Education

2007: PhD candidate Biomedical Engineering,Graduate Center and The City College of CUNY,New York,USA

2007 : MS  Biomedical Engineering, City College of New York

1991 : B.E. Electrical Engineering Communication and Electronics, Alexandria University, Egypt

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

My Research

Developing technology to control the heating at implantable medical devices including neuroprosthetic devices. (Maged Elwassif)

Applying Bioheat Transfer Model to an High Resolution Human Head. (Maged Elwassif)



Selected Publications:

M. Bikson, A. Datta, M. Elwassif. Establishing safety limits for transcranial direct current stimulation. Clinical Neurophysiology Invited Editorial. (PDF)

A. Datta, M. Elwassif, F. Battaglia, M. Bikson. Transcranial current stimulation focality using disc and ring electrode configurations: FEM analysis. Journal of Neural Engineering 2008; 5:163-174.(PDF)

Elwassif MM, Kong Q, Vazquez M, Bikson M. Bio-heat transfer model of deep brain stimulation-induced temperature changes. Journal of Neural Engineering 2006; 3:306-15. (PDF)

Elwassif MM, Kong Q, Vazquez M, Bikson M. Bio-heat transfer model of deep brain stimulation-induced temperature changes. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2006 ;1 :3580-3583 17946574  

Conference Papers:

M. Elwassif, A. Datta, M. Bikson. Temperature Control at DBS Electrodes Using Heat Sink: Experimentally Validated FEM Model of DBS Lead Architecture. Design of Medical Devices Conference 2009

M. Elwassif, A. Datta, M. Bikson. Induced Temperature changes during DBS: Experimental validation of DBS leads 3387/3389 Heat Transfer Model. Neural Interfaces Conference.(Cleveland) 2008

A. Datta, M. Elwassif, F. Battaglia, M. Bikson. Transcranial current stimulation focality using disk and ring electrode configurations: FEM analysis. Neural Interfaces Conference (Cleveland) 2008

V.Lopez, A. Datta, R. Amaya, M. Elwassif, J. Tarbell, M. Bikson. Induced BBB electroporation during DBS: In vitro endothelial monolayer model. Neural Interfaces Conference (Cleveland) 2008

A. Datta, M. Elwassif, V. Bansal, J. Diaz, F. Battaglia, M. Bikson. A system and device for focal transcranial direct current stimulation using concentric ring electrode configurations. 3rd International Conference on TMS/tDCS conference (Goettingen) 2008