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Margaret Ferrari
Graduate Research Assistant at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Margaret is interested in the pediatric cardiovascular space and is at the University of Colorado Denver in the Jacot Lab for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine within the Bioengineering Department. She will be working with two pediatric cardiologists on a tissue engineered vascular graft for…
2016 Alumni

Martin Gitomer
Design Assurance Engineer at Smith & Nephew
Plans, realizes, and delivers in Systems & Component (HW & SW) level Verification implementation, analysis and reporting. Contributes to documentation generation for Design Verification and Validation (V&V) processes and tools. Supports environmental testing, Standards testing and usability testing. Performs and documents…

Scott Harrienger
Senior Field Clinical Sales Engineer at Abbott
Scott is an Associate Clinical Account Specialist. Biosense Webster trains employees to become a full Clinical Account Specialist (CAS) within the company. Once he has completed the training, he will move into a CAS position where he will be responsible for providing clinical product…

Kayleigh Miller
Neurophysiologist at NuVasive
Neurophysiologist with Nuvasive Clinical Services providing intra-operative monitoring during various surgeries. Monitor patients’ nervous system in various surgeries using a wide range of neurophysiological techniques across many testing modalities including SSEP, S-EMG, T-EMG, TceMEP and TOF Interact with surgeons and…

Shwe Pyie
Validation Engineer at PSC BioTech
• Worked on full lifecycle validation for computerized systems, lab and manufacturing equipment• Prepared validation documents (VP, URS, FS, IQ/OQ/PQ, TM & VSR) • Performed the execution of written protocols • Investigate root cause problems from data trend and generate…

Tristan Richardson
Supervisor, Drug Product Engineering at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Since August 2017 I have led all validation activities at the AMRI Burlington site. This has allowed me to gain an understanding and experience in a wide range of validation including equipment and facility qualification, cleaning validation, process simulations, computer…

Danielle Wilson
Senior Development Engineer I at Zimmer Biomet
Contract Development Engineer with Adecco at Zimmer Biomet. Responsibiliries include reviewing documentation in Trauma Orthopaedic design controls,performing engineering analysis to determine products failure modes and verify the product withstand those failure mode, and update documentation for verification in existing design…

Andrew Zeccola
Senior System Engineer at Medtronic
As part of the Mechanical Circulatory Support group at Medtronic I work with system, subsystem, and lower-level requirement documents in order to drive designs of future devices as well as driving design changes to existing products already on the market.Also,…
2015 Alumni

Lisa Benison
System Engineer at Ortho Clinical Diagnostics
Lisa is currently within the R&D Functional Performance group at Ortho Clinical Diagnostics as a Systems Engineer in Rochester. Lisa Benison was the first the recipient of the Medtech Association’s first Engineering World Health (EWH) Summer Institute scholarship. EWH is a non-profit organization, founded…

Deborah Cooper
Product Applications Development Engineer at Transonic Systems Inc
As Product Applications Development Engineer, she interfaces between R&D and early adopters of the technology to develop and champion new standards of diagnosis and care. She support these clinicians in the ICU, OR, and Catherization Lab with technical, educational, and…

Nathan Couper
R&D Engineer at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Nathan started as a project engineer responsible for leading contract product development services at FTT. As a member of the FTT Medical division, there is a strong emphasis on medical device development and design for manufacturing, where applicable projects range…

Laura Hobbs, MD
Clinician, General Surgery University of Maryland
Laura started off as a Process Engineer that supported contact lens design and developmentthrough data analysis, coordinating product testing, technical report writing, and general project team support at Bausch & Lomb in Rochester, NY. She is currently in Medical School…

Courtney Kodweis, DO
Clinician, Family Medicine URMC
Courtney is currently a medical student at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine. Courtney started at Materialise USA where she worked with surgeons to help them plan their surgical cases using 3D modeling software. For each case, she created…

Kierstan Ryan
CMC Regulatory Sciences Specialist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Assists the Commercial Products team with maintaining regulatory filings in US and ex-US countries. Assists with completing regulatory filings for approval in ex-US countries. Assists with the completion of amendments to commercially approved regulatory filings.

Megan Stockdill
Senior Analyst, Strategic Initiatives, Competitive & Market Strategy at Johnson & Johnson
As a R&D Product Development Engineer, Trauma, Megan assists with the design anddevelopment and improvement and modifications to current products. She works with product managers, design engineers, surgeons, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and other team members to develop product requirements and concepts on…

Benjamin Vespone
Senior Electrical Engineer at Ximedica
Ben currently works as an Associate Biomedical Engineer at Ximedica in Providence, RI. • Firmware design for a pair of battery powered, handheld medical devices. Features include: closed loop motor control, Bluetooth low energy (BLE), I2C protocol, coulomb counter, capacitive…

Jonathan Stone, M.D., M.S.
Clinical Director, CMTI
Jonathan J. Stone, MD, MSe is a faculty member in the Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology & Biomedical Engineering and the Director of Surgical Innovation at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Dr. Stone's clinical interests are in peripheral nerve surgery,…
2014 Alumni

