UAB School of Engineering

Department of Biomedical Engineering

External Advisory Board

Purpose

The BME External Advisory Board is composed of diverse national leaders from industry, academia and government who have professional expertise in biomedical engineering and related disciplines. The External Advisory Board meets periodically with students, faculty, staff and administrators, and provides impartial expert guidance, strategic direction and management advice. The Board appraises the mission, strategic plan, and the programs BME has developed to meet their educational objectives. The Board acts as a sounding board for new ideas and supports the department and Departmental Chair. The objectives of the advisory board are to (i) advise the Chair on policy matters; (ii) assist in facilitating high quality engineering education; (iii) promote and advance the best interests of the Department among alumni, other individuals and organizations; (iv) increase the internal and external visibility of the Department, faculty, students and research programs; and (v) actively assist the Chair in securing financial support, particularly from alumni, business and industry. The Board will offer insight and feedback to the Department, through the Chair, on opportunities to enhance student, faculty and staff distinction as well as increase departmental funding, enhance visibility in the local and national communities, and increase national ranking. The faculty will use the Board’s feedback to improve the Department’s programs, services, and facilities.

Gilda Barabino, Ph.D.	Professor
	Department of Biomedical Engineering
	Georgia Institute of Technology
	Atlanta, GA
Ashley Boam	Chief, Interventional Cardiology Devices Branch
	Division of Cardiovascular Devices
	Center for Devices and Radiological Health/Office of Device Evaluation
	Rockville, MD
Barbara D. Boyan, Ph.D.	Professor and Price Gilbert, Jr. Chair in Tissue Engineering
	Deputy Director, Georgia Tech Emory Center for the
	Engineering of Living Tissues
	Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
	Georgia Institute of Technology
	Atlanta, GA
Arthur DeCarlo, Jr. DDS, Ph.D.	President and Chief Science Officer
	Agenta Biotechnologies
	Birmingham, Alabama
Trudy D. Estridge, Ph.D.	Director of Regulatory Affairs
	Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
	Herndon, VA
Steven A. Goldstein, Ph.D.	Henry Ruppenthal Family Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
	and Bioengineering
	Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
	Associate Chair for Research
	Professor, Biomedical Engineering
	Professor, Mechanical Engineering
	University of Michigan
	Ann Arbor, MI
Charles D. Griffin	President
	Carbomedics Inc.
	Austin, Texas
Warren O. Haggard, Ph.D.	Herbert Herff Chair of Excellence and Professor
	Department of Biomedical Engineering
	University of Memphis
	Memphis, TN
Kim Hughes
	Project Engineer
	Wright Medical Technology
	Arlington, TN
Bruce H. KenKnight, Ph.D.	Director, Business Development
	Guidant Corp
	St. Paul, MN
Fred Molz, Ph.D.	Vice President, Research & Development
	BioHorizons Implant Systems, Inc.
	Birmingham, AL
William H. Needle, Esq.	Needle & Rosenberg
William H. Needle, Esq.	Atlanta, Georgia
Arthur J. ‘Art’ Tipton, Ph.D.	President and CEO
	Brookwood Pharmaceuticals
	Birmingham, AL
Karen Troxel, Ph.D.	Director, Orthobiologics
	Biomet, Inc.
	Warsaw, IN
Krishna Venugopalan	Principal Engineer and Group Leader
	Research & Technology
	Codman & Shurtleff, Inc (A Johnson&Johnson Company)
	Raynham, MA
Wolf von Maltzahn, Ph.D.	Associate Vice President
	Professor of Biomedical Engineering
	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
	Troy, NY
Angela Wier	Vice President
	Economic Development Partnership of Alabama
	Birmingham, Alabama