John H. Linehan

Northwestern University

Dr. Linehan is a Consulting Professor of Bioengineering in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. Linehan is also the Executive Editor of bmesource.org, a new open-source web portal in biomedical engineering that originated at Stanford and is being developed by 25 Universities across the United States. He will also serve as an executive faculty member in the Program in Biodesign.

Dr. Linehan was Vice President of The Whitaker Foundation from 1998-2005. Prior to joining the foundation, he was the Bagozzi professor of biomedical engineering and the founding chairman of the department of biomedical engineering at Marquette University. He also was adjunct professor of physiology and medicine (pulmonary and critical care) at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. Linehan was President (1999-2000) and a Founding Fellow (1993) of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He was President (1992-93) and a Fellow (2005) of the Biomedical Engineering Society and named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (1991). He received a Distinguished Service Award from the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1996) and, in 1999, was the Distinguished Lecturer of the Biomedical Engineering Society. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.

Dr. Linehan was involved with the Whitaker Foundation's Leadership-Development Awards and Special Opportunity Awards programs, the Teaching Materials program, the Research Grants program and the Industrial Internship program. He organized a biomedical engineering educational summit meeting held on March 3-6, 2005. 275 attendees from US and international BME programs, industry, and government convened to address BME educational issues for the future.

His interests in education include leadership development, curriculum, teaching innovation and design, and continuing education. He has published over 300 research articles, chapters and abstracts and served as major professor for 36 graduate students.