Primary Job Title Vice President, Engineering Primary Organization 
CAPNIA
Location Palo Alto, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Scott Gilbert is the Vice President, Engineering at Capnia.
Scott Gilbert has specialized in the design and development of medical devices and drug delivery systems for more than 25 years.
Prior to joining Capnia, he spent ten years in a variety of roles at ALZA Corporation, including Director of Product Engineering in the Implant Group,
Director of Technology Assessment and Director of Advanced Drug Delivery. During his tenure at ALZA, Scott contributed to the DUROS Viadur product launch, evaluated dozens of drug delivery technologies worldwide, and directed research and development of new drug delivery systems, including novel oral gastric retention products and CO2-driven autoinjectors.
Prior to ALZA, Scott was a Co - Founder & Vice-President of Accumetrics, a start-up company that developed a point-of-care platelet function assay for the bedside analysis of anti-thrombotic agents.
He was Director of Engineering at GVO, Inc., a well-known product design consulting firm working with Fortune 500 companies to innovate and design new products.
He holds ten patents to date with another twelve patents pending, all in medical devices or drug delivery technologies.
Mr. Gilbert has a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from San Jose State University.
