Hall of Fame

 

About the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame (CE-HOF)

The 2023 Inductees

​George I. Johnston has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition of seminal work and significant contributions to the development and advancement of the clinical engineering profession. Beginning in 1958 he was one of the most influential pioneers and industry leaders in clinical engineering for the past six decades. Read more Marvin D. Shepherd has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition of his work and significant contributions to the development and advancement of the clinical engineering profession. Read more​

The 2022 Inductees

​Matt has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition of his significant contributions to the advancement of the profession in several key areas: He has been one of the most influential pioneers and industry leaders in clinical engineering for the past four decades. By way of the writings and the presentations he has given throughout his career, Matt’s thoughtful and innovative approach has helped shaped today’s clinical engineering industry concepts. These concepts include such areas as scaling HTM services to an organization’s needs, patient safety, incident investigation, benchmarking, maintenance management, and risk management. Matt is the author of numerous authoritative guides on topics ranging from electrical safety, to CE benchmarking, to computerized maintenance management systems, to forensic engineering, and alternative maintenance management processes among others. Read more ​Bill has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition of his significant contributions to the advancement of the profession in several key areas: He has had a long, impactful career as a clinical engineer for over 50 years, selflessly contributing to and influencing the profession at the local, national, and international levels. Bill obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Toronto in Biomedical Engineering. Following graduation, he started up the Biomedical Engineering department at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as the Director of Biomedical Engineering. For 29 years, he pioneered the engineers’ interface with in-hospital medical technology, forging the path for others to follow. Read more​

The 2021 Inductees

​Bill has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition of his significant contributions to the advancement of the profession in several key areas. His intensely thought-provoking advocacy for expansion of the C.E. profession has been unique and is still impactful through inclusion of teaching risk management methodologies and the engagement with regulatory processes in academic programs and practices in industry and within healthcare provider institutions. Read more ​Frank has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition of his significant contributions to the advancement of the profession in several key areas: As an active, practicing clinical engineer in the early days of the profession, Frank recognized need for a professional organization to adequately advocate for clinical engineering. Frank became one of the earliest and most active proponents in the founding of the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE). Read more​

The 2020 Inductees

​Adriana has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition of her significant contributions to the advancement of the profession in several key areas: For many years Adriana has been an extremely influential advocate for clinical engineering around the world, especially in underdeveloped countries. She has done this by relentlessly lobbying healthcare planners and clinical professionals at every opportunity on the benefits of clinical engineering to their patients.  Read more ​Raymond Peter Zambuto has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition of his significant contributions to the advancement of the profession in three key areas: Ray co-founded one of the nation’s first shared clinical engineering services which helped to grow and expand the field of clinical engineering.  He was also a prime driver of many of the clinical engineering initiatives in clinical systems engineering and the integration of medical and information systems, directly influencing the careers of many.  Finally, Ray foresaw the vital importance of establishing strong relationships between CE and IT leaders in their respective professional organizations and became the driving force behind ACCE becoming a co-sponsor of and a key player in IHE's Patient Care Device Domain (PCD). Read more​

The 2019 Inductees

Dr. Furst has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition of his significant contributions to the advancement of the profession in three areas: His pioneering texts helped set the foundation for modern benchmarking; "Manny's Meeting", which became an AAMI committee, served as an incubator for ideas from throughout the profession; and, his work as Technical Manager for IHE Patient Care Devices built key bridges between CE and IT and vendors and providers. Read more	Stephen L. Grimes has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition of his significant contributions to the profession as a visionary leader. Mr. Grimes saw places where clinical engineering needed to go as a profession, for example, Clinical Systems Engineering, and Medical Technology Cyber Security, and then used his leadership skills to advocate for those ideas, create the conversation and enable them to become realized. Read more	David P. Harrington has inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition of his meaningful contributions to the initiation and advancement of the profession. Dr. Harrington began educating students before the field had even been defined. Until shortly before his death in 2018, he continued to mentor, and write on behalf of the profession. Throughout his long career, he served as a de-facto global ambassador for the profession through his humanitarian work. Read more

The 2018 Inductees

Dr. David has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition of his leadership and vision in bringing clinical engineering to its status as a recognized and important profession. His signature achievements in the formation of the American College of Clinical Engineering and the Healthcare Technology Foundation helped to provide pivotal opportunities for clinical engineering to stand as an independent profession and to have an appropriate home for the certification process. His continuing vision of clinical engineering as a global profession paved the way for the enduring international cooperation in the profession.  Read more

Dr. Wear has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition of his impact on two generations of clinical engineers through education, teaching, and mentoring. In the early days of the profession, the late 1960s and early 1970s, he established the first teaching periodical in clinical engineering. His pioneering work also included the establishment of the training center that became U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs National Engineering Training Center. Over the course of his career, Dr. Wear has taught aspects of clinical engineering worldwide and taken on leadership challenges in clinical engineering education and advocacy. Read more

The 2017 Inductees

Dr. Fennigkoh has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition of his pioneering work in developing a medical device inventory inclusion algorithm that significantly reduced the maintenance and regulatory burden for many of the nation’s hospitals. He is also being recognized for his application of human factors principles in device investigations and the reduction of medical error.  Read more

Dr. Wang has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition for using the scientific method and quantitative data analysis to advance clinical engineering, for leading the opposition to unnecessary and overly burdensome regulatory control and, above all, for enhancing patient safety in the deployment of health technology. Read more

The 2016 Inductee

Dr. Ridgway has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition for excellence in innovation, for influencing the direction that clinical engineering has taken over the decades, and for his impact on CE professionals, clinical users, regulatory authorities, patients and society in general with his fight for rational, evidence-based maintenance. Read more

The 2015 Inductees

Dr. Cooper has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition of his leadership in Patient Safety, Medical Simulation, and CE in the US and around the world. Read more	Dr. Nobel has been inducted into the Clinical Engineering Hall of Fame in recognition of for excellence in innovation, influence on CE, and technology evaluation in the US and the world. Read more

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