AIMBE
Joyce Y. Wong, Ph.D.
President 2022 – 2024
College of Engineering Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Professor
Boston University
6
AIMBE Past Presidents
Tejal Desai, Ph.D.
President 2020 – 2022
Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering, Professor of Engineering
Brown University
Christine E. Schmidt, Ph.D.
President 2018 – 2020
Pruitt Family Professor
University of Florida
Gilda Barabino, Ph.D.
President 2016 – 2018
Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and President
Olin College of Engineering
Ravi V. Bellamkonda, Ph.D.
President 2014 – 2016
Executive Vice President and Provost
The Ohio State University
William A. Hawkins III, MBA
President 2013 – 2014
Lead Director
Immucor, Inc.
Chairman & CEO, Retired
Medtronic, Inc.
Raphael C. Lee, MD, ScD, DSc (Hon), FACS
President 2012 – 2013
Paul S. and Allene T. Russell Professor
The University of Chicago
Ken Lutchen, Ph.D.
President 2011 – 2012
Dean, College of Engineering
Boston University
Thomas C. Skalak, Ph.D.
President 2010 – 2011
Executive Director Of Science and Technology
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
Eugene C. Eckstein, Ph.D.
President 2009 – 2010
Department Chair & Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Memphis
John T. Watson, Ph.D.
President 2008 – 2009
Professor Emeritus, Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego
Linda C. Lucas, Ph.D.
President 2007 – 2008
Provost (retired)
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Herbert F. Voigt, III, Ph.D.
1952 – 2018
President 2006 – 2007
Professor
Boston University
Thomas R. Harris, M.D., Ph.D.
President 2005 – 2006
Orrin Henry Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Emeritus
Vanderbilt University
Don P. Giddens, Ph.D.
President 2004 – 2005
Dean Emeritus and Professor
Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Arthur J. Coury, Ph.D.
President 2003 – 2004
University Distinguished Professor, Chemical Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, Bioengineering, Northeastern University
Buddy D. Ratner, Ph.D.
President 2002 – 2003
Joint Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering; Michael L. & Myrna Darland Endowed Chair in Technology Commercialization
University of Washington
Shu Chien, M.D., Ph.D.
President 2000 – 2001
Director, Whitaker Institute for Biomedical Engineering
University of California, San Diego
John H. Linehan, Ph.D.
President 1999 – 2000
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University
William R. Hendee, Ph.D.
President 1998 – 1999
Distinguished Professor for Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Biophysics and Institute for Health & Society
Medical College of Wisconsin
Larry V. McIntire, Ph.D.
President 1997 – 1998
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Winfred M. Phillips, D.Sc.
1941-2024
President 1996 – 1997
Vice President for Research
University of Florida
Jerome S. Schultz, Ph.D.
President 1995 – 1996
Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
University of Houston
Pierre Galletti, Ph.D.
1927-1997
President 1994 – 1995
Professor of Bioengineering
Brown University
Robert M. Nerem, Ph.D.
1937-2020
President 1992 – 1994
Director, Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
