When: Thursday October 18, 2018 – 7:30 PM
Where: Montgomery Community College (Rockville Campus) – Humanities Building (HU), Conference Room 009
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Speaker: Mehrdad Michael Massumi, MD
Language: English

Synopsis:

Chronic Pain Management is a multidisciplinary and multimodal approach to a complex set of problems that produce physical and psychological disabilities with significant costs to the individual and society. The opioid crisis to a large extent is due to overdependence of physicians and patients on this class of medications – i.e. opioids – in managing chronic pain syndromes. This talk will elaborate on the expanding collections of multi-class medications that thanks to better or newly understood molecular mechanisms are being used in novel combinations and applications to rectify chronic pain syndromes. Such categories as GABAergics, TCAs, SSRI / SNRIs, antiarrhythmics, cannabinoids, calcium channel blockers, anti-seizure and other antidepressant classes of chemicals – in recombinant and single applications – promise a new and effective approach to the chemical remediation of such complex chronic pain syndromes. In applying these therapeutics the need for opioid interventions will be minimized. Mechanisms leading to the efficacy of these non-opioid medications and upcoming avenues of molecular research and developments conducive to even more effective remedies will be discussed. Both the professional audience and lay members attending will find the subject matter, content and deliberations presented in this talk interesting and thought-provoking.

About the Speaker:

Mehrdad Michael Massumi, MD is a board-certified specialist in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Pain Management. After graduation with honors from the University of Birmingham Medical School, United Kingdom and two years of surgical residency training at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. he undertook and successfully concluded his residency in Rehabilitation Medicine in Seattle, WA in 1988. He remains active at the Harvard Postgraduate Medical Association since 2006. Dr. Massumi has been in practice for thirty years in Maryland. He was the founder or director of many Rehabilitation, Spine and Pain clinics in the Baltimore Metropolitan hospitals. He is a former clinical faculty of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School. He is currently in private practice in Towson, MD and more recently also in Rockville, MD. In his thirty years of practice of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pain Management Dr. Massumi has treated over 14,000 patients. He is referred patients from community and hospital based physicians of all specialties as well as nurses, physical therapists, pharmacists and other allied healthcare providers. Patients are from Maryland, other States and other countries.

For this lecture: light refreshment will be provided

When: Thursday July 19, 2018 – 7:30 PM
Where: Montgomery Community College (Rockville Campus) – Humanities Building (HU), Conference Room 009
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Speaker: Dr. Bahram Roughan
Language: English

Synopsis:

Unique abilities of science and engineering majors as problem solvers, critical thinkers, and aptitude in dealing with abstract ideas and ambiguities may represent the necessary but not sufficient skill-set for the emerging generation of entrepreneurially motivated students preparing to enter a highly networked and high-tech knowledge economy. This presentation examines the need for greater focus on developing entrepreneurial mindset through Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship education as part of their degree completion. Developing approaches in enhancing the entrepreneurial-mindset of students in the technical fields matches the paradigm shift associated with developing high tech and highly connected world and it resonate well with the growing number of entrepreneurially-minded college age students. This talk introduces current efforts in enhancing entrepreneurial mindset in science and engineering disciplines aiming at enhancing desirable skill-set for graduates aiming at entering the job market including desires to engage in startups and tech ventures.

About the Speaker:

Bahram Roughani currently is serving as Associate Dean for Natural and Applied Sciences at Loyola University Maryland. Prior to 2013, he served as the founding department head of physics at Kettering University, led the establishment of the very first full co-op undergraduate physics program in the country, established the very first ABET accredited Applied Physics degree program, and received the American Physical Society’s ward for “Improving Undergraduate Physics Education”. His most recent efforts involve development of new models for Physics Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE) in collaboration with American Physical Society (APS) that is supported by NSF. Bahram Roughani received BS (Physics) and MS (Physics: Optics) from Indiana State University, and MA (Physics) and PhD (Experimental Condensed Matter Physics) from University of Cincinnati. His research work in experimental condensed matter physics focuses on laser spectroscopy and electron microscopy of electronic materials. He has presented nearly 50 invited talks in addition to conference papers and peer reviewed journal publications related to his scholarship and his efforts in enhancing higher education programs.

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When: Thursday April 12, 2018 – 7:30 PM
Where: Montgomery Community College (Rockville Campus) – Humanities Building (HU), Conference Room 009
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Speaker: Dr. Mohammad Noshad
Language: English

Synopsis:

Visible light communication (VLC), or so called Li-Fi, is a data communication technique for wireless applications that uses light rather than radio-frequency for wireless data transmission. It offers an energy saving solution since energy is already used for lighting, and thus does not require separate expenditure for communications. Li-Fi offers numerous advantages over Wi-Fi system including increased security, higher connection speed and lower latency, and is seen as a complementary technology to Wi-Fi. Li-Fi is expected to empower new technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR), Autonomous Driving and Internet of Things (IoT) that require high-speed and reliable wireless connection. Li-Fi is being considered a viable solution for those who are not using Wi-Fi due to the security, EMI or health concerns. It is also seen as a solution for the spectrum crunch as the light is easily contained, Li-and Fi systems can exploit spatial reuse to effectively form dense networks

About the Speaker:

Mohammad Noshad is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer in VLNComm, a pioneer in the Li-Fi technology. Prior to that he was a researcher at Harvard University. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia, and has received many awards for his work on Li-Fi systems, including the “Best Paper Award” at the IEEE Globecom Conference. Dr. Noshad has served as a technical program committee member in various IEEE conference and workshops. He is also a member of IEEE standardization committee for establishing Li-Fi standards.

For this lecture: light refreshment will be provided