Biography

I am both a licensed professional engineer and a physician. The goal of my work is to improve human health through the application of engineering analysis. My background spans industry and academia, and my experience includes medical device and biotechnology product development, preclinical trials, clinical trials and intellectual property. Currently I am focused on graduate education, specifically the training of the next generation of biomedical innovators. I serve as director of the Biomedicine Graduate Programs at the Drexel University College of Medicine. In this capacity, I lead the development and administration of novel interdisciplinary academic programs. These pioneering biomedicine graduate degree programs operate at the intersection of medicine and law; medicine and business; medicine and entrepreneurship; and medicine and media arts and design. My aspirational goal is to create additional biomedicine graduate degree programs that unite medicine and engineering, as well as medicine and computer science.

Degrees / Education

• MD – University of Pennsylvania (2003)
• PhD – University of Pennsylvania (2003)