AIMBEThe Earl Bakken Lecture is presented at AIMBE’s Annual Event in honor of Honorary Fellow and pioneer, Earl Bakken. Earl Bakken invented the cardiac pacemaker and founded Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device company. Bakken supported AIMBE’s advocacy mission early on, and the AIMBE Earl Bakken Lecture Series honors Bakken’s persevering commitment to improving human welfare through the application of biomedical engineering innovation.
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Earl Bakken Lecture Series
2025 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Charles Taylor, Ph.D.
Founder, HeartFlow, Inc.
Adjunct Professor, University of Texas, Austin
Bringing computing and A.I. into Cardiology – From Bench to Business to Bedside
2024 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Bin He, Ph.D.
Trustee Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Dynamic Imaging and Interfacing with the Brain by Means of ML/AI
2023 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Chad A. Mirkin, Ph.D.
Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology
George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Medicine & Professor of Materials Science
Northwestern University
Nanotechnology in medicine and society: technology, societal impact, lessons learned.
2022 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Omar Ishrak, Ph.D.
Chairman of the Board, Intel
Former Chairman & CEO, Medtronic
Releasing Ventilator IP Amid Global Pandemic: Lessons Learned
2022 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Teresa Woodruff, Ph.D.
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Michigan State University
Increasing Societal Impact of Biomedical Engineering
2019 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Susan S. Margulies, Ph.D.
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Professor
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
Research and Education at the Intersection of Medicine and Engineering: Leading Change
2018 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Methodist Hospital Research Institute
Pathway to a Cure
2017 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
David Kaplan, Ph.D.
Stern Family Endowed Professor of Engineering
Tufts University
Brains, Pains and Tissue Engineering
2016 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D.
Malcolm Gillis University Professor
Rice University
Eliminating Global Health Disparities: The
Essential Role of Bioengineering
2015 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Jay Keasling, Ph.D.
Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Engineering Microbes to Solve Global Challenges
2014 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Rakesh K. Jain, Ph.D.
Professor
Harvard University
Reengineering the Tumor Microenvironment to Enhance Cancer Treatment: Bench to Bedside to Biomarkers
2013 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Donald Ingber, Ph.D.
Professor
Harvard University
Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Wyss Institute
2012 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
James Collins, Ph.D.
William F. Warren Distinguished Professor
Boston University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Synthethic Biology
2011 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Stephen Oesterle, M.D.
Senior Vice President for Medicine and Technology
Medtronic, Inc.
Technology Takes Cost Out of Health Care:Converging materials, biologics, MEMS, IT, and Communication Technologies Into Implantable Medical Devices
2010 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Joanna Weitershausen, Ph.D.
Deputy Director Division of Risk Management Operation
FDA
2009 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., M.D.
The Ultimate Translation of Knowledge into Power
2008 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Shu Chien, Ph.D., M.D.
University Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine and Director
University of California, San Diego
Biomedical Sciences and Bioengineering in the Far East
2007 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
David Malakoff
Deputy News Editor
NPR
Who You Gonna Call? Bioengineers, Journalists… & Ghostbusters
2006 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Peter Katona, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
George Mason University
The Legacy of the Whitaker Foundation and Prospects for Biomedical Engineering
2005 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Mark McClellan, M.D.
Senior Fellow
Brookings Institution
2004 Annual Event Earl Bakken Lecturer
Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D.
15th Director
National Institutes of Health
