John Linehan

Consulting Professor
Bioengineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Since 2005, John Linehan is a Consulting Professor of Bioengineering in the Department of Bioengineering and the Biodesign Program. Linehan was Vice President of the Whitaker Foundation from 1998 - 2005. Linehan was responsible for implementing and managing educational grant programs and for creating and organizing a number of unique national programs including the Biomedical Engineering Educational Summit meetings (2000 & 2005) and the Academic Leadership Program for developing young faculty leaders. The Whitaker Foundation, having invested more than $800 million primarily in biomedical engineering education and research in the past 30 years, closed its doors in June 2006.

Prior to joining Whitaker in 1998, Linehan was the Rose Eannelli-Bagozzi professor of biomedical engineering and the founding Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Marquette University in Wisconsin. Until 1998, Linehan was also adjunct professor of physiology and medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is a fellow and past president of the Biomedical Engineering Society and a founding fellow and past president of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. In 2006, Linehan was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.