IV HOME LEAKAGE SWELLING TEAM ABOUT
MEET OUR TEAM
Leadership
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Lorenzo Guio, PhD
FOUNDER + CEO
Lorenzo founded IV-Safe for his passion of making the medical system safer for those most at risk to IV failure. He manages all interactions between the clinical team and staff, directs individual projects, and builds strategies for commercialization and fabrication of IV-Safe products.
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Greg Valentine, MD, MEd, FAAP
CO-FOUNDER + CLINICAL LEAD
Gregory is a neonatologist and physician-scientist at UW Medicine. He studies IV failure prevention in low resource settings, including Ethiopia.
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Cameron Renteria, PhD
LEAD ENGINEER
Cameron is an NIH postdoctoral fellow in biomedical materials. He leads technical development and commercialization.
Clinical Consultants
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Elena Bosque, PhD, ARNP
CONTENT EXPERT
Elena is a neonatal nurse practitioner at Seattle Children's leading research on IV infiltration and failure events.
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Lynn Rose, PhD
FDA CONSULTANT
Lynn is an associate professor at the University of Washington, Seattle School of Pharmacy. She is an expert on FDA approval, testing, and commercialization.
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Megan Stimpson,
DNP, RN
NURSE SPECIALIST
Megan is a pediatric vascular
access nurse specialist at Seattle
Childrens with expertise on why
infiltration events occur and the
necessity of their prevention.
Staff
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Surbhi Kakar
MATERIALS SCIENCE + ENGINEERING MS
Surbhi is a Masters Student in Materials Science and Engineering. She leads the Swelling Team, coordinating project meetings and future procedures.
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Noah Tanner
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MS
Noah is a Masters Student in Mechanical Engineering. He leads the Active Alarm Project and all collaboration with the Electrical Engineering Department.
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Aditya Goparaju
BIOENGINEERING BS
Aditya is an undergraduate in Bioengineering. He manages all direct contact with practitioners and hospital financial committees to understand market interest and implementation.
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Sophie De Mello e Souza
BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING BS
Sophie is an undergraduate in Biomechanical Engineering. She works with industry connections to further Leakage benchtop models.
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Wren Kitchings
BIOENGINEERING BS
Wren is an undergraduate in Bioengineering and Nanomolecular Engineering at the UW. She researches the impact of IV failure on the interstitial fluid, assists on the swelling project, and performs website design.
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Hesham Katabi
BIOENGINEERING BS
Hesham is an undergraduate in Bioengineering at the UW with a specialization in Data Science and AI. He designs and modifies lab models to improve in vitro testing of prototypes.