Graduate Program.After Duke

One of the tests of excellence for any school is the quality of its alumni. And Duke BME is proud to have produced many leaders in both industry and academics since 1972.

Graduates of the BME program have gone on to careers in industrial research and development groups, to advance new products and techniques for health services and in biological science markets; in medical centers, to improve health services and to engage in research which may be basic or clinical; and in academic institutions, to expand or initiate biomedical engineering programs.

Examples of Duke BME alumni in industry are Richard Martin (Ph.D., 1972), President and CEO of Medtronic/Physio-Control Inc. Based on his graduate research at Duke, Michael Ramsey (MD, 1969, Ph.D., 1975) founded Critikon, Inc., which later became the Critikon Division of Johnson & Johnson. Paul Magnin (Ph.D., 1981) is President and CEO of Coherent Diagnostics, Inc. John Allison (Ph.D., 1987) is Director of Acuson Laboratories. In addition, several recent alumni have formed BME-oriented start-up companies, bringing new BME technologies to the marketplace.

Six graduate alumni have been, or are currently, serving as chairs of Biomedical Engineering Departments. Over thirty Duke BME graduate alumni are currently tenured or tenure-track faculty.

Following is placement information for Duke BME's most recent doctoral graduates.

2002 Graduate Placements

Mia Markey, Ph.D. Dept. of Biomedical Engr., Univ. of Texas at Austin
Christine Merdes, Ph.D. Exploring employment options
Daniel Meyer, Ph.D. GE Medical Systems, Schenectady, NY
Christian Penland, Ph.D. Physiome Sciences, Princeton, NJ

2001 Graduate Placements

Anthony Baer, Ph.D. Dept. of Biomedical Engr., Columbia Univ., New York, NY
Amy Collinsworth, Ph.D. Cogent Neuroscience, Durham, NC
Geoffrey Erickson, Ph.D. Dept. of Surgery, Duke Univ. Medical Center, Durham, NC
Marios Gavrielides, Ph.D. Research Associate, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Garheng Kong, M.D., Ph.D. InterSouth Partners, Durham, NC
Michelle LeRoux, Ph.D. Columbia Univ., New York, NY
Anshu Mathur, Ph.D. Medical Device Patent Consultant, Cary, NC
Scott Meyer, Ph.D. Guidant Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
Daria Narmoneva, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
Ronald Piervincenzi, Ph.D. McKenzie and Company, Rockaway, NJ
Wendy Trickey, Ph.D. Ctr. for Naval Analysis, Washington, DC
Natalie Wisniewski, Ph.D. McKinsey and Company, Pittsburgh, PA
Jason Zara, Ph.D. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engr., George Washington Univ., Washington, DC

2000 Graduate Placements

Mark Chawla, Ph.D. McKenzie and Company, Atlanta, GA
Erik Frederick, Ph.D. Chemcodes, Research Triangle Park, NC
Beth Geiman, Ph.D. Agilent Technologies, Boston, MA
David Harrild, Ph.D. Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
Sarah Hurlston, Ph.D. Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, Research Triangle Park, NC
David Mills, Ph.D. GE Research and Development, Albany, NY
Audra Plenys, Ph.D. Stanford Medical School, Stanford, CA
Jonathan Prather, Ph.D. Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
Wendy Trickey, Ph.D. Ctr. for Naval Analysis, Washington, DC
Chris Van Ee, Ph.D. Dept. of Biomedical Engr., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1999 Graduate Placements

Katherine DeBruin, Ph.D. Glaxo-Wellcome, Research Triangle Park, NC
David Dubberstein, Ph.D. GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI
Dawn Elliott, Ph.D. Orthopaedic Research Lab, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Mohammad Ismael, Ph.D. Working in industry
Mudit Jain, Ph.D. Guidant Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
James Lacefield, Ph.D. Electrical Engr. Dept., Western Ontario Univ., Ontario, Canada
Daniel Pollard, Ph.D. ClinEffect Systems, Inc., Durham, NC
Thomas Plowman, Ph.D. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Beth Winkelstein, Ph.D. Dept. of Bioengineering, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1998 Graduate Placements

Vinayak Bhat, Ph.D. Guidant Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
Amy Blawas, Ph.D. Cato Research Ltd., Research Triangle Park, NC
Daniel Camacho, MD, Ph.D. Dept. of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Charles Emery, Ph.D. Siemens Medical Systems, Issaquah, WA
Michael Fields, MD, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Ahmed Morsy, Ph.D. ATL Corp., Bothell, WA
Adam Muzikant, Ph.D. Physiome Sciences, Princeton, NJ
Chikai Ohazama, Ph.D. Silicon Graphics, Sunnyvale, CA
Ming Shu, Ph.D. Boston Consulting Group, Boston, MA
Neal Vittitoe, Ph.D. Dept. of Radiology, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI