Dan Stoianovici

Dan Stoianovici works as an Associate Professor of urology and as the Director of the URobotics Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He serves as an Associate Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department, where he teaches Computer Aided Design. His specialty is surgical robotics in particular robotic hardware. His research is focused on the design, manufacturing, and control of robots for direct image-guided intervention (DIGI). His research is experimentally oriented including extensive hands-on expertise in computer-controlled manufacturing and software development for image-guided navigation. In his career, he developed numerous robotic systems and medical devices (projects). His bibliography includes numerous articles, presentations, and patents of invention. These inventions include a novel backlash-free rotary transmission (Ball Worm), the first Pneumatic Stepper Motor (PneuStep) for which he has received the 2008 Best Paper Award of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics Journal and the first fully actuated MRI-Stealth robot (MrBot). He serves as a Section Editor for the Journal of Endourology, as an Executive Director of the Engineering and Urology Society, as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer-Aided Surgery, as a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Robotic Surgery, and as a Member of the editorial boards of the Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies and the Journal of Robotics. He serves as a Consultant for Reuters and for the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and he serves on National Institute of Health study sections, and panels of the American Urological Association and the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.

Biography Updated on 7 December 2010

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