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About This Event
The use of smart engineering in healthcare can help limit the spread of pathogens and have a profound impact in infection prevention and the risk of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) among patients. Join us to hear from engineering and health leaders about new research and innovation in this area.

About the Speaker
Dr. Ben Hatton is an Associate Professor at UofT, and leads the Functional and Adaptive Surfaces group in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering , and is also cross-appointed to Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical & Industrial Engineering. He established the group in Sept 2012, after a research associate position at Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Wyss Institute for Bio-inspired Engineering, for 5 years (2007-2012). Previously, he was a post-doc at Bell Labs, in Murray Hill, NJ (2006-2007), and at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan (2005). His Ph.D. research focus, in MSE/Chemistry at UofT (2000-2005), was the synthesis and properties of mesoporous organosilica thin films. Dr. Hatton has worked in a range of materials chemistry areas, including nanomaterial synthesis (ceramic nanocomposites by colloidal processing, self-assembly mechanisms for nanocomposites, nanoporous thin films), and the fabrication and properties of bio-inspired surfaces through topographical patterning. His research group currently studies bio-inspired materials design, surface wetting and adhesion, and biological interactions with material surfaces, particularly microbial contamination of biomaterials, antimicrobial materials design and biomedical devices.