AIMBE 2020 College of Fellows Virtual Induction

June 5, 2020

March 24, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact: Charlie Kim (service@aimbe.org)

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) announced today the election of 156 new members of the AIMBE College of Fellows in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in medical and biological engineering.

Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biological engineer. The College of Fellows is comprised of the top two percent of medical and biological engineers. College membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering and medicine research, practice, or education” and to “the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of medical and biological engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to bioengineering education.”

AIMBE Fellows are among the most distinguished medical and biological engineers including 3 Nobel Prize laureates, 18 Fellows having received the Presidential Medal of Science and/or Technology and Innovation, and 173 also inducted to the National Academy of Engineering, 83 inducted to the National Academy of Medicine and 36 inducted to the National Academy of Sciences.

2020 Members of the AIMBE College of Fellows:

Josephine Allen, Ph.D.; University of Florida

Mary T. am Ende, Ph.D.; Nalas Engineering

Debra Auguste, Ph.D.; Northeastern University

Matthew Bacchetta, MD; Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Aldo Badano, Ph.D.; Food and Drug Administration

David Baker, Ph.D.; University of Washington

Sasha H. Bakhru, Ph.D.; Perosphere Technologies, Inc.

Danielle S. Bassett, Ph.D.; University of Pennsylvania

Timothy B. Bentley, Ph.D.; Office of Naval Research

Christopher Bettinger, Ph.D.; Carnegie Mellon University

Surita R. Bhatia, Ph.D.; Stony Brook University

Lauren D. Black, Ph.D.; Tufts University

Kim T. Blackwell, VMD, Ph.D.; George Mason University

Wesley Bolch, Ph.D., PE, FAAPM, FHPS; University of Florida

David Borkholder, Ph.D.; Rochester Institute of Technology

Audrey Bowden, Ph.D.; Vanderbilt University

Joerg Breitenbach, Ph.D., MBA; BIT Pharma

Patricia F. Brennan, RN, Ph.D.; National Institutes of Health

Rachael H. Buck, Ph.D.; Abbott

Eric Buckland, Ph.D.; Translational Imaging Innovations

Zhiming Cai, MD, Ph.D.; Shenzhen University

Paul J. Campagnola, Ph.D.; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Xuetao Cao, MD, Ph.D.; Nankai University, China

Luis Cardoso Landa, Ph.D.; The City College at the City University of New York

Anne E. Carpenter, Ph.D.; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

Eva Chi, Ph.D.; University of New Mexico

Paolo Colombo, Pharm. D., Ph.D.; University of Parma, Italy

Ted A. Conway, Ph.D.; Florida Institute of Technology

Denise R. Cooper, Ph.D.; University of South Florida

Katrina Cornish, Ph.D.; The Ohio State University

Kris N. Dahl, Ph.D.; Carnegie Mellon University

Michael Davis, Ph.D.; Emory University

Anna Devor, Ph.D.; Boston University

Marvin M. Doyley, Ph.D.; University of Rochester

Dan G. Duda, DMD, Ph.D.; Massachusetts General Hospital

Georges El Fakhri, Ph.D., DABR; Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Hana El-Samad, Ph.D.; University of California, San Francisco

Laura Ensign, Ph.D.; Johns Hopkins University

Chunhai Fan, Ph.D.; Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Sina Farsiu, Ph.D.; Duke University

Carlos Figueroa, Ph.D.; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Valery V. Fokin, Ph.D.; University of Southern California

Ophir Frieder, Ph.D.; Georgetown University

Jianping Fu, Ph.D.; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Xiaobing Fu, MD; The PLA General Hospital and PLA Medical College

Shubhra Gangopadhyay, Ph.D.; University of Missouri-Columbia

Dayong Gao, Ph.D.; University of Washington

Nathan C. Gianneschi, Ph.D.; Northwestern University

Marisha L. Godek, Ph.D.; Dermira

Douglas Goetz, Ph.D.; Ohio University

Anjelica L. Gonzalez, Ph.D.; Yale University

Richard Gray, Ph.D.; Food and Drug Administration

Paul M. Griffin, Ph.D.; Purdue University

Zhongze Gu, Ph.D.; Southeast University

Jianjun Guan, Ph.D.; Washington University in St. Louis

Sherry L. Harbin, Ph.D.; Purdue University

Jeffrey D. Hartgerink, Ph.D.; Rice University

Tammy L. Haut Donahue, Ph.D.; University of Massachusetts, Amherst

John D. Hazle, Ph.D.; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Christine P. Hendon, Ph.D.; Columbia University

Winn Hong, MS-ME, MBA; University of Southern California

K. Jimmy Hsia, Ph.D.; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Heng Huang, Ph.D.; University of Pittsburgh

H. David Humes, MD; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Ilko K. Ilev, Ph.D.; Food and Drug Administration

Kevin Janes, Ph.D.; University of Virginia

Michael C. Jewett, Ph.D.; Northwestern University

Xingyu Jiang, Ph.D.; Southern University of Science and Technology, China

William J. Kaiser, Ph.D.; University of California, Los Angeles

Chang-Jin Kim, Ph.D.; University of California, Los Angeles

Rob Knight, Ph.D.; University of California, San Diego

Alicia M. Koontz, Ph.D.; University of Pittsburgh

LaShanda Korley, Ph.D.; University of Delaware

Pamela Kreeger, Ph.D.; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Larry W. Kwak, MD, Ph.D.; City of Hope

