Committee & Staff

Executive Committee
Hubert Lim - DMD Speaker

Hubert Lim

DMD Conference Chair
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  • Bakken Professorship for Engineering in Medicine
  • Endowed Lions Professorship in Otolaryngology
  • Institute for Translational Neuroscience Scholar
  • Director, Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center
  • Associate Director of Innovation, Institute for Engineering in Medicine
  • Co-Director, Center for Neural Engineering
  • Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Otolaryngology
John Bischof.

John Bischof, PhD

DMD Conference Committee Member
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  • Director, Institute for Engineering in Medicine
  • Director, NSF Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems (ATP-Bio)
  • Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Office of Discovery and Translation
    Medtronic-Bakken Endowed Chair for Engineering in Medicine
  • Distinguished McKnight University Professor,
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering 
Paul Iaizzo, University of Minnesota

Paul Iaizzo

DMD Conference Committee Member
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  • Professor and Director of Visible Heart® Laboratories
  • Professor of Surgery, Integrative Biology & Physiology, and the Carlson School of Management
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
  • Associate Director, Professional Education and Outreach, and Medtronic Professorship, Institute for Engineering in Medicine
  • Director, Malignant Hypothermia Biopsy Center
Art Erdman

Art Erdman

DMD Conference Committee Member
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  • Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • Founding Director, Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson

DMD Conference Papers Co-Chair
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  • Professor and Institute for Translational Neuroscience Scholar, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Carl Nelson

Carl Nelson

DMD Conference Papers Co-Chair
University of Nebraska–Lincoln

  • Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs
  • Professor, College of Engineering
Gwen Fischer, DMD Session Organizer

Gwen Fischer

DMD Conference Committee Member
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  • Associate Chair of Research
  • Associate Professor
  • Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Director
  • Department of Pediatrics Faculty
Industry Steering Committee
  • Stephanie Board, Group Vice President R&D at Boston Scientific
  • Dan Kaiser, Divisional VP Product Development and Engineering at Abbott
  • Teri Whitman, Research Director at Medtronic
  • Eric Bennett, Global Senior R&D Director - Discovery & Insights at Solventum
  • Xuefeng (Sean) Bai, Director of R&D at Solventum
Staff
DMD Staff, Andrew Monk

Andrew Monk

DMD Conference Administrator
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Trisha Huntosh

Trisha Huntosh

DMD Conference Communications Manager
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities


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