External Advisory Council
The BME External Advisory Council comprises alumni, business leaders, and academic leaders who provide a high level of volunteer service to the Program, College, and University. The Council’s primarily role is to help shape and evaluate the strategic direction of the BME program. In carrying out their role, members help inform and support the work of the Chair, faculty, and staff. They serve as a sounding board for the Chair and provide advice to ensure that the BME program maintains the highest standards of excellence. In addition, they more widely publicize the activities and accomplishments of the program to students, alumni, donors, employers, professionals and others.
As part of its annual meeting in the fall, the BMEAC reviews the progress of the previous year and presents its findings, highlighting major successes and challenges facing the BME program to the Dean of the College of Engineering.
Council Members – 2015
Council Member at 2014 Annual Meeting (L to R): Linda Myrick, Jack Kramer, Bruce Robertson, Michael Axe, Helen Stimson, John Flynn, Dawn Elliott, Michele Marcolongo. Not Pictured: Devon Bond
- Michael J. Axe, MD
Adjunct Professor in Physical Therapy
University of Delaware
Board-certified Orthopaedic Surgeon and Partner
First State Orthopaedics
- Ms. Devon Bond
B.S. Biomedical Engineering ’14
Manager, Sustaining Engineering
CryoLife, Inc.
- Anthony Coston
Head of Medical Devices, Draper
- Alan Eberhardt
Associate Chair, Biomedical Engineering
University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Vicky Funage
Nemours
- Jane Grande Allen
Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Rice University
- Sandra Lewisch
Director, Glasgow Assay Development
- Michele S. Marcolongo, PhD ME’86
Senior Associate Vice Provost
Translational Research
Drexel University
- Susan Margulies
Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
- Linda J. Myrick
UD ChE ’77
Penn MBA ’81
General Manager of Oxygenates & Derivatives; Arkema, Inc.
President, University of Delaware Alumni Association
UD COE Advisory Council
- Anand Narayan
New Business Development Theme Lead in Opthamology, W.L. Gore & Associates
- Collin Patterson
Globus
- Brian Pryor, Ph.D.
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at LiteCure®, LLC
- Dr. Bruce Robertson
PhD ’89
Managing Director at HIG Capital (Private Equity Investor)
- Jae Sly
Acrobiosystems
Board of Delaware Bio
- Jim Sonnett
Managing Partner, Redwood Innovation
- Elizabeth Soulas
Honours Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering ’16
DMD Candidate, UPenn School of Dental Medicine ’20
Pursuing a post-doc 3 yr residency in Orthodontics at UMich Ann Arbor
- Helen Stimson
Chair of UD BME External Advisory Committee
B.A. Chemistry from Lafayette College
President and CEO, Delaware Bioscience Association
- Scott Waldman
PhD, Thomas Jefferson University
MD, Stanford University
Samuel MV Hamilton Professor of Medicine, Chairman of Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Director of MD-PhD Program and NIH-Sponsored Postdoctoral Training Program at Thomas Jefferson University
Director of Gastrointestinal Cancer Program at Kimmel Cancer Center
- Mr. Jim Yearick
B.S. Business Administration ’84
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Endotronix
Adjunct Professor, Suffolk University