RESEARCH

David F. Meaney, PhD, MSE

University of Pennsylvania

Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania

Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania

Research Domain Director for Head and Brain Injury, Southern Consortium for Injury Biomechanics

Dr. David Meaney graduated magna cum laude with a BSE in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; he earned an MSE (1989) and PhD (1991) in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After a postdoctoral fellowship at UPenn, Dr. Meaney became an assistant professor in 1993; he achieved the rank of full professor in the Department of Bioengineering in 2004.

He has received numerous awards, including the 1995 William J. Stickel Gold Award, the Editor’s Excellence Award for Outstanding Scientific Research (JCAT) in 1997, and both the YC Fung Young Investigator Award and the Richard Skalak best paper award at ASME 2001. In 1998, he received the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. He has more than 80 peer-reviewed publications, and has been Principal Investigator on several grant-funded research projects.

Dr. Meaney is the director of SCIB’s Research Domain for Head and Brain Injury; working with Dr. Susan Margulies and Dr. Beth Winkelstein, also at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Meaney is involved in generating the scientific foundation to be used in predicting the probability of head injury as a result of motor vehicle crashes. This information will be used in the development and validation of SIMon. Enhancing the predictive capabilities of SIMon is the primary focus of the SCIB’s Head and Brain Injury research domain.