Seminars

Thursday, October 19th, 3:00-5:00pm

Followed by Q&A with guest speaker 

LOCATION: BME Seminar Room

BIO: Dr. Hector Gomez is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering (by courtesy), the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research, and a Faculty University Scholar at Purdue University. Gomez specializes in computational mechanics with particular emphasis in simulation at the interface of engineering and medicine, isogeometric modeling and analysis, and multiphysics systems. Prof. Gomez’s research has been recognized with multiple awards including the Juan C. Simo Award from the Spanish Society of Computational Mechanics, the MIT Innovators Under 35, the Young Investigator Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain, the Gallagher Young Investigator Award from the US Association for Computational Mechanics and the Princess of Girona Scientific Research Award (presented by the King of Spain; all fields of science, engineering and humanities). He has also received the Fellow Award from US Association for Computational Mechanics. Prof. Gomez has published over 100 journal papers and made over 180 contributions to conferences.

ABSTRACT: Despite its small size and supporting role in the male genitourinary system the prostate is the site of two major pathologies in older men: prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia. This talk will describe three recent examples showing how computational models informed by patient-specific data can play a critical role in clinical decision making in active surveillance, identifying PCa relapse after radiation therapy, and an innovative hypothesis to explain an unsolved medical debate: why larger prostates tend to harbor less aggressive tumors.