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At the heart of the Biomedical Engineering Partnership Program is the Advisory Board. The Board - volunteers appointed by each of the program’s members – is a source of collective wisdom and advice to the Department of Biomedical Engineering. It provides the department with guidance, help, and assistance in fulfilling its mission and accomplishing its goals. The advisory board serves as a liaison between the Department and the industrial and clinical communities and provides a forum for exchange of knowledge, networking, and seeding of joint projects.

BOARD MEMBERS

Henry W. Collins
Cordis Corporation
Assistant, Patent Council

Raymond Diaz
Scion Cardio-Vascular
Director of Engineering

Stuart Horowitz, Ph.D
Huron Consulting Group

Jeffrey L. Hortsmyer, M.D.
Mercy Hospital
Neurology

Prasanna Jayakar M.B.B.S, M.D., Ph.D.
Miami Children's Hospital
Director of NeuroSciences Institute

Raul Herrera, M.D.
Miami Children's Hospital
Chief Research Officer

Oscar Jimenez
VasCon, LLC
President

Barry T. Katzen M.D.
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute
Founder and Medical Director

Margaret Kovacs Ed.D., RNC, CPHQ
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute
Manager, Research Services

Howard J. Leonhardt
Bioheart
President and Chief Executive Officer

Leonard Pinchuk
Innova
President

Mel Rothberg
Viragen, Inc.
Executive Vice President

David Paul
Miami Dade College
Director
Biotechnology Program

Hamid Shahrestani
Boston Scientific Corporation
Director of Engineering

Josephine Shallo-Hoffmann, Ph.D.
NSU
Professor and Chair
Research and Graduate Studies
Health Professions Division

Jack A.Ziffer Ph.D., M.D.
Baptist Health Systems of South Florida
Medical Director
Nuclear Medicine and Cardiac Imaging

Juan Lorenzo
Cordis Neurovascular
Director
New Product Development

Santiago Galvez
Beckman-Coulter
Director

William Abraham, Ph.D.
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Research

Roberta Goode, CQE
Goode Consulting International

Stephen Rowland, Ph.D.
Orbus Medical Technologies
Vice President
Research and Development

James Schwade, M.D.
Cyberknife Center of Miami
Executive Director

Steven Ponder, Ph.D.
Imaging Diagnostic Systems, Inc.
Director
Advanced Development

Stephen Halpert, M.D.
Solutions & Resources

Zvi Roth
Florida Atlantic University
Professor

Noel Guillama
The Quantum Group, Inc.
Chairman and CEO

Franklin Garcia Godoy, DDS
Nova Southeastern University
Director
Bioscience Research Center
Clinical Research Center

Michael Wasserman
HIG Ventures

Jane Teague
Enterprise Development Corporation
Executive Director

Todd Lary
Oxylation, Inc.
Director

Jeffrey LaRose
Heartware, Inc.
Chief Scientific Officer

James Greene
MitralSolutions, Inc.
President and CEO

Sergio Gonzalez
Baptist Hospital of Miami
Arias - Medical Director

"This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation
under Grant No. 0227869" ; "Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation."

The Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (EAC/ABET) accredits engineering programs on a nationwide basis. Students wishing more information about accreditation should consult their respective departmental office or the Office of the Dean. The following baccalaureate engineering programs in the college are accredited by ABET, Inc., Biomedical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering
and Mechanical Engineering.