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4941
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Merryn H. Tawhai is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with notable focus on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Physiology.

The scope of their work covers several main topics, including Respiratory Support and Mechanisms, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery, Neonatal Respiratory Health Research, Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders, Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, and Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Merryn H. Tawhai include:

  • Kelly Burrowes
  • Haribalan Kumar
  • Alys R. Clark
  • J. Geoffrey Chase
  • Jennifer L. Knopp

Merryn H. Tawhai has published multiple papers in recognized scientific venues. Their recent notable publications include:

  • "Virtual patients for mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit," 2020, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
  • "Olfactory Targeting of Microparticles Through Inhalation and Bi-directional Airflow: Effect of Particle Size and Nasal Anatomy," 2020, Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery
  • "Over-distension prediction via hysteresis loop analysis and patient-specific basis functions in a virtual patient model," 2021, Computers in Biology and Medicine
  • "Quantitative Imaging Metrics for the Assessment of Pulmonary Pathophysiology: An Official American Thoracic Society and Fleischner Society Joint Workshop Report," 2023, Annals of the American Thoracic Society
  • "Prediction of lung mechanics throughout recruitment maneuvers in pressure-controlled ventilation," 2020, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

They have contributed frequently to publication venues such as IFAC-PapersOnLine, Academic Radiology, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Scientific Reports, and Frontiers in Physiology.

In recognition of their work, Merryn H. Tawhai was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), both in 2018.

Best Publications

  • CT-based geometry analysis and finite element models of the human and ovine bronchial tree

    Merryn H Tawhai;Peter J Hunter;Juerg Tschirren;Joseph M Reinhardt

  • Characteristics of the turbulent laryngeal jet and its effect on airflow in the human intra-thoracic airways

    Ching-Long Lin;Merryn H. Tawhai;Geoffrey McLennan;Eric A. Hoffman

  • Computational physiology and the Physiome Project.

    Edmund J. Crampin;Edmund J. Crampin;Matthew Halstead;Peter Hunter;Poul Nielsen

  • Generation of an anatomically based three-dimensional model of the conducting airways.

    M. Howatson Tawhai;A. J. Pullan;P. J. Hunter

  • Anatomically based geometric modelling of the musculo-skeletal system and other organs

    J. W. Fernandez;P. Mithraratne;S. F. Thrupp;M. H. Tawhai

  • Regional deposition of particles in an image-based airway model: large-eddy simulation and left-right lung ventilation asymmetry.

    Andrew R. Lambert;Patrick T. O'shaughnessy;Merryn H. Tawhai;Eric A. Hoffman

  • Next-generation, personalised, model-based critical care medicine: a state-of-the art review of in silico virtual patient models, methods, and cohorts, and how to validation them

    J. Geoffrey Chase;Jean-Charles Preiser;Jennifer L. Dickson;Antoine Pironet

  • Simulation of pulmonary air flow with a subject-specific boundary condition.

    Youbing Yin;Jiwoong Choi;Eric A. Hoffman;Merryn H. Tawhai

  • Identifying airways responsible for heterogeneous ventilation and mechanical dysfunction in asthma: an image functional modeling approach.

    Nora T. Tgavalekos;Merryn Tawhai;R. Scott Harris;Guido Mush

  • Supine and prone differences in regional lung density and pleural pressure gradients in the human lung with constant shape

    Merryn H. Tawhai;Martyn P. Nash;Ching-Long Lin;Eric A. Hoffman

  • On intra- and intersubject variabilities of airflow in the human lungs.

    Jiwoong Choi;Merryn H. Tawhai;Eric A. Hoffman;Ching-Long Lin

  • Anatomically based finite element models of the human pulmonary arterial and venous trees including supernumerary vessels

    Kelly S. Burrowes;Peter J. Hunter;Merryn H. Tawhai

  • The effects of geometry on airflow in the acinar region of the human lung

    Haribalan Kumar;Merryn H. Tawhai;Eric A. Hoffman;Ching-Long Lin

  • Airway Wall Stiffening Increases Peak Wall Shear Stress: A Fluid–Structure Interaction Study in Rigid and Compliant Airways

    Guohua Xia;Merryn H. Tawhai;Eric A. Hoffman;Ching-Long Lin

  • Registration-based assessment of regional lung function via volumetric CT images of normal subjects vs. severe asthmatics

    Sanghun Choi;Eric A. Hoffman;Sally E. Wenzel;Merryn H. Tawhai

  • A computational model of the topographic distribution of ventilation in healthy human lungs

    Annalisa J Swan;Alys R Clark;Merryn H Tawhai

  • A multiscale MDCT image-based breathing lung model with time-varying regional ventilation

    Youbing Yin;Jiwoong Choi;Eric A. Hoffman;Merryn H. Tawhai

  • Multiscale image-based modeling and simulation of gas flow and particle transport in the human lungs

    Ching-Long Lin;Merryn H. Tawhai;Eric A. Hoffman

  • A multiscale, spatially-distributed model of asthmatic airway hyper-responsiveness

    Antonio Z. Politi;Graham M. Donovan;Merryn H. Tawhai;Michael J. Sanderson

  • Numerical study of high frequency oscillatory air flow and convective mixing in a CT-based human airway model

    Jiwoong Choi;Guohua Xia;Merryn H. Tawhai;Eric A. Hoffman

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric A. Hoffman
Eric A. Hoffman University of Iowa
Ching-Long Lin
Ching-Long Lin University of Iowa
Peter Hunter
Peter Hunter University of Auckland
Jason H. T. Bates
Jason H. T. Bates University of Vermont
Edmund J. Crampin
Edmund J. Crampin University of Melbourne
Martyn P. Nash
Martyn P. Nash University of Auckland
Poul M. F. Nielsen
Poul M. F. Nielsen University of Auckland
Nicolas P. Smith
Nicolas P. Smith University of Auckland
Mario Castro
Mario Castro Washington University in St. Louis
Sally E. Wenzel
Sally E. Wenzel University of Pittsburgh

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