Board Of Directors

Corinna E. Lathan, Ph.D. | Board Chair

Dr. Lathan is Founder and former CEO of AnthroTronix, Inc., a biomedical engineering research and development company. Her work on technology for children with disabilities has been featured in Forbes, Time, and the New Yorker magazines as well as led to such distinctions as Maryland's "Top Innovator of the Year," and one of MIT Technology Review Magazine's "Top 100 World Innovators.” She has also been named a Technology Pioneer and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Dr. Lathan is actively involved in educational outreach programs that empower women and minorities in engineering and science including the FIRST and VEX robotics programs. Dr. Lathan received her B.A. from Swarthmore College, and an S.M. in Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from MIT.

Eric Nodiff, J.D. | Secretary
Eric recently retired as General Counsel of Cantel Medical Corp. (NYSE: CMD), a global medical device company focused on infection prevention, where he worked since January 2005. He also served as Executive Vice President and as a member of Cantel’s Office of the Chairman and Executive Leadership Team. Eric specializes in M&A, securities law, employment matters and general corporate matters. In addition to having oversight responsibility for all of Cantel’s global legal matters, Eric provided in-person global training to Cantel employees on the FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) and other anti-corruption laws. Since his retirement in July 2019, Eric has served as an M&A consultant for Cantel.

Eric founded and serves as the President of The Giving Circle of Lower Westchester, a community-based nonprofit that raises contributions from its 50+ members and donates 100% of the proceeds to local front-line hunger relief organizations. In 2019, the Giving Circle raised and donated over $70,000 to food pantries and soup kitchens in Westchester County.

Catherine Peck, CPA | Treasurer

Cathy, a founding board member of Engineering World Health, has served EWH in various capacities from Treasurer to President. She brings more than 25 years of business and accounting experience to EWH as well as extensive non-profit service—both professionally and as a volunteer. Cathy served the Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis as board member and Finance Committee Chair. Formerly employed by Perry-Smith & Co and by Coopers & Lybrand (PricewaterhouseCoopers) she is now a non-profit consultant/controller with MBS Accountancy and an accounting professor at Fresno Pacific University.

Mark Goldman, M.B.A.

Mark Goldman has worked with Philips Healthcare for over a decade and currently serves as the Global Sleep Services Lead. In this capacity, Mark is responsible for designing and delivering new sleep services to the market, including the launch of the new-to-market Obstructive sleep apnea solution. Prior to his work with Philips, Mark led strategic planning and provided product expertise with Boston Scientific, where he drove the introduction of a new approach for managing esophageal cancer via self-expanding stents. He has been selected for Philips High Potential HP Program and serves as a mentor to select global product managers. Mark earned his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Yale, and holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Barbara Grenell, Ph.D.

Barbara Grenell founded Preferred Health Strategies in 1987, to work with the physician and hospital providers to obtain managed care contracts from the private payers. PHS worked primarily for specialty physician networks, setting them up and negotiating their contracts with the managed care plans. Subsequently, Dr. Grenell and PHS made a strategic decision to provide services to the biotech and medical device industries, focused on reimbursement, product launch, product positioning and market strategies.

Dr.Grenell received her Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University, and her BA in Sociology from Queens College in New York.

Bilikis Oladimeji MD, MMCi

Dr. Oladimeji serves as Senior Director Clinical Informatics & Innovation at the Center for Advanced Clinical Solutions, Optum Health. She is an avid believer in the power of curiosity, continuous learning, teamwork, and a growth mindset necessary for developing individuals and systems. Her three ‘things’ are education, health, and equity. Dr. Oladimeji is a physician and health care informatics professional with experience in clinical medicine, clinical research, pharmacogenomics, and pharmaceutical and life sciences. Her current role at Optum focuses on developing solutions with clinical care teams such as Clinical Decision Support (CDS) tools using a user-centered design approach, with the goal of Quadruple Aim in health care. She also works to advance efforts to improve maternal health equity, STEM and the health workforce through executive sponsorship roles, workgroups, and volunteering. She obtained her medical degree (MBBS equiv of US MD) from the University of Lagos and her Master of Management in Clinical Informatics degree from Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.

Glen Rabito

Glen Rabito has a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering University and a Masters in Engineering Management from Duke University. He is currently the Director of Engineering and Operations for an early stage medical device Incubator, NXT Biomedical, located in Irvine, CA where their mission is to incubate unique, proprietary, and impactful medical device innovation in a cost and time efficient manner. His responsibilities include business strategy and creation of new medical device therapies, managing the project selection process, fundraising and general operations. Prior to joining NXT, he held a variety of leadership roles at Edwards Lifesciences and CardiAQ Valve Technologies developing new transcatheter valvular repair and replacement therapies.

Eric Nodiff, J.D.
Eric recently retired as General Counsel of Cantel Medical Corp. (NYSE: CMD), a global medical device company focused on infection prevention, where he worked since January 2005. He also served as Executive Vice President and as a member of Cantel’s Office of the Chairman and Executive Leadership Team. Eric specializes in M&A, securities law, employment matters and general corporate matters. In addition to having oversight responsibility for all of Cantel’s global legal matters, Eric provided in-person global training to Cantel employees on the FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) and other anti-corruption laws. Since his retirement in July 2019, Eric has served as an M&A consultant for Cantel.

Eric founded and serves as the President of The Giving Circle of Lower Westchester, a community-based nonprofit that raises contributions from its 50+ members and donates 100% of the proceeds to local front-line hunger relief organizations. In 2019, the Giving Circle raised and donated over $70,000 to food pantries and soup kitchens in Westchester County.

Michael R. Tracey, Ph.D. 

Michael Tracey is currently Vice President R&D, Ethicon Wound Closure & Repair Platform, and has been with Johnson & Johnson since 2000. He leads end-to-end Wound Closure R&D, and is responsible for the R&D Medical Textile Center in Norderstedt, Germany and the Somerville Advanced Evaluation Laboratories. Mike collaborates closely with internal partners and external networks to advance new product development innovation globally.

Mike has over 20 years of Medical Device experience along with a big passion for insight-driven innovation and excellence in execution. Most recently, Mike served as Vice President of R&D for the Codman Specialty Surgicial division of Integra LifeSciences. In this role, Mike was responsible for development and innovation across many neurosurgery medical device platforms.

Mike has a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Lafayette College. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Program for Leadership and Development, and volunteers for American Corporate Partners. 

A co-founder of EWH, Bob is now Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, North Carolina. Bob also directs the EWH-Duke Summer Institute Program. Previously, Dr. Malkin was the Herbert Herff Professor of Biomedical Engineering at The Joint Biomedical Program at the University of Memphis, Tennessee and The University of Tennessee. Before moving to Tennessee, Dr. Malkin was a professor of Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York and a member of the graduate faculty at The City University of New York and a research associate at Columbia University. Dr. Malkin received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Duke University in 1991 and 1993, respectively. Prior to attending graduate school, Dr. Malkin taught English in Thailand, worked at EM Microelectronics in Switzerland designing integrated circuits, worked for Cordis Corporation designing pacemakers and worked for Sarns Incorporated designing heart lung machines. Dr Malkin received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Michigan in 1984. Dr. Malkin is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Malkin serves as an expert advisor to the World Health Organization’s Advisory Group on Healthcare Technology, Advisory Group on Innovative Technologies and serves on the World Health Organization’s subcommittee on medical equipment donations.