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President and Sr. Fellow, AIIMSEI.org;Founding Editor-in-Chief, Bioengineering MDPI;TEES Collaborator, Texas A&M University;Prof. Dr. Anthony (Tony) Guiseppi-Elie is an international medical sciences, engineering, and innovation consultant at the American International Institute of Medical Sciences, Engineering and Innovation, an academic consultancy and think tank focused on convergence in education. He has 15 years of experience in industrial research and product development, at large and startup companies, and 18 years of experience as a tenured, titled, and endowed full professor, department head, associate dean, dean, and vice president at universities that include Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Clemson University (Clemson), Texas A&M University (TAMU), and Anderson University (AU). His appointments have been in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering. At TAMU he held the TEES Research Professorship in Engineering and served as the founding associate dean of engineering innovation in the college of engineering where he co-founded the convergent School of Engineering-Medicine. At AU founded a unique, industry-supported, convergent liberal-arts engineering curriculum. A US citizen who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, he holds the Sc.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT, the M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester (UMIST), and the B.Sc. (First Class Honors) in Applied, Analytical, and Biochemistry from the University of the West Indies (UWI). He has published over 225 peer-reviewed journal articles, holds 8 patents, and is a fellow of IEEE, AIMBE, BMES, The RSC and The RSM. His research interests are in physiological status monitoring during hemorrhagic trauma and allotransplantation, polymeric nanobiomaterials in drug delivery and tissue regeneration, and fully integrated microanalytical systems in the service of human health and medicine. (GS09.2024|h-index=52|>10,000 citations).

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