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DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING (BME), EXTERNAL ADVISORY BOARD The BME External Advisory Board is composed of diverse national leaders from industry, academia and government who have professional expertise in biomedical engineering and related disciplines. The External Advisory Board meets periodically with students, faculty, staff and administrators, and provides impartial expert guidance, strategic direction and management advice. The Board appraises the mission, strategic plan, and the programs BME has developed to meet their educational objectives. The Board acts as a sounding board for new ideas and supports the department and Departmental Chair. The objectives of the advisory board are to:
OUR TEAM Ashley Boam, MS, MS BME, 1993 Chief, Interventional Cardiology Devices Branch Division of Cardiovascular Devices Center for Devices and Radiological Health/Office of Device Evaluation Barbara D. Boyan, Ph.D. Professor and Price Gilbert, Jr. Chair in Tissue Engineering Deputy Director, Georgia Tech Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissues Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Georgia Institue of Technology Arthur DeCarlo, Jr. DDS, Ph.D., Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, 1994 President and Chief Science Officer Agenta Biotechnologies Trudy D. Estridge, Ph.D., Ph.D. BME, 1991 Director of Regulatory Affairs Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Steven A. Goldstein, Ph.D. Henry Ruppenthal Family Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Associate Chair for Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering Professor, Mechanical Engineering University of Michigan Charles D. Griffin, MS MSE, 1980 President and CEO BioStable Science & Engineering, Inc. Warren O. Haggard, Ph.D., MS BME 1981, Ph.D. BME, 1994 Herbert Herff Chair of Excellence and Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Memphis Kim Hughes, MS, MS BME 1998 Senior Project Engineer Wright Medical Technology Steven A. Jones, Ph.D., PE ME, Ph.D. BME Associate Professor and Program Chair Department of Biomedical Engineering Louisiana Tech University Fred Molz, Ph.D., MSE BME, 1995, Ph.D. BME, 1999 Vice President, Research and Development BioHorizons Implant Systems, Inc. William H. Needle, Esq. Needle & Rosenberg LaTisha Salaam, Ph.D., MBA, MS BME, 2002, MBA, 2010, Ph.D. BME, 2005 Senior Scientist/Engineer Charmin R&D Hubsite Procter and Gamble Arthur J. 'Art' Tipton, Ph.D. President and CEO Brookwood Pharmaceuticals Karen Troxel, Ph.D. Director, Orthobiologics Biomet, Inc. Krishna Venugopalan, Ph.D., MS BME 1995, MBA, 2009, Ph.D. BME 1998 Principal Engineer and Group Leader Research & Technology Codman & Shurtleff, Inc. (A Johnson & Johnson Company) Angela Wier, MBA Vice President Economic Development Partnership of Alabama |
