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NORTH AmERIcAN Newsline
newsMaKers oF THe weeK
sHiKHa P. BarMan
engineers named Fellows of
american institute for Medical
and Biological engineering
he American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineer-
ing recently announced the election of 174 new members of
Tthe AIMBE College of Fellows in recognition of their dis-
tinguished and continuing achievements in medical and biological
engineering.
The cohort of members included at least 16 Indian American
engineers and those of Indian origin. Among the group were Shi-
kha P. Barman of Integral BioSystems LLC;
Shekhar Bhansali of Florida International University; L.
Prasad Dasi of Georgia Institute of Technology; Tithi Dutta Roy
of Smith and Nephew; Sunil Krishnan of the Mayo Clinic Flori-
da; Gargi Maheshwari of Bristol Myers Squibb; Sunitha Nagrath
of the University of Michigan; Lakshmi S. Nair of the University
of Connecticut; Padma Narayan of SAGE Therapeutics; Sumita
Pennathur of the University of California, Santa Barbara; Raja-
gopal Ramesh of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
Center; Padmini Rangamani of the University of California, San
Diego; Raj R. Rao of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville;
Anirban Sen Gupta of Case Western Reserve University; Ramille
Shah of the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Murthy V. Sim-
hambhatla of SetPoint Medical.
Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the high-
est professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biolog-
ical engineer. The College of Fellows is comprised of the top 2
percent of medical and biological engineers. College member-
ship honors those who have made outstanding contributions to
“engineering and medicine research, practice, or education” and
to “the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology,
making major advancements in traditional fields of medical and
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biological engineering, or developing/implementing innovative
approaches to bioengineering education,” the release notes.
and biological engineers including three Nobel Prize laureates;
AIMBE Fellows are among the most distinguished medical
18 Fellows having received the Presidential Medal of Science
and/or Technology and Innovation; and 195 also inducted to the
National Academy of Engineering; 94 inducted to the National
Academy of Medicine; and 43 inducted to the National Academy
of Sciences, the release said.
Established in 1991, AIMBE is a non-profit organization
headquartered in Washington, D.C., representing the most ac-
complished individuals in the fields of medical and biological en-
gineering.
No other organization can bring together academia, industry,
government, and scientific societies to form a highly influential
community advancing medical and biological engineering. AIM-
BE’s mission is to provide leadership and advocacy in medical
and biological engineering for the benefit of society, it said.
JeeT PaTeL
student, 21, dies unexpectedly
at norwich university
A Indian
21-year-old
American student died
unexpectedly on March
28. Jeet Patel, of Wallingford,
Connecticut, was in his junior
year at Norwich University, the
oldest private military college
in the U.S., where he was ma-
joring in criminal justice.
“Our hearts are broken by
the untimely death of our beloved student, Jeet Patel, who died
suddenly and unexpectedly this morning,” Norwich University
president Mark C. Anarumo wrote in a message to the school
community, according to patch.com. “We ask for privacy and re-
spect for our community and for Jeet’s family, as we mourn this
tremendous loss and work to understand the cause. Our deepest
sympathy goes out to Jeet’s family, friends and professors.”
According to Daphne Larkin, director of media and communi-
ty affairs for Norwich, reported myrecordjournal.com, the cause
of Patel’s death is under investigation by the medical examiner’s
office. She noted it did not occur on the college campus.
Patel graduated from Sheehan High School in 2018. Patel was
remembered as a hard worker and model student at Sheehan and
Norwich. “Jeet was a successful thrower on the Track & Field
Team, a great student, an accomplished musician, and a better
person. Condolences to the Patel family from your Titan family,”
Sheehan Athletics wrote in a post on Twitter.
Frank Vanecek, vice president of student affairs at Norwich,
said Patel was highly thought of by the commandant staff, not-
ing that he was going to serve as company commander for Band
Company next year, according to the report.
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