Edward J. Ciaccio, Ph.D.

phone: (212) 305-5297, fax: (212) 305-5740, email: ciaccio@columbia.edu

Synopsis

Dr. Edward J. Ciaccio currently holds a primary appointment as a research scientist in Pharmacology at Columbia University, and adjunct appointments as associate professor of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University and at the City University of New York. Dr. Ciaccio received his graduate degrees (MS and PhD) jointly from University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/Rutgers. During that time he received awards for graduate and postdoctoral student papers in bio-signal processing. Following the PhD he received awards in the Young Investigator category from the International Society of Computerized Electrocardiology and the International Congress of Electrocardiology.

Currently, Dr. Ciaccio is an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association. He teaches four advanced undergraduate/beginning graduate level courses yearly in computer data acquisition, instrumentation, and bio-signal and bio-image processing (Columbia University and City College of New York). In the laboratory, he is Electronics and Computers Core Director, working on the design and construction of fast multichannel data acquisition systems for biomedical applications.

The main research effort of Dr. Ciaccio is to elucidate cardiac electrophysiologic mechanisms through comparisons of tissue and cellular properties to bio-image and bio-signal analysis. Currently, he is collaborating with colleagues at Duke, Harvard, and Penn to develop a model of cellular activation during cardiac injury and its relationship to the extracellular signal. The underlying principle of this work is that the shapes of signals contain information that is related to electrophysiologic mechanisms, and that this relationship can be deduced using appropriate mathematical transformations. Much of the work has been published recently in Circulation, the premier journal in the field. The Columbia Innovation Enterprise office has developed this research for application as US patents, one of which has just been awarded.

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