Industrial Advisory Board’s 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
  • Student Education and Training
  • Dissemination of BME achievements and competence
  • Communication to stakeholders, including local industry
  • Student and trainee opportunities in research and industrial collaboration
  • 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
  • For students, by facilitating and enabling work experience opportunities with:
    • Biomedical industry in Utah
    • Internships
    • Employment needs from industry
    • Student research/senior project opportunities
  • For faculty, by providing information on:
  • For industry, by providing:
    • potential projects that can be efficiently solved in academic research settings
    • Philanthropic collaboration and support

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IAB Members

Roya Borazjani, Ph.D., MBA

WW VP Regulatory Affairs & Compliance
BD
roya.borazjani@gmail.com

Kelly Christian M.S., Senior Director of Product Dev./R&D

BD Medication Delivery Solutions (formerly Bard Access Systems)
Kelly.Christian@bd.com

Jeff Nelson MBA, SM (NRCM)

Nelson Laboratories, LLC

jeffportable@gmail.com

Mark Paul

Executive Director

Executive Director at the Center for Medical Innovation at the University of Utah

Former President Stryker Neurovascular – 15 years leading the global Neurovascular business

20 years at Boston Scientific in Peripheral Vascular, Cardiovascular, Interventional Oncology, Neurovascular businesses

mark.paul@hsc.utah.edu

Lynne Shwed M.S.

Sr Director, New Product Development

Edwards Lifesciences

Lynne_Shwed@edwards.com

Jessica Smith, PhD Corporate Vice Presidents and Chief Regulatory Officer

Integra LifeSciences
jws@xmission.com

Liz Zettel, Engineering Manager

Styker Neurovascular
elizabeth.zettel@styker.com

Tomasz Petelenz, Ph.D.

Associate Professor (Lecturer)
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Utah
tomasz.petelenz@utah.edu

David Grainger, Ph.D.

Non-voting member

University Distinguished Professor & Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Utah
david.grainger@utah.edu