What is innovation and why is it important to teach in an engineering program? Innovation has been defined as increasing value, which is increasing the benefits to cost ratio. Because innovation can be an ambiguous concept, it is important to develop a framework to guide the process. Since 2006, Dr. DiMeo has been coaching, consulting, and training processes of innovation, design thinking, and entrepreneurship for medical device innovation and healthcare impact.

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Dr. Andrew DiMeo is a health innovator, biomedical engineer, design philosopher, and social entrepreneur. He began his career in New York, working on movies and TV shows, most notably The Sopranos. He has a BS in Physics and PhD in Biomedical Engineering and has spent most of his career teaching and practicing health innovation. In this episode of Biomedical Frontiers, we dive into Dr. DiMeo’s time teaching biomedical entrepreneurship at UNC and NC State, the teaching methodology and the philosophy for creating successful translational research classes, a new framework to help organizations innovate, and the future of STEM careers and education.

Dr. DiMeo has served as a Team Lead in NIH Programs, including RADx, ITAP, Blueprint MedTech, HIV Point of Care Testing, and C3i. He was previously a Professor of the Practice at UNC & NC State for 12 years where his students started multiple startups including 410 Medical, Contour Surgical, Augment Medical, Novocor Medical Systems, and MEDIC. He was co-founder of Gilero, founder of the NC Medical Device Trade Organization, and founder of CanvasGT, a SaaS startup acquired by Greenlight Guru. Today, you can find him mentoring the next generation of social entrepreneurs, working on his new venture, Hangar Dreys - a co-working concept in Raleigh, NC focused on addressing the loneliness epidemic.

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Director & Host: Dasha Tyshlek, StratCraft, Inc. www.strat-craft.com

Executive Producer: David Chen, Managing Director & Instructor of Engineering Design, UVA

Senior Producer: Hannah Moore, Associate Director, UVA Coulter

Design Director: Carolyn Wagner, Inc. & Link: carolynwagnerinc.com

Produced on behalf of Wallace H. Coulter Center for Translational Research at University of Virginia https://engineering.virginia.edu/centers-institutes/coulter-center-translational-research