Scholars

Associate Professor

Positions:

Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
Associate Professor, School of Engineering Medicine
Associate Professor, Engineering Medicine

overview

Throughout my research career, I have been committed to applying engineering mechanics to address prevalent challenges in cardiovascular biology, physiology, and medicine. The broad scope of my research program is to understand the interactions between mechanics and cardiovascular disease, focusing on translating efforts and establishing disruptive technologies that advance patient management. I leverage my unique expertise in solid and fluid mechanics, across both the experimental and computational domains, to comprehensively characterize the mechanical stimuli vascular tissues are subjected to in the setting of health and disease. The two broad objectives of my research are 1) to advance the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of cardiovascular disease in the clinical setting and 2) to understand how mechanics drive the structure, function, and remodeling of vascular tissues.

education and training

Georgia Institute of Technology - (Atlanta, Georgia, United States), Postdoctoral Training
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2010
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2005

selected publications

Academic Articles37

Berggren, C. C., Jiang, D., Jack Wang, Y. F., Bergquist, J. A., Rupp, L. C., Liu, Z., ... Timmins, L. H. (2024). Influence of material parameter variability on the predicted coronary artery biomechanical environment via uncertainty quantification.. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology.
Berggren, C. C., Jiang, D., Jack Wang, Y. F., Bergquist, J. A., Rupp, L. C., Liu, Z., ... Timmins, L. H. (2024). Influence of Material Parameter Variability on the Predicted Coronary Artery Biomechanical Environment via Uncertainty Quantification..
Hoffmann, C., Morris, A., Timmins, L., Cui, X., Sachdeva, R., Walsh, S., Wulkan, M., & Brewster, L. (2023). Sleeve gastrectomy may improve arterial health in obese adolescents.. Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases. 33(10), 2053-2054.
Smith, K. A., Lin, A. H., Stevens, A. H., Yu, S. M., Weiss, J. A., & Timmins, L. H. (2023). Collagen Molecular Damage is a Hallmark of Early Atherosclerosis Development.. Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research. 16(2), 463-472.
Hurd, E. R., Han, M., Mendes, J. K., Hadley, J. R., Johnson, C. R., DiBella, E., Oshinski, J. N., & Timmins, L. H. (2023). Comparison of Prospective and Retrospective Gated 4D Flow Cardiac MR Image Acquisitions in the Carotid Bifurcation.. Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology. 14(1), 1-12.