Dr. Gwyn Arney Sutherland

Biography

Gwyn Arney-Sutherland works to improve patient safety by advancing medical device interoperability through a variety of projects at Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT. His focus includes physiologic closed-loop control in anesthesia, autonomous medical systems, and remotely-controllable medical devices in telemedicine and tele-critical care. He served as the Lead Engineer for the Medical Device Plug and Play Program, leading a five-year NIH-funded effort to build OpenICE, an open-source platform for interoperable medical applications. Gwyn earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master's in Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with a focus on quantitative methods in epidemiology and medical devices. He is currently an Instructor in Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and has spent a year as an FDA scholar in residence, where he was heavily involved in the development of standards with ASTM, AAMI, and ISO organizations.

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