INTRODUCTION
BIOMATERIALS HISTORY
PART I: Materials Science & Engineering
Properties of Materials
Classes of Materials Used in Medicine
PART II: Biology, Chemistry and Medicine
Background Concepts
Host Reactions to Biomaterials and Their Evaluation
Testing Biomaterials
Degradation of Materials in the Biological Environment
Applications of Materials in Medicine, Dentistry and Biology
Artifical Organs and Tissues
Tissue Engineering
PART III: Practical Aspects of Biomaterials
Implants & Devices - Special Concerns
New Products and Standards
Perspectives and Possibilities in Biomaterials Science
APPENDICES
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Buddy D. Ratner, Michael L. and Myrna Darland Endowed Chair in
Bioengineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering at the
University of Washington, received his Ph.D. (1972) in polymer
chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. From
1985-1996 he directed the NIH-funded National ESCA and Surface
Analysis Center for Biomedical Problems (NESAC/BIO), and in 1996 he
assumed the directorship of University of Washington Engineered
Biomaterials (UWEB), an NSF Engineering Research Center. He is the
editor of the Journal of Undergraduate Research in Bioengineering,
a past president of the Society for Biomaterials and author of 400
scholarly works. Ratner is a fellow of the American Institute of
Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the American Vacuum
Society and a Fellow, Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE).
He served as president of AIMBE, 2002-2003. He is vice president of
the Tissue Engineering Society International (TESI) 2003-2005. In
2002 Ratner was elected a member of the National Academy of
Engineering, USA, and in 2004 he won the Founder’s Award for the
Society For Biomaterials. His research interests include
biomaterials, tissue engineering, polymers, biocompatibility,
surface analysis of organic materials, self-assembly,
nanobiotechnology and RF-plasma thin film deposition.
Summary of Buddy Ratner’s awards and honors:
1989 Clemson Award for Contributions to the Biomaterials
Literature
1990 Burlington Resources Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for
Outstanding Research
1991 Perkin-Elmer Physical Electronics Award for Excellence in
Surface Science
1991–1992 President, Society For Biomaterials
1993 Founding Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological
Engineering (AIMBE)
1993 Fellow, American Vacuum Society; Vice President, AIMBE
1993 Fellow, Society For Biomaterials; Van Ness Lecturer,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1998 C.M.A. Stine Award in Materials Science (AIChE); American
Vacuu Professor Hoffman studied at M.I.T., where he received B.S.,
M.S., and Sc.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering between 1953 and
1957. He taught on the faculty of M.I.T. Chemical Engineering
Department for a total of ten years. He also spent four years in
industry. Since 1970 he has been Professor of Bioengineering at the
University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.
Professor Hoffman has over 330 publications, several books and
chapters, 21 patents and several other patents pending. He is on
the Editorial Boards of seven scientific journals.
Summary of professional activities and awards include:
•President, Society for Biomaterials, 1983-1984
•Clemson Award in Biomaterials, 1984
•Board of Governors, Controlled Release Society, 1991-1994
•Biomaterials Science Prize, Japanese Biomaterials Society,
1990
•Founders’ Award of the Society for Biomaterials, 2000
•Election to the National Academy of Engineering, 2005
In December, 1992, Hoffman's colleagues organized a symposium in
Maui, Hawaii in honor of his 60th birthday. In December, 2002 his
70th birthday was celebrated at another special symposium, once
again in Maui, Hawaii. Papers from the first symposium were
published in the Journal of Biomaterials Science (Polymer Edition),
along with a Festschrift book, and similar publications are in
press at this time from the second symposium. Frederick J. Schoen
is Professor of Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology,
Harvard Medical School; Director of Cardiac Pathology and Executive
Vice-Chairman in the Department of Pathology at the Brigham and
Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston. Schoen received a B.S.E.
(Materials and Metallurgical Engineering) from the University of
Michigan (1966), a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Cornell
University (1970) and an M.D. from the University of Miami School
of Medicine (1974). Following a Surgery internship followed by
residency in Anatomic Pathology and fellowship in Thoracic and
Cardiovascular Pathology at the University of Florida, he joined
BWH in 1980. Schoen has focused his research career on
tissue-biomaterial interactions, structure-function-pathology
correlations in the native heart valves, heart valve substitutes
and other cardiovascular prostheses, calcification of bioprosthetic
tissues, heart transplantation, and cardiovascular applications of
tissue engineering. Schoen has leadership responsibilities in
academic programs in the Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical
School and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and
Technology (HST); he currently chairs the HST Faculty Appointments
Committee and the Graduate (Curriculum) Committee, and is an active
teacher of courses in pathology, cardiovascular pathology, and
biomaterials and tissue engineering. He chairs the BWH Education
Committee. Schoen is author or co-author of approximately 375
manuscripts in journals and books. He authored Interventional and
Surgical Cardiovascular Pathology: Clinical Correlations and Basic
Principles (1989); and was Co-Editor of Biomaterials Science: An
Introduction to Materials in Medicine (1st Edition 1996, 2nd
Edition 2004), and Silver’s Cardiovascular Pathology, 3rd Edition
(2001). He is Past-President of the Society For Biomaterials (SFB)
and the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology, and was Founding
Fellow of the American In
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