BioMedEng Council Elections – March 2023

Professor Rylie Green – Imperial College London

Professor Rylie Green, FIET, received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2008. In 2016, she joined the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London and was appointed as Head of Department in August 2022.   

Prof Green is an excellent broad contributor to the BioMedEng community in many different ways. In her research, Prof Green has developed a range of innovative materials to address the limitations that hinder the development of next-generation bioelectronic devices. Her focus has been in developing electrode technologies that are stretchable and mediate improved electrical charge transfer with the body, including pioneering living bioelectronics.

She has also developed wearable diagnostic devices and drug delivery systems for localised chemotherapy based on her conductive material technologies. This research has initiated collaborations with Galvani Bioelectronics, Cochlear Ltd and the US Department of Defense.  

Prof Green holds editorial roles with APL Bioengineering, Frontiers in Medical Technology, IEEE OAJMB, Advanced Bionanomedicine and Biomaterials. She has received a number of awards including an EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Challenge Award (2018), winner of the Royal Society for Chemistry Emerging Technologies: Materials and Enabling Technologies (2018) and a Suffrage Science Award (2017).

Professor Yalin Zheng – University of Liverpool

My name is Yalin Zheng and I am Professor of AI in Healthcare at the University of Liverpool. I have built an excellent reputation in cross-disciplinary research in medical engineering with substantial translational potential into healthcare locally, nationally and globally. My collaboration with clinicians has made significant impacts on patient care and my recent AI work has led to a new University spin-out.  

It is an honour to be nominated for election of Council representatives. As your representative on the Council, I would aim to ensure that: advances in the BioMedEng fields will be shared, translation of innovations will be facilitated, and engagements with stakeholders will be widened. To deliver upon these aims, I will use my 20 years of experience from academia and industry and devote my energy, expertise and time. I will also endeavour to give you opportunities to inform me of what I can do to improve your experience and that of the BioMedEng community.  

I would be honoured to represent you in the coming years, and to be given the opportunity to help bring the Association into the AI era and beyond.

Professor Donal McNally – University of Nottingham

I bring a very broad experience of biomedical engineering, from analytical modelling of soft tissues to regulation and commercial roll-out of medical devices, and a considerable enthusiasm to use that experience to make a difference though research and education. 

I believe that healthcare technologies are going to be one of the main ways forward for an NHS that is crippled by funding and staff shortages.  To do that we need to develop both technologies and people.  The BioMedEng Association can lead these developments.

I am part of the team developing the new National Rehabilitation Centre where we are seeking to fully integrate education and research with clinical care so that every location and activity, from ward to canteen, offers an opportunity to cultivate future technologies, clinicians, and engineers.  The insights that I will gain from this project will be invaluable in helping the BioMedEng community to shape the healthcare of the future.

Dr Jennifer Martay (nee Boyd) – Anglia Ruskin University  

Hello!  I am Course Leader for Medical Engineering at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and lead ARU’s Biomedical Engineering Research Group.    In 2021, I helped with BioMedEng’s Education Workshop on “The Impact of Covid-19”.  I want to join the BioMedEng Council and contribute to the Education Group.     

My undergraduate degree is in Biomedical Engineering (North Carolina State University [USA]), with research internships at Duke University (USA) and RWTH Aachen (Germany).  My DPhil is in Orthopaedic Engineering from the University of Oxford.    In 2021, I won ARU’s Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Early Career Excellence in Education and was nominated as THE Innovative Teacher of the Year.  In 2022, I won IMechE/IET’s Engineering Education Grant Scheme.   

I am a Senior Fellow within AdvanceHE, External Examiner at University of Ulster and Glasgow International College, and External Panel Member for Manchester Metropolitan University. I am a Professional Engineer (similar to CEng), licensed to practice engineering in the USA. 

Professor Sotiris Korossis – Loughborough University

Prof. Sotiris Korossis holds the Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Biohybrid Organs at Loughborough University. Previously he was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow and Director of Biomedical Engineering at Hannover Medical School. During his career, he has been committed to actively promoting biomedical engineering, particularly focusing on attracting younger generations, especially of underrepresented groups, into the field.  

As a Council member, he will be actively contributing to the day-to-day business of the BioMedEng Association and support the organisation of the conferences and other activities of the Association, further promoting biomedical engineering to the academic community and general public.  

Scientifically, Prof. Korossis will be actively promoting and fostering collaborations and work in the engineering of whole biological and biohybrid organs, as well as in the Replacement, Reduction and Refinement (3Rs) of animal testing by promoting enhanced integration of advanced in vitro and in silico models into tissue engineering and medical device research and development.

Dr Alex Casson – University of Manchester  

My background is in Electronic Engineering, working on hardware and software for wearable devices and brain-computer interfacing, and I am keen to represent this within the BioMedEng Council.  

I have recently reached the end of my term as chair of the IET healthcare technologies network, and would like to continue to serve the Biomedical engineering community in the UK and internationally. From my volunteering background I bring experience running lecture events, award schemes and similar, together with established networks with other professional bodies.  

I have a substantive appointment in the School of Engineering at the University of Manchester, as well as honorary/visiting appointments in the Medical School at the University of Leeds, and the medical physics department at Northern Care Alliance NHS trust. I would like to use these positions to help others, giving support for crossing discipline boundaries and creating innovative biomedical engineering technologies. 

Prof Peter Ogrodnik – Keele University