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Kate Stephenson

PhD in Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Kate J. Stephenson has over 25 years of practical engineering experience, 20 of which have been devoted to regulated medical products. She is the Principal & Founder of Dyad Engineering, LLC a private technology strategy consulting practice in the medical technology innovation space. She specializes in technical writing, custom education programs and technology due-diligence. Kate has been part of the Silicon Valley ecosystem since 1997 and has a broad network spanning R1 research institutions, incubators, investors, government agencies, service providers and many, many start-ups.  She has been a SBIR grant reviewer for the NIH, an innovation consultant for a F100 Pharma company, and author and blogger for multiple industry and academic publications. 

Dr. Kate holds a B.S. in Engineering (Product Design), an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, all from Stanford University.

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