Gilda A. Barabino, PhD

Gilda A. Barabino served as the second President of Olin College of Engineering where she currently holds a faculty appointment as Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering. Prior to Olin, she held faculty and administrative appointments at the City College of New York, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University and Northeastern University. A chemical engineer by training, with broad interests in global health and interdisciplinary research and education, Dr. Barabino prepares future leaders and enables technological advances at the intersection of engineering and medicine. Her seminal research in sickle cell disease and orthopedic engineering informed current technologies and formed the basis for novel therapies.

Dr. Barabino is an elected member of National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She leads on a global stage and is a past board chair and past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She chairs the National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine and the National Academy of Medicine’s Commission on Investment Imperatives for a Healthy Nation. She also serves on a number of advisory boards including those for Pratt Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess – Needham Hospital.

October 17, 2-3pm “Engineering Approaches to Sickle Cell Disease”