IEM Boards and Committees

Learn more about the Institute's Advisory Boards and Executive Committees.

Board of Advisors

IEM Board of Advisors

Members in the individual Centers meet frequently to discuss progress and planning. In addition, the IEM holds town hall meetings of its members. Directors of the IEM Centers meet periodically to exchange information and to foster collaborations among the Centers.

The IEM holds annual meetings of its Advisory Committee, which is composed of extramural leaders in industry and the private sector, intramural faculty, and administrative leaders, to report progress and receive advice on improving its activities. The IEM Advisory Board provides advice on direction and strategy, research needs, and funding.

Industry

Name	Title	Company
Walt Baxter	Distinguished Scientist	Medtronic
David Brenner	President & CEO	Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Peter Farrell	Chairman & CEO	ResMed Inc.
Michael Hostetler	Attorney at Law	Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Irwin Jacobs	Founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Emeritus	Qualcomm
Gene Lay	President & CEO	BioLegend
Ann Lee-Karlon	President & CEO	EpiBiologics
Joe Panetta	President & CEO	BIOCOM
Anthony Ratcliffe	President & CEO	Synthasome, Inc
Drew Senyei	Managing Director	Enterprise Partners Venture Capital
Tom Skalak	Senior Advisor to Clara Wu & VP for Research	University of Virginia
Jay Srirangam	Technical Development Team Leader	Genentech

UC San Diego

Name	Title	Department	Email
Cheryl Anderson	Professor & Dean	Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science, Hood Family Endowed Deans Chair in Public Health	c1anderson@ucsd.edu
Zea Borok	Professor & Chair	School of Medicine	zborok@ucsd.edu
Corinne Peek-Asa	Vice Chancellor - Research	Research Affairs	cpeekasa@ucsd.edu
Wendy Campana	Professor	Department of Anesthesiology	wcampana@ucsd.edu
Shu Chien	Professor Emeritus	Shu Chien-Gene LayDepartment of Bioengineering	shuchien@ucsd.edu
Bryan Clary	Professor & Chair	Department of Surgery	bclary@ucsd.edu
Gary Firestein	Professor	School of Medicine	gfirestein@ucsd.edu
Lisa Ordóñez	Dean	Rady School of Management	lordonez@ucsd.edu
Catriona Jamieson	Deputy Director	Moores Cancer Center, Cellular & Molecular Medicine	cjamieson@ucsd.edu
Lawrence Goldstein	Emeritus Professor	Cellular & Molecular Medicine	lgoldstein@ucsd.edu
Ralph Greenspan	Professor	Neurobiology	rgreenspan@ucsd.edu
Gabriel Haddad	Professor & Chair	Department of Pediatrics	ghaddad@ucsd.edu
Miroslav Krstic	Professor & Senior Associate Vice Chancellor	Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	mkrstic@ucsd.edu
Scott Lippman	Professor	School of Medicine	slippman@ucsd.edu
Brookie Best	Dean	School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science	bdugan@ucsd.edu
Albert Pisano	Dean	Jacobs School of Engineering	appisano@ucsd.edu
Ramesh Rao	Director	California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology	rrao@ucsd.edu
Paul Roben	Associate Vice Chancellor	Office of Innovation & Commercialization
Adam Engler	Chairman & Professor	Shu Chien-Gene LayDepartment of Bioengineering	aengler@ucsd.edu
Susan Taylor	Professor	Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry	staylor@ucsd.edu
Robert Weinreb	Chairman & Professor	Department of Ophthalmology	rweinreb@ucsd.edu
John Carethers	Vice Chancellor	Health Sciences
Rajesh Gupta	Director	Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute	rgupta@ucsd.edu

WCBE Industrial Advisory Board (IAB)

UC San Diego Bioengineering Jacobs School of Engineering

The mission of WCBE is to foster and enhance the interactions between IEM and the bioengineering department with industry. The Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) provides valuable advice and leadership in improving industry liaison and student education and training. WCBE supports student professional development through internships, networking events, Bioengineering Day, undergraduate design projects, the MAS–Medical Device Engineering program, science festivals, and the Shared Cell Engineering Research Core.

