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Dr. Warren O. Haggard is a Professor and Herff Chair of Excellence in Biomedical Engineering
at the University of Memphis since 2004. Dr. Haggard has a BS degree in Chemistry
from Auburn University and MSE and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from University
of Alabama at Birmingham. His research interests are focused on bone graft substitutes,
functional tissue repair and local drug delivery for complex extremity trauma with
emphasis on musculoskeletal applications and he has over 60 publications and five
patents. Dr. Haggard’s current investigations are bone defect restoration and new
bone growth, local antibiotic treatment of bone infections, intelligent drug delivery
systems, and functional musculoskeletal soft tissue repair. Dr. Haggard has extensive
applied research and development experiences and as a medical device industrial engineer
for over 18 years and he developed or helped develop over 25 clinically successful
products. He has translated two technologies from his university laboratory to local
medical device companies. Dr. Haggard is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical
and Biological Engineering, the Vice-Chairperson of the American Society for Testing
Materials (ASTM) Tissue Engineered Product Division and a former ASTM Board of Directors
member, former member of the Society of Biomaterials Board of Directors as the elected
Member-At-Large and a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Orthopaedic
Forum and a consultant on the AAOS Biomedical Engineering Committee. He is a past
member of the ORS Nominating Committee, outgoing Program Topic Chair for Biomaterials
– Inert and a current member of the ORS Basic Science Committee. Dr. Haggard has five
full-time and two part-time graduate students and teaches the undergraduate BME Senior
Project Capstone class and the graduate Biomaterials class.
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