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photo John M. Cormack, PhD

Cardiology

Research Instructor in Medicine

Email: jmc345@pitt.edu

Contact
Office: Scaife Hall Room 627
3550 Terrace Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
 
E-mail: jmc345@pitt.edu
Education and Training
Education
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, 2014
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2019
Training
Postdoctoral Training (Ultrasound imaging technology/Cardiology), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 2022
Research Interest
• Ultrasound imaging in diagnostic medicine, including spatial coherence imaging, 3D elasticity imaging, tissue harmonic
imaging, and photoacoustic imaging
• Cardiac and skeletal muscle biomechanics, including right-ventricle remodeling in pulmonary hypertension, and elastic
wave motion in muscular tissue
• Modeling and measurement of nonlinear wave phenomena in complex materials such as soft tissue, polymers,
geomaterials, and piezoelectrics, including wave propagation, resonance phenomena, diffraction, and guided waves
• Material characterization of nonlinear and viscoelastic materials using acoustical techniques
Publications
For my complete bibliography, Click Here.