Philip Breedon
Philip Breedon is Professor of Smart Technologies at Nottingham Trent University and leads the Medical Engineering Design Research Group. He is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered IT professional. He is a member of the UK’s Department of Health’s National Institute for Health Research invention for innovation funding panel (NIHR i4i) and holds a number of journal editorial positions. He also chairs the medical technologies and systems special interest group supported by Medilink East Midlands.
He has given guest lectures in a number of European Countries as well as in the USA, Canada and New Zealand. His research interests and latest projects centre on new and emerging technologies and materials. This includes wearable technologies, 3D printing of pathological models, additive and subtractive manufacturing for medical applications, surgical robotics, cardiovascular devices, extended reality technologies and environments, the surgical pathway and investigative research related to the utilisation of ‘smart materials’ for medical applications. He also has separate research interests linked to improvements in process control using the latest technologies, this research is currently in collaboration with a global food and drink company.
He supervisors a number of ‘live’ medical technology based student major projects, working with a number of healthcare professionals from across the UK. Philip believes that multidisciplinary research activity is a significant and major contributor in developing innovative research proposals. As PI and Co-I he and a multidisciplinary research team have delivered a number of NIHR i4i funded projects including projects linked to wearable technologies for rehabilitation and patient maintained sedation.
Through promoting his work and research activities he now work with a number of surgeons and clinicians across Europe and has given keynote lectures at the NSpine international conference on both surgical robotics and additive manufacturing for medical devices.
He was invited, and consequently visited six NASA centres across the USA to discuss potential collaborative research opportunities and to examine the latest materials and technology research and its applications. Most recently he visited the NASA Glenn research center to discuss potential collaborations.