Matthew Crilley
Quality Assurance Engineer at Quotient Sciences
Martech specializes primarily in manufacturing extruded tubing and injection-molded components for final assembly catheters used for hemodialysis applications. The Quality Engineering group deals with solving quality issues in the company's product line resulting from customer complaints and during new product development. Martech is run by the same management and therefore works very closely with Medical…

Ryan DeAngelis
Clinical Trial Manager at Massachusetts General Hospital
As a Field Clinical Studies Engineer with Biotronik, I work with our study sites in the greater New York area. These include pre-market and post-approval as well as after-market studies. During the start-up process I will screen potential sites for…

Erin Keegan
Combination Product Policy Analyst at theFDA
Lead Reviewer for the Neurostimulaton Devices Branch of the Division of Neurological and Physical Medicine Devices within the Office of Device Evaluation. Review pre-marketing submissions for a variety of device specialities and clinical presentations related to neurology. Assemble teams of…

W. Spencer Klubben
Senior Product Manager at Foundation Medicine
Spencer is currently a Business Development Manager for Versalume and Corning Incorporated. He leads the creation of new medical businesses inside fortune 500 and startup companies. He leads cross functional teams to bridge the gap between customer needs and products….

Mohammad Musleh
Medical Device Engineer III, Lens Design Group at Bausch + Lomb
Mohammad is working at Bausch & Lomb as a Development Engineer in the lens design group. The lens design group is involved in all aspects of product life cycle of the medical device, from designing and developing the contact lenses to…
2013 Alumni

Alvin Lomibao
Assistant Dean, Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
As Assistant Director for Undergraduate Programs, Alvin collects and analyzes data for the purpose of identifying processefficiencies and implementing process improvement plans. He will also develop “best practice” processes and procedures for monitoring and measuring the status, performance and outcomes…
2012 Alumni

Rachel Rakvica
Global Product Strategy, Neurosurgery at BK Medical
• Lead team of 9 engineers to align priorities, and create plans to meet business objectives. • Provide technical and risk management guidance for decision making to support ongoing manufacturing activities. • Assist with planning of future projects, budgeting, and…

Nicole Varble, PhD
Research Scientist at Phillips
Her background includes in vitro models of the arm vasculature and arteriovenous fistulas for hemodiaysis accessand biomedical device design. She is currently assisting in the development of an integrated clinical tool which aids physicians by providing detailed hemodynamic profiles of unruptured aneurysms. Computational Fluid…
2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012
2023 Students
2022 Alumni
2021 Alumni
2020 Alumni
2019 Alumni
2018 Alumni
2017 Alumni

Margaret Ferrari
Graduate Research Assistant at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Margaret is interested in the pediatric cardiovascular space and is at the University of Colorado Denver in the Jacot Lab for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine within the Bioengineering Department. She will be working with two pediatric cardiologists on a tissue engineered vascular graft for…
2016 Alumni

Martin Gitomer
Design Assurance Engineer at Smith & Nephew
Plans, realizes, and delivers in Systems & Component (HW & SW) level Verification implementation, analysis and reporting. Contributes to documentation generation for Design Verification and Validation (V&V) processes and tools. Supports environmental testing, Standards testing and usability testing. Performs and documents…

Scott Harrienger
Senior Field Clinical Sales Engineer at Abbott
Scott is an Associate Clinical Account Specialist. Biosense Webster trains employees to become a full Clinical Account Specialist (CAS) within the company. Once he has completed the training, he will move into a CAS position where he will be responsible for providing clinical product…

Kayleigh Miller
Neurophysiologist at NuVasive
Neurophysiologist with Nuvasive Clinical Services providing intra-operative monitoring during various surgeries. Monitor patients’ nervous system in various surgeries using a wide range of neurophysiological techniques across many testing modalities including SSEP, S-EMG, T-EMG, TceMEP and TOF Interact with surgeons and…

Shwe Pyie
Validation Engineer at PSC BioTech
• Worked on full lifecycle validation for computerized systems, lab and manufacturing equipment• Prepared validation documents (VP, URS, FS, IQ/OQ/PQ, TM & VSR) • Performed the execution of written protocols • Investigate root cause problems from data trend and generate…

Tristan Richardson
Supervisor, Drug Product Engineering at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Since August 2017 I have led all validation activities at the AMRI Burlington site. This has allowed me to gain an understanding and experience in a wide range of validation including equipment and facility qualification, cleaning validation, process simulations, computer…

Danielle Wilson
Senior Development Engineer I at Zimmer Biomet
Contract Development Engineer with Adecco at Zimmer Biomet. Responsibiliries include reviewing documentation in Trauma Orthopaedic design controls,performing engineering analysis to determine products failure modes and verify the product withstand those failure mode, and update documentation for verification in existing design…

Andrew Zeccola
Senior System Engineer at Medtronic
As part of the Mechanical Circulatory Support group at Medtronic I work with system, subsystem, and lower-level requirement documents in order to drive designs of future devices as well as driving design changes to existing products already on the market.Also,…
2015 Alumni

