Dr. patrick mc garry

phone:   353 91 492964                                                                                                                                                      fax:       35356331                                                                                                                             e-mail:   patrick.mcgarrynuigalway.ie                                                                              

Research Interests

Multiscale cell and tissue mechanics                                                                                                  Active cell modelling                                                                                                                                                            Biomechanics of hard and soft tissue                                                                                                                                    Cardiovascular and orthopaedic implant and device design.                                                                                                     Linear and non-linear computational method development and application in biomedical and materials engineering

Lecturing

Biomechanics (ME416)                                                                                                                                                       Medical Implant and Device Design (ME421)                                                                                                                         Surgical Practice (SU405) (module coordinator)                                                                                                                     Introduction to Biomedical Engineering (ME218)

Recent Journal Publications

Hopkins, C.G., McHugh, P.E., McGarry, J.P., Computational investigation of the delamination of polymer coatings during stent deployment. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, In Press, available on-line, DOI : 10.1007/s10439-010-9972-y, 2010.

McGarry, J., J. Fu, M. Yang, C. Chen, R. McMeeking, A. Evans, V. Deshpande, Simulation of the contractile response of cells on an array of micro-posts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 367(1902): p. 3477, 2009.

Ofek, G., E. Dowling, R. Raphael, J. McGarry, K. Athanasiou, Biomechanics of single chondrocytes under direct shear. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, In Press, available on-line, DOI: 10.1007/s10237-009-0166-1, 2009.

McGarry, J.P., Characterization of Cell Mechanical Properties by Computational Modeling of Parallel Plate Compression. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, In Press, available on-line, DOI:10.1007/s10439-009-9772-4, 2009.

McGarry, J.P., McHugh, P.E., Modelling the detachment of chondrocytes during spreading. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 56: 1554–1565, 2008.

Ryan, G., McGarry, J.P., Pandit, A., Apatsidis, D., Analysis of the mechanical behaviour of a porous titanium scaffold with a repeating unit-cell sub-structure. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part B - Applied Biomaterials (Accepted October 2008).

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