Dr. Matt Gounis

Matt Gounis, PhD, is a biomedical engineer and tenured Professor of the Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School. He co-founded the New England Center for Stroke Research at UMASS in 2006 where the team works to bring new imaging and medical device technology from the bench to the clinic. For 25 years, Matt has performed research on the minimally invasive treatment of cerebrovascular disease with a focus on device technology, pre-clinical disease modeling, and image-guided surgery. Matt is the 2010 recipient of the Y.C. Fung Award from the ASME, the Founding President of the SB3C Foundation, formerly the Chair of the Bioengineering Division of the ASME and the AHA Clinical Bioengineering Committee, Fellow of ASME and currently serves as the Basic Science Associate Editor for the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery and on the Editorial Board of the journals Stroke, and Neurosurgery. Matt has given over 150 invited lectures around the world, including delivering the distinguished Pierre Lasjuanias Memorial Lecture at the 15th Congress of the World Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology in Naples, Italy. Matt currently serves at the Chair of the UMMS IACUC, Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Radiology and as the Chair of the Departmental Personnel Action Committee.