Our guest is Dr. Dermot Kelleher who will discuss how creating partnerships between engineering and medicine will yield new methods of attacking several important diseases affecting humanity. Dermot is the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. who has also been Dean at Imperial College, London, Trinity College Dublin and the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore. A globally renowned researcher in immune responses in gastrointestinal disease and cancer, he is on the forefront of creating partnerships between medical and engineering schools to train forward looking doctors of this world.