BMES Fellows
2025 NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN
Deadline: March 21, 2025 at 11:59PM ET

BMES grants its prestigious Fellow designation to select members who have demonstrated excellence in the field. To become a Fellow, members must have demonstrated impactful achievements and have made significant contributions to the biomedical engineering community. The BMES Board of Directors grants this distinguished honor.
Each year, BMES members whose contributions to the biomedical engineering field have been exceptional, qualify for this nomination. After applications are thoroughly reviewed and evaluated by the Fellows Nominating Committee, recommended individuals will be presented to the Board of Directors for confirmation.
2024 BMES Fellows

Nehal Abu-Lail
For outstanding contributions to the development of educational programs, training diverse BME students through research and educational programs, and service to the BME community through professional, academic, and K-12 outreach endeavors.

B. Rita Alevriadou
For pioneering cellular and molecular work on vascular endothelial mechanotransduction and mitochondrial redox signaling, and for service to the Society.

Rohit Bhargava
For developing chemical imaging technology, from theory to commercial translation, and its biomedical and clinical applications. For contributions to forming and leading the first engineering-based cancer center in the US.

Guohao Dai
For contributions in vascular mechanobiology, 3D bioprinting vascular networks for tissue engineering, regenerative medicine applications, and transcriptional regulation of arterial venous vascular differentiation in health and diseases.

Craig Goergen
Dr. Goergen's pioneering work in 4D ultrasound, capturing three-dimensional images of the heart over time, and biomechanics-inspired image analysis for quantifying cardiovascular function, significantly advanced disease diagnostics, and treatment planning.

Warren Grayson
Dr. Grayson has developed advanced biomaterials and imaging techniques to advance tissue engineering applications. His presentations have also helped to educate the public and policy-makers on regenerative medicine strategies.

Aysegul Gunduz
Dr. Gunduz’s work has had a real impact on improving neurosurgical patients’ lives, the goal for BMES. She is the recipient of many recognitions, including the highly competitive PECASE Award and election as AIMBE Fellow.

Miiri Kotche
Exceptional leadership, service, and scholarship in biomedical engineering and medical innovation education, including intentionally designed diversity and inclusion efforts in elementary, high school, and undergraduate programs through industry employment.

Celeste Nelson
For significant contributions to our understanding of the bioengineering, biophysics, and mechanobiology of multicellular tissues, in the context of normal development and disease.

Syam Nukavarapu
Made outstanding contributions to the development of biomaterial grafts and regenerative strategies for musculoskeletal tissues and interfaces, along with his significant contributions to the BMES mission.

Christine Scotti
Recognized leader in Computational Modeling and Simulation, invited to attend NAE Frontiers of Engineering for contributions to Medical Products, ASME V&V40 Standard co-author which led to FDA guidance document.

LaKiesha Williams
Dr. Williams' groundbreaking research in Traumatic Brain Injury has deepened understandings of connections between TBI and aging and has played a pivotal role in advancing protections for soldiers and athletes.
2023 BMES Fellows

