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
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IAB Members
Roya Borazjani, Ph.D., MBA
WW VP Regulatory Affairs & Compliance
Becton Dickinson
roya.borazjani@gmail.com
Kelly Christian M.S., Senior Director, RR&D
BD Medication Delivery Solutions Wasatch
Kelly.Christian@wasatchbiomedical.com
Victor Garcia, Global VP RA, EHS & QA Compliance
Varex Imaging
victor.garcia@vareximaging.com
Mark Paul
Executive Director
Center for Medical Innovation, University of Utah
Jessica Smith, PhD
Corporate Vice Presidents and Chief Regulatory Officer
Integra Life Sciences
jws@xmission.com
Tomasz Petelenz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor (Lecturer)
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Utah
tomasz.petelenz@utah.edu
Jessica Wagenseil, D.Sc.
Non-voting member
University Professor & Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Utah
Jessica.wagenseil@utah.edu
Kelly Broadhead, PhD
Associate Professor (Lecturer)
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Utah
kelly.broadhead@utah.edu






























