Biodesign Faculty Fellow Graduates
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.
Biodesign Faculty Fellow Graduates
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
