OUR PEOPLE
Academic Credentials
- Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of Notre Dame, 2022
- M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2016
- B.S.E., Biomedical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2015
Professional Affiliations
- Orthopedic Research Society 2022-2023
Dr. Oberman's expertise is in injury biomechanics, tissue mechanics, and orthopedics. She has a combined experience of over 10 years in biomechanics, exploring both whole body injury and individual tissue mechanics. Dr. Oberman applies her skillset and expertise to evaluate human kinematics and injury mechanics in diverse incident types, including during automotive, occupational, and recreational activities.
Dr. Oberman has vast experience using a variety of techniques to evaluate and characterize material properties, including the use of mechanical testing systems (Bose, Instron), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), bright field and confocal microscopy, and 3-dimentional image processing and evaluation. Her multi-disciplinary background provides her with a complex understanding of the interplay between physics and the human body and uses that background to evaluate injury risk and possible injury outcomes.
Prior to joining Ä¢¹½tv, Dr. Oberman was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Here, she explored how mechanical input influences cranial morphology during cranial development by designing experiments to isolate the impacts of local biochemical signaling from soft tissues and mechanical forces induced by masticatory forces during post-natal skull development. Her graduate work at The University of Notre Dame focused on targeting cells in bone marrow and in the bone matrix, either concurrently or independently, to understand their roles in osseointegration of orthopedic implants in order to inform device design.