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IEM Boards and Committees

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

Advisory Board

IEM Advisory Board

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 composed of extramural leaders in industry and private sector and intramural faculty and administrative leaders to report its progress and receive advices for the improvement of its activities.  IEM Advisory Board provides advice on direction and strategy, research needs and advice on funding.

Industry

Name Title Company
Peter Farrell Chairman & CEO

ResMed Inc.
Michael Hosteler Attorney at Law

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Irwin Jacobs Founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Emeritus

Qualcomm
Gene Lay President and CEO

BioLegend
Joe Panetta President and CEO

BIOCOM
Anthony Ratcliffe  President and CEO Synthasome, Inc
Drew Senyei Managing Director Enterprise Partners Venture Capital
Jay Srirangam Technical Development Team Leader

Genentech

UCSD

Name Position Department Email
Cheryl Anderson Dean / Professor Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science c1anderson@ucsd.edu
David Brenner President / CEO Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute dbrenner@sbpdiscovery.org
Wendy Campana  Professor  Medicine wcampana@ucsd.edu 
Bryan Clary Professor / Chair Surgery bclary@ucsd.edu
Wolfgang Dillmann Professor Emeritus / Former Chair Medicine wdillmann@ucsd.edu
Jack Dixon Dean / Dist. Prof.  Scientific Affairs, School of Medicine jedixon@ucsd.edu
Gary Firestein Sr. Assoc. Vice Chancellor / Director / Dist. Prof.  gfirestein@ucsd.edu
Lawrence Goldstein Distinguished Professor CMM lgoldstein@ucsd.edu
Ralph Greenspan Director / Professor Kavli Institute / Biological Sciences rgreenspan@ucsd.edu
Gabriel Haddad Professor / Chair Pediatrics ghaddad@ucsd.edu
Miroslav Krstic Sr. Assoc. Vice Chancellor / Director Research Affairs / Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
 mkrstic@ucsd.edu
James Mckerrow Dean Sch Pharm/Pharm Sci jmckerrow@ucsd.edu
Albert Pisano Dean Jacobs School of Engineering appisano@ucsd.edu
Ramesh Rao Director Calit2 rrao@ucsd.edu
Paul Roben Assoc. Vice Chancellor Innovation & Commercialization pwroben@ucsd.edu
Geert Schmid-Schonbien Professor / Chair Bioengineering gschmid@ucsd.edu
Palmer Taylor Founding and Emeritus Dean School of Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Science pwtaylor@ucsd.edu
Susan Taylor Professor Pharmacology staylor@ucsd.edu
Robert Weinreb Chairman / Professor Ophthalmology rweinreb@ucsd.edu

Center Directors

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Name Position Department Email
Andrew Barleben Assistant Clinical Professor Surgery abarleben@ucsd.edu 
Krishnan V. Chakravarthy Assistant Clinical Professor Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine kvchakravarthy@ucsd.edu 
Shaochen Chen Professor Nanoengineering shc064@ucsd.edu 
Ezra Cohen Professor Medicine ecohen@ucsd.edu 
Sylvia Evans Professor Pharmacy syevans@ucsd.edu 
James Friend Professor  Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering jfriend@ucsd.edu 
Tzyy-Ping Jung Co-Director / Adjunct Professor Institute for Neural Computation, Bioengineering tpjung@ucsd.edu 
Louise Laurent Professor
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Sciences
 llaurent@ucsd.edu 
Scott Lippman Director / Professor Moores Cancer Center, Medicine slippman@ucsd.edu 
Elliott McVeigh  Professor  Bioengineering  emcveigh@ucsd.edu 
William Mobley Associate Dean of Neuro Initiatives Neuroscience wmobley@ucsd.edu 
Victor Nizet Distinguished Professor Pediatrics, Pharmacy vnizet@ucsd.edu 
Alexander Norbash Chair / Professor  Radiology  anorbash@ucsd.edu 
Padmini Rangamani Professor  CHPR, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering padmini.rangamani@eng.ucsd.edu 
Robert Ross Assistant Vice Chancellor / Professor Health Sciences, Medicine rross@ucsd.edu 
Robert Sah Professor Bioengineering rsah@ucsd.edu 
Maike Sander Director / Professor Pediatric Diabetes Research Center, Pediatrics masander@ucsd.edu  
Linda Shi Project Scientist/ Co-Director BTC zshi@ucsd.edu
Nicole Steinmetz Professor  Jacobs School of Engineering, Nanoengineering nsteinmetz@eng.ucsd.edu 
Frank Talke  Chair / Professor  CMRR, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering ftalke@ucsd.edu 
Joseph Wang Chair / Distinguished Prof. Jacobs School of Engineering, Nanoengineering josephwang@ucsd.edu  
Sam Ward  Vice Chairman CHPR, Orthopaedic Surgery s1ward@ucsd.edu 
John Watson Professor Bioengineering jtwatson@ucsd.edu 
Chengbiao Wu  Co-Director/ Professor BTC, Neuroscience chw049@ucsd.edu 
Liangfang Zhang Professor Nanoengineering, Bioengineering l7zhang@ucsd.edu  

