Daniel L Latt

Interests

Teaching

Teaching - Dr. Latt has been active as a teacher in every part of his work. He has utilized a variety different teaching methods, including: informal teaching during clinic, didactic teaching through medical grand rounds and engineering course lectures, and mentorship of students in the lab.Clinical teaching – Dr. Latt has worked with medical students, orthopaedic surgery residents, family medicine residents and emergency medicine residents in both the clinic and in the operating room since starting in practice. Over the past 5 years, he has trained 15 orthopaedic residents and approximately 4 times as many primary care residents on the sports medicine rotation. During these informal teaching sessions he has focused on critical thinking and on the application of basic principles of anatomy and biomechanics to the diagnosis and treatment decision making for musculoskeletal disorders.Didactic teaching – Dr. Latt has also engaged in formal teaching through grand rounds, biomedical engineering lectures, and public colloquia. Over the past 5 years, he has given 15 orthopaedic, rheumatology, and emergency medicine grand rounds lectures covering clinical topics in foot and ankle surgery and sports medicine. He has also given 7 lectures for biomedical engineering undergraduate and graduate students including BME 295C-Challenges in biomedical engineering, BME 497G- clinical topics in biomedical engineering, and BME 566 - biomechanics. Finally, He has given 10 public talks covering a wide variety of topics from ankle arthritis, to overuse injuries in cycling, to training for a career as a clinician-scientist. He has made these lectures engaging and interactive.Research mentorship - Over the past 3 years, he has had the privilege of teaching the students in his lab about research design, research methodology, musculoskeletal anatomy and orthopaedic biomechanics. Over 60 graduate and undergraduate students from biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, systems and industrial engineering, honors physiology, and nursing students have participated in his lab. He particularly enjoys providing career mentoring for a number of physiology and biomedical engineering undergraduate students who have gone on to medical school. He has on the masters thesis committee for 5 engineering students and on the doctoral dissertation committee for 2 engineering students.

Research

Dr. Latt's research interest is in using the principles of biomechanics to solve clinical problems in orthopaedics. He has four major research areas (1) Degenerative disease of tendons (tendinosis), (2) The role of alignment in the health and disease of the lower extremity, (3) Movement analysis as a functional outcome measure, and (4) Optimization of medical workflow using task analysis and modeling.

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