Nate Gooch, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, UT, US

o Led EU REACH material remediation efforts across 65 finished goods impacting all 3 business units with a combined revenue of $1.2Bo Led and coordinated resolution of historical gaps in test methods and test method validationso Directed 4 design CAPAs impacting product performance, customer satisfaction, and production scrapo Managed direct reports.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

o Led and managed project teams to successful completion of 8 NPI projects – primarily hemodialysis catheterso Led and participated in multiple BioDesign groups focused on identifying and vetting new big ideas in the treatment of ESRD yielding many patents including 6 of my own and supporting colleagues in the generation of many otherso Created and managed.

o Led several dialysis franchise projects as the project manager and primary technical engineero Successfully developed 3 direct reports through their desired career development goalso Coordinated design controls including functional and design requirements, performing verification, and validation activities

o In coordination with research derived from my graduate studies, I lead the development of 2 novel medical devices  Capsule drug ring (CDR) – an anti-VEGF drug delivery device – through the completion of animal studies  Endo-contact lens – a device to be used to protect the fragile endothelium during cataract surgeryo Led and completed the.

I divided my graduate work between two labs. These two labs were overseen by Dr. Vladimir Hlady and Dr. Balamurali Ambati.Dr. Hlady's research is focused on the complex biomaterial surface interactions with human blood and proteins. Protein adsorption to a biomaterial is related to platelet adhesion and activation and has a large impact on the.