Tamara Baynham

Ph.D., Fellow BMES, Founder and Principal Consultant for Ingenuity Medical Device Research 

Tamara Baynham's father had a long history of heart attacks that led to heart failure when she was in college. She decided to spend her career making sure other families got more time. 

Baynham went into cardiac electrophysiology — the science behind the AED at a ballpark that lets a bystander restart someone's heart, the implantable defibrillator that a person with sudden cardiac death carries with them every day, the deep brain stimulator that gives someone with Parkinson's steady hands again.  

Baynham has spent decades helping bring devices like these from early-stage research through FDA approval and into the hands of the doctors who need them. 

"This work is in the public interest. It's not just about making money or having a job. It's about maintaining quality of life for everybody."