Faculty Development & Collaboration
The Stanford Biodesign Faculty Fellowship provides motivated faculty members from medicine, engineering, or other schools at Stanford with advanced training and mentoring in health technology innovation.
The Biodesign Faculty Fellowship runs part-time from October through May each year. During the training period, faculty fellows should expect to spend approximately 10-12 hours per week completing a combination of reading and video assignments, project work, and regular small group mentoring sessions. Over eight months, the program leads participants through Biodesign's rigorous approach to identifying important innovation opportunities, inventing cost-effective solutions, and preparing to implement those inventions to improve patient care.
Previous Biodesign Faculty Fellows from the department include:
Biodesign Faculty Fellows are selected via a competitive application and interview process. Recruiting for the program begins in early spring.
Michael Ma, MD
Division Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Associate Professor, 2024–2025 Faculty Fellowship
Project Concept: "P-EVPS (Pediatric Ex Vivo Preservation System)"
A. Claire Watkins, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, 2022-2023 Faculty Fellow
Billie-Jean Martin, MD, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, 2021-2022 Faculty Fellow
Project Concept: "A way to improve ventilation and reduce hypoxia in obese patients with severe cardiorespiratory compromise in order to improve arterial oxygen saturation"
Maria Currie, MD, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, 2021-2022 Faculty Fellow
- Project Concept: "A way to increase the number of donor organs for transplant centers in order to increase the annual number of solid organ transplants"
- Dr. Currie received extension funding from Biodesign to continue working on her concept project.
Doff McElhinney, MD
Professor, 2017-2018 Faculty Fellow
Project Concept: "A way to mitigate the physiologic consequences of tricuspid regurgitation in patients with functional tricuspid regurgitation to provide symptomatic improvement"
Biodesign Faculty Fellowship Photos
Feb February 20 Tue 2024
How Clinical Observations Impact Device Development
Ioannis Karakikes, PhD
Associate Professor (Research) of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine
Oct October 24 Tue 2023
Extracellular Matrix Regulation of Vascular Cell Fate and Regeneration
Ngan F. Huang, PhD
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Stanford School of Medicine
Oct October 04 Tue 2022
E Pluribus Unum: Cardiovascular Surgery, Science, and Engineering | Video (SUNet ID required)
Y. Joseph Woo, MD
Norman E. Shumway Professor and Chair, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine; Professor, by courtesy, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University
Oct October 13 Tue 2015
Extracellular Matrix Patterning and Shear Stress on Vascular Function
Ngan Huang, PhD, Stanford School of Medicine
May May 05 Tue 2015
Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS): State of the Art
Dipanjan Banerjee, MD, MS, and Richard-Tien Ha, MD
Stanford School of Medicine
Jun June 03 Tue 2014
Natural Cardiac Reconstruction via Surgical and Biologic Therapies
Joseph Woo, MD
Stanford University
Oct October 09 Tue 2012
Robbins' Eye View
Robert Robbins, MD, Stanford University
Mar March 12 Mon 2012
Healing the Heart with Stem Cells: Promises and Puzzles. A Conversation about Current Advances in Cardiac Regenerative Therapies in the US and Germany
Robert Robbins, MD, Stanford University
Joseph Wu, MD, PhD, Stanford University
Gustav Steinhoff, MD, Univ of Rostock, Germany
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
The Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education (CME) provides accredited continuing education activities to enhance the professional development of healthcare professionals. Through collaborations and strong partnerships, CME seeks to increase access to accredited continuing education, to model team-based patient care, and to enhance the impact of research, clinical and teaching expertise of its faculty. Traditional activities vary and include conferences, workshops, simulations, seminars, live webcasts, and regularly scheduled series, Internet enduring materials, and tools for self-directed learning.
Courses from our department include:
Stanford Medcast Episode 78: Hot Topics Mini-Series
Beating Heart Transplant Featuring Dr. Brandon Guenthart
Stanford Medcast Episode 92: Hot Topics Mini-Series
Improving Outcomes with Lung Cancer Screening Featuring Dr. Natalie Lui
Lessons in Lung Cancer and Medicine Series
Switching Perspectives: The Doctor Becomes the Patient Featuring Dr. Natalie Lui
oHCM Webinar Series
Comprehensive Management of oHCM - A Team-Based Perspective Featuring Dr. William Hiesinger