NAME: Thomas J. McAvoy RANK: Professor Emeritus
EDUCATION:
B.S. in Ch.E., Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1961.
M.A. in Ch.E., Princeton University, 1963.
Ph.D. in Ch.E., Princeton University, 1964.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1964 to 1980, Professor, University of Massachusetts, Chemical Engineering Department.
1970-1971, Research Associateship, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, Department of Applied Physics. Hybrid Computer Solution of Partial Differential Equations, On sabbatical for academic year.
1980 – 2004. Full Professor, University of Maryland, Chemical Engineering Department. (1992 – 2004 Joint Appointment in Institute for Systems Research)
2004 – present. Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Joint Appointments in Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Institute for Systems Research, Bioengineering Department
CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS:
Bacterial Involvement in Pseudomyxoma Peritonei
Application of Statistical Batch Process Monitoring to Pregnancy
SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
Sigma Xi
Tau Beta Pi
Omega Chi Epsilon
Phi Lambda Upsilon
HONORS
Allied Foundation Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, 1982
Chemical Process Control III – Co-Chairman, 1986
Donald P. Eckman Education Award from Instrument Society of America, 1987
Fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1989
ICI Visiting Professor, University of Newcastle, Nov. 27 – Dec. 1, 1989
Spring 1990 Mobay Lecturer, Clemson University
Plenary Speaker at Eighth International Conference on Mathematical and Computer Modeling, 1991
Plenary Speaker at IEEE Workshop on Neuro-Fuzzy Control, Muroran, Japan, 1993
Marchon Lecturer, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Great Britain, 1994
Co-winner of 1995 Harry C. Bigglestone Award for Excellence in Communication of Fire Protection Concepts
Distinguished Scholar Teacher, University of Maryland, 1997-1998
Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award, University of Maryland, 1998 – 1999.
Plenary Speaker at IFAC Workshop on Future Trends in Automation in Mineral and Metal Processing, Finland, August 2000.
Fellow IFAC, 2006
SERVICE
Editorial Board of Instrumentation Technology, 1983-87
AIChE Area 10-B Vice Chairman, 1983-84
AIChE Area 10-B Chairman, 1985-86
Chairman of IFAC Working Group on Process Control 1990-1996 (Member since 1985)
Member of IFAC Technical Board, 1996 – 2008.
AIChE Representative to American Automatic Control Council, 1987-88
Director of AIChE CAST Division, 1988 – 1991
Associate Editor, Automatica, February 1991 – 1993
Editorial Board, I&EC Research, 1989-92
North American Editor, Journal of Process Control, 1990 – 1996
Editor in Chief, Journal of Process Control, 1997 – 2008
MEDICAL RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:
- McAvoy, T.J., “Biologic Half-Life of Heparin”, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 25, pp. 372-379, 1979.
- McAvoy, T.J., “Pharmacokinetic Modeling of Heparing and Its Clinical Implications”, J. of Pharmacokinetics and Bipharmaceutics, 7, pp. 331-354, 1979
- D’Souza WD, McAvoy TJ., “An analysis of the treatment couch and control system dynamics for respiration-induced motion compensation”, Med Phys., 33(12):4701-9, Dec 2006.
- Qiu P, D’Souza WD, McAvoy TJ, Ray Liu KJ., “Inferential modeling and predictive feedback control in real-time motion compensation using the treatment couch during radiotherapy”, Phys Med Biol., 7:52(19):5831-54, Oct. 2007.
- Semino-Mora C, Liu H, McAvoy T, Nieroda C, Studeman K, Sardi A, Dubois A., “Pseudomyxoma peritonei: is disease progression related to microbial agents? A study of bacteria, MUC2 AND MUC5AC expression in disseminated peritoneal adenomucinosis and peritoneal mucinous carcinomatosis”, Ann Surg Oncol., 15(5):1414-23, May 2008.
- D’Souza WD, Malinowski KT, Van Liew S, D’Souza G, Asbury K, McAvoy TJ, Suntharalingam M, Regine WF., “Investigation of motion sickness and inertial stability on a moving couch for intra-fraction motion compensation”, Acta Oncol., 48(8):1198-203, 2009.
- Malinowski KT, Pantarotto JR, Senan S, McAvoy TJ, D’Souza WD., “Inferring positions of tumor and nodes in Stage III lung cancer from multiple anatomical surrogates using four-dimensional computed tomography”, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys., 1;77(5):1553-60, Aug. 2010.
- Malinowski K, McAvoy TJ, George R, Dietrich S, D’Souza WD., “Incidence of changes in respiration-induced tumor motion and its relationship with respiratory surrogates during individual treatment fractions”, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys., 1;82(5):1665-73, April 2012.
- Malinowski KT, McAvoy TJ, George R, Dieterich S, D’Souza WD., “Mitigating errors in external respiratory surrogate-based models of tumor position”, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys., 1;82(5):e709-16, April 2012.
- Malinowski K, McAvoy TJ, George R, Dieterich S, D’Souza WD., “Online monitoring and error detection of real-time tumor displacement prediction accuracy using control limits on respiratory surrogate statistics” Med Phys., 39(4):2042-8, April 2012.
- Semino-Mora C, Testerman TL, Liu H, Whitmire JM, Studeman K, Jia Y, McAvoy TJ, Francis J, Nieroda C, Sardi A, Merrell DS, Dubois A., “Antibiotic treatment decreases microbial burden associated with pseudomyxoma peritonei and affects β-catenin distribution”, Clin Cancer Res., 15;19(14):3966-76, July 2013.
- Malinowski K, McAvoy TJ, George R, Dieterich S, D’Souza WD., “Maintaining tumor targeting accuracy in real-time motion compensation systems for respiration-induced tumor motion”, Med Phys., 40(7):071709, July 2013.
- Gilbreath JJ, Semino-Mora C, Friedline CJ, Liu H, Bodi KL, McAvoy TJ, Francis J, Nieroda C, Sardi A, Dubois A, Lazinski DW, Camilli A, Testerman TL, Merrell DS, “A core microbiome associated with the peritoneal tumors of pseudomyxoma peritonei”, Orphanet J Rare Dis., 12;8:105, July 2013.
- Lo AS, Merrell DS, Lei H, Sardi A, McAvoy T, Testerman TL, “A Novel Member of Chitinophagaceae Isolated from a Human Peritoneal Ttumor”, Genome Announc. 12;3(6). pii: e01297-15, Nov. 2015.