Pumps & Pipes Directors
Alan Lumsden, MD
Director
Pumps & Pipes Co-founder
Professor & Chairman, Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital
Rustom Mody, MS
Director
Vice President Technology, Chief Engineer, Baker Hughes
Ioannis Kakadiaris, PhD
Director
Director, Computational Biomedicine Lab
Professor, University of Houston
Mark S. Geyer
Director
Director, Johnson Space Center, NASA
Stephen R. Igo
Executive Director
Director Entrepreneurial Institute, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital
Nicole Pardo, MD
Associate Director
Founder, IntechHealth LLC
Adjunct Assistant Professor, TX A&M School of Public Health
Mark Sangster
Associate Director
President, Tidal Ark Technologies
Bill Kline, PhD
Director Emeritus
Pumps & Pipes Co-founder
Manager, Drilling & Subsurface, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company (Retired)
Laura Gerik, MS
Newsletter Editor
Editor, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
DeBakey Institute for Cardiovascular Education & Training
Pumps & Pipes Advisory Board
William Cohn, MD
Medicine
Vice President, Medical Devices, Johnson & Johnson
Director, Center for Device Innovation, Texas Medical Center
Denis DeBakey
Community
Principal, DeBakey Financial Resources
Matthew Franchek, PhD
Academics
Director, Subsea Engineering Program, University of Houston
Jane Grande-Allen, PhD
Academics
Chair, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University
Michael Hess
Aerospace
Associate Director of Engineering, NASA Johnson Space Center
David Horsup, PhD
Energy
Vice President; Research, Development & Engineering; Global Oilfield operations
Bob Mitchell
Community
President, Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership
Scott Parazynski, MD
Aerospace
CEO, Fluidity Technologies
Co-Founder and Chief Explorer, Blue Marble Exploration
Frank Perez
Community
Chairman & CEO, Sfile Technology Corporation
Advisory Board Member, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital