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Legendary Surgeon Maurice Galante Dies

Maurice Galante, M.D., a legendary master surgeon at UCSF and renaissance man, died on February 5, 2013. His career is memorialized by the Maurice Galante Lecture Program and Maurice Galante Distinguished Professorship.

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Liang Ge, Ph.D.

Assistant Adjunct Professor
Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery

Contact Information

Education

  • Tsinghua University, Beijing, China-BE, 1996
  • Tsinghua University, Beijing, China-ME, 1999
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 2004
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 2005

Residencies

Fellowships

  • Postdoc Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology 2005

Postdoctoral Training

  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, PhD, 2004
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Postdoc, 2005

Board Certification

Program Affiliations

Clinical Expertise

Research Interests

  • Cardiovascular diseases and hemodynamics
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and parallel computation
  • Multi-scale simulation
  • Patient specific surgical planning
  • Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid/structure interaction

Selected Publications

  1. Borazjani, I., Ge, L., and Sotiropoulos, F., "Curvilinear immersed boundary method for simulating fluid structure interaction with complex 3D rigid bodies", Journal of Computational Physics, accepted.
  2. Ge, L., Dasi, L. P., Sotiropoulos, F., and Yoganathan, A. P., 2008, "Characterization of Hemodynamic Forces Induced by Mechanical Heart Valves: Reynolds vs. Viscous Stresses", Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 36(2), 276-297.
  3. Dasi, L. P., Ge, L., Simon, H. A., Sotiropoulos, F., and Yoganathan, A. P., 2007, "Vorticity Dynamics of a Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve in an Axisymmetric Aorta", Physics of Fluids, 067105
  4. Ge, L., and Sotiropoulos, F., 2007, "A Numerical Method for Solving the 3D Unsteady Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations in Curvilinear Domains with Complex Immersed Boundaries", Journal of Computational Physics, 225(2), pp 1782-1809.
  5. Ge, L., Leo, H.L., Sotiropoulos, F., and Yoganathan, A.P., 2005, "Flow in a Mechanical Bileaflet Heart Valve at Laminar and Near-Peak Systole Flow Rates: CFD Simulations and Experiments", Journal of Biomechanical Engineering- Transactions of the ASME, 127(5), pp 782-797.
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