Robert Eberhart, PhD

Professor Emeritus
Surgery
Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

robert.eberhart@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

Robert C. Eberhart, PhD, received an AB in 1958 in applied physics from Harvard College. He received his PhD in 1965 in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a staff scientist at the Institute for Medical Sciences, San Francisco, from 1964-1975. He became an associate professor at The University of Texas at Austin in 1975.

Dr. Eberhart joined the faculty of UT Southwestern as an associate professor in 1976 and became a full professor of engineering in surgery in 1986. He served as Chairman of the Joint UT Southwestern-UT Arlington Graduate Biomedical Engineering Program from 1983 to 2000.

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of California-Berkeley (1965)
UndergraduateHarvard University (1959)

Research Interests

Biocompatible materials for controlled drug and gene delivery
Bioresorbable intravascular and nonvascular stents
Functional imaging of circulatory assist devices (cell adhesion to pump-oxygenators)
Hypothermia in surgery and critical care
Laparoscopic instrumentation (magnetically anchored devices, virtual reality/hepatic training)

Publications

Featured
Bioheat transfer in blood-perfused tissues and clinical applications of hypothermia.

Orr CS, Eberhart RC , Annual Review of Heat Transfer , Select Month or Season 1999; (9):1-78

Featured
Bioresorbable filaments promote peripheral nerve regeneration across extended nerve lesions.

Ngo TB, Romero A, Nelson KD, Eberhart RC, Smith GM , J. Neuroscience Research , Select Month or Season;

Featured
Thromboresistant alkyl derivatized polyurethanes.

Munro MS, Eberhart RC, Maki NJ, Brink BE, Fry WJ , ASAIO Journal , Month; (6):65-75

Featured
Bioresorbable microporous stents deliver recombinant adenovirus gene transfer vectors to the arterial wall.

Ye YW, Landau C, Willard JE, Rajasubramanian G, Moskowitz A, Aziz S, Meidell RS, Eberhart RC , Annals of Biomedical Engineering , 1998; (26):398-408

Featured
Acute respiratory insufficiency. Treatment with prolonged extracorporeal oxygenation

Hill JD, de Leval MR, Fallat RJ, Bramson MD, Eberhart RC, Schulte HD, Osborn JJ, Barger R, Gerbode F , J Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery , 1972; (64):551-562

Trocar-less Instrumentationfor Laparoscopy: Magnetic Positioning of Intra-abdominal Camera and Retractor

Park S, Bergs RA, Eberhart RC, Baker L, Fernandez R and Cadeddu JA , Annals of Surgery , March 2007; (Issue 3 Vol 245):379-384

Drug-eluting bioresorbable stents for various applications.

Zilberman M, Eberhart RC , Annual Reviews of Biomedical Engineering , 2006; (Vol 8):153-180

An expandable, bioresorbable endovascular stent.

Su S, Chao R, Landau CR, Nelson KD, Timmons RB, Meidell RB, Eberhart RC , Annals of Biomedical Engineering , 2003; (Issue 3 Volume 31):667-677

Finite element simulation of cooling of realistic 3-D human head and neck.

Dennis, BH, Eberhart RC, Dulikravich GS, Radons SW , J. Biomechanical Engineering , 2003; (Vol 125):832-840

Transient adhesion of platelets in pump-oxygenator systems: Influence of SMA and nitric oxide treatments.

Li J, Sly MK, Chao R, Constantinescu A, Kulkarni PV, Wians FH, Jessen ME, Eberhart RC , J Biomaterials Science: Polymer Edition , 1999; (Vol 10):235-246

Honors/Awards

Inaugural Fellow

Biomedical Engineering Society (2005)

Founding Fellow

American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (1994)

President

American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (1993)

C. William Hall Outstanding Research Award

Southern Bioengineering Conference (1987)

Fellow

American Society for Mechanical Engineering (1987)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

American Society for Artificial Internal Organs

American Society for Mechanical Engineering

Biomedical Engineering Society

Society for Biomaterials