Name	Position	Company
Julio Baez	Industry Advisor	UC San Diego – Bioengineering
Robert Balderas	Vice President, Biological Sciences	BD Biosciences
Walt Baxter	Distinguished Scientist	Medtronic – Cardiac Rhythm Management
Frederick Cahn	Chief Executive Officer	BioMedical Strategies
Greg Williams	Director, Biologics and Advanced Materials Science R&D	NuVasive, Inc.
Jason Haider	Founder and Chief Executive Officer	Xenco Medical
Jason Halsey	Vice President, Manufacturing Technology and Transfer	Illumina
Chris MacDonald	Vice President, Operations & Data Science	ChromaCode, Inc.
Harish Nagarajan	Senior R&D Manager, Systems Biology & Bioinformatics	Genomatica
Lou Obertreis	Product Manufacturing Engineer	Independent
Anthony Ratcliffe	President & Chief Executive Officer	Synthasome, Inc.
Elaine Ye	Project Research Analyst	Device of Tomorrow Capital
Ajay Panwar	Senior Engineering Manager, Quality	Medtronic – Diabetes
Ali Ismailoglu	Marketing Director	Alphatec Spine, Inc.
Gabrielle Colvert	Senior Research and Development Engineer	Medtronic – Structural Heart

Center Directors

Name	Position	Center	Email
Shaochen Chen	Professor, Nanoengineering	Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Center (BMTEC)	shc064@ucsd.edu
Louise Laurent	Professor, Ob/Gyn & Reproductive Sciences	Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Center (BMTEC)	llaurent@ucsd.edu
Linda Shi	Project Scientist, Institute of Engineering in Medicine	Biophotonics Technology Center (BTC)	zshi@ucsd.edu
Chengbiao Wu	Associate Adjunct Professor, Neuroscience	Biophotonics Technology Center (BTC)	chw049@ucsd.edu
William Mobley	Professor, Neuroscience	Center for Advanced Neurological Engineering (CANE)	wmobley@ucsd.edu
Tzyy-Ping Jung	Adjunct Professor, Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering	Center for Advanced Neurological Engineering (CANE)	tpjung@ucsd.edu
Sylvia Evans	Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science	Cardiac Biomedical Science and Engineering Center (CBSEC)	syevans@ucsd.edu
Robert Ross	Professor, Medicine	Cardiac Biomedical Science and Engineering Center (CBSEC)	rross@ucsd.edu
Nicole Steinmetz	Professor, Nanoengineering	Center for Engineering in Cancer (CEC)	nsteinmetz@ucsd.edu
Rebekah White	Professor, Surgery	Center for Engineering in Cancer (CEC)	rewhite@ucsd.edu
Padmini Rangamani	Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	Human Performance Institute (HPI)	rewhite@ucsd.edu
Samuel Ward	Professor, Orthopedic Surgery Professor, Radiology	Human Performance Institute (HPI)	s1ward@health.ucsd.edu
James Friend	Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	Center for Medical Device Engineering and Biomechanics (CMDEB)	jfriend@ucsd.edu
Frank E. Talke	Recall Faculty, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	Center for Medical Device Engineering and Biomechanics (CMDEB)	ftalke@ucsd.edu
Schafer Boeder	Assistant Clinical Professor, Medicine	Center for Mobile-health Systems and Applications (CMSA)	sboeder@ucsd.edu
Joseph Wang	Professor, Nanoengineering	Center for Mobile-health Systems and Applications (CMSA)	josephwang@ucsd.edu
Robert Sah	Professor, Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering	Center for Musculoskeletal Research (CMSR)	rsah@ucsd.edu
Kiana Aran	Associate Professor, Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering	Center for Technologies for Healthy Aging (CTHA)	karan@ucsd.edu
Anthony Molina	Professor, Medicine	Center for Technologies for Healthy Aging (CTHA)	ajmolina@health.ucsd.edu
Victor Nizet	Distinguished Professor & Vice Chair for Basic Research, Pediatrics Distinguished Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science	Infectious Disease Engineering Advances (IDEAs)	vnizet@ucsd.edu
Liangfang Zhang	Professor, Nanoengineering	Infectious Disease Engineering Advances (IDEAs)	zhang@ucsd.edu
Dayu Teng	Assistant Project Scientist, Institute of Engineering in Medicine	Whitaker Center for Biomedical Engineering (WCBE)	dteng@ucsd.edu
John Watson	Recall Faculty, Bioengineering	Whitaker Center for Biomedical Engineering (WCBE)	jtwatson@ucsd.edu
Brian Aguado	Assistant Professor, Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering	Center for Women's Health Innovations through Scientific Discoveries, Engineering, and Medicine (WHISDEM)	baguado@ucsd.edu
Marianna Alperin	Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences	Center for Women's Health Innovations through Scientific Discoveries, Engineering, and Medicine (WHISDEM)	malperin@ucsd.edu
Sheng Zhong	Professor, Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering	Center for AI in Biomedicine (CAIB)	szhong@ucsd.edu
Gene Yeo	Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine	Center for AI in Biomedicine (CAIB)	geneyeo@ucsd.edu

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