IEM Director & Associated Directors

Name IEM Affiliation Position Department Email
Andrew McCulloch IEM Director Professor Bioengineering  amculloch@eng.ucsd.edu
Karen Christman Associate Director for Translational Research and Inclusion Professor Bioengineering kchristman@ucsd.edu
Colin Depp Associate Director for Education and Outreach Professor IR Psychiatry cdepp@health.ucsd.edu
Deborah Spector Associate Director for 
Research and Innovation 		 Professor  Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science

dspector@health.ucsd.edu

Admin

Name Position Department Email
Zachary Smith  Executive Director of Development Jacobs School of Engineering zksmith@ucsd.edu 
Sean Burns  Director of Development Jacobs School of Engineering sburns@eng.ucsd.edu
Miwako Waga Director of International Outreach VC-Research mwaga@ucsd.edu
Philip Godfrey Management Services Officer IEM phgodfrey@ucsd.edu
Justina Houston Administrative Assistant IEM jhouston@ucsd.edu
Kinnary Doshi Fund Manager IEM kidoshi@ucsd.edu
Jiyeon Song  Communications & Office Assistant IEM jis049@eng.ucsd.edu
Kristiana Wong Social Media & Marketing Assistant IEM kmw007@ucsd.edu

WCBE Industrial Advisory Board (IAB)

WCBE Industrial Advisory Board (IAB)

UC San Diego Bioengineering Jacobs School of EngineeringWCBE

The mission of WCBE is to foster and enhance interactions of IEM and the Bioengineering Department with Industry. The Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) provides valuable advice and leadership in enhancing industry liaison and student education and training.  Provide a conduit for student-employer relationships and enhance student professional development WCBE organizes student industrial internships, Breakfast with Industry, Chutes and Ladders for networking with industry, and Bioengineering Day. WCBE works on undergraduate design projects and the Masters of Advanced Studies-Medical Device Engineering program. It organizes student participation at U.S. and San Diego Science and Engineering Festivals and runs the Shared Cell Engineering Research Core.

Name Position Company
Julio Baez Industry Advisor UCSD - Bioengineering
Robert Balderas Vice President / Biological Sciences BD Biosciences
Walt Baxter Distinguished Scientist Medtronic - Cardiac Rhythm Management
Frederick Cahn CEO BioMedical Strategies
Greg Williams Director, Biologics and Advanced Materials Science R&D NuVasive, Inc.
Jason Haider Founder and CEO Xenco Medical
Jason Halsey VP, 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 and CEO Synthasome, Inc.
Elaine Ye Project Research Analyst Device of Tomorrow Capital
Ajay Panwar Sr. Engineering Manager, Quality Medtronic – Diabetes
Ali Ismailoglu Marketing Director Alphatec Spine, Inc.
Gabrielle Colvert Senior Research and Development Engineer Medtronic - Structural Heart