Meet Dr. Cameron McIntyre: Professor of Biomedical Engineering | STTS
Dr. Cameron McIntyre is a professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University. He studies deep brain stimulation (DBS), a neurosurgical procedure during which implanted electrodes assist brain activity. Connecting elements of neuroscience, entrepreneurship, and innovation, Dr. McIntyre works to develop novel DBS devices for clinical treatment of neurological disorders.
Read Interview: https://stemtothesky.org/interview/cameron-mcintyre
Learn More:
https://bme.duke.edu/faculty/cameron-mcintyre
https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/cameron-mcintyre-profile
Questions:
00:07 How did you become interested in biomedical engineering?
02:04 What exactly is deep brain stimulation?
03:23 What surprised you the most about your role at first?
04:53 What do you love about your job? What keeps you pushing for further advancements?
06:52 What is the GUIDE DBS clinical programming system that you developed?
08:45 What is an exciting project that you are working on?
11:01 What do you hope to see in the future of biomedical engineering and neuroscience?
12:21 How would you compare industry to academia?
13:30 Can you walk us through a typical day in your life?
14:57 What would you say to a student who is interested in pursuing biomedical engineering?
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Dr. Cameron McIntyre is a professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University. He studies deep brain stimulation (DBS), a neurosurgical procedure during which implanted electrodes assist brain activity. Connecting elements of neuroscience, entrepreneurship, and innovation, Dr. McIntyre works to develop novel DBS devices for clinical treatment of neurological disorders.
Read Interview: https://stemtothesky.org/interview/cameron-mcintyre
Learn More:
https://bme.duke.edu/faculty/cameron-mcintyre
https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/cameron-mcintyre-profile
Questions:
00:07 How did you become interested in biomedical engineering?
02:04 What exactly is deep brain stimulation?
03:23 What surprised you the most about your role at first?
04:53 What do you love about your job? What keeps you pushing for further advancements?
06:52 What is the GUIDE DBS clinical programming system that you developed?
08:45 What is an exciting project that you are working on?
11:01 What do you hope to see in the future of biomedical engineering and neuroscience?
12:21 How would you compare industry to academia?
13:30 Can you walk us through a typical day in your life?
14:57 What would you say to a student who is interested in pursuing biomedical engineering?
________________________________________________________________________________________
STEM to the Sky (STTS) is a student-led non-profit that strives to help middle and high school students discover and explore the vast array of careers, fields, and opportunities relating to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by interviewing professionals in STEM about numerous aspects of their work. As middle and high school students begin to think about further pursuing their STEM aspirations as careers in their futures, it is incredibly important to increase transparency of possible paths they could go down to allow them to discover or confirm their interests!
Keep exploring at https://www.stemtothesky.org
Follow us @stemtothesky!
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