Past Research Day Speakers

2019 Distinguished Academic Speaker
"Healing the Brain using Focuses Ultrasound"

Kullervo Hynynen, PhD
Professer, Department of Medical Biophyics, University of Toronto.

 

2019 Distinguished Industry Speaker
"Point-of-Care and Near-Patient Tests - Engineering Challenges in Bringing Handheld Diagnostic Devices to Market"

Jack Fairbank, PhD
Senior Product Development Engineer, Siemens Health

 

2018 Distinguished Industry Speaker
"Interfaces: The Evolving Roles of Medical Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Our Society"

James Schellenberg, PhD
Founder and CEO, Cubresa, Inc.

2018 Distinguished Academic Speaker 

"Materials Innovations for Next Generation Biosensing"
Leyla Soleymani, PhD
, Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University

2017 Distinguished Academic Speaker 

"Disruptive Biomaterials Found in the Grocery Store"

Andrew Pelling, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Ottawa

2017 Distinguished Industry Speaker 

"Opportunities for the Fusion of Medicine, Engineering and Business" 

Cameron Piron, President and Cofounder, Synaptive Medical

2016 Distinguished Academic Speaker 

"Biomaterial Strategies to Detect & Treat Cardiovascular Disease"

Joyce Wong, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

2016 Distinguished Industry Speaker 

"From Lab to Living Room: Transforming Research into an Entrepreneurial Business"

Jonathan Linton, Power Corporation Professor, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa

2015 Distinguished Academic Speaker 

"Blood Vessels-on-a-Chip and Microfluidic Bioprinting"

Axel Guenther, Associate Professor,  Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto

2015 Distinguished Industry Speaker 

"Converging Low Power Micro Electronics, Data and Communication Technologies into Medical Devices"

Stephen N. Oesterle, Senior Vice President for Medicine and Technology, Medtronic, Inc.

2014 Distinguished Academic Speaker 

"Stem Cell Bioprocess Engineering for Regenerative Medicine"

Michael Kallos, Professor, Department of Chemical and Petrolium Engineering, University of Calgary