Meet the Faculty
The MS-MPE program is taught by faculty with extensive expertise and accomplishments that span decades in both academia and industry.
We provide a mix of both in-house faculty, some with primary appointments in Bioengineering, and some in the Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Education, Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, and the Katz Business School. These multi-disciplinary Pitt faculty are complemented by adjunct faculty who are experienced and accomplished working professionals.
During the program, students will have ample opportunities to meet, interact and collaborate with clinicians, industry, medtech accelerators, regulatory, quality and clinical experts, entrepreneurs, investors and other key stakeholders in the medical technology ecosystem.
Highlighted below are our faculty who teach required courses and some key electives in the MS-MPE Program:
Courses Taught:
- 2150 Medical Product Ideation - Al Hirschman, Joe Samosky
- 2151 Medical Product Development - Al Hirschman
- 2152 Medical Product Prototyping Foundations - Kevin Bell
- 2167 Managing Medical Product Innovation - Andreas Maihoefer
- 2170 Clinical Bioengineering - Aneesh Ramaswamy
- 2171 Medical Product Prototyping - Brandon Barber
- 2173 Med Design for Low Resource Environments - Kevin Bell, Cynthia Salter
- 2239 Cardio Organ Replacement - Harvey Borovetz
- 2525 Applied BioStats - Katrina Knight and Jonathan Vande Geest
- 2170 Clinical Bioengineering - Chelsea Proulx
- 2111 Commercializing New Technologies - Susan Cohen
- 2175 Human Factors in Medical Devices - April Chambers
- 2195 User-Centered Design: Limb Prosthesis - Goeran Fielder
- 2024 Professional Development Seminar - Justin Weinbaum