Kathleen M. Schmainda, Ph.D., MSEE, BSE, Founding Board Member, earned a BSE in biomedical engineering from Marquette University, her MSEE in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her Ph.D. in medical engineering from Harvard University/Massachusetts Institute, and her PhDEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She completed her postdoctoral training in MRI at Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital NMR Center. She serves as Professor of Biophysics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Schmainda’s research seeks to advance MRI technologies to improve the diagnosis, monitoring, and development of new treatments for brain and other cancers. She is an internationally invited speaker on topics including software development, clinical trials, preclinical models, and tissue banking, and has served on numerous National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant review panels as well as several national advisory boards for clinical trials. She has also given invited legislative testimony at the state and federal level. Dr. Schmainda serves as a faculty mentor for medical student pro-life groups and a member of the Milwaukee Archdiocesan Healthcare and Bioethics Committee. She is a board member of Prism Clinical Imaging and Petawa Women’s Cultural Center. Dr. Schmainda also co-founded two high tech start-up companies both of which have produced FDA-cleared medical imaging software products used worldwide.
Kathleen Schmainda, Ph.D., MSEE, BSE
