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In episode 013, Dr. Omer Inan shares insight on academia and entrepreneurship –– for example, how do they interact…and can a person pursue both? Omer earned his B.S., M.D. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. During his studies, he worked at ALZA Corporation in the Drug Device Research and Development Group, then Countryman Associates, Inc. as the chief engineer.  Post-graduation, he stuck close to Stanford’s Electrical Engineering program as a visiting scholar. Omer is now a tenured associate professor and the Smith Chair in Bioscience and Bioengineering at Georgia Tech’s School of ECE. He is also a scientific advisor for Cardiosense –– a medtech startup leveraging non-invasive sensors and AI to build the next generation of cardiac monitoring. This episode will highlight the medical devices and systems research that has  been the focus of Omer’s research; in that process it should offer further insight into the boundaries, barriers and collaborations between academia and entrepreneurship as well as research and funding.