Michael A. DellaVecchia, MD, PhD, FACS, FICS

Adjunct Professor
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems

Bio

Michael A. DellaVecchia, MD, PhD, FACS, FICS, is an ophthalmologist, pathologist, and biomedical scientist from Philadelphia. He has a diverse professional background that includes practice in private, group, corporate, and academic settings. Dr. DellaVecchia currently serves as officer at-large on the Senior Physicians Section Governing Council and as a delegate from Pennsylvania to the AMA House of Delegates. He currently serves as governor of the American College of Surgeons and is immediate past president of the Pennsylvania Medical Society. The Senior Physicians Section (SPS), with more than 60,000 members, is the largest senior physician group in the United States.

In addition to earning a medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine and completing residencies in anatomical and clinical pathology and ophthalmology, Dr. DellaVecchia earned advanced degrees in engineering and physics from Drexel University with a research emphasis in medical devices and photonics. He holds several U.S. patents and has been a consultant to the Food and Drug Administration and NASA. Dr. DellaVecchia shows his commitment to advancing public health and preventive medicine through his community volunteer work and with veterans’ groups.

Education

MD, Temple University, 1976
PhD in Biomedical Science and Engineering, Drexel University, 1984
MS in Biomedical Science and Engineering, Drexel University, 1972
BA in Physics, LaSalle College, 1970

Publications

Beard, R.B., Levine, S., DellaVecchia, M.A., Lynn, s., Wittels, H., and Brody, J.: "CELLULAR RESPONSE TO ALUMINUM AND ZINC ANODE MATERIALS USED IN IMPLANTABLE POWER SOURCES", Second Annual Meeting of Society for Biomaterials, Philadelphia, PA., April, 1976.

Beard, R.B., and DellaVecchia, M.A.: "DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF THE ACID MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDES CHONDROITIN SULFATES A,B,C,D". Fourth International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry, Woods Hole, MA., October 2 - 9, 1977.

Wittels, H., and DellaVecchia, M.A., Beard, R.B., Goodhard, G., (introduction by Kays, D.): “MEASUREMENT OF THE RANDOM MIGRATION DEVICES,” Clinical Research 25:385A, 1977.

Leibman, E., Webster, R., Berger, A., and DellaVecchia, M.A.: “THE FRONTALIS NERVE IN THE TEMPORAL BROW LIFT.” Archives of Otolaryngology. Vol. 108, April 1982.

Green, G., DellaVecchia, M. and Shea, F., “LARYNGEAL EDEMA ASSOCIATED WITH BETA THALESSEMIA.” Journal of the American Medical Association, March 1982.

Ronis, M., Harwick, J., Fund, R., and DellaVecchia, M.A.: “REVIEW OF CYANOACRYLATE TISSUE GLUES WITH EMPHASIS ON THEIR OTORHINOLARYNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS.” LARYNGOSCOPE. Vol. 34, No. February 1984.

DellaVecchia, M.A., Beard, R. B., and Gould, M.: “ELECTROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE POLYMORPHONUCLEAR LEUKOCYTE.” Proceedings of the International Electric and Electronic Engineers. Seventh Annual Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Chicago Illinois, September 1985.

DellaVecchia, M.A., and Sutliff, F.: “COMPUTERS FOR THE OPHTHALMIC OFFICE.” 38th Annual Wills Eye Conference, March 13 - 15, 1986, Philadelphia, PA.

DellaVecchia, M.A., and Santamarina, L.: “LOSS OF VISION COMPLICATING ORBITAL SURGERY.” 42nd Annual Wills Eye Conference, March 29 -- 31, 1990, Philadelphia, PA

DellaVecchia, M.A. and Santamarina, L.: “OCULAR CICATRICAL PEMPHIGOID.” Transactions of the Pennsylvania Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, June 23, 1990, Hershey, PA.

DellaVecchia, M.A., and Ellis, R., et al. OPHTHALMOLOGY FOR THE GENERAL PHYSICIAN, “THE DIAGNOSIS AND CARE OF THE RED EYE”; Will’s Eye Hospital, October 1990, Philadelphia, PA.

Feng, D., Beard, R.B., Gould, M., Margulies, N., and DellaVecchia, M.A.: “IN VITRO MIGRATION STUDY OF HUMAN POLYMORPHONUCLEAR AND MONONUCLEAR LEUKOCYTES IN A DC MAGNETIC FIELD.” Annual International Conference of the International Electronic and Electrical Engineers - Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society—Vol. 12, No. 4, November 1990.

DellaVecchia, M.A., and Ellis, R., et al. OPHTHALMOLOGY FOR THE GENERAL PHYSICIAN,: “THE DIAGNOSIS AND CARE OF THE RED EYE”; Will’s Eye Hospital October 9, 1991, Philadelphia, PA.

