Founding Director, Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Accomplishments:

• Built and established an interdisciplinary research centre of 140 faculty members across 5 faculties.
• Worked across faculties to build strong relationships
• Developed strong relationships with regional hospitals and health care community
• Established new international relationships with two universities (Netherlands, France)
• Established Memorandums of Understanding with UTwente, Medical Device Commercialization Centre, Ottawa
• Increased funding in the areas of biotechnology and biomedical engineering by $4.8 million over four years
• Engaged 162 companies with researchers
• Achieved a 77% participation rate among centre researchers in centre activities

Director, Advanced Interface Design Lab

Accomplishments

• Led an internationally recognized program of research in Human Factors Engineering
• Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
• Substantial academic contributions, over 250 scholarly publications including 7 books
• Attracted nearly 10 million in research funding
• Leadership in funding agencies in Canada and internationally, Chair of committees for NSERC and Ontario Ministry of Research Innovation and Science, NSERC Ontario Advisory Board
• Holds editorial board or Associate Editor positons at 5 top journals in the field
• Research Excellence Award winner
• Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision

Professor, Systems Design Engineering

Accomplishments

• • Led the development of a graduate program in Biomedical Engineering
  • Leadership roles in service to department and university