cerebral vascular dysfunction without reducing epileptiform
activity.
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2016 Nov 1;311(5):H1202-H1213.
- Myers MH, Padmanabha A, Hossain G, de
Jongh Curry AL and Blaha CD. Seizure Prediction and Detection via
Phase and Amplitude Lock Values. Front Hum Neurosci 2016 Mar 8;10:80.
- Waters RS, DeCosta
Fortune TM, Li CX, de Jongh Curry, AL.
Differential pattern of interhemispheric projection of layer v neurons
in forelimb and shoulder representations in rat first somatosensory cortex (SI). Anat. Rec. 2015 Nov;298(11):1885-902.
- Fitch DA, de Jongh Curry AL. Esophageal fields are predictive of atrial cardioversion success-a finite element analysis. Ann Transl Med 2015 Aug;3(14):196.
- Bo
Wang, Guangjun Wang, Filip To, J. Ryan Butler, Andrew Claude, Ronald M.
McLaughlin, Lakiesha N. Williams, Amy L. de Jongh Curry, and Jun Liao.
“Myocardial Scaffold-based Cardiac Tissue Engineering: Application of
Coordinated Mechanical and Electrical Stimulations.” Langmuir 29(35):11109-17, 2013.
- 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.
- 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.
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