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Alison Marsden is the Douglass M. Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases and Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the development of numerical methods for cardiovascular blood flow simulation and the design of medical devices. Marsden has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers and has been recognized with numerous awards including the Van C. Mow Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. She is also a fellow of several prestigious societies such as the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers and the Biomedical Engineering Society. She served as Co-Director of the NIH T32 CHIP program at Stanford, emphasizing integrated computational medicine for heart health. Marsden has held academic positions since completing her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford in 2005, after earning her Bachelor's from Princeton University. Her teaching and mentorship are highly esteemed, evidenced by multiple faculty awards at UCSD and Stanford. Her lab, the Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation Lab, focuses on pediatric cardiology, particularly in virtual surgery to design novel surgical concepts for children with heart defects.
Stanford University • Stanford, California
Teaching and researching in the Department of Pediatrics - Cardiology.
University of California San Diego • La Jolla, California
Worked in the Mechanical Aerospace Engineering Department.
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