Hitchcock Research Group | Bioenegineering at the University of Utah
Hitchcock Research Group

Brian is an undergraduate student studying Biomedical Engineering. He has worked on several projects with the Hitchcock Research Group including FLEx, MAP, ATLAS and TLBC. He has worked on refining the manufacturing process for building pressure sensing insoles with the FLEx project. He has helped design a force measuring speculum for use in the MAP project to help understand correlations between pelvic floor strength and pelvic floor disorders, and he has developed a device used in the MAP studies to aid in measuring a person’s abdominal strength as well as helped improve the quality assurance protocol of the TLBC manufacturing process. He has developed a program that uses data taken at the same time as video, synchronizes them and plays them back for a more robust understanding of the relation between dynamic movements and weight distribution as well as intra-abdominal pressure.

Landon is pursuing his Bachelor/Master degree in the Biomedical Engineering at the University of Utah. He is currently assisting with the research and manufacturing for the Motherhood and Pelvic Health Study, specifically on the intra-vaginal pressure transducer.

Eve is an undergraduate student studying Biomedical Engineering and is interested in medical school. She works in Dr. Hitchcock’s lab on the MAPs project.

Patrick is an undergraduate student in the Department of Bioengineering and is scheduled to graduate in 2020. He is involved in manufacturing for the Motherhood and Pelvic Health (MAP) study.

Ana is a visiting student from the University of Ottawa, working on her Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Mechanical Engineering. She is currently assisting with the addition of an accelerometer to the intra-vaginal pressure transducer for the Motherhood and Pelvic Health Study. Her research will allow the Hitchcock Research Group to study the relationship between kinematics of the abdominal viscera and inta-abdominal pressure.