Barbara D. Boyan PhD

Dr. Barbara Boyan is Professor and the William H. and Alice T. GoodwinChair in Biomedical Engineering and Dean, School of Engineering at theVirginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. In addition, she isprofessor emerita in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.Dr. Boyan directs the Virginia branch of the FDA-sponsored Atlantic Pediatric Device Consortium.

She is a Fellow in the American Associationfor the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and in the American Instituteof Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering (AIMBE) and in 2012 she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and was inducted into the Fellows of the World Congress of Biomaterials. She was appointed to the National Materials Advisory Board of the National Research Council of the National Academies and chaired their Roundtable on Biomedical Engineering Materials and Applications from 2008 to 2011. She has founded a number of biomedical technology companies and currently serves on the Boards of both public and private companies. The author of more than 430 peer-reviewed papers, reviews, and book chapters, Dr. Boyan holds 16 U.S. patents.