Frank A. Pintar, PhD

Founding Chair, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering; Professor, Neurosurgery

Locations

Zablocki VA Medical Center
Neuroscience Research Labs 鈥� Research 151
5000 W. National Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53295

Education

PhD, Marquette University, Milwaukee WI, 1986
BS, Marquette University, Milwaukee WI, 1982

Biography

Dr. Pintar is the Founding Chair of the Marquette University and 皇家华人 Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Neurosurgery at the 皇家华人.

Over the years, Dr. Pintar has served as a research mentor to over 50 graduate students, post docs, residents, fellows, and junior faculty in the medical and engineering schools. Dr. Pintar has held numerous committee positions within the 皇家华人, including chair of the Faculty Benefits committee.

He has been active as a member of grant review teams (e.g., CDC, NIH, NIDRR) and other scientific organizations (e.g., Cervical Spine Research Society, Stapp Association) and received grant awards from NIH, VA, CDC, DOT, DoD, and foundations. He has authored more than 500 research publications, including two books on head and neck trauma and over 320 peer-reviewed journal papers. He is the principal investigator of the US-DOT-NHTSA-sponsored , of which there are seven in the nation.

Dr. Pintar conducts collaborative projects with the Comprehensive Injury Center through the departments of Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, and Trauma Surgery. He has also helped to mentor residents and fellows from Otolaryngology, Orthopedic Surgery, Plastic Surgery, and Emergency Medicine. He participates as a faculty member of the Neuroscience Research Center.

His current research interests include the biomechanics of brain and spinal cord injury, mechanics of spine surgical techniques, computer finite element modeling of the cervical spine, and motor vehicle crash trauma. He has received numerous awards and is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine and a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers.

He is the co-Director of the ZVAMC Neuroscience and Biomechanics Research Laboratories, which is a collaboration between the Marquette-MCW Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering and MCW's Department of Neurosurgery. It is the only academic lab that includes a full-scale crashworthiness facility, sled lab, spine biomechanics lab, stem cell lab, neurobiology lab, tissue/culture lab, and neurohistology lab and conducts research on levels from micro to macro.

Honors and Awards

2000 鈥� Best Paper in a Section Award, Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium
2004 鈥� Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine
2006 鈥� Excellence in Oral Presentation Award, Society of Automotive Engineers
2009 鈥� Best Student Paper, Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium
2010 鈥� John Paul Stapp Best Paper, Stapp Car Crash Conference
2011 鈥� Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
2012 鈥� Award of Merit, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine
2013 鈥� Arnold W Siegel International Transportation Safety Award, Society of Automotive Engineers
2014 鈥� Fellow, Society of Automotive Engineers
2017 - MCW Society of Research Excellence
2018 - AAAM Donald Huelke Lifetime Member Award

                
                    Research Areas of Interest
                
                    Acceleration
Accidents, Traffic
Air Bags
Biomechanical Phenomena
Brain Injuries
Cervical Vertebrae
Computer Simulation
Craniocerebral Trauma
Fractures, Bone
Lumbar Vertebrae
Neck Injuries
Seat Belts

                    Research Experience
                
                    Biomechanical Phenomena
Biomedical Engineering
Brain Concussion
Brain Injuries
Engineering
Fractures, Bone
Fractures, Compression
Head Injuries, Closed
Internal Fixators
Orbital Fractures
Rib Fractures
Rupture

                    Methodologies and Techniques
                
                    Accidents, Traffic
Animal Experimentation
Blast Injuries
Brain Concussion
Brain Injuries
Computer Simulation
Finite Element Analysis
injuries
Injury Severity Score
Materials Testing
Mathematical Computing
Rupture

                    Leadership Positions
                
                    Chair, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering

                    MCW Program / Core Facilities
                
                    VA Biomechanics Research Facilities

                    Educational Expertise
                
                    Biomedical Engineering
Engineering

Research Interests

The biomechanics of brain and spinal cord injury, mechanics of spine surgical techniques, military and motor vehicle crash trauma.

(Ortiz-Paparoni M, Op 't Eynde J, Eckersley C, Morino C, Abrams M, Pang D, Kait J, Pintar F, Yoganandan N, Moore J, Barnes D, Loftis K, Bass CR.) Ann Biomed Eng. 2024 Nov;52(11):3067-3077 PMID: 39240473 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85203121909 09/06/2024
(LeSueur J, Koser J, Hargarten S, Pintar FA.) J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2024 Nov;159:106710 PMID: 39216336 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85202354471 09/01/2024
(LeSueur J, Koser J, Yoganandan N, Pintar FA.) J Biomech Eng. 2024 Nov 01;146(11) PMID: 38884993 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85197969368 06/17/2024
(LeSueur J, Koser J, Hampton C, Kleinberger M, Pintar FA.) Mil Med. 2024 Aug 19;189(Suppl 3):517-524 PMID: 39160835 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85201743644 08/20/2024
(LeSueur J, Hampton C, Kleinberger M, Dzwierzynski W, Pintar FA.) Med Eng Phys. 2024 Aug;130:104199 PMID: 39160027 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85197026415 08/20/2024
(LeSueur J, Pintar FA, Hargarten S.) Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine. October 2024;37 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85203456150 10/01/2024
(LeSueur J, Hampton C, Kleinberger M, Dzwierzynski W, Pintar FA.) Medical Engineering and Physics. August 2024;130 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85197026415 08/01/2024
(Cronn S, Somasundaram K, Driesslein K, Tomas CW, Pintar F.) Front Public Health. 2024;12:1331313 PMID: 38560436 PMCID: PMC10978633 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85188905781 04/01/2024
(Somasundaram K, Cronn S, Banerjee A, Yoganandan N, Sun Z, Hallman J, Pintar F.) Conference proceedings International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury, IRCOBI. 2024;Part 202371:1009-1010 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85204496346 01/01/2024
(Yoganandan N, Baisden J, Moore J, Pintar F, Vedantam A, Shabani S, Barnes D, Loftis K.) Mil Med. 2023 Nov 08;188(Suppl 6):393-399 PMID: 37948210 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85176449424 11/10/2023
(Gerringer JW, Somasundaram K, Pintar FA.) ASME J. of Medical Diagnostics. Gerringer, J. W., Somasundaram, K., and Pintar, F. A. (October 9, 2023). Development and Validation of Nonhuman Primate Head-Neck Computational Model for Frontal Impact Injury Analysis. ASME. ASME J of Medical Diagnostics. August 2024; 7(3): 031003. 10/09/2023
(Somasundaram K, Humm JR, Yoganandan N, Hauschild H, Driesslein K, Pintar FA.) Stapp Car Crash J. 2022 Nov;66:31-68 PMID: 37733821 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85150993131 09/21/2023

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