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Sean Peel

Sean Peel is a designer, researcher and lecturer with extensive industrial, academic and clinical experience. His career has encompassed practising, studying and teaching, design across a range of sensitive and constrained contexts. He has investigated and applied design engineering, strategic design innovation and user-centred design in maxillofacial, orthopaedic and cardiovascular fields. In particular, he has liaised with surgeons, prosthetists and engineers to develop designs for patient-specific guides and implants in cranio-maxillofacial surgery and has led the development of publications describing such innovations in peer-reviewed journals. He worked part-time on a Ph.D. to refine quality procedures and to standardize a personalized implant design process. In parallel, he developed and implemented a certified ISO 13485 quality management system for implant design. More recently, he has planned hundreds of robotically assisted hip and knee replacements. At the University of Sydney, he led the writing of a successful Australian Research Council (ARC) funding bid on behalf of, and in collaboration with, an industrial partner and senior academic investigators. He extended his publication record with a range of peer-reviewed contributions on medical design innovation. They addressed mechanical circulatory support specifically, and patient-centred healthcare more generally. This work explored themes of entrepreneurship, design management, usability, quality-of-life and emotional well-being in high-risk scenarios. At the University of Queensland (UQ), he has independently co-ordinated, lectured and tutored for the brand-new Design: Experience course in the new university-wide Bachelor of Design programme. He is now a postdoctoral research fellow in the Design Innovation Lab (DiLab) at UQ and is developing his work on patient experiences and emotions, and how they might be improved by designing better medical products and services.

Contact: School of Architecture, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.


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