Ansari, R.R., Dhadwal, S., Campbell, C.W., DellaVecchia, M.A.: “A FIBER OPTIC SENSOR FOR OPHTHALMIC REFRACTIVE DIAGNOSTICS,” SPIE Vol. 1648, Fiber Optic Medical and Fluorescent Sensors and Application, 83-105, Optical Engineering Press. 1991 Bellevue, WA.

Vonderheid, E.C., Diamond, L.W., Lai, M.S., Au, F., DellaVecchia, M.A.,: ”LYMPH NODE HISTOPATHOLOGY IN CUTANEOUS T-CELL LYMPHOMA: A PROGNOSTIC CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM BASED ON MORPHOLOGY” American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Vol. 97, No. 1, January 1992.

Zhou, J.J., Beard, R.B., DellaVecchia, M.A., and Feng, D.: “DIELECTRIC RELAXATION OF THE HUMAN POLYMORPHONUCLEAR LEUKOCYTE FROM 20 KHZ TO 100 MHZ “; Biomedical Engineering Society, Third Annual Meeting, University of Utah, Salt lake City, Utah, October 16 - 18, 1992.

DellaVecchia, M.A., Ansari, R.R., Dhadwal, H.S.: “LASER LIGHT SCATTERING FOR THE EARLY DETECTION OF CATARACTOGENESIS.” Pennsylvania Academy of Ophthalmology Poster Session, Pittsburgh, PA, March 18 - 20, 1993.

DellaVecchia, M.A.: “EXCIMER LASER REFRACTIVE SURGERY,” JCAHPO 45th Annual Wills Eye Conference, Philadelphia, PA April 1, 1993.

Dhadwal, H.S., Ansari, R.R., DellaVecchia, M.A.: “COHERENT FIBER OPTIC SENSOR FOR THE EARLY DETECTION OF CATARACTOGENESIS IN A HUMAN EYE LENS.” OPTICAL ENGINEERING, SPIE vol. 32, number 2, February 1993.

Ansari, R.R., Dhadwal, H.S., DellaVecchia, M.A., and Dubin, S.E.: “IN VIVO CHARACTERIZATION IN ANIMAL AND HUMAN EYES USING A FIBER OPTIC SYSTEM.” Second International Conference on Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology and the 25th Annual Meeting of the Fine Particle Society short courses and Particulate/Powder and Pharmaceutical Technology Exhibition, New Brunswick, NJ July 26, 1994.

Dhadwal, H.S., Ansari, R.R., DellaVecchia, M.A. and Dubin, S.E.: “FIBER OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR THE IN VIVO SIZING OF PROTEINS IN ANIMAL EYE LENSES.” Ophthalmic Technologies session of BiOS the Biomedical Optics Section of the Society of Photoinstrumentation Engineering, San Jose, CA Feb. 5, 1995.

DellaVecchia, M.A., Beard, R.B, and Dai, X.: “THE INFLUENCE OF LIGHT SOURCE ON THE MIGRATION OF THE POLYMORPHONUCLEAR LEUKOCYTES.” Laser-Tissue Session of BiOS the Biomedical Optics Section of the Society of Photoinstrumentation Engineering, San Jose, CA Feb. 7, 1995

Ansari, R.R., Suh, K.I., DellaVecchia, M.A. and Dubin, S.E.: “OPHTHALMIC DIAGNOSTICS USING A NEW DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING FIBER OPTIC PROBE.” Proceeding Medical Applications, Conference on Lasers in Ophthalmology II, Society for Photoinstrumentation Engineering 2632, Barcelona, Spain 18, Sept. 12 - 16, 1995.

Ansari, R.R., Suh, K.I., DellaVecchia, M.A. and Dubin, S.E.: “THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING OF EYE LENS AND VITREOUS USING A NEWLY DEVELOPED DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING PROBE.” Conference on Ophthalmic Technologies VI, Biomedical Optics Section, Society for Photoinstrumentation Engineering, San Jose, CA, Jan. 27, 1996.

Dai, X., Beard, R.B., DellaVecchia, M.A. and Priezzhev, A.: “MONONUCLEAR LEUKOCYTE PHOTONIC EFFECTS.” Conference on Optical Diagnostics of Biological Fluids, Biomedical Optics Section, Society for Photoinstrumentation Engineering, San Jose, CA, Jan 31, 1996.

DellaVecchia, M.A., Ansari, R.R., Suh, K.I. and Dubin, S.E.: “LASER LIGHT SCATTERING AS A MEASUREMENT OF CATARACTOGENESIS.” 48th Annual Conference, Will’s Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA March 14, 1996.

DellaVecchia, M.A., Ansari, R.R. Suh, K.I. and Dubin, S.E "CRYSTALLINE CHANGES IN VIVO IN NAPHTHALENE INDUCED CATARACTOGENESIS OF RABBITS" 48th Annual Conference, Will’s Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, March 15, 1996.

