Patient-specific planning of arthroplasty: from CT scans to structural models

Prof. Cristina Bignardi

MSC in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 1985.
PhD in Mechanical Systems and Structures at Politecnico di Torino in 1990.

 

Institutional appointments

- Associate professor in Industrial Bioengineering at Politecnico di Torino from 2001
- Lecturer of “Engineering in clinical medicine and surgery”, “Biomechanics”, and “Design of prostheses and artificial organs” at Politecnico di Torino (Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering)

 

- Lecturer of “Bioengineering” at Faculty of Dentistry, University of Torino

 

- Lecturer of “Biomechanics” at Faculty of medicine and Surgery (Orthopaedics), University of Torino

 

- Coordinator of PhD School in Biomedical Engineering of Politecnico di Torino (2011-2017)
- Member of Health and Welfare Regional Council (CORESA), advisory body of the Regional Council on social-health topics (Piedmont  Region) as Representative of Politecnico di Torino, from 2006
- Member of the Ethical Committee of Puzzle Centre (Centre for cranium-encephalic trauma and serious acquired encephalic lesions), Torino, from 2014

 

 

Main areas of research

  • Numerical and experimental structural analysis methods
  • Human joints and arthroprostheses
  • Biomechanics of the spinal column
  • Dental biomechanics
  • Biomechanics of the pelvic floor
  • Characterization of biological tissue at different scales of investigation
  • Bioreactors for regenerative medicine

 
Co-author of more than 100 paper on National and International Congress Proceedings and National and International Journals.

 

Projects as Principal Investigator
- European project - ORTHOCAP - Non invasive verification of the scoliotic curve correction obtained by means of the use of orthopaedic corsets (1999)
- National Project PRIN 2004 –Development of new numerical and experimental procedures for the hip arthroplasty secondary stability design
- National Project PRIN 2009 – Development and validation of hybrid models of blood flows for patient specific fluid dynamics analysis as a support of clinical medicine
- Polo di Innovazione Biotecnologie e Biomedicale FIDIS Project – Inner Dynamic Sensorized Fixator (2011)
- National Project (MISE-ICE-CRUI – 2010) PROBING – Engineered Bioreactors Prototype (2012)
- Polo di Innovazione Biotecnologie e Biomedicale BBS Project  - Bioactive Bone Substitutes (2012)

- Italian Cluster Scienze della Vita IRMI Project (Italian Regenerative Medicine Infrastructure) (2013-2018)
- National Project (MISE-ICE-CRUI – 2014) E.F.I.N. (Expandable Intra Medullary Nail) (2015-2018)
 

Lectures