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Karin Lavon

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School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, 6997801, Tel Aviv, Israel  |   Email: karinlavon@gmail.com  

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Education

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04/16 - present:

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Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering (Expected 04/2020)

Mechanical Engineering School, Engineering Faculty, Tel Aviv University,

Dissertation title: “Biomechanics of the bicuspid aortic valves: Characterization, calcification and repair".

Supervisors: Professor Rami Haj-Ali & Professor Ehud Raanani

 

10/13 - 03/16:

 

M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Magna Cum Laude)

Mechanical Engineering School, Engineering Faculty, Tel Aviv University,

Thesis title: "Bio-Mechanical Fluid-Structure Interaction Models of Bicuspid Aortic Valves”

Supervisors: Professor Rami Haj-Ali & Professor Ehud Raanani

 

10/09 - 08/13:

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B.Sc. in Bio-Medical Engineering,

Bio-Medical Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Tel Aviv University

 

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

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  03/17 - present

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Lecturer: "Statics and Strength of Materials" (0881.2303), Architecture School, Arts Faculty, Tel Aviv University

Lead 4 weekly hours of frontal lecture, with 95 students participating in the course, for second year architecture students.

 

10/15 - 03/1

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Teaching Assistant: "Mechanics Laboratory for Bio-medical Engineering" (0555.3401), Mechanical Engineering School, Engineering Faculty, Tel Aviv University

 

PUBLICATIONS  

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Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

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Lavon K., Marom G.,  Bianchi M., Halevi R., Hamdan A., Morany A., Raanani E., Bluestein D., Haj-Ali R. “Biomechanical Modeling of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in a Stenotic Bicuspid Aortic Valve: Deployments and Paravalvular Leakage”. Med Biol Eng Comput (2019) 57(10),

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  • 08/19-Halevi R, Hamdan A, Marom G, Lavon K, Ben Zekry S, Raanani E and Haj-Ali R. “A New Mechano-biology Model for Aortic Valve Calcification Growth”. ASME. J Biomech Eng. 2018;140(10):101008-101008-8. DOI:10.1115/1.4040338

  • 10/18-Lavon, K., Halevi, R., Marom, G., Ben Zekry, S., Hamdan, A., Schäfers, H. J., Raanani, E., and Haj-Ali, R., 2017, “Fluid-Structure Interaction Models of Bicuspid Aortic Valves: The Effects of Non-Fused Cusp Angles,”. ASME. J Biomech Eng. 2018;140(3):031010-031010-7. DOI:10.1115/1.4038329.

  • 03/18- Halevi R., Hamdan A., Marom G., Lavon K., Ben-Zekry S., Raanani E., Bluestein D., Haj-Ali R. “Fluid-structure interaction modeling of calcific aortic valve disease using patient-specific three-dimensional calcification scans”. Med Biol Eng Comput (2016) ;54(11):1683-94. DOI: 10.1007/s11517-016-1458-0. PubMed PMID: 26906280.

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  • 11/16-Book Chapters : G. Marom, K. Lavon, R. Haj-Ali, E. Raanani, “One-point advice: Optimizing aortic valve repair techniques with computational  models”, in T. Kunihara, S. Takanashi (Editors), Aortic valve preservation: Concepts and approaches, Springer, 1st Edition, Singapore, ISBN 978-981-13-2067-5, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-2068-2_5, pp. 45-51, 2019.

  • 01/19-HONORS & AWARDS Dean’s award for outstanding achievement, Engineering Faculty, Tel Aviv University

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CONFERENCES 

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  • The premier International Conference for Innovations in Cardiovascular Interventions (ICI 2019). Tel Aviv, Israel, December 8-10, 2019.

  • 12/19- SIMULIA Israel (Abaqus) User's Meeting, Herzliya, Israel, November 19, 2019.

  • 11/19- The 47th Israel Symposium on Computational Mechanics (ISCM-47), Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel, November 7, 2019.

  • 11/19-The 16th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 2019 (CMBBE2019), New York, NY, USA, August 14-16, 2019.

  • 08/19-The 66th Annual conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the Israel Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Tel Aviv, Israel, April 30 - May 1, 2019.

  • 04/19-Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES 2018) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia USA, October 17-20, 2018.

  • 10/18-Webinar for the Living Heart Human Model (LHHM) community, August 1st 2018.

  • 08/18-The 14th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 2016 (CMBBE2016). Tel Aviv, Israel, September 20-22, 2016

  • 09/16-SIMULIA (Abaqus) User's workshop: Advanced Biomedical Modeling - From Image to Simulation, Tel Aviv, Israel, September 26, 2016

  • 09/16-The 2nd Heart Valve Society Scientific Meeting 2016. New York, NY, USA, March 17-19, 2016, Cardiology, 2016, 134:147, doi: 

  • 03/16 -The 62th Annual conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the Israel Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Tel Aviv, Israel, April 13-14, 2015

  • 04/15- The Israel Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (ISMBE), Haifa, Israel, February 26, 2015

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