Stephen M. Myers is a technical specialist with Foley & Lardner LLP where he is a member of the firm’s Electronics Practice.
Dr. Myers’ experience includes developing novel control algorithms employed in patient monitor and ventilator systems. He also conducted research exploring non-invasive measurement of a patient’s respiratory system. This research helped clinicians make quick and accurate decisions regarding respiratory support. Dr. Myers has designed and conducted NIH R01 studies in laboratory and hospital settings and developed software, electrical devices, and physical hardware for the acquisition and processing for in vivo electrophysiology recordings. He has also authored a range of scientific publications, posters, white papers and other technical writings.
Prior to joining Foley, Dr. Myers was a biomedical engineer with Convergent Engineering as well as a consulting engineer with ioBridge, Inc. After earning his Ph.D., he was a postdoctoral fellow in pediatric neurology at the University of Florida College of Medicine.
Dr. Myers earned his bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering, with a focus on neuroengineering, from Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S., 2005). He earned his doctorate in biomedical engineering, with a focus on epilepsy and neuroengineering, from the University of Florida (Ph.D., 2011). Dr. Myers received an Alumni Graduate Fellowship award to fully fund Ph.D. research at the University of Florida and was a member of the Epsilon Lambda Chi: Engineering Leadership Circle. He was named “One of Six Engineers to Watch” by the University of Florida’s College of Engineering. Dr. Myers’ dissertation was titled “Platform Development for the Modulation of Epileptic Seizures Based on Interictal Spike Rate.”
Publications:
- Co-author, “Positive End Expiratory Pressure And Fraction of Inspired Oxygen Advisory System Recommends Appropriate Ventilator Settings: Multisite Validation Study,” American Thoracic Society International Conference, May 2012.
- Co-author, “Seizure detection and advanced monitoring techniques,” Reading EEGs: A Practical Approach (2009), Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Publishers.
- Co-author, “Determining The Firing Rate Of Interictal Population Spikes Leading To Seizures,” American Epilepsy Society 63rd Annual Meeting, Dec. 2009.
- Co-author, “Analysis of Hippocampal Interdependencies For Early Seizure Detection,” American Epilepsy Society 63rd Annual Meeting, Dec. 2009.
- Co-author, “High frequency oscillations in limbic rat model for temporal lobe epilepsy,” BMC Neuroscience 2007, 8(Suppl 2):P145.
- Co-author, “Detection of High Frequency Oscillations with Teager Energy in an Animal Model of Limbic Epilepsy,” Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, pp.2578-2580, Aug. 2006.
- Co-author, “Coherence Analysis Over the Latent Period of Epileptogenesis Reveal that High-Frequency Communication is Increased Across Hemispheres in an Animal Model of Limbic Epilepsy,” Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, pp.2578-2580, Aug. 2006.