Who is Dean Kamen?

www.usfirst.org/bios/dean.html

Dean Kamen is President and owner of DEKA Research & Development Corporation, a Manchester, New Hampshire-based company specializing in advanced technologies in medical equipment. A physicist, engineer, and inventor, he holds more than 100 US patents. He was an undergraduate at Worcester Polytechnic Institute when he invented the wearable infusion pump, on which he was awarded his first patents, and in 1976, founded what became his first medical device company, AutoSyringe, Inc.

Highlights of Accomplishments:

1978	Developed the first portable pump to dispense insulin
1985	Established Science Enrichment Encounters (SEE), a hands-on science museum for children.
1989	Founded FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)*
1993	Developed 22-pound portable dialysis machine, selected by Design News Magazine as its "medical product of the year"
1994	Chosen as Design News Magazine's Engineer of the Year
1995	Received the Hoover Medal, awarded jointly each year to one engineer by five leading national engineering societies, for "inventions that have advanced medical care worldwide, and for innovative and imaginative leadership in awakening America to the excitement of technology and its surpassing importance in bettering the lot of mankind."
1996	Elected New Hampshire Business Leader of the Year
1997	Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, an affiliate of the National Academy of Sciences, which recognizes those who have "made important contributions to engineering theory and practice" and "demonstrated unusual accomplishments in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology."

In addition, he has received Honorary Doctorates from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Daniel Webster College.

*FIRST is a non-profit organization dedicated to changing the way Americans look at science and technology. FIRST holds an annual competition in which engineering teams from corporations and/or universities are partnered with local high schools in a Superbowl-type robotics competition. Publications featuring FIRST have included: The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Fortune Magazine, Forbes ASAP Magazine, Design News, the Christian Science Monitor and Smithsonian Magazine. Television appearances and interviews include: ABC's 20/20, CNN's Pinnacle, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, and the Discovery Channel's Inventions series. The FIRST National Competition is hosted by Walt Disney World's Epcot Center. It is the largest non-Disney event held at Epcot.

For more information, visit Dean Kamen's home page at DEKA Research and Development.

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