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As the Associate Director for Health Sciences, Heather serves as the lead contact for Technology Transfer for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Heather Brownell, Ph.D. has worked with Dartmouth for more than 5 years as a consultant in technology transfer, and manages the intellectual property and business development activities for Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center’s portfolio.
Heather has 20+ years of technology transfer experience specializing in working with academic inventors in the life science to commercialize their early stage discoveries. She has worked as a consultant supporting licensing and start-up creation teams at universities, academic medical centers, and start-up companies throughout the US and Canada. She worked in tech transfer at the Harvard Medical School and Joslin Diabetes Center for seven years, and at the Ontario Genomics Institute, and played a critical role in developing government early stage proof of concept funding programs for engineering and bio-medical discoveries.
I seek to improve quality of life for my patients through management of complex cardiac arrhythmias with medications, implantable devices and/or ablation. My most important job is to listen carefully and provide guidance so each patient can meet their individual goals. Once we agree on a plan and goals, we can identify the most appropriate and innovative interventions to achieve those goals.
"As a specialist in shoulder surgery, I perform a wide range of surgical procedures for the shoulder, ranging from common procedures to very complex reconstructive procedures. My surgical practice features arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, primary and revision shoulder replacement surgery including reverse total shoulder replacement, repair of shoulder instability, reconstruction of shoulders that have had previous surgery, shoulder arthroscopy and treatment of fractures around the shoulder.
The other side of my professional life is my desire to contribute to our understanding of shoulder conditions through my own research. I spend a great deal of my free time thinking about shoulder problems and coming up with ways that we can improve our knowledge through scientific research. I have published many papers and textbook chapters on a wide range of shoulder conditions, including shoulder replacement, shoulder fractures, rotator cuff repair, labral tears, shoulder instability and the cost-effectiveness of shoulder surgery.
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