• Director, Undergraduate Programs, Biomedical Engineering
  • Professor of Practice, Biomedical Engineering
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Educational Background

  • Postdoc, Tissue Engineering, Rice University
  • Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Rice University – 1994

Research Interests

    • Enhancing undergraduate and graduate student learning
    • Engagement and workforce development by transforming biomedical engineering education through scholarship and research of innovative teaching and learning practices and technologies

Industry Experience

    • Over 34 years combined work experience, including:
      • Research Professor, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
      • Director, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery’s clinical translation program (tissue engineering applications)
      • Chair, M.D. Anderson’s Department of Biomedical Engineering
      • Co-chair, tri-institutional Department of Biomedical Engineering between M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas at Austin and University of Texas Health Sciences Center
      • Director of Operations/Vice President, Southwestern Seminary
    • Over 130 archival publications, two patents, and multiple awards for research and teaching