Progress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / Show Dr Jamie L. Wells, MD - Director, Research Science Inst - Pediatrician, Medical Innovator, Educator
Dr. Jamie L. Wells, MD, FAAP, is an Adjunct Professor at Drexel University’s School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, where she has been involved in helping to spearhead the nation's first-degree program focused on pediatric engineering, innovation, and medical advancement. She just co-authored an article in the journal Artificial Organs on this newly emerging applied science. Dr. Wells is an award-winning Board-certified pediatrician with many years of experience caring for patients. With her BA with Honors from Yale, and her MD from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, where she was President of the Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society, she has served as a Clinical Instructor/Attending at NYU Langone, Mt. Sinai-Beth Israel and St. Vincent's Medical Centers in Manhattan. Dr. Wells also serves as Director of the Research Science Institute (RSI), at the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE), a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, collaboratively sponsored with MIT which brings together top U.S. and international high school students for an intensive, six-week summer program that provides students with the opportunity to conduct original, cutting-edge research. Dr. Wells is on the leadership council of the Wistar Institute (the USA's first independent biomedical research facility and certified cancer center), an Ambassador in Healthcare for the Global Blockchain Business Council, was a grant reviewer for the Susan G. Komen Community Grants Program, judged both the local, district and world robotics championships for Dean Kamen’s F.I.R.S.T. (For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology) nonprofit and is the President and Founder of the Yale Alumni Health Network (YAHN). Dr. Wells has a proven track record of success in communications on various platforms (e.g. BBC, Reuters TV, Fox News Channel, Discovery Health), routinely appearing as a medical expert and has published over 400 articles as director of medicine for an educational advocacy nonprofit. Dr. Wells has broad ranging interests in patient safety and optimizing care delivery, bioethics, public health and policy, science communications, med-tech innovation, diagnosis and management of disease, identifying healthcare trends, bridging interdisciplinary knowledge gaps to prevent medical error and expedite discovery, thought integration of clinical practice and biomedical engineering approaches with an emphasis on patient-centered design, debunking medical myths and pediatrics.