David C. Mulligan is Professor of Surgery at Yale Medical School and Chief of Transplant Surgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is an abdominal organ transplant surgeon performing both living and deceased donor liver, kidney, and pancreas transplants. He built a multi-organ transplant program and established a heart and pediatric liver program at Mayo Clinic and Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Arizona. Dr. Mulligan and his team are testing novel strategies in immunosuppression, improved biomechanical organ preservation methods to reduce injury and promote regeneration, and work in 3D bioprinting to discover ways to grow organs from stem cell precursors. He has performed more than 200 living donor transplants and is the president of the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS). He is a graduate of the University of Louisville School of Medicine and Baylor University.

Erika Fellinger is a surgeon with Cambridge Health Alliance at Whidden Memorial Hospital in Everett, Massachusetts. She studied at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and is an Instructor in Surgery for Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fellinger received a fellowship in minimally invasive surgery. She also served in the Peace Corps in Benin, West Africa. She enjoys speaking to would-be medical students about why she decided to become a surgeon.

Daniel H. Kosoy, M.D., is a General, Vascular Access and Transplant Surgeon at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego He served as a Partner at Athenian Venture Partners for nearly 20 years. Dr. Kosoy provides expertise in the areas of information systems for the healthcare industry, proprietary pharmaceuticals, wound care and wound healing, tissue engineering, medical devices, biopharmaceuticals, and cancer therapies. He has years of experience in the venture capital industry, focusing on the life sciences including biotechnology, bio and specialty pharmaceuticals, medical devices, device-drug combination products, and diagnostics. Dr. Kosoy has worked with transplant teams at several hospitals in Canada and California and is a former Clinical Instructor at the University of San Diego. He serves on the Boards of Directors of a number of biotechnology companies.

Guillermo Ameer is the Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Surgery in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the McCormick School of Engineering and the Department of Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. He is the founding director of the Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering (CARE). Dr. Ameer received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and his doctoral degree in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering from MIT. Dr. Ameer’s laboratory pioneered the development and medical applications of citrate-based biomaterials. In 2018, his team developed a regenerative bandage designed to heal diabetic foot ulcers. Dr. Ameer is also a co-founder of several medical device companies.

Kenneth Wilson is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Chicago and has more than a decade of experience as a trauma, acute care and critical care surgeon for both adult and pediatric patients. He treats all related conditions, including giant ventral hernias, a condition that can occur after abdominal trauma and requires an extremely complex surgical approach. Dr. Wilson has a long history as a military surgeon and is currently a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves. An active researcher, Dr. Wilson has been widely published on topics including military trauma and trauma surgical outcomes. He is interested in the association between race and socioeconomic status on trauma-related health outcomes. He earned his medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine.

Ellen Roche is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Medical Engineering Science at MIT. She is also the W.M. Keck Career Development Professor for Biomedical Engineering at MIT. Dr. Roche’s research has focused on new approaches to cardiac device design. Her lab has strong collaborations with surgeons and interventionists from local hospitals who provide input into the device design process. She earned her Ph.D. at Harvard University in the Harvard Biodesign Lab after working in the medical device industry for several years. Dr. Roche has 10 patent applications and over 40 conference/journal papers. She is the recipient of multiple awards including the Fulbright International Science and Technology Award, the Wellcome Trust Seed Award in Science and an American Heart Association Predoctoral Award.

Jeffrey Karp heads up the Karp Lab at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. The Karp Lab’s objective is to create advanced biomaterials and devices for therapeutics through a highly multidisciplinary approach. Dr. Karp is a leading researcher in the fields of drug delivery, medical devices, stem cell therapeutics, and tissue adhesives. He is also professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Principal Faculty at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and an affiliate faculty member at the Broad Institute and at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (where he teaches MIT-Sloan business school students). The Boston Business Journal recognized him as a Champion in Healthcare Innovation and MIT’s Technology Review Magazine (TR35) also recognized Dr. Karp as being one of the top innovators in the world (3 members from his laboratory have subsequently received this award).

Glenn R. Gaudette is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Inaugural Chair of Boston College’s new Engineering Department, set to open the fall of 2021. His research, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, aims to develop a treatment for the millions of Americans suffering from myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular diseases. He has pioneered the use of plants as scaffold for heart regeneration. His work has been featured throughout the world including the BBC, Popular Science, The Washington Post and Fox National News. His work was named one of the top medical breakthroughs of the year by Boston Magazine in 2017. Dr. Gaudette also teaches biomedical engineering design and innovation, biomechanics and physiology. He promotes the development of the entrepreneurial mindset in his students through support provided by the Kern Family Foundation.

Michelle Sergel is an emergency medicine physician at John H. Stroger of Cook County Hospital in Chicago. She serves as the Co-Executive Director of the Rush Center for Clinical Skills and Simulation, which she developed and created. Since 2006, she has run the Cook County Hospital Simulation Center since 2006. Dr. Sergel is the Fellowship Director for the Cook County Hospital and Rush Medical University Simulation Fellowships. The last decade of her career has focused on developing simulation curricula for the various medical disciples and teaching attendings, residents, and students. Dr. Sergel created and teaches simulation-based Emergency Medicine Bootcamp courses across the country.