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Kenneth Lutchen

Kenneth Lutchen is a biomedical engineer, researcher, professor, and university leader. He was named university provost and chief academic officer ad interim of Boston University in July 2023.[1]

Education

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Lutchen earned a Bachelor of Science in engineering science at the University of Virginia. He earned a Master of Science and PhD at Case Western Reserve University, both in biomedical engineering.[2]

Academic career

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Lutchen has spent most of his professional academic career at Boston University. In 1984, he joined the faculty as an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and was promoted to associate professor in 1991.[3] He created the Biomedical Engineering Student Design Program and started the Annual Senior Project Conference.[4]

In 1998, Lutchen became a full professor at BU and was appointed as chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department.[3] Lutchen became dean of the College of Engineering in 2006 and served in that position until 2023.[3][5] Lutchen initiated and oversaw the creation of BU’s Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC)[6][7] and Bioengineering Technology and Entrepreneurship Center (BTEC). He reorganized the college in 2008,[8] including the creation of the Division of Materials Science and Engineering and the Division of Systems Engineering. In 2010, the Kenneth R. Lutchen Distinguished Fellowship Program was created to support ten undergraduate summer research fellows per year in biomedical engineering and honor Lutchen’s contributions to the college.[4] Under his leadership, the National Science Foundation awarded the college a grant to create its Engineering Research Center.[9] Lutchen was also the first BU dean to create the position of Associate Dean of Outreach and Diversity.[1]

On May 31, 2023, it was announced that Lutchen would assume the role of BU’s university provost and chief academic officer ad interim on July 1, 2023.[1]

In addition to his tenure at BU, he served as technical staff and consultant at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 1983 to 1995, and as a visiting professor of bioengineering at the University of Siena in Siena, Italy, in 1991.[2]

Research

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Lutchen is active in the field of respiratory mechanics.[10] His research focuses on lung disease, including cause mechanisms, diagnosis methods, and more efficacious treatments. He developed an image-based modeling system that provides a real-time look at lungs during asthma attacks.[11]

Lutchen has served on and led several biomedical boards and committees, including:

Selected publications

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In addition to journal articles and book chapters, Lutchen has also written several op-eds on engineering education, technology transfer, and biomedical issues in publications such as Harvard Business Review, Fortune magazine, and Business Insider. These publications include:

  • “Multiscale stiffness of human emphysematous precision cut lung slices”, Science Advances,[17] 2023
  • “A Few Bad Airways Can Wreak Havoc: Recognizing Asthma as a Local Disorder”, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine;[18] 2023
  • “The Silent “Zone” Screams Again: Identifying COPD Patients Most at Risk”, CHEST Journal,[19] 2021
  • “Years of anti-science sentiment has left America in a terrifying predicament”, Business Insider;[20] 2020
  • “Why Companies and Universities Should Forge Long-Term Collaborations”, Harvard Business Review;[21] 2018
  • “This Is the Best Major For Every Wannabe CEO”, Fortune;[22] 2016
  • “Linking Ventilation Heterogeneity Quantified via Hyperpolarized 3He MRI to Dynamic Lung Mechanics and Airway Hyperresponsiveness”, PLOS One,[23] 2015
  • “A Mechanical Design Principle for Tissue Structure and Function in the Airway Tree”, PLOS One,[24] 2013
  • “Engineering Efficient Technology Transfer”, Science Advances,[25] 2011
  • “Lung tissue viscoelasticity: from extracellular matrix complexity to constitutive equations”, Handbook of Biomedical Engineering,[26] 2005
  • “Understanding Pulmonary Mechanics Using the Forced Oscillation Technique: Emphasis on Breathing Frequencies”, Bioengineering Approaches to Pulmonary Physiology,[27] 1996

