About the Series

The practice of medicine has changed dramatically in the past 30 years. Life expectancy in the population has increased and the quality of life for most people has improved. One of the most important features of this change is the explosive growth of medical technology; this growth is fueled by the realization that engineering principles can be used to understand human health and that engineering design principles can yield new approaches for disease prevention and treatment. Biomedical Engineering (or Bioengineering) has emerged as the dominant discipline for this new category of engineering. Growth of this discipline in the United States has been enhanced by generous support from the Whitaker Foundation, and evidence of this growth is seen in the number of undergraduates majoring in biomedical engineering (BME), which has more than doubled in the recent years. Many of the best and brightest engineering students now want to study BME.

One of the most pressing worldwide problems in the development of curriculum in BME programs today is the lack of appropriate textbooks. This new Book Series will commission and acquire authors to write textbooks for this emerging curriculum. These Works are intended to be accessible to college undergraduates and graduate students and describe how biomedical engineers apply their basic science knowledge and analytical skills to solving problems in human medicine.

Series Editors: Mark Saltzman Yale and Shu Chien UCSD

Series Advisors and Areas

We will actively seek to commission the best possible Works for students majoring in the various biomedical engineering sub-fields, each of which has a specific set of course requirements. These will include, but are not limited to:

• Medical instrumentation
- Professor Robert Malkin, Duke University
• Medical and biological imaging
- Professor Alison Noble, Oxford University
• Systems biology and bioinformatics
- Professor Bernhard Palsson, University of California
• Biomedical mechanics
- Professor Roger Kamm, MIT
• Biomolecular engineering
- Professor Michael Sefton, University of Toronto
• Tissue and cell engineering
- Professor Jeffrey Hubbell, EPFL Lausanne
• Cellular engineering
- Professor Cheng Zhu, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Biomaterials
- Professor Nicholas Peppas, University of Texas
• Biological transport phenomena
- Professor George Truskey, Duke University
• Ethical and social issues
- Professor William Hendee, Medical College of Wisconsin
• Quantitative Physiology
• Numerical Methods, statistics and modeling

The selection of an editorial board of the highest caliber to assist in proposing and screening manuscripts is critical to the success of the Series.

The first books in the series include:

• Biomechanics by Ethier
• Models of Cell Mechanics by Kamm and Kaazempur-Mofrad