'It makes compelling sense to bring engineering, medicine together'
-
- from Shaastra :: vol 01 issue 03 :: May - Jun 2022
![](/sites/default/files/2022-05/Starghill181204_0154r.jpg)
Dr Roderic Pettigrew points to the future of transdisciplinary convergence.
Dr Roderic Pettigrew is the CEO of EnHealth and inaugural Dean of the School of Engineering Medicine, which offers a unique educational programme, EnMed, launched by Texas A&M University in collaboration with Houston Methodist to integrate engineering into all health-related disciplines. Pettigrew was founding director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, at the National Institutes of Health, U.S. A PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1977), Pettigrew has done pioneering work in developing cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging. Physicist, physician and engineer, Pettigrew is a fellow of many prestigious academies of science, medicine and engineering in the U.S. He is also a foreign fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, India. He promoted Stanford-India Biodesign during its creation in 2007, a collaborative effort between Stanford University, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, to identify and train first-generation innovation leaders to help India's nascent medtech industry. Excerpts from an interview:
PAST ISSUES - Free to Read
![share-alt-square](/sites/default/files/print_issues/Issue-Vol-01-Issue-04-Cover-For-Web.jpg)
![share-alt-square](/sites/default/files/print_issues/CoverImage_1.png)
Have a
story idea?
Tell us.
Do you have a recent research paper or an idea for a science/technology-themed article that you'd like to tell us about?
GET IN TOUCH