Curricular Vitae
Steven
Amos Jones, Ph.D, PE
Associate Professor and Program
Chair
Department of Biomedical
Engineering,
Last Updated September
10, 2004
Education:
Ph.D., 1985, Bioengineering,
M.S., 1979, Bioengineering,
B.A., Bioengineering, 1978,
Registrations/Certifications/Licenses:
Registered
Professional Engineer (Mechanical Engineering), 2001-present.
Research Experience:
Associate Professor,
Program Chair,
Assistant Professor,
Research Associate,
Research Associate,
Instructor,
Instructor, Johns
Research Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1990-1992)
Post Doctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1986-90)
Instructor, Georgia Institute of Technology (Winter, 1990)
Instructor,
Patents/copyrights:
Notice of Invention:
Steven A. Jones, Ameya Kantak, Yuri Lvov, "Platelet Receptor-Blockade
Analyzer."
Notice
of Invention: Yuri M. Lvov, Steven Jones,
Scientific
and professional societies: IEEE, ASME, BMES,
ASEE
Honors
and awards:
W. J. Spinks Professor, 2000-present
Funded Grants
NSF REU: Undergraduate
Research Experiences in Micro/Nano Engineering,
2003-2005, $265,087.
Center for
Entrepreneurship and Information Technology, 2002-2003, $18,700
Rockefeller Brothers
Foundation, 2002, $25,000
Center for Entrepreneurship
and Information Technology, 2002, $31,500
DCI Research Grant, 1
year, $3,730, 2001 PI
NIH R01 Subcontract, 3 years, $420,000, Sept. 1996-1999, PI
NSF Major Research Instrumentation Grant, 1 year, $13,000,
1994-1995, PI
Whitaker Foundation Grant, 3 years, $146,330, 1993-1996, PI
Emory/Georgia Tech
Seed Grant, 1 year, $25,092, 1992-1993, PI
Refereed Journal Publications:
1.
Jones, Steven A., Fronek, Arnost,
“Analysis of break frequencies downstream of a constriction in a cylindrical
tube," J. Biomechanics, Vol. 20, pp. 319-327, 1987.
2.
Jones, Steven A., Fronek, Arnost,
“Effects of vibrations on steady flow downstream of a stenosis," J.
Biomechanics, Vol. 21, pp. 903-914, 1988.
3.
Baldzer, K., Dykes, F.D.,
4.
5.
David, J.Y., Jones, S.A., Giddens,
D.P., “Modern spectral analysis techniques for blood flow velocity and spectral
measurements with pulsed Doppler ultrasound," IEEE Transactions on
Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 38, pp. 589-596, 1991.
6.
Wendling, F., Jones, S., and Giddens,
D., “Simulation of Doppler ultrasound signals for a laminar, pulsatile,
nonuniform flow," Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 18, pp.
179-193, 1992.
1.
Vignola, J., Berthelot, Y., Jones, S.,
and Jarzyinski, J., “Equation of motion of microparticles in suspension in an
insonified medium," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 92,
pp. 332-334, 1992.
2.
White, S.S., Zarins, C.K., Giddens,
D.P., Bassiouny, H., Loth, F.,
3.
Jones, S.A., “Fundamental sources of
error and spectral broadening in Doppler ultrasound signals," Crc Critical
Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 21, pp. 399-483, 1993.
4.
Anayiotos, A., Giddens, D.P.,
5.
Jones, S.A., “A relationship between
Reynolds stresses and viscous dissipation: Implications to red cell
damage," Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 23, pp. 21-28, 1995.
6.
Tsao, R.,
7.
Pritchard, W.F., Davies, P.F.,
Derafshi, Z., Polacek, D.C., Tsao, R., Dull, R.O., Jones, S.A., and Giddens,
D.P., “Effects of wall shear stress and fluid recirculation on the localization
of circulating monocytes in a three-dimensional flow model,” Journal of
Biomechanics, Vol. 28, pp. 1459-1469, 1995.
8.
Jones, S.A., Leclerc, H.,
Chatzimavroudis, G.P., Kim, Y.H., Scott, N.A., and Yoganathan, A.P., “The
influence of acoustic impedance mismatch on post-stenotic pulsed-Doppler
ultrasound measurements in a coronary artery model," Ultrasound in
Medicine and Biology, Vol. 22, pp. 623-634, 1996
9.
Jones, S.A., Loth, F., Giddens, D.P.,
Morita, I., Kajiya, F., Osamu, H., Ogasawara, Y, Tsujioka, K., Zarins, C.K.,
“In vivo measurements of blood flow velocity profiles in canine ilio-femoral
anastomotic bypass grafts," J Biomechanical Engineering, Vol. 119, pp.
