Assistant Director of Medical Computing, Kitware, Inc.
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🧬 UVA Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series
Featured Speaker: Rachel Clipp, PhD
Assistant Director of Medical Computing
Kitware, Inc.
📅 Event Details
- Date: Thursday, November 7, 2025
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Location: BME Lecture Hall, MR5 1041
- Talk Title: TBD
👩🔬 About the Speaker
Dr. Rachel Clipp earned her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the joint program at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. Her doctoral work focused on developing dynamic boundary conditions for custom finite element analysis tools to predict the effects of respiration on pulmonary vasculature. She also designed a bench-top apparatus to perfuse and ventilate excised lamb lungs for validation studies.
In addition to her research, Rachel held a mentored teaching assistantship where she developed labs and coursework to teach biomedical engineering undergraduates programming and physiology.
🔬 Research & Professional Highlights
Rachel has contributed to a wide range of modeling and simulation projects, including:
- Liver microvasculature modeling for tumor-targeted microsphere delivery
- Cerebral microvasculature modeling to study traumatic brain injury
- Whole-body physiology modeling using lumped parameter models
She served as Lead Physiology Modeler on the TATRC-funded BioGears project, developing models for various organ systems and feedback mechanisms.
Currently, Rachel is a Technical Leader at Kitware, Inc., where she leads a team of computational modelers and software developers on the Pulse Physiology Engine, an open-source platform for computational physiology. She also works to expand modeling projects across government and commercial sectors.