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Dr. James Grotberg, Ph.D., M.D.
Emergency Physician
2123 Carl A. Gerstacker Building 2200 Bonisteel Boulevard Ann Arbor MI, 48109About
Dr. James Grotberg practices Emergency Medicine in Ann Arbor, MI. Dr. Grotberg assesses patients who seek immediate medical attention at any time of day or night. Emergency Medicine Physicians are trained to efficiently work with each patient and situation no matter how acute or life-threatening. Dr. Grotberg examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses conditions, and decides the best treatment methods.
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Education and Training
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine MD 0
Johns Hopkins University Department of Mechanics and Materials Science M.S. 1975
Johns Hopkins University Department of Mechanics and Materials Science Ph.D. 1977
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Surfactant-spreading and surface-compression disturbance on a thin viscous film.
- Surfactant effects in model airway closure experiments.
- A rat lung model of instilled liquid transport in the pulmonary airways.
- Respiratory fluid mechanics and transport processes.
- Steady-state pleural fluid flow and pressure and the effects of lung buoyancy.
- Liquid plug flow in straight and bifurcating tubes.
- Reversible switching of high-speed air-liquid two-phase flows using electrowetting-assisted flow-pattern change.
- Gas exchange by intratracheal insufflation in a ventilatory failure dog model.
- Effect of ventilation rate on instilled surfactant distribution in the pulmonary airways of rats.
- Gas dispersion in volume-cycled tube flow. I. Theory.
- Gas dispersion in volume-cycled tube flow. II. Tracer bolus experiments.
- The effect of airway wall motion on surfactant delivery.
- Spectral content of forced expiratory wheezes during air, He, and SF6 breathing in normal humans.
- Steady propagation of a liquid plug in a two-dimensional channel.
- Microfluidics for flow cytometric analysis of cells and particles.
Faculty Titles & Positions
- Visiting Professor Université Paris Est, INSERM-Institute Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Paris, France 2015 - Present
- Director University of Michigan - NASA Bioscience and Engineering Institute 2003 - Present
- Professor in Biomedical Engineering Department Biomedical Engineering Department at University of Michigan College of Engineering and Department of Surgery at University of Michigan School of Medicine 1998 - Present
Awards
- Presidential Young Investigator Award 1984 NSF
- Presidential Young Investigator Award 1989 NSF
- Research Career Development Award 1987 NIH
- Research Career Development Award 1992 NIH
- BME Departmental Award for Excellence 2001 University of Michigan
- Fellow 2002 American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics
- Inaugural Fellow 2005 Biomedical Engineering Society
- Kenan Distinguished Professor 2009 Princeton University
- Fellow 2010 American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Visitor Award 2014 University of Auckland
- George J. Huebner, Jr Research Excellence Award 2019 University of Michigan
Professional Memberships
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Biomedical Engineering Society
- American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics
- American Physiological Society
- American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
Internships
- Northwestern University
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Dr. James Grothberg is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan. A seasoned emergency physician, he is the founding Director of the University of Michigan NASA Bioscience and Engineering Institute.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Fluid Mechanics at Johns Hopkins University, and then completed his medical education at the University of Chicago.
Following his internship year, he joined the faculty at Northwestern University from 1981 to 1998, jointly appointed in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Anesthesiology. During that period, he practiced emergency medicine in the Chicago and downstate Illinois regions. In 1998, he joined the University of Michigan.
Maintaining fellowship status, Dr. Grotberg is a Fellow of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, an Inaugural Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society, and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The latter cited him as “the leading Biofluid Dynamicist in the United States and among the top two or three in the world.”
Among his other roles, he is Associate Editor of Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics and Biophysical Journal, and a previous Associate Editor of Physics of Fluids and Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. He was the Kenan Distinguished Professor at Princeton University (2009), and maintained visiting appointments in the Department of Physics at Ecole Polytechnique, the Department of Applied Mathematics at Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, and Universite Paris-Est, Faculte de Medecine, in France.
An enthusiastic researcher, Dr. Grotberg’s research focuses on biofluid dynamics and biotransport, primarily in the respiratory system. These include experimental and theoretical investigations of surfactant replacement therapy, aerosol delivery into the lung, microgravity ventilation, airway closure and reopening, flow induced oscillations such as wheezing and its relation to flow limitation, obstructive sleep apnea, liquid ventilation, high frequency ventilation, and implantable artificial lungs.
Together with colleagues, he has collaborated to develop “Lung-on-a-Chip” microfluidics technology for testing pulmonary cells in controlled mechanical and chemical challenges. His work has been funded by NIH, NSF, NASA, NATO, BSF (Israel-US), ANR (France), The Coulter Foundation, The Whitaker Foundation, and industry.
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