Our chapter has hosted some excellent speakers who have educated and challenged us!
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Ben Fleishman
Student Programs Manager
Engineering World Health
Ben Fleishman currently serves as the student programs manager, and has previously worked as the Summer Institute Coordinator at the Engineering World Health headquarters in Durham, NC. He oversees the organization, execution and expansion of all student programs for EWH with focus on needs of low resource health care delivery. He currently advises R&D teams developing appropriate technology for hospitals in low resource settings, and helps assist in medical device repair. Mr. Fleishman has previously managed biomedical engineering study abroad programs in Tanzania and Nicaragua, and developed a new program for Rwanda with focus on technological innovation and translation.
Gordon Cressman
Senior Director of ICT Program
RTI International
Gordon Cressman is the senior director of International Information and Communication Technologies Program and has helped organizations in more than 30 countries to use ICT effectively through sustainable strategies sensitive to local context. He leads an experienced team of international ICT experts working in health, education, and governance. His team is engaged in in helping other countries to develop and deploy innovative ICT solutions to development challenges. Examples include strengthening national health information systems in Tanzania and Zimbabwe, strengthening disease surveillance in Guinea, rapidly detecting and reacting to new cases of malaria to help eliminate the disease in Zanzibar, and improving patient referrals to reduce maternal and infant mortality in Indonesia.
Matthew R. Glucksberg, Ph.D
Biomedical Engineering Department
Northwestern University
Matt Glucksberg is the Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health Technologies at Northwestern University. The CIGHT team works with health professionals in Africa to build medical devices for the developing world, mostly related to point-of-care diagnostics and neonatal and infant care. Ultimately, CIGHT seeks not to merely develop technologies, but to market comprehensive, context-appropriate healthcare solutions that integrate seamlessly with the lives of patients and medical practitioners in the developing world.