Team
Josh Makower
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Director, Co-Founder
Board Member
Paul Yock
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Founder, Director Emeritus
Board Member
Lyn Denend
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Director, Academic Programs
Thomas Krummel
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Senior Advisor
Gordon Saul
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Executive Director
Carolyn Heller
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Director, Finance and Administration
Cece Torres
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Faculty Coordinator
Shiqin Xu
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Senior Manager, Courses and Global Programs
Ritu Kamal
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Associate Director, Global Programs
Lauren Brown
Translational Projects Coordinator
Susie Spielman
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Senior Manager, Curriculum and Assessment
Eric Chehab
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Project Coach, Biodesign Innovation Course
Annette Ewanich
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Executive Assistant to Paul Yock
Oliver Aalami
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Director, Biodesign for Digital Health
Michael Ackermann
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Director, Biotechnology
Dan Azagury
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Director for Education, Innovation Fellowship
Farzad Azimpour
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Associate Director, Lead for Design
Rush Bartlett
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Associate Director, Corporate Innovation and Education
Zach Edmonds
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Associate Director, Clinical and Community Engagement
Antje Kirschner
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Fellowships Coordinator
Kate Garrett
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Assistant Director, Innovation Fellowship
Janene Fuerch
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Assistant Director, Innovation Fellowship
Joseph Mandato
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Co-Instructor, Medical Device Innovation Course
Jan Pietzsch
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Director, Health Economics and Value
Victor McCray
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Assistant Director, Innovation Fellowship
Maria Sainz
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Innovation Team Mentor
Robson Capasso
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Advisor, Global Biodesign
Richard Popp
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Director, Ethics & Policy
Joseph Towles
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Instructor, Undergraduate Programs
Sandra Waugh Ruggles
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Director. Policy Research
Ryan Van Wert
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Associate Director, Biodesign Faculty Fellowship
Ross Venook
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Associate Director, Engineering
David Hao
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Global Faculty Clinical Mentor
Todd Brinton
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Senior Advisor
Jay Watkins
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Lecturer, Senior Advisor
Marta Zanchi
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Founding Director, Biodesign for Digital Health
Lisa Earnhardt
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Senior Advisor
Hanson Gifford
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Senior Innovation Team Mentor
Beverly Huss
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Innovation Team Mentor
Shashank Ravi
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Global Faculty Clinical Mentor
Douglas Rait
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Director, Team Learning and Design
Rajiv Doshi
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Director, India Program
Fumiaki Ikeno
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Program Director (US), Japan Biodesign
Enci Mary Kan
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Program Director, Singapore Biodesign
Venita Chandra
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Advisor, Surgery
James Wall
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Director for Program Development, Innovation Fellowship
Paul Wang
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Senior Faculty Liaison
Uday Kumar
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Director, Advanced Initiatives
Ruey Peh
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Advisor, Singapore Biodesign
Anurag Mairal
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Director, Global Outreach Programs
Meghan Stawitcke
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Fellowships Manager
Richard Fan
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Instructor, Undergraduate Programs
Tina Seelig
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Advisor
Sonoo Thadaney
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Faculty Advisor, Health Equity
Abraham Verghese
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Advisor, Presence, Stanford Medicine
Christopher Shen
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Director, Asia Programs
Thomas Andriacchi
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Mechanical Engineering
Mark Blumenkranz
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Advisor, Ophthalmology
David Camarillo
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Advisor, Bioengineering
Jennifer Cochran
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Advisor, Bioengineering
Scott Delp
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Advisor, Bioengineering
Jeff Goldberg
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Advisor, Ophthalmology
Robert Harrington
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Advisor, Internal Medicine
Michael McConnell
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Advisor, Cardiovascular Medicine
Matthew Callaghan
Co-Instructor, Biodesign Fundamentals
Linda Lucian
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Translation Projects Manager
Michele Barry
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Faculty Advisor, Global Health
John Linehan
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Advisor, Bioengineering
Yujiro Maeda
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Program Co-Director, Japan Biodesign
Masakazu Yagi
Program Director, Japan Biodesign
Bronwyn Harris
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Instructor, Executive Education
Alesandro Larrazabal
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Co-Lead, Health Equity
Kate Rosenbluth
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Instructor, Informatics and Digital Health
Ravi Pamnani
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Instructor, Undergraduate Programs
Shriram Raghunathan
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Project Coach, Biodesign Innovation Course
Dan Francis
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Engineering Coach, Faculty Fellows
Ashley Waring
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Engineering Coach, Faculty Fellows
Emma Essock-Burns
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Engineering Coach, Faculty Fellows
John Paderi
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Engineering Coach, Faculty Fellows
Eric Kramer
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Assistant Director of Engineering
Delphine Huang
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Co-Lead, Health Equity
Brandon Felkins
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Engineering Coach, Faculty Fellows
Partha Ray
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Assistant Director, Faculty Fellowship
Michelle de Haaff
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Assistant Director, Biodesign for Digital Health
Vivian de Ruijter
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Co-Instructor, Biodesign Fundamentals
Veronique Peiffer
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Assistant Director, Health Economics and Value
Pablo Pantaleoni
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Lead, Biodesign NEXT
Deborah Kilpatrick
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Innovation Team Mentor
Alexei Wagner
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Global Faculty Clinical Lead
Jill Hannemann
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Chief of Staff
Swaril Mathur
Global Faculty Mentor
Ingrid Ellerbe
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Executive Director, Diversity by Doing HealthTech (DxD)
Board Member
Juliana Perl
Pediatrics and Health Technology Researcher
Jody Berger
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Manager, Communications
Brook Byers
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Board Member
David Kelley
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Board Member
Asha Nayak
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Board Member
Peng Yuan
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Senior Financial Analyst
Pedram Afshar
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Co-Instructor, Biodesign for Societal Health
Evan Anderson
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Instructor, Undergraduate Programs
Andy McGibbon
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Instructor, Executive Education
Beverly Tang
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Instructor, Executive Education
Narges Baniasadi
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Director, Emergence
Justin Huelman
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Project Coach, Biodesign Innovation Course
Mariel Bolhouse
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Project Coach, Biodesign Innovation Course
Kavita Patel
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Senior Advisor, Policy
Vishnu Ravi
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Lead Architect, Building for Digital Health
Erika Palmer
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Advisor, Academic Programs
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