Director of the MBID program and Professor of the Practice in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. He has over 30 years of pre-clinical and clinical biomaterials research and product development experience in the medical device industries. He has led the life cycle development & global commercialization of over 10 major medical device products (via both “Substantial Equivalence (510k)” and “New Product Development (IDE/PMA)” pathways) with significant business impact for cardio-thoracic, abdominal surgical, peripheral arterial and ophthalmology clinical applications.