Location Redwood City, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Female
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Prior to Biodesign Kate spent five years as a development engineer and project leader at Pathway Medical Technologies (Seattle, WA), a medical device company that designs and manufactures the JETSTREAM(tm) family of atherectomy devices. While at Pathway Medical Kate supported more than six 510(k) submissions and acted as the engineering lead on the
design verification and validation phases of three projects including two commercially available products. Kate is named as an inventor on the patent for the second-generation technology utilized in all current products in the JETSTREAM(tm) family.
While at Pathway Kate developed several bench-top test models, including a simulated thrombus model, used to substantiate the safety and efficacy of the JETSTREAM(tm) System. Kate has traveled to national and international clinical sites and assisted with a GLP animal study. One of Kate's last projects involved leading a 15-person multi-disciplinary project team to bring a new product from concept to commercial use and to develop a simulated bench model of a layered arterial wall.
Prior to Pathway Medical, Kate completed her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering as part of the inaugural class at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (Needham, MA). As a senior capstone project at Olin College Kate worked with a team of engineers to develop a point-of-care diagnostic device for tuberculosis. Her team's success in creating a working prototype led to the award of a grant by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance.
Kate is passionate about sports and spends her free time running and playing soccer, flag football and volleyball.