DellaVecchia, M.A., Ansari, R.R., Suh, K.I. and Dubin, S.E.: “DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF CATARACTOGENESIS" The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Fl, April 24, 1996.

Ansari, R.R., Suh, K., DellaVecchia, M.A., et al.: "A COMPACT FIBER OPTIC DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING PROBE FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF EYE DISEASES" American Academy of Ophthalmology Centennial Conference, Technologies of the Future/Educational Technologies, Chicago, IL, Oct. 26 – 31, 1996.

DellaVecchia, M.A., Lamkin-Kennard, K.A.: “METHOD OF CORNEAL MODELING FOR THE ANALYSIS OF PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY" Conference on Ophthalmic Technologies VII, Biomedical Optics Section, Society for Photoinstrumentation Engineering, San Jose, CA, Feb. 9, 1997.

DellaVecchia, M.A., Beard, R.B.: “METHOD FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF THE PHOTONIC EFFECT ON BLOOD CELLS" Conference on Optical Diagnostics of Biological Fluids, Biomedical Optics Section, Society for Photoinstrumentation Engineering, San Jose, CA, Feb 12, 1997.

DellaVecchia, M.A., Wolbarsht, M., Meyerhoff, D., Chmielewski, T.: “PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE INFRARED ILLUMINATION OF THE HUMAN IRIS WITH INFRARED LED'S" Proprietary White Paper Report. Copyright 1997 Sensar, Inc., 121 Whittendale Drive, Moorestown, NJ 08057.

DellaVecchia, M.A., Wolbarsht, M., Meyerhoff, D., Chmielewski, T., Rozmus, M.: "REPORT ON THE ILLUMINATION OF THE HUMAN IRIS BY THE IRISIDENT P2 DEMONSTRATION PROTOTYPE" Proprietary White Paper Report. Copyright 1997 Sensar, Inc., 121 Whittendale Drive, Moorestown, NJ 08057.

DellaVecchia, M.A., Wolbarsht, M., Meyerhoff, D., Chmielewski, T., Rozmus, M.: "Report on the Illumination of the Human Iris by the Irisident P3 Prototype" Proprietary White Paper Report. Copyright 1997 Sensar, Inc., 121 Whittendale Drive, Moorestown, NJ 08057.

DellaVecchia, M.A., Lamkin-Kennard, K.A.: “METHOD OF CORNEAL MODELING FOR PHOTOREFRACTIVE SURGERY" 49th Annual Wills Conference, Philadelphia, PA March 21, 1997.

DellaVecchia, M.A., Chmielewski, T., Salganicoff, M., and Negin, M "METHODOLOGY AND APPARATUS FOR USING THE HUMAN IRIS AS A ROBUST BIOMETRIC" Conference on Ophthalmic Technologies VIII, Biomedical Optics Section, Society for Photoinstrumentation Engineering, San Jose, CA, Jan 25, 1998.

DellaVecchia, M.A., Beard, R.B.: Feng, D, Dai, X., Pourrezaei, K, Priezzhev, A, “A COMPARISON OF THE PHOTONIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EFFECTS ON THE HUMAN LEUKOCYTE" Conference on Optical Diagnostics of Biological Fluids III, Biomedical Optics Section, Society for Photoinstrumentation Engineering, San Jose, CA, Jan 29, 1998.

DellaVecchia, M.A., Chmielewski, T., Camus T., Negin, M and Salganicoff, M., "IRIS BIOMETRICS" , 50th Annual Wills Eye Conference, Philadelphia PA March 12-14, 1998.

DellaVecchia, M.A., Curtin, R. "20/20 A LIGHT ODYSSEY", 50th Annual Wills Eye Conference, Philadelphia PA March 12-14, 1998.

Dubin, S., Ansari, R., Victor, M., Koch, S., Steinberg, S., VanWinckel, T., DellaVecchia, M.A., "LEPORINE MODEL REFINEMENT FOR INVESTIGATION OF OPHTHALMIC DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING INSTRUMENTATION" 24th IEEE Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Hershey PA April 9, 1998

DellaVecchia, M. A., Vorontsov, M. and Bersenev, L., “HUMAN EYE LENS ABERRATION ANALYSIS USING ADAPTIVE OPTICS” Laser Optics 2000 Research Institute for Laser Physics, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 30, 2000

M. Banta, M. Vorontsov, M. DellaVecchia, and L. Donoso, Adaptive System for Eye-Lens Aberration Correction based on Stochastic Parallel Gradient Descent Optimization

Sambursky R, Trattler W, Tauber S, Starr C, Friedberg M, Boland T, McDonald M, DellaVecchia M, Luchs J. Sensitivity and specificity of the AdenoPlus test for diagnosing adenoviral conjunctivitis.JAMA Ophthalmol. 2013 Jan;131(1):17-22.