IEEE West Virginia Section Officer Candidates for 2010
Region 2 Eastern United States
Candidate for chair: Mark Stecker, M.D., Ph.D.
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Mark Stecker recieved his BS and MS in physics in 1976 and his PhD in solid state physics in 1980. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1984 and subsequently completed a residency in neurology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1988 and a fellowship in neuroscience/epilepsy in 1990. He was assistant professor and then associate professor of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania until 2008. He was director of electroencephalography, epilepsy and intra-operative neurophysiologic monitoring at Geisinger Medical Center until 2008. Since October 2008 he is professor of neuroscience at Marshall University and director of the neurophysiology laboratory at Cabell Huntington Hospital. He is a senior member of IEEE, and has been a member since 1984. He is past president of the American Society of Neurophysiologic Monitoring, Chair of the Neurophysiologic Research and Education Consortium, and Chair of the American Board for the Accreditation of Neurophysiologic Monitoring Programs. His research interests include signal processing especially in determining the information content of signals as well as determinations of the electrical fields generated by different types of nerve impulses. He is also involved in recording nerve action potentials in rat sciatic nerve in order to understand the physiology of the effects of temperature and ischemia on the nerve. |
