Fabrice Manns

Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Director, Biomedical Optics and Laser Laboratory
Co-Director, Opthalmic Biophysics Center, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

McArthur Engineering Annex, Room 204
University of Miami
P.O. Box 248294
Coral Gables, FL 33124-0620
(305) 284-2335

fmanns@miami.edu

EDUCATION TEACHING RESEARCH PROJECTS PUBLICATIONS EXPERIENCE HONORS  OPPORTUNITIES

EDUCATION:

• Diplome d'ingenieur, Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Electronique et de Radioelectricite de Bordeaux (ENSERB), France, 1991.
• DEA (MS), Microelectronics, University of Bordeaux, France, 1991.
• PhD, Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami, 1996

TEACHING:

Biomedical Optical Instrumentation  (BME 545), Medical Applications of Lasers  (BME 546), Biomedical Optical Diagnostics and Imaging (BME 645), Foundations of Medical Imaging (BME 330)

RESEARCH:

Medical Applications of Lasers and Optics, Laser-Tissue Interactions, Optical diagnostic techniques, Lasers in Ophthalmology, Laser hyperthermia, Optical Imaging.

PROJECTS:

• Optics and instrumentation for cataract surgery to restore accommodation (Phaco-Ersatz surgery)
• Optimization of vision correction procedures (Corneal reshaping, Intra-ocular lenses)
• Study of the optical and mechanical properties of the human crystalline lens, accomodation, and presbyopia.
• Image guided laser interstitial thermotherapy (LITT) for the treatment of breast cancer tumors.
• Study of laser-tissue interactions for the optimization of surgical procedures in ophthalmology, otolaryngology and urology.

PUBLICATIONS:

Journal Publications:
View published articles by this professor in the National Library of Medicine.

Book Chapters:
Parel JM, Manns F, Holden B, Ho A. Refractive surgical procedures to restore accommodation. Chapter 40 in ?Refractive Surgery, 2nd Edition?, Azar D, Gatinel D, Hoang-Xuan T, editors. Mosby-Elsevier, Philadelphia; 2006. pp 501-509.

Manns F, Ho A, Kruger RR. Customized visual correction of presbyopia. In Wavefront-guided corrections: The quest for super vision, 2nd Edition, Chapter 42. SLACK Inc, Thorofare, NJ; 2004. pp353-360.

Ho A, Erickson P, Manns F, Fernandez V, Parel JM. The limits of simultaneous ametropia correction in phaco-ersatz. In Hyperopia and Presbyopia, K Tsubota, Boxer-Wachler BS, Azar DT, Koch DD editors; Marcel Dekker, New York; 2003. pp259-277.

Patents:
Ho A, Erickson P, Manns F, Parel J-M. Supplemental endo-capsular lens and method of implantation; US Patent 7,060,095 (June 2006)

Telischi FF, Ozdamar OO, Parel JM, Manns F. Otic probe for neuro-cochlear monitoring. US Patent 6,640,121 (October 2003).

Parel JM, Manns F, Robinson DS, Milne P, Denham DB, Gonzalez-Cirre X. Intraoperative monitoring of temperature-induced tissue changes with a high resolution digital X-ray system during laser thermotherapy. US Patent 6,684,097 (January, 2004)

EXPERIENCE:

• 06-present: Associate Professor; Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Ophthalmology; University of Miami.
• 00-06; Assistant Professor; Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Ophthalmology; University of Miami.
• 97-00: Research Assistant Professor; Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Ophthalmology; University of Miami
• 96-97: Post-doctoral Associate; Ophthalmic Biophysics Center, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute; University of Miami School of Medicine.
• 92-96: Research Assistant; Department of Biomedical Engineering; University of Miami College of Engineering.
• 91: Research Engineer; IXL Microelectronics Laboratory; University of Bordeaux, France.

HONORS:

• Outstanding New Faculty Research Award (2nd Place), ASEE-SE, 2002.
• Fight For Sight Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1996-1997.
• Chair, Ophthalmic Technologies VII-XVIII, SPIE Photonics West Conference, San Jose, CA, 1997-2008.
• Member SPIE, Optical Society of America (OSA), Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), BioMedical Engineering Society (BMES), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

OPPORTUNITIES:

Research and design projects are available to motivated graduate and undergraduate students in the Laser Laboratories of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and of the Ophthalmic Biophysics Center in the McKnight Vision Research Center of the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.