IAB Mission
The IAB mission is to:
- Regularly review, advise and direct programming in the Department of Biomedical Engineering to help the Department better achieve its mission
- Enhance the biomedical professional community through advising
- BME education and training scope and focus
- BME information dissemination and communication, and
- BME research and academic-industrial collaborations
IAB Functions
The IAB advises the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the areas of:
- Student Education and Training,
- Dissemination of BME achievements and competence, and
- Communication to stakeholders, including local industry,
- Student and Trainee Opportunities in Research and Industrial Collaboration
IAB provides input to the Department to evaluate and guide:
- Academic programming,
- Student training effectiveness,
- The Department’s relevance to addressing current medtech/life science industrial goals and interests,
- Industrial employee requirements
- the Department’s performance assessments and accreditation needs, and other academic reporting purposes.
IAB acts as liaison between the Department and Industry:
- For students, by facilitating and enabling work experience opportunities with:
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- Biomedical industry in Utah
- Internships
- Employment needs from industry
- Student research/senior project opportunities
- For faculty, by providing information on:
- Potential research collaboration opportunities
- Availability of research contracts or consulting opportunities
- For Industry, by providing:
- potential projects that can be efficiently solved in academic research settings
Voting Members
Kelly Christian M.S., Senior Director of Product Dev./R&D
BD Medication Delivery Solutions (formerly Bard Access Systems)
Kelly.Christian@bd.com
Tomasz Petelenz, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Utah
tomasz.petelenz@utah.edu
Lynne Shwed M.S.
Director, Engineering – R&D / New Product Development
Edwards Lifesciences, Transcatheter Heart Valves Business Unit
Lynne_Shwed@edwards.com
Non-Voting Members
David Grainger, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Professor & Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Utah
david.grainger@utah.edu