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Dr. Linda S. Gravett

Dr. Linda S. Gravett is an organizational development consultant who has partnered with organizations such as CFM Publishing, Hills Communities, and Toyota over the past 19 years, helping them leverage their resources to ensure success through periods of growth and change.  She is founder and senior partner of Gravett and Associates, an international management consulting firm headquartered in Cincinnati. She is also President and CEO of Just the Basics, Inc., a Northern Kentucky consulting firm, and co-founder of bridgingthegenerationgap.com. 

Dr. Gravett is the author...Read more

Barry J. Schindler, Esq.

Barry is Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig LLP's Patent Prosecution Group and a shareholder in the Intellectual Property & Technology Department. Barry has more than twenty years of legal experience in all aspects of intellectual property law, including multidisciplinary litigation experience. He has helped companies of all sizes build and manage significant patent portfolios, develop in-house procedures, and formulate intellectual property strategies. He positions clients to gain a competitive advantage by identifying patentable subject matter and drafting claims in such a way that...Read more

Ali Khademhosseini

Ali Khademhosseini is the Chief Executive Officer and Founding Director at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation. Formerly, he was Levi Knight Professor of Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, and Radiology at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). He was the Founding Director of the Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics at UCLA. 

He joined UCLA starting from Nov. 2017 from Harvard University where he was a Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and faculty at the Harvard-MIT’s Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Brigham and Women’s...Read more

Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar, Ph.D.

Bio as of 2011:

Mary Lou earned a B.S. in chemistry in 1987 and began professional life with 7 years of teaching secondary school in the U.S. and U.K.  Subsequently, she studied environmental science (M.S.) and nuclear engineering (Ph.D.) at Penn State University (and Argonne National Laboratory – West), USA.  From 2004 to present, Mary Lou has been 

Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Idaho State University (ISU) with joint appointment as a researcher at the Idaho National Laboratory. 

Mary Lou has advised/performed research in...Read more

Robert F. Anderson

Robert Anderson  is a chemical engineering graduate of IIT who later earned a Master of Management degree from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. After a 37 year industrial career with UOP LLC where he served as managing director of several European subsidiaries, vice president of quality and productivity, and vice president of marketing, he joined IIT nine years ago to provide an industrial context to the university's technology commercialization initiative. In that capacity he works with students and faculty in entrepreneurship, with companies...Read more

John L. Anderson

John L. Anderson is the president of the National Academy of Engineering. He previously served as president of the Illinois Institute of Technology, provost and executive vice president at Case Western Reserve University, and dean of engineering and chair of chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.Read more

Dr. Trevor Kletz

After graduating in chemistry at Liverpool University, UK in 1944, Trevor Kletz joined Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) and spent eight years in research, sixteen in production management and the last fourteen as process safety adviser to the Petrochemicals Division.  In 1978 he was appointed an Industrial (part-time) Professor at Loughborough University, UK. On retiring from ICI in 1982, he joined the University full-time; in 1986 he became a visiting fellow and is now a visiting professor. He is also an adjunct professor at the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A...Read more

Dr. J. Bradley Garner

Brad Garner currently serves as the Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning at Indiana Wesleyan University.  He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Akron and his doctorate from Kent State University.  Prior to moving into higher education, Brad’s career was focused on program and faculty development in K-12 public school settings where he worked as a classroom teacher, school psychologist, and administrator.
 
Brad is the coauthor of two books that focus on employment and people with disabilities.  His first book, 'Getting...Read more

Aubry Shackelford, P.E., P.Eng.

Aubry Shackelford is Principal Engineer for Inglenook Engineering, Inc. and a licensed engineer in the state of Texas and province of Alberta. He participates in the API Subcommittee for Pressure Relieving Systems, and is responsible for a good deal of the updates to Appendix B of the API RP 520 Part 1 8th Edition. He has a BS in chemical engineering from Northeastern University and is a senior member of AIChE.Read more

Dr. Ben Yerxa

Ben Yerxa, PhD is the Executive Vice President & Chief of R&D at Inspire Pharmaceuticals, where he joined as a medicinal chemist during start up in 1995.  He created a unique opportunity for the company to apply its core technology in the field of ophthalmology and is an inventor on more than 50 US patents.  He serves on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and Sharefish, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.

Dr. Yerxa is the recipient of the Southeastern Region American Chemical...Read more

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