Christine Kurihara

Manager, Special Projects
Associate Director, Stanford-India Biodesign
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Christine Kurihara is Manager of Special Projects, for the Biodesign program. In this capacity, she oversees IT, web and infrastructure projects for the program. Her current tasks include the development of a online companion for the new textbook being written for the Biodesign program and supporting the Stanford-India Biodesign Program. She also helps facilitate fundraising activities for Biodesign. She is responsible for a Biomedical Engineering Portal, bmesource.org, a community-developed resource that has participation from 75+ university BME programs across the U.S.

Christine Kurihara joined the Stanford Biodesign program after an eleven-year career with Stanford in the area of media services. In her previous role she spearheaded media development efforts for an on-campus service unit, where her team produced websites, online courseware, and video and broadcast products. Prior to running Media Solutions, she was the coordinator of the Stanford University website. She has produced many websites at Stanford both independently and with her media team. In 1997, Kurihara was co-chair of the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference.

Prior to Stanford, Christine worked for The Aerospace Corporation for twelve years in the area of Computer-Aided Engineering development.