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Catherine J. Mohr
Director of Medical Research, Intuitive Surgical
Catherine Mohr tries to predict the future of surgical robotics by helping to create it. As Director of Medical Research at Intuitive Surgical, she explores new ways to use the da Vinci surgical robot, evaluates novel robotic architectures from a clinical perspective, and works to identify and evaluate new technologies that will drive the next generation of advances in robotic surgery.
Outside of Intuitive, Catherine teaches at Stanford University’s School of Medicine in the department of General Surgery where she uses simulation-based methods to teach clinical skills to resident surgeons. She also serves as a Senior Scientific Advisor and board member of Blue World Alliance, a funding and study group which brings the innovative “GlobalSolver” enterprise-driven methodology to help solve the problems facing the world’s oceans.
Catherine began her career as an engineer, working for many years at AeroVironment with Paul MacCready, the father of human powered flight. There she developed alternative energy vehicles and fuel cells for high-altitude aircraft, before making a mid-career shift into medicine and surgery. While in medical school at Stanford, she co-founded a startup company to commercialize a device she had designed to improve a critical step in minimally invasive surgery.
During her initial training as a mechanical engineer at MIT’s AI Laboratory, Catherine worked with Professor Ken Salisbury, a pioneer in robotics, on compliant robotic hands designed to work in unstructured and changing environments.
The common thread running through her varied career is the continuous search for new ways to apply technology to improve the human condition.
Catherine was born in New Zealand and raised in the United States.
Outside of Intuitive, Catherine teaches at Stanford University’s School of Medicine in the department of General Surgery where she uses simulation-based methods to teach clinical skills to resident surgeons. She also serves as a Senior Scientific Advisor and board member of Blue World Alliance, a funding and study group which brings the innovative “GlobalSolver” enterprise-driven methodology to help solve the problems facing the world’s oceans.
Catherine began her career as an engineer, working for many years at AeroVironment with Paul MacCready, the father of human powered flight. There she developed alternative energy vehicles and fuel cells for high-altitude aircraft, before making a mid-career shift into medicine and surgery. While in medical school at Stanford, she co-founded a startup company to commercialize a device she had designed to improve a critical step in minimally invasive surgery.
During her initial training as a mechanical engineer at MIT’s AI Laboratory, Catherine worked with Professor Ken Salisbury, a pioneer in robotics, on compliant robotic hands designed to work in unstructured and changing environments.
The common thread running through her varied career is the continuous search for new ways to apply technology to improve the human condition.
Catherine was born in New Zealand and raised in the United States.
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