Professor of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Cincinnati, United States
Christy K. Holland, PhD, attended Wellesley College where she was a double major (B.A.) in Physics and Music. She completed M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees at Yale University in Engineering and Applied Science. She is currently a Professor in both the College of Medicine and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Cincinnati (UC) with joint appointments in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Health and Disease, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME). From 2015 – 2022, Prof. Holland served as Scientific Director of the Heart, Lung, and Vascular Institute, a key component of efforts to align the UC College of Medicine and UC Health efforts around research, education, and clinical programs. She is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine®. Prof. Holland served as Editor-in-Chief of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, the official
Journal of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, from 2006 - 2021. She served as President of the Acoustical Society of America from 2015 to 2017. She is actively involved in teaching biomedical engineering and biomedical ultrasound in the BME undergraduate and graduate curricula and received teaching awards in the UC Colleges of Engineering and Medicine in 2008 and 2009. She served as the Director of Graduate Studies for BME in 2007-2009. She mentors and advises students within and outside of BME and educational programs. Prof. Holland directs the Image-guided Ultrasound Therapeutics Laboratories in the UC Cardiovascular Center, which focus on applications of biomedical ultrasound including sonothrombolysis, ultrasound-mediated drug and bioactive gas delivery,
development of echogenic liposomes, early detection of cardiovascular disease, and ultrasound-image guided thrombus ablation using high-amplitude pulsed ultrasound (histotripsy).
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William J. Fry Memorial Lecture and CPT Code Plenary
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
8:00am – 9:00am
Ultrasound Image-Guided Catheter-Directed Therapies to Treat Cardiovascular Disease
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
8:00am – 8:25am