Keynote Address | Reframing Innovation
Gilda A. Barabino
AIMBE and The City College of New York
Gilda A. Barabino, Ph.D., is the Daniel and Frances Berg Professor and Dean of The Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY). She holds appointments the in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering and the CUNY School of Medicine. Prior to joining CCNY, she served as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory. At Georgia Tech she also served as the inaugural Vice Provost for Academic Diversity. Prior to her appointments at Georgia Tech and Emory, she rose to the rank of Full Professor of Chemical Engineering and served as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Northeastern University. She is a noted investigator in the areas of sickle cell disease, cellular and tissue engineering, and race/ethnicity and gender in science and engineering. Dr. Barabino received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from Xavier University of Louisiana and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Rice University. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). She was awarded an honorary doctorate by Xavier University of Louisiana in 2016. She is the President of AIMBE and a Past-President of BMES. Dr. Barabino is a member of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advisory Committee for Engineering and has served on the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Advisory Dental and Craniofacial Research Council. Dr. Barabino consults nationally and internationally on STEM education and research, diversity in higher education, policy, workforce development and faculty development. She directs the NSF Minority Faculty Development Workshop and is the founder and Executive Director of the National Institute for Faculty Equity. Presentation | The 90% Invention Commercialization Solution
John R. Nottingham
Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University John R. Nottingham, Ph.D., is trustee of Cleveland Clinic, advisor to Case Western Reserve University, and co-president of Nottingham Spirk, a leading product innovation firm. Nottingham has co-invented and commercialized hundreds of products with combined sales of over $50 billion including Crest SpinBrush: the largest selling powered toothbrush line, Swiffer Sweep+Vac, Axe Bullet Body Spray, Dirt Devil, Dutchboy Twist & Pour, ViewRay MRI and Medtronic EC Vue. He is the recipient of numerous awards including Ohio Academy of Science Patent Impact Award, Edison Gold Award, DuPont Gold Award, IDSA Gold Award, World Presidents Organization Award, Inside Business Hall of Fame and EY Entrepreneur of the Year. He is a lead inventor on over 300 patents which have been licensed to 31 companies. Nottingham is co-founder of 42 venture companies, many of which have been acquired by major corporations. He is a Fellow of NAI. Presentation | Accessible and Affordable Technologies for the Cancer Care Continuum in the 21st Century
Nirmala Ramanujam
Duke University
Nirmala (Nimmi) Ramanujam, Ph.D., is professor of biomedical engineering and director of Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies at Duke University. Ramanujam leads a multi-disciplinary translational research program focused on the development of novel optical technologies for noninvasive or minimally invasive assessment of breast and cervical cancer. In October 2013, she founded the Global Women’s Health Technologies Center, a partnership between the Pratt School of Engineering and the Duke Global Health Institute. The center’s mission is to increase research, training and education in women’s diseases, with a focus on breast and cervical cancer. She holds 19 U.S. patents, seven of which have been licensed to Zenalux, a company which she founded. She has published 106 peer reviewed articles, 12 book chapters, and one edited book. Ramanujam is a Fellow of NAI, the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, AIMBE, and OSA.
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