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  • 2011 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Frank A. Pintar is affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine with an emphasis on subfields such as pulmonary and respiratory medicine, surgery, pharmacology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The main topics of Pintar's work cover areas including automotive and human injury biomechanics, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, injury epidemiology and prevention, traffic and road safety, spine and intervertebral disc pathology, spinal fractures and fixation techniques, and pelvic and acetabular injuries.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pintar include Narayan Yoganandan, Karthik Somasundaram, John Humm, Joseph LeSueur, and Klaus Driesslein.

Pintar has contributed to research published across several notable venues. These include:

  • Traffic Injury Prevention
  • Annals of Biomedical Engineering
  • Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
  • Military Medicine
  • Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Several recent papers illustrate Pintar's research output:

  • "Human lumbar spinal column injury criteria from vertical loading at the base: Applications to military environments" (2020) published in Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
  • "The Human Lumbar Spine During High-Rate Under Seat Loading: A Combined Metric Injury Criteria" (2021) published in Annals of Biomedical Engineering
  • "Small Female Occupant Response in Reclined and Upright Seated Postures in Frontal Impacts" (2023) published in Journal of Biomechanical Engineering
  • "An Improved Method for Developing Injury Risk Curves Using the Brier Metric Score" (2020) published in Annals of Biomedical Engineering
  • "Obese Occupant Response in Reclined and Upright Seated Postures in Frontal Impacts" (2023) published in STAPP CAR CRASH JOURNAL 2022 Volume 66

Frank A. Pintar was awarded the title of Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Biomechanics of the cervical spine Part 2. Cervical spine soft tissue responses and biomechanical modeling

    Narayan Yoganandan;Narayan Yoganandan;Srirangam Kumaresan;Srirangam Kumaresan;Frank A Pintar;Frank A Pintar

  • Biomechanical properties of human lumbar spine ligaments.

    Frank A. Pintar;Narayan Yoganandan;Thomas Myers;Ali Elhagediab

  • Geometric and mechanical properties of human cervical spine ligaments.

    Narayan Yoganandan;Srirangam Kumaresan;Frank A. Pintar

  • Biomechanics of skull fracture

    Narayan Yoganandan;Frank A. Pintar;Anthony Sances;Patrick R. Walsh

  • Tensile strength of spinal ligaments.

    Joel B. Myklebust;Frank Pintar;Narayan Yoganandan;Joseph F. Cusick

  • Effect of age and loading rate on human cervical spine injury threshold.

    Frank A. Pintar;Narayan A. Yoganandan;L. Voo

  • Finite element applications in human cervical spine modeling.

    Narayan Yoganandan;Srirangam Kumaresan;Liming Voo;Frank A. Pintar

  • Contribution of disc degeneration to osteophyte formation in the cervical spine: a biomechanical investigation

    Srirangam Kumaresan;Narayan Yoganandan;Frank A. Pintar;Dennis J. Maiman

  • Experimental flexion/extension data corridors for validation of finite element models of the young, normal cervical spine.

    John A. Wheeldon;Frank A. Pintar;Stephanie Knowles;Narayan A. Yoganandan

  • Physical properties of the human head: mass, center of gravity and moment of inertia.

    Narayan Yoganandan;Frank A. Pintar;Jiangyue Zhang;Jamie L. Baisden

  • Finite element analysis of the cervical spine: a material property sensitivity study.

    Srirangam Kumaresan;Narayan Yoganandan;Frank A. Pintar

  • Mechanics of Fresh, Refrigerated, and Frozen Arterial Tissue

    Brian D. Stemper;Narayan Yoganandan;Michael R. Stineman;Thomas A. Gennarelli

  • Finite element modeling of the C4–C6 cervical spine unit

    N. Yoganandan;S.C. Kumaresan;S.C. Kumaresan;Liming Voo;Liming Voo;F.A. Pintar;F.A. Pintar

  • Finite-element models of the human head.

    L. Voo;S. Kumaresan;F. A. Pintar;N. Yoganandan

  • Biomechanics of temporo-parietal skull fracture

    Narayan Yoganandan;Frank A. Pintar

  • Dynamic response of human cervical spine ligaments.

    Narayan Yoganandan;Frank Pintar;James Butler;John Reinartz

  • Biomechanical effect of anterior cervical spine fusion on adjacent segments.

    Dennis J. Maiman;Srirangam Kumaresan;Narayan Yoganandan;Frank A. Pintar

  • Biomechanical analysis of thoracolumbar interbody constructs. How important is the endplate

    James P. Hollowell;Dennis G. Vollmer;Charles R. Wilson;Frank A. Pintar

  • Anatomic study of the morphology of human cervical facet joint.

    Narayan Yoganandan;Stephanie A. Knowles;Dennis J. Maiman;Frank A. Pintar

  • Finite element modeling of the cervical spine: role of intervertebral disc under axial and eccentric loads.

    Srirangam Kumaresan;Narayan Yoganandan;Narayan Yoganandan;Frank A Pintar;Dennis J Maiman

Frequent Co-Authors

Narayan Yoganandan
Narayan Yoganandan Medical College of Wisconsin
Thomas A. Gennarelli
Thomas A. Gennarelli University of Pennsylvania
Kristy B. Arbogast
Kristy B. Arbogast Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Karen J. Brasel
Karen J. Brasel Medical College of Wisconsin
Michael McCrea
Michael McCrea Medical College of Wisconsin
Raphael H Grzebieta
Raphael H Grzebieta University of New South Wales
David B. Allison
David B. Allison Indiana University
Steven B. Heymsfield
Steven B. Heymsfield Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Joel D. Stitzel
Joel D. Stitzel Wake Forest University
Vijay K. Goel
Vijay K. Goel University of Toledo

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