Our Team
Barry Belmont, PhD | Technical Advisor
Barry has extensive experience researching and developing medical devices ranging from novel non-invasive imaging to chronically implanted neural technologies, from prototyping through clinical trialing, from personalized wearables to global health solutions, in government, academia, and non-profit sectors. His primary specialty is in physiological measurement, instrumentation, and signal and image processing, particularly within laboratory and clinical environments.
Before joining Fortem IP, Barry was a Lecturer at the University of Michigan where he taught introductory and laboratory-based courses in circuits and systems and biomedical instrumentation. For his efforts to humanize engineering education he was awarded a Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize in 2018.
Barry earned his PhD from the University of Michigan by developing a multimodal non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring method and device that was verified via clinical trials within nephrological, emergency, and critical care units. This experience fostered within him a robust sense of the power of collaboration and a deep appreciation for the vast spectrum of human experiences.
EDUCATION
BS Biology and BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno
MS Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
PhD Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
Selected Publications
Belmont, B., Ghionea, S., Sehrawat, A., and Keller, M., Evaluating high-channel electrical impedance tomography, 23rd International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography, 2023.
Belmont, B., Park, D.W., Shih, A., Leavitt, M., Plattner, B., Henke, P.K. and Weitzel, W.F., A pilot study to measure vascular compliance changes during fistula maturation using open-source software, The Journal of Vascular Access, 2019, 20(1), 41-45.
Belmont, B., Kessler, R., Theyyunni, N., Fung, C., Huang, R., Cover, M., Ward, K.R., Shih, A.J. and Tiba, M., Continuous inferior vena cava diameter tracking through an iterative Kanade–Lucas–Tomasi-based algorithm, Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2018, 44(12), 2793-2801.
Li, W., Belmont, B., Greve, J.M., Manders, A.B., Downey, B.C., Zhang, X., Xu, Z., Guo, D. and Shih, A., Polyvinyl chloride as a multimodal tissue‐mimicking material with tuned mechanical and medical imaging properties. Medical physics, 2016, 43(10), 5577-5592.
Zheng, Y., Belmont, B. and Shih, A.J., Experimental investigation of the abrasive crown dynamics in orbital atherectomy, Medical engineering & physics, 2016, 38(7), 639-647.
Tiba, M.H., Belmont, B., Heung, M., Theyyunni, N., Huang, R.D., Fung, C.M., Pennington, A.J., Cummings, B.C., Draucker, G.T., Shih, A.J. and Ward, K.R., Dynamic limb bioimpedance and inferior vena cava ultrasound in patients undergoing hemodialysis, ASAIO Journal, 2016, 62(4), 463-469.
Tai, B.L., Palmisano, A.C., Belmont, B., Irwin, T.A., Holmes, J. and Shih, A.J., Numerical evaluation of sequential bone drilling strategies based on thermal damage. Medical Engineering & Physics, 2015, 37(9), 855-861.
Belmont, B., Dodde, R.E. and Shih, A.J., Impedance of tissue-mimicking phantom material under compression, Journal of Electrical Bioimpedance, 2013, 4(1), 2-12.