Where do our graduates go?

As Western’s Biomedical Engineering graduates take their knowledge to industry, government, hospitals and academia, they will advance the frontiers of biomedical engineering research.


Ultimately, their discoveries will improve human health.

A few of our graduates...

Dr. Karen Gordon received her Ph.D. in 2003. She is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at The University of Guelph. Dr. Gordon completed her post-doctoral studies at The University of Calgary. Her research is in orthopaedic biomechanics, soft tissue mechanics and aetiology of osteoarthritis progression.

Dr. Leonardo E. Millon received his Ph.D. in 2006. He is currently the CEO and CTO of LifeLike BioTissues Inc., a company he founded after winning the OCE Martin Walmsley Fellowship for technical entrepreneurship in 2009. Prior to this, he held an NSERC Industrial Post-Doctoral fellowship at Axcelon Biopolymers Corporation.


Dr. Lauren Wirtzfeld received her Ph.D. in 2008. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Bioacoustics Research Laboratory. Her research is in quantitative ultrasound, which uses the radio-frequency data to make estimates about scattering from sub-resolution structure within the tissue.

Dr. Colin McDonald received his Ph.D. in 2008. He is currently a post-doctoral research associate at the Bone and Joint Center, Henry Ford Hospital in Michigan. His research interests include in-vivo joint mechanics, musculoskeletal imaging, cervical spine biomechanics and upper extremity biomechanics. 




Dr. Adam Waspe received his Ph.D. in 2009. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto within the Imaging Research Discipline at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Dr. Waspe's research focused on the development of a needle positioning robot for image-guided needle interventions in small animals.

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