Jessica L. Sparks, Ph.D.

Instructor

Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Medical Center Blvd.
Winston-Salem, NC  27157-1022

Phone:  336-716-4543
E-mail: jsparks@wfubmc.edu

EDUCATION:

	B.S., Premed and Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
	M.S., Anatomy, The Ohio State University
	Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

	Characterizing soft tissue material properties under physiological conditions
	Investigating the biomechanics of soft tissue injury in blunt trauma
	Constitutive modeling of soft tissue stress-strain behavior
	Applying soft tissue material properties to the development of virtual surgery technology
	Developing tissue testing techniques to evaluate the mechanical properties of soft tissues over a wide range of loading rates

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

	Sparks, J.L., Bolte, J.H., Dupaix, R.B., Jones, K.H, Steinberg, S.M., Herriott, R., Stammen, J., Donnelly, B. (2007) Using Pressure to Predict Liver Injury Risk from Blunt Impact.  Stapp Car Crash Journal, Vol. 51.
	Sparks, J.L., Stammen, J., Herriott, R., Jones, K.  Development of a Fluid-Filled Catheter System for Dynamic Pressure Measurement in Soft Tissue Trauma.  International Journal of Crashworthiness.  Accepted January 2008.
	Sparks, J.L., Dupaix, R.B. Constitutive modeling of rate dependent stress-strain behavior of human liver tissue in blunt impact loading.  Annals of Biomedical Engineering.  Submitted November 2007.
	Sparks, J.L., Stammen, J., Herriott, R., Jones, K. (2004) An Intravascular Pressure Measurement Technique Applied to Impact Testing of Unembalmed Human Liver Specimens. Proc. 32nd International Workshop on Human Subjects for Biomechanical Research. NHTSA/NTRBC, Washington, DC. pp. 17-27.