Pathophysiology for Medicine and Medical Bioengineering

Pathophysiology for Medical and Biomedical Engineering helps students, clinicians, and researchers understand how diseases begin and evolve. It is a comprehensive reference for students and professionals to learn the principles of pathophysiology of each body system that offers different approaches to treating disease. It’s an excellent starting point or refresher for clinicians to develop new approaches to treating diseases. Sections cover the latest advances in therapeutics to address what students in medical education need to understand.

Harry E. Peery, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada is an assistant professor and teaches medical students at the Cumming School of Medicine. He received his PhD from the University of Saskatchewan and focused his research on the pathogenesis of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, cancer biomarkers, and endometriosis. Dr. Peery holds a Masters degree in microbiology (Ohio State University), and a PhD in molecular neuropharmacology (University of Saskatchewan). Dr. David S. Strayer is a pathologist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is affiliated with Jefferson Health-Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals. He received his medical degree from University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences at The Pritzker School of Medicine and has been in practice for ~25 years and has more almost 30 years of teaching experience. He is an invited consultant to both corporate and government agencies, is an international presenter (multi-lingual), and has won several awards and belongs to 8 related organizations. Dr. Wallace is actively practicing interventional cardiologist for Kootenai’s HeartClinic's Northwest. He specializes in interventional cardiology, structural cardiology, and vascular medicine. He is the director of Interventional Cardiology and has current board certification with the American Board of Internal Medicine with subspecialty accreditation in cardiovascular diseases, interventional cardiology, nuclear cardiology, and vascular ultrasound. He has published over 20 peer reviewed articles and has served as a reviewer for several cardiovascular journals. Dr. Aaron Cohen-Gadol is a Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at Indiana University. He also serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences-Neurosurgery at Purdue University. Dr. Cohen-Gadol is a member of numerous international editorial boards. His research has been published in more than 500 peer-reviewed articles, three books, and 17 book chapters. He is also a member of several esteemed professional organizations. Dr. ROBERTA J. WONG is the Co-Director and lead faculty for University of Washington’s PharBE Master’s Degree in Clinical Drug and Device Development, Strategy and Life Cycle Management She has more than 25 years of graduate and post-graduate teaching experience at the University of Washington, USC School of Pharmacy and UCLA School of Medicine, and UCSF School of Pharmacy. P. I. Imoukhuede is Hunter and Dorothy Simpson Professor and Chair at the Bioengineering School of Medicine & College of Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.