We are excited to continue the ISTU On-Air webinar series in 2025. These webinars are designed to promote knowledge of Therapeutic Ultrasound and increase discussion among the ISTU community. The Education Committee, led by Tanya Khokhlova, Ph.D., is actively working on the programming for the webinar series.
Our next webinar will be held on May 15 / 16, 2025 depending upon your local time. This webinar will feature Christy K. Holland, Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati presenting "Sonothrombolysis".
This session will be moderated by Xiaoning Jiang from the North Carolina State University.
Registration for this event is required. The Webinar Series will be recorded and available to members for later review. Confirmation of your registration and the Zoom Conference Link Info will be emailed to all registered attendees prior to the meeting.
This webinar will be broadcast live at the following local times:
- 8:00 - 9:00 (West Coast, USA/Canada)
- 11:00 - Noon (East Coast, USA/Canada)
- 16:00 - 17:00 (UK)
- 17:00 - 18:00 (Continental Europe)
- 23:00 - Midnight (China)
- Midnight - 1:00 (Korea and Japan), Friday, May 16, 2025
Professor
Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Health and Disease and Biomedical Engineering
Hanna Endowed Chair of Cardiology - Interim Director
Christy K. Holland, PhD, attended Wellesley College where she was a double major (B.A.) in Physics and Music in 1983. She completed M.S.(1985), M.Phil. (1987), and Ph.D. (1989) degrees at Yale University in Engineering and Applied Science. She is currently a Professor in both the College of Medicine and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Cincinnati (UC) with joint appointments in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Health and Disease, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME). She holds the Hanna Endowed Chair as Interim Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Research at UC, with the mission to advance the understanding, prevention, and treatment of cardiovascular disease through innovative research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and transformative education at the UC College of Medicine. She is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine®. Prof. Holland served as Editor-in-Chief of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, the official Journal of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, from 2006 - 2021. She served as President of the Acoustical Society of America from 2015 to 2017. She is actively involved in teaching biomedical engineering and biomedical ultrasound in the BME undergraduate and graduate curricula and received teaching awards in the UC Colleges of Engineering and Medicine in 2008 and 2009. She served as the Director of Graduate Studies for BME in 2007-2009. She mentors and advises students within and outside of BME and educational programs. Prof. Holland directs the Image-guided Ultrasound Therapeutics Laboratories in the UC Cardiovascular Center, which focus on applications of biomedical ultrasound including sonothrombolysis, ultrasound-mediated drug and bioactive gas delivery, development of echogenic liposomes, and ultrasound-image guided thrombus ablation using high-amplitude pulsed ultrasound (histotripsy). Prof. Holland has gained national and international recognition for her contributions in ultrasound research, available in 149 scientific publications, 12 book chapters, and 9 issued patents.
About the Moderator
Xiaoning Jiang is the Dean F. Duncan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a University Faculty Scholar at North Carolina State University. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an Adjunct Professor of Neurology in Duke University. Dr. Jiang received his Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University (1997) and his Postdoctoral training from the Nanyang Technological University (1996-1997) and the Pennsylvania State University (1997-2001). He was the Chief Scientist and Vice President for TRS Technologies, Inc. prior to joining NC State in 2009. Dr. Jiang is the author and co-author of two books, 6 book chapters, 11 issued US Patents, more than 200 peer reviewed journal papers and over 160 conference papers on piezoelectric ultrasound transducers, ultrasound for medical imaging and therapy, drug delivery, ultrasound NDT/NDE, smart materials and structures and M/NEMS. His recent innovations are associated with novel small aperture transducers for high frequency intravascular imaging, intravenous sonothrombolysis and intra-tumor therapy, and wearable ultrasound devices. Dr. Jiang served as the Vice President for Technical Activities in IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) (2022-2023). He was the Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine (2020 - 2021) and an IEEE NTC Distinguished Lecturer in 2018-2019. Dr. Jiang is currently the Vice President-Elect for Publications of IEEE Nanotechnology Council. Dr. Jiang is an ASME Fellow, a SPIE Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.
2025 Webinar Schedule
- January 15 / 16, 2025: Ying Meng, M.D., Ph.D. from Sunnybrook Research Institute and the University of Toronto presenting: "Sonobiopsy: Using Focused Ultrasound to Aid in Diagnosis and Disease Monitoring"
- February 27 / 28, 2025: Maxime Lafond, Ph.D. from LabTAU, Inserm presenting: "Ultrasound Therapy in the Eye"
- March 20, 2025: James Choi, Ph.D. from Imperial College London presenting: "Microbubble Dynamics in Brain Microvessels — Insights into how ultrasound-driven microbubbles alter the blood-brain barrier permeability"
- April 17, 2025: "Rising Scientists in Therapeutic Ultrasound" Special Session
- May 15, 2025: Christy K. Holland, Ph.D. from University of Cincinnati presenting "Sonothrombolysis"
- September 25, 2025: Adam Maxwell, Ph.D. from Virginia Tech presenting: "Burst Wave Lithotripsy"
- October 16, 2025: Nobuki Kudo, Ph.D. from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan presenting: "High-Speed Photography of Cavitation Bubbles"
- December 11, 2025: "Rising Scientists in Therapeutic Ultrasound" Special Session