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Dr. Naomi CheslerNaomi C. Chesler earned her doctoral degree from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.  She has taught engineering for over 20 years.  She now directs the Edwards Lifesciences Foundation Cardiovascular Innovation and Research Center (CIRC; circ.eng.uci.edu) at the University of California, Irvine, where she is a Chancellor's Inclusive Excellence Professor of Biomedical Engineering.

Dr. Chesler's contributions to research are in two main areas: cardiovascular biomechanics and engineering education. With regard to the first, she is internationally recognized for her work investigating cardiopulmonary biomechanics and mechanobiology.  She has been continuously funded by the NIH for over a decade. Her contributions to engineering education center around the impact of novel approaches to physiology instruction on student learning and how students learn engineering using a learning sciences approach. This work has been supported by several concurrent grants from the NSF.

For research teaching, leadership, and advocacy, Dr. Chesler has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the NSF Career award, Denice D. Denton Emerging Leader Award, Polygon Teaching Award for Biomedical Engineering, two Fulbright Scholar Awards, Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE). She was named recipient of the 2014 Diversity Award from BMES and the 2017 Diversity Award from the UW-Madison College of Engineering. She also received the ASME MacDonald Award for Mentoring in 2019 and the AIMBE Professional Impact Award for Mentoring in 2021.

Through Building STEM Equity, Dr. Chesler is available for speaking engagements, individual consulting, workshop development, onsite trainings and other activities that you, your team, your department, or your institution want to develop to create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment. We specialize in academic settings in STEM disciplines.

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