Inventor's Council of Cincinnati Monthly Meeting August 9, 2005

?Dr. Edward S. Grood, University of Cincinnati?

Edward S. Grood, Ph.D. received his B.S. degree in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Grood joined the University of Cincinnati in 1975 and is currently Director of Undergraduate Studies in a recently formed Department of Biomedical Engineering. He has received numerous awards for his research on knee ligament reconstruction and is a co-recipient, with Dr. Frank Noyes, of this year's Clinical Investigator Award sponsored jointly by the Orthopaedic Research & Education Foundation, The Orthopaedic Research Society and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Dr. Grood has been active within the Bioengineering Division of ASME where he served as Chairman of the Executive Committee and the Honors Committee. He is a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and a former Fulbright Scholar. In the late 1980's Dr. Grood founded a small medical device company, Brace Technologies, which became profitable within 3-years and was sold. His current interests, as Director of Undergraduate Studies, include the creation of a curricular track in Medical Device Innovation and Entrepreneurship and preparing for ABET accreditation.

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