Tamara Baynham

Danielle SW Benoit

Cynthia A Bir

Eric M Brey

Ke Cheng

Eun Ji Chung

Rafael V Davalos

Jianping Fu

Akhilesh K Gaharwar

Samir N Ghadiali

Eileen Haase

Brian P Helmke

Yi Hong

David Jamison

David H Kohn

Aaron Kyle

Michelle LaPlaca

Wendy Liu

Keefe B Manning

Karen May-Newman

Michael James McShane

Jon Moon

Jenny Munson

Marvin J. Slepian

Sarah E Stabenfeldt

Jessica E Wagenseil

Cedric F. Walker

Lisa Waples

Jennifer S Wayne
Fellows from Previous Years
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2022
Alisa Clyne, PhD
Ayman El-Baz, PhD
Stacey Finley, PhD
Melissa Grunlan, PhD
Juergen Hahn, PhD
Mariah Hahn, PhD
Sean Kohles, PhD
Pamela Kreeger, PhD
Jan Lammerding, PhD
Tanmay Lele, PhD
Chuanbin Mao, PhD
James Moon, PhD
Emmanuel Opara, PhD
Kevin Otto, PhD
Shalini Prasad, PhD
Ravi Radhakrishnan, PhD
Milica Radisic, PhD
Raj Rao, PhD
Anita Singh, PhD
Nicole Steinmetz, PhD
Maribel Vazquez, PhD
Yingxiao Wang, PhD -
2021
Josephine Allen, PhD
Jennifer Amos, PhD
Adam Engler, PhD
Anjelica Gonzalez, PhD
Brendan Harley, PhD
Christopher Hernandez, PhD
Princess Imoukhuede, PhD
Christopher Jewell, PhD
Alison Marsden, PhD
Brenda Ogle, PhD
Shelly Peyton, PhD
Manu Platt, PhD
Craig Simmons, PhD
Cherie Stabler, PhD
Joel Stitzel, PhD
Joseph Tranquillo, PhD
Marjolein van der Meulen, PhD
Deepak Vashishth, PhD
Jessica Winter, PhD
Guigen Zhang, PhD -
2020
Eben Alsberg, PhD
Walter Baxter, PhD
Jonathan Butcher, PhD
Karen Christman, PhD
Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez, PhD
Craig Duvall, PhD
Omolola Eniola-Adefeso, PhD
John Gassert, PhD
Jay Goldberg, PhD
Anthony Guiseppie-Elie, PhD
Edward Guo, PhD
Tzung Hsiai, PhD
Ranu Jung, PhD
Rebecca Kuntz-Willits, PhD
Peter Lelkes, PhD
Kristyn Masters, PhD
William Murphy, PhD
Ruth Ochia, PhD
Maria Oden, PhD
Angela Pannier, PhD
Shayn Peirce-Cottler, PhD
Beth Pruitt, PhD
Johanna Temenoff, PhD
Pamela Vandevord, PhD
Justin Williams, PhD
Jian Yang, PhD
Conrad Zapanta, PhD -
2019
Paul Benkeser, PhD
Lawrence Bonassar, PhD
Jason Burdick, PhD
Jordan Green, PhD
Mark Grinstaff, PhD
Joseph Irudayaraj, PhD
Erin Lavik, PhD
Sriram Neelamegham, PhD
Kytai Nguyen, PhD
Michael O’Connor, PhD
Anson (Joo) Ong, PhD
Yi-Xian Qin, PhD
Clinton Rubin, PhD
Paul Sanberg, PhD
Kaiming Ye, PhD -
2018
Debra Auguste, PhD
Victor Barocas, PhD
Kristen Billiar, PhD
Nenad Bursac, PhD
Christopher S. Chen, MD, PhD
Naomi Chesler, PhD
Claudia Fischbach-Teschl, PhD
Sheila Grant, PhD
Michele Grimm, PhD
Kevin E. Healy, PhD
Clark T. Hung, PhD
Jeffrey Karp, PhD
Robert S. Keynton, PhD
Catherine Klapperich, PhD
Martine LaBerge, PhD
Noshir Langrana, PhD
J. Kent Leach, PhD
Abraham P. Lee, PhD
Jason A. Papin, PhD
Lonnie D. Shea, PhD
Jan Stegemann, PhD -
2017
Treena Arinzeh, PhD
Gang Bao, PhD
Danny Bluestein, PhD
Thomas Boland, PhD
Stephen A. Boppart, MD, PhD
