Kevin Fu

Kevin Fu is credited for establishing the field of medical device security beginning with the 2008 IEEE paper on defibrillator security.

Kevin is a former MIT Technology Review TR35 Innovator of the Year and Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and IEEE. He has testified in the House and Senate on matters of information and medical device security and has written commissioned work on trustworthy medical device software for the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. He was a member of NIST Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board, the CRA Computing Community Consortium Council, and the ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy. He received the Dr. Dwight E. Harken Memorial Lecturer Award from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) for his leadership on medical device security standardization.

Jenny Amos

Jenny Amos, Ph.D., earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from Texas Tech University in 2004, followed by a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with a concentration in Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of South Carolina in 2008. She currently serves as a Teaching Professor and Laura Hahn Faculty Fellow in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Amos’s research focuses on engineering education, emphasizing curriculum design, program assessment, and strategies to enhance student learning through evidence-based and inclusive pedagogical practices. She also advances interdisciplinary initiatives that integrate engineering methodologies into medical education, fostering the development of professionals at the intersection of healthcare innovation and technology.

Wayne Burleson

Professor in VLSI Circuits and Systems who specializes in industry-focused research and development in digital and mixed-signal CMOS, emphasizing low-power and hardware security. He is recognized for leading federally funded Exascale computing research at AMD Research which led to the El Capitan and Frontier supercomputers at Livermore and Oak Ridge National Labs. He also managed technology transfer from the AMD research group into advanced CPU and GPU products. Burleson has developed and taught novel courses in VLSI and Security Engineering as well as publishing over 200 papers in these fields. He has graduated 22 PhD students and 40 MS students in his 35 year career at UMass. Burleson is an IEEE Fellow and recipient of the UMass Amherst Chancellor’s Medal and the ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation. He has degrees from MIT and the University of Colorado Boulder.

Dr. Julian Goldman, MD

Julian M. Goldman, M.D. is an anesthesiologist affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he serves as an Instructor in Anesthesia and Medical Director of Biomedical Engineering at Mass General Brigham. He earned his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 1985 and completed his anesthesiology residency and a research fellowship in medical device informatics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Board-certified in both Anesthesiology and Clinical Informatics, he has built a distinguished career spanning clinical innovation, biomedical engineering, and leadership in device interoperability research.

Michelle Jump

Jack Kufahl is the Chief Information Security Officer for Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan, one of the nation’s top academic medical centers that brings together world-class experts from research, patient care, and education to make groundbreaking discoveries that create life-changing medicine. 

He has over 20 years of experience in information technology, primarily in leadership roles. He is one of the incorporating officers of the Michigan Healthcare Cybersecurity Council and is a current board member. The MiHCC is a public-private partnership in the State of Michigan and the healthcare industry supporting the citizens, patients, workforce , and students of Michigan. MiHCC seeks to protect the critical healthcare infrastructure and institutions of Michigan by providing relevant knowledge, meaningful relationships, and information security services to the partnering individuals, agencies, organizations , and vendors. Jack is also a graduate of the esteemed FBI CISO Academy and has completed the Masters of Legal Studies program with a concentration in compliance law at Washington University in St Louis. 

As the Chief Information Security Officer, he is currently responsible for planning, developing, implementing, and maintaining the Michigan Medicine information assurance program. He directs all information assurance activities across the academic medical center to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic information resources critical to the tripartite mission of patient care, research, and education at Michigan Medicine.  

Joern Lubadel

Joern Lubadel is an experienced professional in healthcare IT and Product IT Security, with over 25 years of working across medical technology and regulatory environments. As Global Head of Product Security at B. Braun, he supports security by design throughout the product lifecycle—helping teams build safe, compliant, and scalable solutions.

He focuses on translating current cybersecurity concerns and technical risks into practical regulatory and engineering strategies. With a strong technical foundation and a belief in mature processes and frameworks, Joern helps align development practices with global expectations. He contributes to international working groups and standards bodies, including ISO, DIN, and contribute his time to industry associations like MedTech Europe, APACMed, and others.  

Joern believes that security should enable innovation, not hinder it. His leadership is rooted in Digital Trust—the idea that secure, transparent, and well-aligned processes build confidence across teams and stakeholders. By fostering collaboration and continuous learning, he encourages a culture where security becomes a shared responsibility and a foundation for progress in healthcare

Prof. Erika Petersen, MD

Erika Petersen, MD, FAANS, FACS, is a Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where she directs the Section of Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery and serves as program director for the neurosurgery residency. A board-certified neurosurgeon, her clinical practice and research focus on neuromodulation for movement disorders, spasticity, and chronic pain, with particular interest in developing new devices, indications, and methods for treatment. She collaborates across specialties to advance applications of deep brain stimulation and neuromodulation, and also studies the privacy and cybersecurity of implanted devices, diversity and inclusion in surgery, and the use of virtual reality in neuroscience. Dr. Petersen earned her undergraduate degree from Princeton University, her medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, completed neurosurgery residency at the University of Texas Southwestern, and a fellowship in deep brain stimulation at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. She holds leadership roles in national neurosurgical and pain societies, serves on multiple editorial boards, and is a frequent lecturer at national and international meetings.