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:
- 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
- Philanthropic collaboration and support
IAB Members
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
Nelson Laboratories, LLC
Mark Paul
President Stryker Neurovascular
President Stryker Neurovascular – 15 years leading the global Neurovascular business
20 years at Boston Scientific in Peripheral Vascular, Cardiovascular, Interventional Oncology, Neurovascular businesses
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
Jessica Smith, PhD Corporate Vice Presidents and Chief Regulatory Officer
Integra LifeSciences
jess.smith@integralife.com
David Grainger, Ph.D.
Non-voting member
University Distinguished Professor & Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Utah
david.grainger@utah.edu