University of Kentucky - The Graduate School - Center for Biomedical Engineering

BETTY F. SISKEN, Ph.D

Center for Biomedical Engineering
Wenner-Gren Research Laboratory
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0070
Tel: (859) 257-5796
Fax: (859) 257-1856
Email: bsisken@uky.edu
Laboratory: Electromagnetics Laboratory

Biographical Information:

Dr. Sisken is a Professor in the Center for Biomedical Engineering and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the University of Kentucky. She received her B.S. and M.A. degrees from the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT and her Ph.D. degree in Anatomy from the University of Kentucky. The main objective of her research is to assess the influence of electric, static magnetic, and electromagnetic fields on nerve regeneration in vitro and in vivo.

Dr. Sisken is a member of the Bioelectromagnetics Society and the Society for Neuroscience. She is a Past-President of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, and has served on review panels for the National Institutes of Health, the Review Board for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Harvard Advisory Committee on Electromagnetic Fields and Human Health of the Harvard School of Public Health, and the FDA Technical Electronic Products Radiation Safety Standards Committee. She is currently on the Editorial Board,of the journal ,Bioelectromagnetics, and Treasurer of the Marc Singer Society for Regeneration.

Selected Publications:

Sisken BF, M Kanje, G Lundborg, and Kurtz, W. 1990. Pulsed electromagnetic fields stimulate nerve regeneration in vitro and in vitro. Restor. Neurol. and Neurosc.1:303-309.

Sisken BF, J Walker and M Orgel. Prospect on Clinical Applications of Electrical Stimulation for Nerve Regeneration. J Cellular Biochem. 52: 404-409, 1992.

Walker J, JM Evans, P Resig, S Guarnieri, P Meade and BF Sisken. Enhancement of functional recovery following crush lesion to the rat sciatic nerve by exposure to PEMF. Exper. Neurol.125: 302-305, 1994.

Sisken BF and J Walker. Therapeutic aspects of electromagnetic fields for soft tissue healing. Chapter for Advances in Chemistry Series 250, MBlank, Editor, AmerChem Society, Washington D.C., pp278-285, 1995.

Greenebaum, B, Sutton, Carl, M Subramanian Vadula, J H Battocletti, T Swiontek, J DeKeyser, and B F Sisken. Effects of pulsed magnetic fields on neurite outgrowth from chick embryo ganglia. Bioelectromagnetics 17: 293-302, 1996.

Longo F, Yang T, Hamilton S, Hyde JF, Walker, J, Jennes L, Stach R and Sisken, BF. Electromagnetic fields influence NGF activity and level following sciatic nerve transection. J Neuroscience Research 55:230237,1999.

Shah JP, Midkiff P, Brandt PC and Sisken BF. Growth and differentiation of PC6 cells: the effects of pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF). Bioelectromagnetics, 22: 267 2001. )