Marie Johnson, Ph.D. [Image from LinkedIn]
Marie Johnson, Ph.D.
President and CEO of AUM Cardiovascular, Inc.
Marie Johnson has been the president and CEO of AUM Cardiovascular since 2009.
In addition to being the founder of AUM Cardiovascular, Johnson is an adjunct professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Minnesota. She was also the director of the medical devices center fellows program from 2008 to 2011. Johnson was a biodesign fellow at Stanford University for a year after being a lecturer for a year at the University of Minnesota. She also held two roles at General Motors. Johnson was the supervisor of quality and building maintenance and held a variety of roles in the engineering department.
Johnson attended Kettering University where she received her bachelor degree in mechanical engineering. She also attending the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities where she received her master and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering. She did postdoctoral research with 3M Littmann at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and also did postdoctoral research on hemodynamics and arterial elasticity at Politecnico di Torino in Turin, Italy. Her most recent postdoctoral research was in biodesign with Stanford University.
How are these women chosen? What is criteria?
Hi Ebony,
These picks were the result of internal discussions among editors at MDO and MassDevice. Danielle polled some of us on which women medical device executives we’ve been most impressed with over the years, as well as executives who have had an impact at our DeviceTalks conferences. It was definitely our first crack at something like this. Think it would help if we put something more formal together in coming years? (i.e. a nomination process, etc.).
Thanks for reaching out.
Best,
Chris
Hi there – I believe it would be great if you had a nomination process. Truly.