Juan Carlos Briceńo Triana, PhD
Michael S. Detamore, PhD
Stefan M. Duma, PhD
Andrew K. Dunn, PhD
C. Ross Ethier, PhD
Robert D. Frisina, PhD
Steven Carl George, MD, PhD
Bin He, PhD
Andre Levchenko, PhD
David F. Meaney, PhD
Ellis Meng, PhD
Michael I. Miller, PhD
Cynthia Reinhart-King, PhD
Martin L. Yarmush, MD, PhD
Fan Yuan, PhD -
2016
Stelios Andreadis, PhD
Bahman Anvari, PhD
Jason H. T. Bates, PhD
John P. Fisher, PhD
Ali Khademhosseini, PhD
Sanjay Kumar, MD, PhD
Elizabeth Loboa, PhD
Angelique Louie, PhD
Bela Suki, PhD -
2015
Rashid Bashir, PhD
Karen Burg, PhDMichael King, PhD
Steven Little, PhD
Samir Mitragotri, PhD
Prabhas Moghe, PhD
Alyssa Panitch, PhD -
2014
Guillermo Ameer, PhD
Tejal Desai, PhD
Donald Gaver, PhD
Hanjoong Jo, PhD
Deborah Leckband, PhD
Song Li, PhD
Robert Sah, MD, ScD
Beth Winkelstein, PhD
Cheng Zhu, PhD -
2013
Ashutosh Chilkoti, PhD
Jane Grande-Allen, PhD
Melissa Knothe Tate, PhD
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, PhD
Thomas Webster, PhD
Bruce Wheeler, PhD
Joyce Wong, PhD -
2012
Ravi Bellamkonda, PhD
Darrell Irvine, PhD,
Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, PhD
James Leary, PhD
Philip LeDuc, PhD
Douglas Noll, PhD
Ann Saterbak, PhD
Melody Swartz, PhD
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD -
2011
Sangeeta Bhatia, MD, PhD
Gerard Cote, PhD
Todd Giorgio, PhD
Warren Grill, PhD
Laura Marcu, PhD
Krishnendu Roy, PhD -
2010
Gerard Ateshian, PhD
Gilda Barabino, PhD
Simon Cherry, PhD
John Frangos, PhD
Matthew Glucksberg, PhD
Linda G. Griffin, PhD
Richard Hart, PhD
Cato Laurencin, MD, PhD
David Odde, PhD
David Puleo, PhD
William Reichert, PhD
William Saltzman, PhD
Christine Schmidt, PhD
Michael Shuler, PhD
Scott Simon, PhDNatalia Trayanova, PhD
Lu-Yuan Lee, PhD
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2009
Michael Deem, PhD
Lee Huntsman, PhD
Susan Margulies, PhD
Antonios Mikos, PhD
Buddy Ratner, PhD
Lori Setton, PhD -
2008
Scott Diamond, PhD
Katherine Ferrara, PhD
Martha Gray, PhD
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, PhD
David Vorp, PhD
Jennifer West, PhD
Ajit Yoganathan, PhD -
2007
Rory Cooper, PhD
William Federspiel, PhD
Raphael Lee, MD, PhD
Sanjeev Shroff, PhD
William Wagner, PhD
Richard Waugh, PhD -
2006
Daniel Hammer, PhD
Narender Reddy, PhD
Bob Tranquillo, PhD
George Truskey, PhD
John White, PhD
Eric Young, PhD -
2005
James Adams (J Milton Adams), PhD
Kyriacos Athanasiou, PhD
Roger Barr, PhD,
James Bassingthwaighte, MD, PhD
Stanley Berger, PhD
Amit Bhattacharya, PhD, CPE
Rena Bizios, PhD,
Susan Blanchard, PhD
Harvey Borovetz, PhD
Clifford Brubaker, PhD
Donald Buerk, PhD
Kirk Bundy, PhD
Krishnan Chandran, PhD
Shu Chien, MD, PhD
Jerry Collins, PhD
Stephen Cook, PhD
Stephen Cowin, PhDPatrick Crago, PhD
Carlo DeLuca, PhDC Forbes Dewey Jr, PhD
Kenneth Diller, ScDJoseph DiStefano, PhD
