Safa Herfat, PhD

Associate Professor

Orthopaedic Surgery

+1 628 206-8295

Safa's research interests include the application of 3D technologies and sensors in the prosthetics clinic, the development of orthopaedic sensors to monitor bone fracture healing, and the biomechanical evaluation of orthopaedic implants and surgical strategies.

Interests: Orthopaedic biomechanics, bone fracture fixation, osteoporosis, finite element analysis, joints, smart implants, diagnostic tools.

Publications

FGF and TGFß signaling link form and function during jaw development and evolution.

Developmental biology

Woronowicz KC, Gline SE, Herfat ST, Fields AJ, Schneider RA

Using impedance to track fracture healing rates in mice in vivo: A pilot study.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference

Lin MC, Hu D, Yang F, Herfat ST, Bahney CS, Marmor M, Maharbiz MM

New opportunities for fracture healing detection: Impedance spectroscopy measurements correlate to tissue composition in fractures.

Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society

Lin MC, Yang F, Herfat ST, Bahney CS, Marmor M, Maharbiz MM

Biomechanical Assessment of the Dorsal Spanning Bridge Plate in Distal Radius Fracture Fixation: Implications for Immediate Weight-Bearing.

Hand (New York, N.Y.)

Huang JI, Peterson B, Bellevue K, Lee N, Smith S, Herfat S

Fatigue Failure in Extra-Articular Proximal Tibia Fractures: Locking Intramedullary Nail Versus Double Locking Plates-A Biomechanical Study.

Journal of orthopaedic trauma

Kandemir U, Herfat S, Herzog M, Viscogliosi P, Pekmezci M

Integrity of Damage Control Posterior Spinal Fusion Constructs for Patients With Polytrauma: A Biomechanical Investigation.

Spine

Pekmezci M, Herfat S, Theologis AA, Viscogliosi P, Demirkiran G, McClellan RT, Ames C

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Biology and Bio-Engineering

Publications

FGF and TGFß signaling link form and function during jaw development and evolution.

Using impedance to track fracture healing rates in mice in vivo: A pilot study.

New opportunities for fracture healing detection: Impedance spectroscopy measurements correlate to tissue composition in fractures.

Biomechanical Assessment of the Dorsal Spanning Bridge Plate in Distal Radius Fracture Fixation: Implications for Immediate Weight-Bearing.

Fatigue Failure in Extra-Articular Proximal Tibia Fractures: Locking Intramedullary Nail Versus Double Locking Plates-A Biomechanical Study.

Integrity of Damage Control Posterior Spinal Fusion Constructs for Patients With Polytrauma: A Biomechanical Investigation.

Biomechanical comparison of long, short, and extended-short nail construct for femoral intertrochanteric fractures.

Impedance spectroscopy to monitor fracture healing.

Primary and secondary restraints of human and ovine knees for simulated in vivo gait kinematics.

Effect of perturbing a simulated motion on knee and anterior cruciate ligament kinetics.

Applying simulated in vivo motions to measure human knee and ACL kinetics.

Effect of surgery to implant motion and force sensors on vertical ground reaction forces in the ovine model.

Biomechanical and biologic effects of meniscus stabilization using triglycidyl amine.