Aaron Kyle, Ph.D.; Columbia University

Themis Kyriakides, Ph.D.; Yale University

Samsun Lampotang, Ph.D., FSSH; University of Florida

Kirill Larin, Ph.D.; University of Houston

Xiaojuan Li, Ph.D.; Cleveland Clinic

Xuelong LI, Ph.D.; Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Xing-Jie Liang, Ph.D; National Center for Nanoscience and Technology

Andreas Linninger, Ph.D.; University of Illinois at Chicago

Chang Lu, Ph.D.; Virginia Tech

TianJian Lu, Ph.D.; Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Kip Ludwig, Ph.D.; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Susan M. Lunte, Ph.D.; University of Kansas

Robert Luoma, MS; Abbott

SuPing Lyu, Ph.D.; Medtronic

Thomas Madden, Ph.D.; Acuitas Therapeutics

Guru Madhavan, Ph.D., MBA; National Academy of Engineering

Sanku Mallik, Ph.D.; North Dakota State University

Christian Metallo, Ph.D.; University of California, San Diego

Benjamin Miller, Ph.D.; University of Rochester

Gregory F. Molnar, Ph.D.; University of Minnesota

Victoria Morgan, Ph.D.; Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Jon P. Moseley, Ph.D.; Wright Medical

Srikantan S. Nagarajan, Ph.D.; University of California, San Francisco

Linda O. Narhi, Ph.D.; Genentech

Martyn P. Nash, Ph.D.; University of Auckland

Michelle O’Malley, Ph.D.; University of California, Santa Barbara

Kevin J. Otto, Ph.D.; University of Florida

Hong Wei Ouyang, MD, Ph.D.; Zhejiang University

Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Ph.D.; University of Minnesota

Tonya L. Peeples, Ph.D.; Penn State University

Grace C.Y. Peng, Ph.D.; National Institutes of Health

Maria-Teresa Peracchia, Ph.D.; Sanofi R&D

Madhusudan V. Peshwa, Ph.D.; Mana Therapeutics

Todd E. Peterson, Ph.D.; Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Shelly Peyton, Ph.D.; University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Kristala L.J. Prather, Ph.D.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nathan D. Price, Ph.D.; Institute for Systems Biology

Jaime E. Ramirez-Vick, Ph.D.; Wright State University

Chris G. Ramsborg, Ph.D.; Bristol Myers Squibb

Carlos Rinaldi, Ph.D.; University of Florida

Ricardo Rueda-Cabrera, MD, Ph.D.; Abbott

Christine Santos, Ph.D.; Manus Bio

Herbert Sauro, Ph.D.; University of Washington

Sandra Shefelbine, Ph.D.; Northeastern University

Faiz Sherman, Ph.D.; The Procter & Gamble Company

Wan Shih, Ph.D.; Drexel University

Daniel A. Shimko, Ph.D.; Medtronic

David I. Shreiber, Ph.D.; Rutgers University

Maurice Smith, MD, Ph.D.; Harvard University

Richard G. Spencer, MD, Ph.D.; National Institutes of Health

Thomas F. Strange; Abbott Labs

Collin Stultz, MD, Ph.D.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Yu Sun, Ph.D.; University of Toronto

Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood, Ph.D.; IBM Almaden Research Center

Jeffrey Jay Tabor, Ph.D.; Rice University

Thomas M. Talavage, Ph.D.; Purdue University

Sylvia Wilson Thomas, Ph.D.; University of South Florida

Kevin J. Tracey, MD; Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

Greg Troiano, MSE; Seer, Inc.

Selim Ünlü, Ph.D.; Boston University

Antonie J. van den Bogert, Ph.D.; Cleveland State University

Gracie Vargas, Ph.D.; The University of Texas Medical Branch

Maribel Vazquez, Sc.D.; Rutgers University

René Vidal, Ph.D.; Johns Hopkins University

Nathalie Virag, Ph.D.; Medtronic

Matthew Walker, III, Ph.D.; Vanderbilt University

Xueding Wang, Ph.D.; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Douglas J. Weber, Ph.D.; University of Pittsburgh

Lakiesha N. Williams, Ph.D.; University of Florida

Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D.; Texas A&M University

Ming H. Wu, Ph.D.; Edwards Lifesciences, LLC.

Dong Xu, Ph.D.; University of Missouri-Columbia

Qiaobing Xu, Ph.D.; Tufts University

Yunzhi Yang, Ph.D.; Stanford University

Lei L. Ying, Ph.D.; University at Buffalo

Greg Zaharchuk, MD, Ph.D.; Stanford University

Habib Zaidi, Ph.D.; Geneva University Hospital

Xian-En Zhang, Ph.D.; Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ying E. Zhang, Ph.D.; National Institutes of Health

Yongjie Zhang, Ph.D.; Carnegie Mellon University

Jie Zheng, Ph.D.; The University of Texas at Dallas

 

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The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., representing the most accomplished individuals in the fields of medical and biological engineering. No other organization can bring together academia, industry, government, and scientific societies to form a highly influential community advancing medical and biological engineering. AIMBE’s mission is to provide leadership and advocacy in medical and biological engineering for the benefit of society.