Cheng Dong, PhD
Edward Duffin, PhD
Robert Eberhart, PhD
Shmuel Einav, PhD
David Elad, PhD
John Enderle, PhDJeffrey Fredberg, PhD
Janie Fouke, PhD,
Morton Friedman, PhD
Don Giddens, PhD
Edward Grood, PhD,
James Grotberg, MD, PhD,
Eric J. Guilbeau, PhD,
Paul Hale, PhD,
Gerald Harris, PhD,
William Hendee, PhD,
James Houk, PhD,
Raymond Ideker, MD, PhD
Neil B. Ingels Jr., PhD,
Marcos Intaglietta, PhD,
Rakesh Jain, PhD,
Dov Jaron, PhD
Arthur Johnson, PhDKenneth Johnson, PhD
Paul Johnson, PhD,
Roger D. Kamm, PhD
Peter Katona, ScD,
Michael Khoo, PhD
J. Yasha Kresh, PhD
Robert S. Langer, PhD
Douglas Lauffenburger, PhD
Jen-shih Lee, PhD
Klaus Ley, MD,
John Linehan, PhD,
Robert Linsenmeier, PhD
Herbert Lipowsky, PhD
Carol Lucas, PhD
Kenneth Lutchen, PhD
Larry McIntire, PhD
Wayne Mitzner, PhD
Van Mow, PhD
Joachim Nagel, SCD
Robert Nerem, PhD
Michael Neuman, MD, PhD,
Nicholas Peppas, ScD
Winfred Phillips, PhD
Roland Pittman, PhD
Chi-Sang Poon, PhD
Aleksander Popel, PhD
Robert Radwin, PhD
Peter Richardson, PhD, DSc,
Yoram Rudy, PhD
Murray Sachs, PhD
Michael Sacks, PhD
Subrata Saha, PhD
Gerald Saidel, PhD
Geert Schmid-Schoenbein, PhD
Daniel Schneck, PhD
Lawrence Schramm, PhD,
Artin Shoukas, PhD
Jerome S. Shultz, PhD
Thomas Skalak, PhD
Francis Spelman, PhD
Robert Spilker, ScD
Ramachandra Srinivasan, PhDAndrew Szeto, PhD
John Tarbell, PhD
Nitish Thakor, PhD
Willis Tompkins, PhD
Vincent Turitto, PhD
James Ultman, PhD
William Van Buskirk, PhD
Herbert Voigt, PhD
Wolf von Maltzahn, PhD
John Wikswo Jr., PhD
Raimond Winslow, PhD
Savio Woo, PhD, DSc
Frank Yin, MD, PhD
Laurence Young, ScD -
Misc
James Adams, PhD
Joseph Andrade, PhD
Ernest Bontrager, PhD
HK Chang, PhD
H. Clamann, PhD
Claudio Cobelli, PhD
Clark Colton, PhD
Patrick Crago, PhD
C Forbes Dewey Jr., PhD
Joseph DiStefano, PhD
Stanley Finkelstein, PhD
Jeffrey Fredberg, PhD
Robert Gore, PhD
Eric Grassman, MD, PhD
Linda Griffith, PhD
Alan Grodzinsky, ScD
Allen Hahn, DVM
Daniel Hammer, PhD
Lawrence Higgins, MD
Samuel Hulbert, PhD
Gopal Jayaraman, PhD
Dean Jeutter, PhD
Kenneth Johnson, PhD
Michael Kallok, PhD
Robert Kearney, PhD
Michael King, PhD
Charles Knapp, PhD
Yoram Lanir, PhD
Lu-Yuan Lee, PhD
Edwin Lewis, PhD
Dieter Liepsch, PhD
Linda Lucas, PhD
Herbert Maisleman, ScD
Gerald Miller, PhD
Irving Miller, PhD
Gerald Moss, MD, PhD
Richard Normann, PhD
William Nowack, MD
K. Patil, DSc
Gerald Pollack, PhD
Jerry Radziuk, MD
Charles Ramberg, VMD
Narender Reddy, PhD
Peter Reischl, PhD
Erik Ritman, MD, PhD
Channing Robertson, PhD
Peter Scherer, MD, PhD
Jerome Schultz, PhD
John Semmlow, PhD
Gabriel Silva, PhD
Andrew Szeto, PhD
Mano Thubrikar, PhD
Robert Tranquillo, PhD
Natalia Trayanova, PhD
George Truskey, PhD
Joseph Van De Water, MD
Dwayne Westenskow, PhD
Howard Winet, PhD
Michael Yen, PhD
Alejandro Zaffaroni, PhD
Warren Zapol, MD