Winet, Howard, PhD
Position
Adjunct Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
Adjunct Professor, Bioengineering
Emeritus Research Staff, Orthopaedic Hospital
Former Director, Bone Chamber Laboratory, Orthopaedic Hospital
Contact
UCLA / Orthopaedic Hospital Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
310-794-4821
EDUCATION
- 1959 University of Illinois (Navy Pier & Champaign-Urbana), Zoology, BS
- 1962 UCLA, Natural Science, MA, Secondary Teaching certificate
- 1969 UCLA, Natural Science, PhD
RESEARCH AREA
Bone microcirculation as it relates to bone wound healing, tissue engineering, ischemic osteonecrosis, biocompatibility of bone implants, exercise and external stimulation modalities such as electromagnetic fields, ultrasound and hyperbaric oxygen.
GRANTS (External and orthopaedic only)
- "Plotting of Angiogenesis Pattern in a Tibial Implant Bone Chamber" Biomedical Research Support Grant (NIH), University of Southern California
- "Control Model for Healing Across a Bone Chamber Implant" National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, AR35473
- "Reparative Osteogenesis and Blood Supply in a Bone Chamber: Effect of Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment" Memorial Medical Center Foundation, Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach
- "Reparative Osteogenesis and Blood Supply in a Bone Chamber: Effect of HBO Phase B", Memorial Medical Center Foundation, Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach
- "Effect of Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields (PEMF) On Bone Healing" Electro-Biology, Inc.
- "Induction of osteonecrosis by transient arterial ischemia", Wright Foundation
- "Absorbable implants as BMP-2 carriers in bone chambers", National Institute of Dental Research, DE-10167
- "Cortical bone vascular response to nicotine" Northwest Wound Healing Center
LINKS
uclahealth.org/ortho
AWARDS / INVENTIONS
- Fogarty International Fellow, U. Gothenburg, Orthopaedics, 1984
- National Research Council Senior Assoc., U.S. Army Institute of Dental Research, 1990-92
- Young Investigator Award, 1997, Portland Bone Symposium
PUBMED PUBLICATIONS
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