SPEAKERS DATABASE Virginia Giddings Speaker Virginia is an accomplished healthcare innovator, with leadership roles in medical device, pharma and nutrition businesses. Currently, she heads the Global Strategic R&D organization at Abbott Nutrition, responsible for acceleration of innovation through early-stage research and global partnerships. At Abbott Vascular, she led development of ABSORB, a bioabsorbable vascular scaffold, which received the Wall Street Journal 2011 Medical Device Innovation Award. She has had a number of IP strategy roles, including with J&J. She serves on the Executive Committee for the Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory at the University of Illinois, the Cornell Engineering Council, the Georgia Tech/Emory Biomedical Engineering Ad Board, and the President’s Council of Cornell Women. She is a co-founder of MedtechWOMEN. She received BS and MEng degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and PhD in Biomechanical Engineering from Stanford. Past Events Speaker, Everyone Else Knows Something You Don’t: Why Mentoring and Networking Matter Speaker, MedtechVISION 2015 – Panel 4: The Gender-Specific Practice of Medicine Videos Note: Speaker biographies were written at time of speaking engagement and may not reflect their current job title and position. View All Activity MedtechVision 2015 Regional Events 2018