Associate Professor of the Practice in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, USA
Associate Professor of the Practice in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, USA
Eric Richardson is an Associate Professor of the Practice in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University.
Richardson research and teaching interests focus on medical device design and innovation in global markets. Richardson came to Duke from Rice University in 2018, where he was the Founding Director of the Global Medical Innovation Program, which develops and implements medical technology in emerging markets.
He was also the Associate Director of the Texas Medical Center Biodesign Fellowship, a program that offers venture formation curriculum to create digital health and medical device startups. Prior to Rice, he was a Principal R&D Engineer at Medtronic in California, where he developed transcatheter heart valves that currently serve over 100,000 patients worldwide.
Richardson has several publications, patents and book chapters related to cardiac medical devices, and is involved with several startups.