Selected awards and honors

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Personal

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Kenneth Lutchen lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with his family.[13]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "College of Engineering Dean Kenneth Lutchen Named Interim BU Provost". June 2023.
  2. ^ a b Lutchen CV July 2023 bu.edu
  3. ^ a b c "Kenneth Lutchen named dean of ENG – the Daily Free Press". September 2006.
  4. ^ a b "Big Ideas Reap Big Rewards | BU Today".
  5. ^ "Lutchen chosen as ENG dean | BU Today".
  6. ^ "New EPIC Studio Will Equip ENG Students with Design Skills | BU Today". May 12, 2013.
  7. ^ "PTC donates $18.8m software gift to BU's new Engineering Product Innovation Center".
  8. ^ "Making Good - Bostonia Fall 2011".
  9. ^ "BU Wins $20M for NSF Engineering Research Center | the Brink".
  10. ^ "Respiratory Mechanics: Lutchen, Kenneth R - Expertscape.com". expertscape.com. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
  11. ^ "Research at Boston University".
  12. ^ "Wyss Institute | Wyss Institute at Harvard". Wyss Institute. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
  13. ^ a b "About the Provost | Office of the Provost".
  14. ^ "IAMBE".
  15. ^ "Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Advisory Committee Members" (PDF). nsf.gov. Spring 2017.
  16. ^ "Abstracts of the Biomedical Engineering Society 1993 Annual Fall Meeting, October 21–24, 1993". Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 21: 1–69. 1993. doi:10.1007/BF02364694. S2CID 45590419.
  17. ^ Kim, Jae Hun; Schaible, Niccole; Hall, Joseph K.; Bartolák-Suki, Erzsébet; Deng, Yuqing; Herrmann, Jacob; Sonnenberg, Adam; Behrsing, Holger P.; Lutchen, Kenneth R.; Krishnan, Ramaswamy; Suki, Béla (2023). "Multiscale stiffness of human emphysematous precision cut lung slices". Science Advances. 9 (20): eadf2535. Bibcode:2023SciA....9F2535K. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adf2535. PMC 10198632. PMID 37205750.
  18. ^ Lutchen, Kenneth (2023). "A Few Bad Airways Can Wreak Havoc: Recognizing Asthma as a Local Disorder". American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 207 (4): 386–388. doi:10.1164/rccm.202212-2231ED. PMC 9940148. PMID 36516460.
  19. ^ "The "Silent Zone" Screams Again - CHEST". Retrieved October 26, 2023.
  20. ^ "Years of anti-science sentiment has left America in a terrifying predicament". Business Insider.
  21. ^ Lutchen, Kenneth R. (January 24, 2018). "Why Companies and Universities Should Forge Long-Term Collaborations". Harvard Business Review.
  22. ^ "This is the Best Major for Every Wannabe CEO".
  23. ^ Lui, Justin K.; Parameswaran, Harikrishnan; Albert, Mitchell S.; Lutchen, Kenneth R. (2015). "Linking Ventilation Heterogeneity Quantified via Hyperpolarized 3He MRI to Dynamic Lung Mechanics and Airway Hyperresponsiveness". PLOS ONE. 10 (11): e0142738. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1042738L. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0142738. PMC 4646346. PMID 26569412.
  24. ^ Laprad, Adam S.; Lutchen, Kenneth R.; Suki, Béla (2013). "A Mechanical Design Principle for Tissue Structure and Function in the Airway Tree". PLOS Computational Biology. 9 (5): e1003083. Bibcode:2013PLSCB...9E3083L. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003083. PMC 3667774. PMID 23737742.
  25. ^ Lutchen, Kenneth; Ayers, Jennifer; Gallagher, Sean; Abu-Taleb, Laith (2011). "Engineering Efficient Technology Transfer". Science Translational Medicine. 3 (110): 110cm32. doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.3003004. PMID 22116931. S2CID 206678807.
  26. ^ Béla Suki and Kenneth R. Lutchen , “Lung tissue viscoelasticity: from extracellular matrix complexity to constitutive equations”; Handbook of Biomedical Engineering, 2005.
  27. ^ Lutchen, K.R. and B. Suki, "Understanding Pulmonary Mechanics Using the Forced Oscillation Technique: Emphasis on Breathing Frequencies" Chpt. 15, pgs 227-253 in Bioengineering Approaches to Pulmonary Physiology., Plenum Press, Edited by Michael Khoo, 1996.
  28. ^ "IAMBE".
  29. ^ "Pierre Galletti Award - AIMBE".
  30. ^ "List of Fellows - Biomedical Engineering Society".
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