Paul J Fearis
Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
Innovation & product development processes, design for manufacture
Bio
Paul Fearis joined Duke after 28 years in the medical device design consulting industry with PDD, Sagentia and latterly his own consultancy Clinvue.
Originally trained in Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art and in Mechanical Design at Cranfield Institute of Technology in the United Kingdom, Paul helped to define and bring to market a broad range of medical devices for both multinational corporations and startups in the United States and around the world.
Paul specializes in human-centric product design with particular emphasis on front-end innovation and product specification processes, including ethnographic observational research and the identification of unmet, underserved and unarticulated clinical/stakeholder needs.
Education
- M.A. Royal College of Art (United Kingdom), 1990
Positions
- Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
In The News
- Developing Biomaterial Implants to Improve Human Health (Jun 1, 2021 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- Duke Design Health Program Impresses on the National Stage (Apr 26, 2021 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- Innovation Amidst a Pandemic: A glimpse into Dukeu2019s COVID-19 Engineering Response Team (Apr 1, 2021 | DukEngineer Magazine)
- Designing Better Healthcare at Duke (Aug 11, 2020 | )
- 3-D Printing to Give Medical Teams the Highest Level of Protection (Apr 10, 2020 | Duke Today)
- Solving Pressing Challenges: 3D Printing of Medical Grade Face Shields (Apr 2, 2020 | Duke Today)