Brad Roth:
CLASS OF 1978
Homestead High SchoolClass of 1978
Ft. wayne, IN
University of KansasClass of 1982
Lawrence, KS
Ashland High SchoolClass of 1978
Ashland, OH
Shawnee Mission South High SchoolClass of 1978
Overland park, KS
Northside Elementary SchoolClass of 1972
Morrison, IL
Brad's Story
Life
See files.oakland.edu/users/roth/web/. I was born in Clinton, Iowa in 1960, and was raised in Morrison, Illinois. I attended Homestead High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana (1974-76), Ashland High School in Ashland, Ohio (1976-77) and Shawnee Mission South High School in Overland Park, Kansas (1977-78). From 1978-1982 I attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. While at KU I majored in Physics (BS, 1982). In 1982, I entered Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee (MS, 1985; PhD, 1987) on a NSF Graduate Fellowship. My graduate research was performed in the Living State Physics Laboratory, headed by Dr. John Wikswo. This work resulted in the first detailed comparison of the transmembrane potential and magnetic field produced by an isolated nerve axon, and the prediction of electrically silent magnetic fields generated by electrical activity at the apex of the heart. After obtaining my PhD, I remained at Vanderbilt for a year as an American Heart Association Research Fellow, during which time I developed Fourier methods for solving the magnetic inverse problem with two-dimensional current sources.
In 1988, I joined the Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. My research at NIH centered on three themes: cardiac electrophysiology, magnetic stimulation of nerves, and analy...Expand for more
sis of the electroencephalogram. My work on the heart was directed toward developing the bidomain model of cardiac tissue, and using it to understand problems such as defibrillation, arrhythmia generation, and anodal stimulation (For a popular account of this research, see Science, 303:786-787, Feb. 6, 2004). My work on magnetic stimulation involved calculating the electric field induced in the brain, determining the site of excitation of a peripheral nerve, and coil design. My studies of the EEG required development of a realistically shaped head model to localize the source of electrical activity in patients who are candidates for epilepsy surgery.
From 1995 to 1998, I was the Robert T. Lagemann Assistant Professor of Living State Physics in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Vanderbilt University. In 1998, I became an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Oakland University , where I continue my research in theoretical cardiac electrophysiology, and teach physics.
I currently reside in Rochester Hills, Michigan. I am married (1985, to Shirley Oyog) and have two daughters (Stephanie, age 18; Katherine, age 16) and a dog (Suki, age 4). Away from work, I enjoy reading, music, local travel with my family, and hearing from old classmates.
Workplace
I teach physics at Oakland Univ in Rochester, MI. See personalwebs.oakland.edu/~roth/
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