Amir Manbachi

Amir Manbachi is a Iranian-Canadian scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur in the field of ultrasound. His research and inventions are primarily centered around spine and brain surgeries. Manbachi is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins' School of Medicine.He is the director of the Johns Hopkins' HEPIUS lab.
==Background==
Manbachi is Canadian of Iranian descent.
He conducted his doctoral studies under the supervision of ultrasound connoisseur, Richard S.C. Cobbold at the University of Toronto.
He studied at the University of Toronto where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Applied Sciences (BASc) from the Engineering Science (Physics) program in 2008.In 2010, he got his master's degree, and in 2015 he got a PhD in biomedical engineering from University of Toronto.
During his post-doctoral research at Harvard and MIT's Division of Health Sciences Technology, his mentor was Ali Khademhosseini.https://bntl.sogang.ac.kr/bntl/Research/Documents/8.pdf
In 2020, and as part of a team jointly led by Nicholas Theodore at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Manbachi and his team received a $13.5M grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop wearable and implantable ultrasound technologies for patients with spinal cord injuries.
==Career==
As of December 2022, Manbachi is an Assistant Professor of neurosurgery, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, Anesthesiology, and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the Biomedical Engineering Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).He is credited with dozen patents and patent applications pertaining to medical devices for wearable and implantable ultrasound probes.https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2022/09/19/baltimore-business-journal-40-under-40-2022.html Manbachi studied the utility of machine learning to automatically detect and localize foreign body objects on intraoperative ultrasound images. Another example of his work includes the design and fabrication of implantable ultrasound sensors to monitor brain tumor regrowth following surgeries. Manbachi's work has been recently recognized by Baltimore Business Journal’s 40 under 40 award.
==Bibliography==
==Select publications==
*Manbachi A. and Cobbold R.S.C., 2011. Development and application of piezoelectric materials for ultrasound generation and detection. Ultrasound, 19(4), pp. 187–196.
*Kempksi Leadingham KM, Abramson HG, Perdomo-Pantoja A, Thombre R, Liu J, Norman M, Chavez F, Morrison K, Suk I, Gordon C, Armand M and Manbachi A. "Design of a Custom Flexible Ultrasound Transducer as an Implantable Cranial Sensor for Long-Term Post-Operative Monitoring of Brain Tumor Regrowth," 2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2022, pp. 1–4, 
*Routkevitch D, Hersh AM, Kempski KM, Kerensky M, Theodore N, Thakor NV, Manbachi A, "FlowMorph: Morphological Segmentation of Ultrasound-Monitored Spinal Cord Microcirculation," 2022 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2022, pp. 610–614, 
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