Primary Job Title Dean, School of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University Primary Organization 
Virginia Commonwealth University
Location Richmond, Virginia, United States Regions East Coast, Southern US Gender Female
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Barbara, a Carticept director since November 2006, is Professor and the Alice T. and William H. Goodwin Chair in Biomedical Engineering and Dean, School of Engineering at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.
In addition, she is an emeritus professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech
and Emory University where she held the Price Gilbert, Jr. Chair in Tissue Engineering from 2002 until 2012. Barbara was a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the College of Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
She was also director of the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Center for Pediatric Healthcare Technology Innovation, the Atlanta Pediatric Device Consortium and Georgia Tech's Translational Research Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Science. Barbara is a past chair of the Orthopaedic Device Panel of the FDA and a past president of the American Association of Dental Research.
She is a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of Mechanical and Biomedical.
Barbara currently serves on the board of ArthroCare, Inc. and holds a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in biology from Rice University.
