The BME External Advisory Board (EAB) comprises nationally distinguished leaders from industry, academia and government who provide advice on the department’s academic, research, outreach and other programs.
The EAB meets once a year with students, faculty, and administrators to provide input and feedback for the department to achieve its vision of becoming a national leader in training biomedical engineers who will develop the newest innovative health care technologies. The faculty uses the board’s feedback to improve the department’s programs, services and facilities.
External Advisory Board

Teaching Professor and Laura Hahn Faculty Fellow,
Department of Bioengineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign




Professor, Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering; Associate Dean for Faculty, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego



Board Co-Chair
Executive Director, Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
Regents’ Professor, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Board Co-Chair
Director of Alternative Investments, Santander Private Banking International


Co-Founder and Executive Vice-President Research and Development (Emeritus),
Exactech Inc.

Professor of Bioengineering and Vice Dean, Research and Graduate Education, University of Washington School of Medicine

Department Chair, Lucy & Stanley Lopata Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University at St Louis




Swanson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Vice Provost for Research and Innovation,
Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University

Founder, Home Row Products and Services