Christopher A. Carruthers Email & Phone Number

Winston-Salem, NC, US

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Interpret surgeons’ needs in operating rooms to guide them in selecting, manipulating, and programming equipment, while taking into account patient specific anatomy and diseases to ensure optimal long-term outcome
• Educate surgeons, cardiologists, nurses, and patients on pacemakers, internal cardiac defibrillators, loop records, and home monitoring solutions with in-service education programs and seminars
• Provide support to field clinical investigations including clinical trials and device malfunctions

Pittsburgh, PA

• Created design input specifications for the evaluation of musculoskeletal implants based on industrial partners’ and surgeons’ needs, then performed subsequent mechanical testing to support design verification.
• Designed manufacturing procedures for five biomaterials adhering to GLP regulations with a focus on lot reproducibility, quality assurance, and cost effective methodology

Pittsburgh, PA

• Designed, machined, and programmed a long-term electromechanical in-vitro bioreactor for preconditioning of elastomeric electrospun scaffolds for heart valve repair to fine-tune mechanical properties
• Designed and rapid prototyped a micro-biaxial testing apparatus for imaging and fiber network analysis of a bioscaffold to validate a FEA model that related how microstructure influences macro-mechanics
• Visualized cell-fiber micromechanical interactions in 3D and segmented for quantitative analysis to understand mechanobiology and its relationship to tissue regeneration

Pittsburgh, PA

• Clinical management of 8 different ventricular assist devices including emergency malfunction protocols
• Tested and evaluated end user device interface for multiple medical device clinical trials
• Collected patient specific device performance data for clinical trials

Pittsburgh, PA

• Compared the mechanics of musculoskeletal bioscaffold repair devices for anterior cruciate ligament injury

Baltimore, MA

• Performed experimental verification of a kinematic model to predict the trajectory of a computer integrated needle steering apparatus to achieve intraoperative closed loop trajectory guidance in minimally invasive.

Bioengineering, Biomechanics In Regenerative Medicine

Leadership Experience: - 03/2012-05/2013 Managed a laboratory-industrial collaboration project to evaluate biomaterials for breast.

Biomedical Engineering, Biomechanics

- Certificate of Personnel Management for courses in the Simon School of Business Leadership Experience: - 09/2006-05/2007 Undergraduate.