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Dr.
J. Lawrence Katz, Distinguished Research Professor
of Biomedical Engineering and Oral Biology, has
devoted his career to understanding the structure/property
relationships in bone and teeth as a basis for
developing biomaterial replacements and designing
new implants. In 1997 he was awarded the Engineering
in Medicine and Biology Society Career Achievement
Award for his contributions to ultrasonic wave
propagation studies and bone properties and introducing
the analysis of those properties based on a hierarchical
composite material model. This award is presented
annually to an individual who has made significant
contributions through a distinguished career of
twenty years or more in the field of Biomedical
Engineering, as an educator, researcher, developer
or administrator. These contributions must represent
meritorious achievement and exemplary technical,
educational, or administrative accomplishment
in the field. He has published extensively in
the scientific and technical biomedical engineering
literature dealing with biomaterials and biomechanics
for bone and teeth. Currently, he is using ultrasonic
wave propagation and scanning acoustic microscopy
as the principal techniques to study and understand
the relationship between the structure and properties
of bone and teeth as a basis for designing and
engineering replacement materials and/or implants.
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