Viator named Duquesne University biomedical engineering chief

Duquesne University has appointed Dr. John A. Viator as director of the new Biomedical Engineering Program.

Viator will lead a program that is going to have its first students in the fall of 2014. He is associate professor in bioengineering and dermatology at the University of Missouri and has also worked at the University of California, Irvine, and the Office of Naval Research, among others. He was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve.

?We are very pleased to have secured the commitment of someone of Dr. Viator?s caliber to lead our new Biomedical Engineering Program,? Duquesne President Dr. Charles J. Dougherty said in a prepared statement. ?He is an accomplished scholar and designer of innovative medical devices. Viator will help us build a faculty committed to quality undergraduate teaching. We also expect him to play an important role in applying our Catholic and Spiritan mission to this emerging new world of biomedical engineering.?

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