Virginia Tech® home

Jennifer Wayne

Professor
  • Biomechanics, Virtual Reality for Training
a young woman smiling at the camera.
305 Seitz Hall
jswayne@vt.edu
540-231-2569

Education 

Ph.D. Engineering Sciences-Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, 1990

M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, 1984

B.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Tech, 1983

Experience 

July 2024 - present- Professor, Biological Systems Engineering and Special Assistant, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech

September 2023 - June 2024- Special Assistant, College of Engineering

August 2019 - September 2023- Professor and Department Head, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, Virginia Tech

August 2013 - May 2019- Associate Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University 

July 2006 - August 2019 Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering & Orthopaedic Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University

July 1998 - June 2006- Associate Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering & Orthopaedic Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University

August 1997 - October 2001- Research Biomedical Engineer, McGuire VA Medical Center

August 1991 - August 2019- Director, Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Virginia Commonwealth University

August 1991 - July 1998- Assistant Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering & Orthopaedic Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University

Awards

  • Invited Seminar – Department of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University (2024)
  • Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) (2023-present)
  • Distinguished Speaker – VHA-VA Ventures, Seattle WA (2023)
  • Distinguished Speaker – Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh (2023)
  • Invited Seminar – Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University (2023)
  • Invited Seminar – Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota (2022)
  • Professor Emerita, Department of Biomedical Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University (2022-present)
  • AIMBE Board of Directors (2022-2024)
  • AIMBE Academic Council Chair (elected 2022-2024)
  • ASME Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc. Medal to Bioengineering Division Women’s Networking Group (leads RM Patterson, JS Wayne) (2021)
  • Certified SolidWorks Associate (CSWA) (2020-present))
  • Fellow, Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) (2020-present)
  • Invited Seminar – Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah (2019)
  • ASME H.R. Lissner Medal (2019) (First female recipient since award’s inception in 1977)
  • Member, VCU Chapter of National Academy of Inventors (2019-present)
  • Leadership America; Program participant (April – September 2018)
  • VCU Engineering Student Council; Best Faculty of the Year in Biomedical Engineering (February 2018)
  • Invited Lecturer – Japanese Society for Surgery of the Foot, 2014 Annual Conference, Miyazaki Japan (November 2014)
  • Invited Lecturer – Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo Japan (November 2014)
  • Invited Lecturer – Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nippon Medical University, Tokyo Japan (November 2014)
  • ABET – Board of Delegates (2024-2029); EAC Commissioner (2019-2024); Program Evaluator for Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering (2013-present)
  • Engineer of the Year, Richmond Joint Engineers Council (2008)
  • Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (2007-present)

Special author notation: graduate student supervised by Wayne (underlined); medical resident/fellow/student research project mentored by Wayne (major professor) (italicized); *faculty collaborator (asterisk); coauthors JR Owen and C Brodrick as laboratory engineers supervised by Wayne

Newsom M, Andersen E, Jamal T, Mountziaris P, Rhodes JL, Wayne, JS: Teaching atraumatic soft tissue handling in the simulation lab: Development of a novel training system. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery-Global Open, (accepted), June 2024.

Dickinson L, *Wang V, Wayne JS, *Clements JR: How much angular offset is acceptable to achieve minimum contact for a successful 1st metatarsophalangeal joint fusion?  Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery, 62(2):371-376, 2023. (DOI: 10.1053/j.jfas.2022.09.006

*Van der Meulen MCH, Wayne JS, *Chesler NC, *Setton LA: Maintaining inclusion in engineering in a post-Dobbs world. Inside Higher Ed, published October 14, 2022 (https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2022/10/14/keeping-stem-fields-inclusive-postdobbs-world-opinion). Page 19 of 54 JSWayne: 2/2024

 Dickinson L, *Wang V, Wayne JS, *Clements JR: How much angular offset is acceptable to achieve minimum contact for a successful 1st metatarsophalangeal joint fusion? Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery, 62(2):371-376, 2023. (DOI: 10.1053/j.jfas.2022.09.006)

Perez MT, Owen JR, *Adelaar RS, Wayne JS: Computational analysis of Lisfranc surgical repairs. Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 40(12):2856-2864, 2022. (PMID: 35277882; DOI: 10.1002/jor.25308)

 Perez MT, Owen JR, Wayne JS: Computational analysis of the clinical presentation of a ligamentous Lisfranc injury. Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 39(12):2725-2731, 2021. (PMID: 33620124; DOI: 10.1002/jor.25013)

 Veilleux NJ, *Kalore NV, *Vossen JA, Wayne JS: Automatic characterization of pelvic and sacral measures from 200 subjects. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Dec; 102(23):e130, 2020. (PMID: 32881722; DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.20.00343)

Wayne JS: Capturing the 2019 H.R. Lissner Medal Presentation with Jennifer S. Wayne. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 142(3):030206. (PMID: 32016373; DOI: 10.1115/1.4046221)

Cohen DJ, Scott K, Kulkarni A, Wayne J, Boyan B, Schwartz Z: Acellular mineralized allogenic block bone graft does not remodel during the 10 weeks following concurrent implant placement in a rabbit femoral model. Clinical Oral Implants Research, Jan;31(1):37-48, 2020. (PMID: 31545532; DOI: 10.1111/clr.13544)

