Safa Herfat, PhD

Associate Professor
Orthopaedic Surgery
[email protected]
+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

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

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

Injury

Marmor M, Elliott IS, Marshall ST, Yacoubian SV, Yacoubian SV, Herfat ST

Impedance spectroscopy to monitor fracture healing.

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

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

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

Journal of biomechanics

Nesbitt RJ, Herfat ST, Boguszewski DV, Engel AJ, Galloway MT, Shearn JT

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

Journal of biomechanical engineering

Herfat ST, Boguszewski DV, Nesbitt RJ, Shearn JT

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

Annals of biomedical engineering

Herfat ST, Boguszewski DV, Shearn JT

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

Journal of biomechanical engineering

Herfat ST, Shearn JT, Bailey DL, Greiwe RM, Galloway MT, Gooch C, Butler DL

Biomechanical and biologic effects of meniscus stabilization using triglycidyl amine.

Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A

Hunter SA, Rapoport HS, Connolly JM, Alferiev I, Fulmer J, Murti BH, Herfat M, Noyes FR, Butler DL, Levy RJ

Custom Person Type: 
Biology and Bio-Engineering