30-38, 1997.
10.
Loth, F., Jones, S.A., Giddens, D.P.,
Bassiouny, H., Glagov, S., Zarins, C.K., “Measurements of velocity and wall
shear stress inside a PTFE vascular graft model under steady flow
conditions," J Biomechanical Engineering, Vol. 119, pp. 187-194, 1997.
11.
12.
Hinds, M.T., Park, Y.J., Jones, S.A.,
Giddens, D.P., and Alevriadou, B.R., “Local hemodynamics affect monocytic cell
adhesion to a three-dimensional flow model coated with e-selectin,” J
Biomechanics, Vol. 34, pp. 95-103, 2001.
13.
Lei, M., Giddens, D.P.,
14.
Loth, F.,
15.
16.
17.
Lei, M., Giddens, D.P., Jones, S.A.,
Loth, F., and Bassiouny, H., “Numerical Simulation of Pulsatile Flow in A Model
Carotid Bifurcation – Correlation of Hemodynamic Factors With In Vivo Intimal Thickness Data,”
Cardiovascular Medicine and Science, Accepted for publication June 2002.
18.
Hua A, Jones SA, deVilliers MM, and
Lvov YM, "Nano-encapsulation of furosemide microcrystals for controlled
drug release," Journal of Controlled Release, Vol. 86, pp. 59-68, 2002.
19.
20.
21.
Ai
H, Jones SA and
22.
Ram
SJ, Barz AB, Zsom L, Jones
SA, Magnasco A, Swamy S,
and Paulson WD, “In vivo validation of glucose pump test for measurement of hemodialysis access flow,” American Journal of Kidney
Disease, 42:752-760, 2003.
23.
Kantak A, Gale BK, Lvov Y and Jones S, “Platelet function
analyzer: Shear activation of platelets in microchannels,” Biomedical
Microdevices, 5:207-215, 2003.
24.
25.
Grevious MA, Loth F, Jones SA, Arslan N, Curi M, Schwartz LB,
and Bassiouny HS, "Technical considerations in
the construction of vascular anastomoses," in J
Moore, ed. Biomedical Technology and Devices Handbook, CRC Press, Ch. 24, pp.
1-17, 2003.
26.
Paulson
WD and Jones SA, “Hemodynamics of the Hemodialysis Access: Implications for Clinical Management,”
in Ronco C, Levin NW eds, Hemodialysis Vascular
Access and Peritoneal Dialysis Access, Contrib Nephrol.
27.
Jones
SA, Song J, Kantak A, Bell DA and Paulson WD, “A
mathematical model for pressure losses in the hemodialysis
graft vascular circuit,” Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, In Press.
Presentations: (Presenting Author is Underlined)
Short Papers
1.
Jones, S.
and Giddens, D., "A simulation to study the effect of device parameters on
optimal Doppler spectral analysis methods," 12th Annual International
Conference, IEEE, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Philadelphia,
PA, November, 1990.
2.
E. Loth,
R. Ramamurti, F. Loth, S. Jones, "Flow downstream of an ultrasound
catheter," Proceedings of the ASME Bioengineering Conference 1990,
3.
Jones, S.,
and Giddens, D., "Effects of Doppler ultrasound device parameters on the
behavior of spectral analysis models," Proceedings of the 1991
Biomechanics Symposium, ASME Summer Applied Mechanics and Biomechanics Meeting,
Columbus, Ohio, June 16-19, 1991.
4.
Tsao, R.,
Jones, S.A., Giddens, D.P., Zarins, C.K., Glagov, S., "Quantitative
velocity measurements obtained by an automated particle tracking system and
validated by LDA measurements," Proceedings of the Third
U.S.A.-China-Japan Conference on Biomechanics, Atlanta, Georgia, pp. 185-186,
August, 1991.
5.
C. Figueras,
S.A. Jones, D.P. Giddens, C. Zarins, H. Bassiouny and S. Glagov,
"Relationships between flow patterns and geometry in end to side
anastomotic grafts," Proceedings of the ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Vol.
20, pp. 255-257, 1991.
6.
Anayiotos, A.S.,
Giddens, D.P.,
7.
Tsao, R.,
8.
F. Loth,
H. Bassiouny, S. Jones, D. Giddens, S. Glagov, C. Zarins, "Velocity and
wall shear measurements in an end-to-side vascular anastomosis model," The
NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Frontiers in Cardiovascular
Engineering", Malaga, Spain, December 4th-14th, 1991.
