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 advice for improving 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.	Health Sciences, Clinical and Translational Research Institute	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
Scott Lippman	Professor	Moores Cancer Center, Medicine	slippman@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

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
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
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@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@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
Rebekah White	Professor	Surgery	rewhite@ucsd.edu
Chengbiao Wu	Associate Adjunct 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@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@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@ucsd.edu
Kristiana Wong	Social Media & Marketing Assistant	IEM	kmw007@ucsd.edu

WCBE Industrial Advisory Board (IAB)

UC San Diego Bioengineering Jacobs School of Engineering

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 improving 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