Lisa Benison
System Engineer at Ortho Clinical Diagnostics
Lisa is currently within the R&D Functional Performance group at Ortho Clinical Diagnostics as a Systems Engineer in Rochester. Lisa Benison was the first the recipient of the Medtech Association’s first Engineering World Health (EWH) Summer Institute scholarship. EWH is a non-profit organization, founded…

Deborah Cooper
Product Applications Development Engineer at Transonic Systems Inc
As Product Applications Development Engineer, she interfaces between R&D and early adopters of the technology to develop and champion new standards of diagnosis and care. She support these clinicians in the ICU, OR, and Catherization Lab with technical, educational, and…

Nathan Couper
R&D Engineer at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Nathan started as a project engineer responsible for leading contract product development services at FTT. As a member of the FTT Medical division, there is a strong emphasis on medical device development and design for manufacturing, where applicable projects range…

Laura Hobbs, MD
Clinician, General Surgery University of Maryland
Laura started off as a Process Engineer that supported contact lens design and developmentthrough data analysis, coordinating product testing, technical report writing, and general project team support at Bausch & Lomb in Rochester, NY. She is currently in Medical School…

Courtney Kodweis, DO
Clinician, Family Medicine URMC
Courtney is currently a medical student at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine. Courtney started at Materialise USA where she worked with surgeons to help them plan their surgical cases using 3D modeling software. For each case, she created…

Kierstan Ryan
CMC Regulatory Sciences Specialist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Assists the Commercial Products team with maintaining regulatory filings in US and ex-US countries. Assists with completing regulatory filings for approval in ex-US countries. Assists with the completion of amendments to commercially approved regulatory filings.

Megan Stockdill
Senior Analyst, Strategic Initiatives, Competitive & Market Strategy at Johnson & Johnson
As a R&D Product Development Engineer, Trauma, Megan assists with the design anddevelopment and improvement and modifications to current products. She works with product managers, design engineers, surgeons, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and other team members to develop product requirements and concepts on…

Benjamin Vespone
Senior Electrical Engineer at Ximedica
Ben currently works as an Associate Biomedical Engineer at Ximedica in Providence, RI. • Firmware design for a pair of battery powered, handheld medical devices. Features include: closed loop motor control, Bluetooth low energy (BLE), I2C protocol, coulomb counter, capacitive…

Jonathan Stone, M.D., M.S.
Clinical Director, CMTI
Jonathan J. Stone, MD, MSe is a faculty member in the Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology & Biomedical Engineering and the Director of Surgical Innovation at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Dr. Stone's clinical interests are in peripheral nerve surgery,…
2014 Alumni

Matthew Crilley
Quality Assurance Engineer at Quotient Sciences
Martech specializes primarily in manufacturing extruded tubing and injection-molded components for final assembly catheters used for hemodialysis applications. The Quality Engineering group deals with solving quality issues in the company's product line resulting from customer complaints and during new product development. Martech is run by the same management and therefore works very closely with Medical…

Ryan DeAngelis
Clinical Trial Manager at Massachusetts General Hospital
As a Field Clinical Studies Engineer with Biotronik, I work with our study sites in the greater New York area. These include pre-market and post-approval as well as after-market studies. During the start-up process I will screen potential sites for…

Erin Keegan
Combination Product Policy Analyst at theFDA
Lead Reviewer for the Neurostimulaton Devices Branch of the Division of Neurological and Physical Medicine Devices within the Office of Device Evaluation. Review pre-marketing submissions for a variety of device specialities and clinical presentations related to neurology. Assemble teams of…

W. Spencer Klubben
Senior Product Manager at Foundation Medicine
Spencer is currently a Business Development Manager for Versalume and Corning Incorporated. He leads the creation of new medical businesses inside fortune 500 and startup companies. He leads cross functional teams to bridge the gap between customer needs and products….

Mohammad Musleh
Medical Device Engineer III, Lens Design Group at Bausch + Lomb
Mohammad is working at Bausch & Lomb as a Development Engineer in the lens design group. The lens design group is involved in all aspects of product life cycle of the medical device, from designing and developing the contact lenses to…
2013 Alumni

Alvin Lomibao
Assistant Dean, Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
As Assistant Director for Undergraduate Programs, Alvin collects and analyzes data for the purpose of identifying processefficiencies and implementing process improvement plans. He will also develop “best practice” processes and procedures for monitoring and measuring the status, performance and outcomes…
2012 Alumni

Rachel Rakvica
Global Product Strategy, Neurosurgery at BK Medical
• Lead team of 9 engineers to align priorities, and create plans to meet business objectives. • Provide technical and risk management guidance for decision making to support ongoing manufacturing activities. • Assist with planning of future projects, budgeting, and…

Nicole Varble, PhD
Research Scientist at Phillips
Her background includes in vitro models of the arm vasculature and arteriovenous fistulas for hemodiaysis accessand biomedical device design. She is currently assisting in the development of an integrated clinical tool which aids physicians by providing detailed hemodynamic profiles of unruptured aneurysms. Computational Fluid…