Board of Directors
President (2013-2014)
William A. Hawkins III, MBA
CEO, Immucor, Incorporated
Executive Director
Milan Yager, MPA
Executive Director
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
President-Elect (2013-2014)
Ravi Bellamkonda, Ph.D.
Chair in Biomedical Engineering & GCC Distinguished Scholar
Georgia Institute of Technology
Secretary-Treasurer (2012-2014)
Anne E. Meyer, Ph.D.
Director of the Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces
State University of New York at Buffalo
Chair, College of Fellows (2013-2014)
Shankar Subramaniam, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair, Bioengineering Department
University of California at San Diego
Past-President (2013-2014)
Raphael C. Lee, MD, ScD, DSc(Hon), FACS
Paul S. and Allene T. Russell Professor
The University of Chicago
Jim Burns, Ph.D.
Head of Sanofi Boston R&D Hub
Sanofi
Scott P. Bruder, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice President
Chief Medical and Scientific Officer
Stryker
Vice President, At-Large (2012-2014)
Kristina M. Ropella, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Director – Joint Ph.D. Program in Functional Imaging
Marquette University
Andrew Francis Laine, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology
Chief Medical and Scientific Officer
Columbia University
Walt Baxter, Ph.D.
Senior Principal Scientist
Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management
Chair, Academic Council (2012-2014)
Robert S. Keynton, Ph.D.
Lutz Endowed Chair of Biomechanical Devices
Department of Bioengineering, University of Louisville
Second Past-President (2013-2014)
Ken Lutchen, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Engineering
Boston University
Jennifer L. West, Ph.D.
Fitzpatrick Family University Professor of Engineering and
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Duke
Chair, Awards Committee
Katherine Ferrara, Ph.D.
Chair, Biomedical Engineering Division
University of California, Davis
Co-Chair, Bylaws Committee
Ravi Bellamkonda, Ph.D.
Chair in Biomedical Engineering & GCC Distinguished Scholar
Georgia Institute of Technology
Co-Chair, Bylaws Committee
Joel D. Bumgardner, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Memphis
UM/UT Joint Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering
Co-Chair, Advocacy Committee
Warren Grundfest, M.D.
Professor, Department of Bioengineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Co-Chair, Advocacy Committee
John Watson, Ph.D.
Associate Director, The William J. VonLiebig Center
University of California, San Diego
Chair, College of Fellows Selection Committee
Martha L. Gray, Ph.D.
J.W. Kieckhefer Professor
Harvard-MIT HST
Philip LeDuc, Ph.D.
Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
Co-Chair, Women in Medical and Biological Engineering Committee
Rebecca M. Bergman
Vice President, New Therapies and Diagnostics
Medtronic, Inc.
Co-Chair, Women in Medical and Biological Engineering Committee
Susan Margulies, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Chair, Publications Committee
Bin He, Ph.D.
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
University of Minnesota
Chair, Finance and Development Committee
Thomas C. Skalak, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research
The University of Virginia
Chair, Finance and Investment Committee
Anne E. Meyer, Ph.D.
Director of the Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces
State University of New York at Buffalo
International Liaison
Edward Guo, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
International Liaison
Subrata Saha, Ph.D.
Director of Musculoskeletal Research
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Chair, Committee for Underrepresented Minorities
Gilda Barabino, Ph.D
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