9.
Tsao, R.,
Jones, S.A, Giddens, D.P., Zarins, C.K., and Glagov, S., "An algorithm for
automated three-dimensional particle tracking in biofluid dynamic
studies," Tenth Southern biomedical Engineering Conference, pp. 50-53,
October, 1991.
10. Tsao,
R.,
11. Pritchard,
W.F., Davies, P.F., Ploacek, D.C., Derafshi, Z., Dull, R.O.,
Jones, S.A., Giddens, D.P., "Influence of hemodynamic factors on the adhesion
pattern of U937 cells in a flow model: Implications in atherosclerosis,"
Advances in Bioengineering, Proceedings of The ASME Winter Annual Meeting,
Anaheim, CA, Vol. BED-22 pp. 139-142, 1992.
12. Anayiotos,
A.S., Giddens, D.P., Jones, S.A., Glagov, S., Zarins, C.K.,
"General flow characteristics in a compliant model of a carotid
bifurcation," Advances in Bioengineering, Proceedings of The ASME Winter
Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, Vol. BED-22 pp. 261-264, 1992.
13. Jones,
S.A., Leclerc, H., Scott, N.A., "Influence of acoustic
impedance mismatch on intracoronary Doppler flow velocity spectra,"
ASME/AICHE/ASCE Summer Bioengineering Conference, Breckenridge, Colorado, June,
25-29, 24, pp. 493-496, 1993.
14. Loth
F, Jones S.A., Bassiouny H.S., Giddens D.P., Zarins C.K., Glagov
S., "Laser Doppler velocity measurements inside a vascular graft model
under steady flow conditions," ASME /AICHE /ASCE Summer Bioengineering
Conference, Breckenridge, Colorado, June 25-29, 24, pp. 48-51, 1993.
15. Jones,
S.A., "Distortion of Doppler ultrasound beam patterns
caused by acoustic impedance mismatch at vessel interfaces," Proceedings
of the 16th Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Society, Baltimore, MD, pp. 660-661, 1994.
16. Tsao,
R., Lin, R.W., Jones, S.A., "A simulation method to
estimate noise and successful tracking rate for a three-dimensional particle
tracking technique in an arterial model," Proceedings of the 16th Annual
International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Society, Baltimore, MD, pp. 682-683, 1994.
17.
18. Loth,
F.,
19. Loth,
F., Fontaine, J.P., Deplano, V., Rieu, R.,
20. Jones, S.A., Loth, F., Giddens, D.P.,
Morita, I, Kajiya, F., Osamu, H., Ogasawara, Y, Tsujioka, K., Zarins, C.K.,
Bassiouny, H., "Comparison between in
vivo and in vitro measurements on
canine ilio-femoral anastomotic bypass grafts," The ASME Fluids Eng. Div.
Summer Meeting, August 13-18, pp. 29-36, 1995.
21. Loth, F.,
22. Jones,
S.A., "Turbulent shearing as a mechanism for cellular
activation and damage," Proceedings of the 1995 ASME/AIChE/ASCE Summer
Bioengineering Conference, Beaver Creek, Colorado, pp. 575-576.
23. Loth
F., Jones S.A., Giddens D.P., Bassiouny H.S., Glagov S.,
Zarins C.K., "Wall shear stress measurements inside a vascular graft model
under pulsatile flow conditions," Proceedings of the 1995 ASME/AIChE/ASCE
Summer Bioengineering Conference, Beaver Creek, Colorado, pp. 9-10.
24. Loth
F., Jones S.A., Bassiouny H.S., Giddens D.P., Zarins C.K.,
Glagov S., "A correlative study of intimal thickening and wall shear
stress inside a canine vascular graft model," Proceedings of the ASME
Winter Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, pp. 167-168, 1995.
25. Jones,
S.A. Thacker, M.A., and Tsao, R., "Tracking of micron-sized
particles in models of large artery flows," Proceedings of the ASME Winter
Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, pp. 227-228, 1995.
26. Jones, S.A. and Fronek, A.,
"Scaling considerations for turbulence downstream of stenoses,"
Proceedings of the ASME Winter Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, pp.
373-374, 1995.
27. Tsao,
R., Jones, S.A., Giddens, D.P., and Glagov, S., "Particle residence
time measurements in a left coronary artery bifurcation model,"
Proceedings of the ASME Winter Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, pp. 195-196,
1995.
28. Thacker,
M.A., Tsao, R., and Jones, S.A., "Accuracy of axial wall
shear stress measurements from a three-dimensional particle tracking
system," Proceedings of the ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, pp.
