MacLachlan, Mary

Postdoc

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Phone: +47-6496-5397

Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow

Degrees: PhD in Scientific Computing, University of Oslo, Norway, 2006; MASc in Biomedical Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, 2003; BScH in Mathematics and Statistics, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada, 2001.

Professional background: Postdoctoral Fellow with the Cardiac Computations Group at Simula Research Laboratory, Lysaker, Norway (2006-2009)

Research experience: Mathematical modeling and computer simulation of cardiac electrical activity in healthy, ischemic, and arrhythmic hearts; efficient numerical methods for solving cardiac cell model ODEs.

Current research activity: Multi-scale modeling of the ageing heart

Publications:

  • G. T. Lines, M. C. MacLachlan, S. Linge, and A. Tveito, Synchronizing Computer Simulations with Measurement Data for a Case of Atrial Flutter, Annals of Biomedical Engineering 37(7):1287--1293, 2009.
  • M. C. MacLachlan, J. Sundnes, and R. J. Spiteri. A comparison of non-standard solvers for ODEs describing cellular reactions in the heart, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 10(5):317--326, 2007.
  • M. C. MacLachlan, J. Sundnes, O. Skavhaug, O. M. Lysaker, B. F. Nielsen, and A. Tveito. A linear system of partial differential equations modeling the resting potential of a heart with regional ischemia, Mathematical Biosciences 210(1):238--252, 2007.
  • M. C. MacLachlan, B. F. Nielsen, O. M. Lysaker, and A. Tveito. Computing the size and location of myocardial ischemia using measurements of ST-segment shift, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 53(6):1024--1031, 2006.
  • M. C. MacLachlan, J. Sundnes, and G. T. Lines. Simulation of ST Segment Changes During Subendocardial Ischemia Using a Realistic 3-D Cardiac Geometry, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 52(5):799--807, 2005.
  • B. F. Nielsen, O. M. Lysaker, C. Tarrou, A. Abildgaard, M. MacLachlan, and A. Tveito. On the Use of ST-Segment Shifts and Mathematical Models for Identifying Ischemic Heart Disease, Proceedings: Computers in Cardiology 2005, Lyon, France, September 25-28, ed. by A. Murray, pp. 1005--1008, IEEE, 2005.
  • R. J. Spiteri, and M. C. MacLachlan. An efficient non-standard finite difference scheme for an ionic model of cardiac action potentials, Journal of Difference Equations and Applications 9(12):1069--1082, 2003.