Modeling and Simulation in the Medical and Health Sciences (eBook)

John A. Sokolowski, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC) at Old Dominion University, where he is also Associate Professor of Modeling and Simulation Engineering. He is the coeditor of Principles of Modeling and Simulation: A Multidisciplinary Approach and Modeling and Simulation Fundamentals: Theoretical Underpinnings and Practical Domains and coauthor of Modeling and Simulation for Analyzing Global Events, all published by Wiley. Catherine M. Banks, PhD, is Research Associate Professor at VMASC. She is the coeditor of Principles of Modeling and Simulation: A Multidisciplinary Approach and Modeling and Simulation Fundamentals: Theoretical Underpinnings and Practical Domains and the coauthor of Modeling and Simulation for Analyzing Global Events.

Contributors.

Foreword.

Preface.

Part One Fundamentals of Medical and Health Sciences Modeling
and Simulation.

1 Introduction to Modeling and Simulation in the Medical and
Health Sciences (Catherine M. Banks).

2 The Practice of Modeling and Simulation: Tools of the
Trade (John A. Sokolowski).

Part Two. Modeling for the Medical and Health
Sciences.

3 Mathematical Models of Tumor Growth and Wound Healing (John
A. Adam).

4 Physical Modeling (Stacie I. Ringleb).

Part Three. Modeling and Simulation Applications.

5 Humans as Models (C. Donald Combs).

6 Modeling the Human System (Mohammed Ferdjallah and Gyu Tae
Kim).

7 Robotics (Richard Lee).

8 Training (Paul E. Phrampus).

9 Patient Care (Eugene Santos Jr, Joseph Rosen, Keum Joo Kim,
Fei Yu, Dequing Li, Elizabeth Jacob, Lindsay Katona).

10 Future of Modeling and Simulation in the Medical and Health
Sciences (Richard M. Satava).

Appendix.

Index.