459-460, 1996.
29. Lei,
M. and
30. Arslan,
N., Loth, F., Bassiouny, H.S., Jones, S.A. and Glagov, S., Turbulence
measurements inside an arterio-venous graft under steady flow conditions,"
Proceedings of the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference,
31. Lei, M.,
32.
33. M.
Hinds, S.A. Jones, B.R. Alevriadou, D.P. Giddens, “Effect of
pulsatile flow on monocytic cell adhesion to e-selectin coated surfaces of a
three-dimensional perfusion model , Proceedings of the ASME Winter Annual
Meeting, Nov. 1998.
34. Frilot,
CF, Patton, SR, and Jones, SA, "A carbon fiber based sensor for
measurement of serotonin from platelets," ASME International Engineering
Conference and Exhibition,
35. Kantak,
A,
36.
37. Hua,
A,
38. Frilot,
CF, and Jones, SA, "Potential Role of Transport in the Affect of
Nitric Oxide on Thrombus Formation," 2nd Joint EMBS-BMES Conference to be
held in
39. Hua,
A, Feng, M.,
40. Hua,
A., Feng, M.,
Abstracts
1.
Jones, Steven A.,
Fronek, Arnost, "Break frequency correlations for flow downstream of an
axially symmetric constriction in a cylindrical tube," 69th Annual Meeting
of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Anaheim,
California, April 21-26, 1985.
2.
3.
Jones, S.A.,
Giddens, D.P., "Pulsed Doppler velocity estimation via autoregression and
Fourier transform," Proceedings of the World Congress on Medical Physics
and Biomedical Engineering, San Antonio, Texas, August 6-12, 1988.
4.
Davet, Dominique,
Jones, Steven A., Giddens, Don P., "Transit-time broadening estimation
with Fourier transform and autoregressive techniques," Proceedings of the
World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, San Antonio,
Texas, August 6-12, 1988.
5.
Churchwell, A.,
Abouelnasr, D., Giddens, D., Jones, S., "Fluid dynamic differences between
smooth and irregular coronary stenoses: Their implications in lesion
progression," Proceedings of the World Congress on Medical Physics and
Biomedical Engineering, San Antonio, Texas, August 6-12, 1988.
6.
Giddens, D.P.,Kitney,
R.I., Jones, S.A., "Quantitative assessment of blood velocity
characteristics with Doppler ultrasound," Proceedings of the World
Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, San Antonio, Texas,
August 1988.
7.
Abouelnasr, D.,
Churchwell, A., Giddens, D., Jones, S., "In-vitro assessment of the 20 MHz
intra-coronary ultrasound Doppler velocity (IDV) catheter," Proceedings of
the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, San Antonio,
Texas, August 1988.
8.
Baldzer, K.,
Dykes, F., Jones, S., Davet, D., Giddens, D., "HRV in healthy, fullterm
neonates," Proceedings of the World Congress on Medical Physics and
Biomedical Engineering, San Antonio, Texas, August 1988.
9.
Jones, S.
and Giddens, D., "Physics of Doppler ultrasound signals: Relationship to
blood velocity estimation," First World Congress of Biomechanics, La
Jolla, California, August 30-September 4, 1990.
10. R.
Tsao, D.P. Giddens, S.A. Jones, C.K. Zarins and S. Glagov,
"Quantitative flow visualization by particle tracking in arterial
models," World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering,
Kyoto, Japan, July 7-12, 1991.
11. T.D
Tang, D.P. Giddens, S.A. Jones, C.K. Zarins and S. Glagov, "The
pulsatile velocity and wall shear in a model coronary artery," World
Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Kyoto, Japan, July
7-12, 1991.
12. H.A.
Le Gouguec, S.A. Jones and D.P. Giddens, "Laser Doppler and
ultrasound Doppler studies in a human carotid bifurcation model," World
Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering,
13. F.
Wendling, S.A. Jones and D.P. Giddens, "Simulation of Doppler
ultrasound signals arising from pulsatile flow," World Congress on Medical
Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Kyoto, Japan, July 7-12, 1991.
14. Pritchard,
W.F., Davies, P.F., Ploacek, D.C., Dull, R.O., Jones, S.A.,
Giddens, D.P., "The Pattern of adhesion of U937 cells in a flow model is
determined by local hemodynamic factors and is modulated by chemoattractant
gradients," The FASEB Journal, 6, pp. A1321, February 1992.