 MacKnight HP, Hoeferlin LA, Stephenson DJ, Benusa SD, DeLigio JT, Wayne JS, Park MA, Diegelmann RF, Hinchcliffe ED, Brown RE, Chalfant CE: The interaction of ceramide1-phosphate with Group IVA cytosolic phospholipase A2 is intrinsic to acute wound healing and repair. Science Signaling, 3:12(610), 2019. (PMID: 31796632; DOI 10.1126/scisignal.aav5918)

 Lotz EM, Cohen DJ, Ellis RA, Wayne JS, *Schwartz Z, *Boyan BD: Ibandronate treatment before and after implant insertion impairs osseointegration in aged rats with ovariectomy induced osteoporosis. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 3(7):e10184, 2019. (PMID: 31372590; PMCID: PMC6659452; DOI 10.1002/jbm4.10184)

 Wayne JS, Tremols EJ: Computational wrist analysis of functional restoration after scapholunate dissociation repair. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, (57:1465- 1479, 2019). (PMID: 30903530; DOI: 10.1007/s11517-019-01971-6)

Bansal A, Carlson DA, Owen JR, *Cheatham SA, *Williams DSB, *Kates SL, Wayne JS: Ligamentous Lisfranc injury – A biomechanical comparison of dorsal plate fixation and transarticular screws. Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, 33(7):e270-e275, 2019. (PMID: 31136372; DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0000000000001466)

 Friedman MA, Zhang Y, Wayne JS, Farber CR, *Donahue HJ: Single limb immobilization for bone loss from unloading. Journal of Biomechanics, 83:181-189, 2019. (PMID: 30551918; DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2018.11.049).

 Riis J, Reynolds P, *Haar P, Hess S, Waligora A, Owen J, Wayne J, *Jiranek W, *Golladay G: CT confirmation of component rotation in a cadaver model of nanosensor–balanced TKA. Page 20 of 54 JSWayne: 2/2024 Arthroplasty Today, 5(1):64-67, 2019. (PMID: 31020025; DOI: 10.1016/j.artd.2018.07.008)

Veilleux NJ, *Kalore NV, *Wegelin JA, *Vossen JA, *Jiranek WA, Wayne JS: Automated femoral version estimation without the distal femur. Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 36(12):3161-3168, 2018. (PMID: 30074280; DOI: 10.1002/jor.24121)

O’Connell RS, *Satpathy J, Hansen EJ, Bashir AS, Owen JR, Wayne JS, *Kates SL: Biomechanical evaluation of osteoporotic periprosthetic femur fracture with proximal bicortical fixation and allograft struts. Journal of Arthroplasty, 32(10):508-514, 2018. (PMID: 30247278; DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0000000000001261)

Padron A, Owen JR, Wayne JS, *Akta SA, *Barnes RF: In vitro biomechanical testing of the 3.5mm LCP in torsion – A comparison of unicortical locking to bicortical nonlocking screws placed nearest the fracture gap. BMC Research Notes, 10(1):768 (1-7), 2017. (PMID: 29282136; DOI: 10.1186/s13104-017-3102-y)

Daner III WE, Owen JR, Wayne JS, *Graves RB, *Willis Jr. MC: Biomechanical evaluation of the risk of secondary fracture around short vs long cephalomedullary nails. European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, 27(8):1103-1108, 2017. (PMID: 28597401; DOI: 10.1007/s00590-017-1989-6)

Durgin CF III, Spratley EM, Wayne JS, *Satpathy J, *Jiranek WA: Novel potential marker for native anteversion of the proximal femur. Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 35(8):1724- 1731, 2017. (PMID: 27704603; DOI: 10.1002/jor.23455)

Chande R, Wayne JS: Neural network prediction of ligament stiffnesses for the enhanced predictive ability of a patient-specific, computational foot/ankle model. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 139:091003_1-8, 2017. (PMID: 28633164; DOI 10.1115/1.4037101)

Crook PD, Hess SR, Owen JR, Wayne JS, *Jiranek WA: Initial stability of cemented vs cementless tibial components under cyclic load. Journal of Arthroplasty, 32(8):2556-2562, 2017. (PMID: 28433426; DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2017.03.039)

Smith BA, *Adelaar RS, Wayne JS: Patient specific computational models to optimize surgical correction for flatfoot deformity. Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 35(7):1523-1531, 2017. (PMID: 27556250; DOI: 10.1002/jor.23399)

 Waligora AC, Owen JR, Wayne JS, Hess SR, *Golladay GJ, *Jiranek WA: The effect of prophylactic cerclage wires in primary total hip arthroplasty – A biomechanical study. Journal of Arthroplasty, 32(6):2023-2027, 2017. (PMID: 28209401; DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2017.01.019)

Chande RD, Hargraves RH, Ortiz-Robinson N, Wayne J: Predictive behavior of a computational foot/ankle model through artificial neural networks. Computational and Mathematical Models in Medicine, Article ID 3602928, 2017. (PMID: 28250804; DOI 10.1155/2017/3602928)

Mohammed BM, Fisher BJ, Kraskauskas D, Ward S, Wayne JS, Brophy DF, Fowler AA III, Yager DR, Natarajan R: Vitamin C promotes wound healing through novel pleiotropic mechanisms. International Wound Journal, 13(4):572-584, 2016. (PMID: 26290474; DOI: 10.1111/iwj.12484)