15. Morita,
I., Fujiwara, T., Katsumura, T., Kajiya, F., Tsujioka, K.,
Ogasawara, Y., and
16. F.
Loth, S. Jones, D. Giddens, C. Zarins, H. Bassiouny, S. Glagov,
"Measurement of velocity and wall shear in a vascular graft model and the
relationship to intimal thickening in a canine model," The Association for
the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation Cardiovascular Science and
Technology Conference, Bethesda, Maryland, December 12-14, 1992.
17. Bassiouny,
H.S., Loth, F., Giddens, D.P., Jones, S., Glagov, S., Zarins,
C.K., "Measurement of wall shear in an end to side vascular anastomosis
model: correlation with experimental intimal thickening" The
Cardiovascular Science and Technology Conference, December, 1991.
18. Leclerc,
H.A., Jones, S.A., Scott, N.A., "Interpretation of flow velocity
measurements from a 12 MHz Doppler guidewire downstream of a coronary stenosis
model," Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting,
19. Miller,
L.A., Jones, S.A., Giddens, D.P., Zarins, C.K., Glagov, S.,
"In-vitro measurements of wall shear stress in a nearly symmetric left
coronary artery bifurcation model," Biomedical Engineering Society
Meeting, Memphis, TN, October, 1993.
20. Thacker,
M., Tsao, R., and Jones, S.A., "Three-Dimensional
Particle Tracking on a Model of Monocyte Flow Dynamics," Annals of
Biomedical Engineering, Abstracts of the 1994 Annual Fall Meeting, Tempe
Arizona, pp. 16.
21. Jones,
S.A., Kehoe, A.B., and Giddens, D.P., "Coherent and random
flow disturbances in a 90 stenosis model: Relevance to atherogenesis,"
Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Abstracts of the 1994 Annual Fall Meeting,
Tempe Arizona, pp. 25.
22.
23.
24.
25. Lei,
M.,
26. M.
Lei, S.A. Jones, D.P. Giddens, Comparison of hemodynamic
predictor models for the onset of atherosclerotic lesions in a human carotid
artery, Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting, Oct., 1997.
27. Jones,
S.A., and Paulson, W.D., “Prediction of Hemodialysis Blood flow
by a Fluid Mechanics Model,” Proceedings of the American Society of Nephrology
meeting, Toronto, Canada, October, 2000, p. 186A.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33. Ai, H,
and
34.
Wu, J.Y.,
Spaulding, J.G., Jones, SA, “Patterns of Platelet Adhesion in an
End-to-Side Anastomosis Model,” BMES Society Meeting,
35.
36.
Jones SA, and Paulson WD, “Effects of turbulent flow on
the pressure-flow relationship in vascular access grafts,” American Society of
Nephrology, San Francisco, CA, 2002.
37. Jones, S., J. Banerjee,
and D. Haynie (2003) Activation of platelets by exposure
to UWB, ElectroMed 2003, Electromagnetic Research
Symposium, Third International Symposium on Nonthermal
Medical/Biological Treatments Using Electromagnetic Fields and Ionized Gases,
Symposium Record Abstracts, p. 105.
38.
Sachin Sah, Yuri Lvov, Steven A. Jones,
“Platelet Adhesion to Microchannels Coated with Fibrinogen, Fibronectin
and Von Willebrand Factor,”
Service:
a. College/university service
Program Chair for
Biomedical Engineering, 1999-present
Chair of the
Assessment Team for Biomedical Engineering ABET Accreditation 2000-2002
Member of IACUC
committee, 2001-present
Member of
College-Wide Faculty Search Team, 1997-1998
Member of Biomedical
Engineering Faculty Search Team, 1998-present
Member of the Watson
Chair search team
Member of the
Mechanics of Materials Team, 1999-present
Member of the
Graduate Studies Team, 2001-present
Member of the
Chemical Engineering Faculty Search Team, 2000-2001
Science Fair Judge,
1998-2001
Member of the Tissue
Culture Lab Research Team, 1997-2001
Member of GRAD
leadership team, 2004-2005
b. Professional service
Advisory board member
for Begell House Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, 1994-present
Chair
of NSF Graduate Student Fellowships Bioengineering Panel, 2003 and 2004.
NSF
REU Review Panel Member, 2003.
Review Panel Member in Advanced Technology for American
Institute of Biological Sciences, 2003.
Review Panel member
for NSF Graduate Student Fellowships, 2001 and 2002
Paper
reviewer for the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Computers in Fluids,
Thrombosis Research, and Journal of Biomechanics
Proposal
reviewer for the Office of Naval Research