Dr. Robert Malkin is the director of Engineering World Health and a Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Previously, he was the Herbert Herff Professor of Biomedical Engineering at The Joint Biomedical Program at the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee and The University of Tennessee. Before moving to Tennessee, Dr. Malkin was a professor of Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York and a member of the graduate faculty at The City University of New York and a research associate at Columbia University. Dr. Malkin received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Duke University in 1991 and 1993, respectively. Prior to attending graduate school, Dr. Malkin taught English in Thailand, worked at EM Microelectronics in Switzerland designing integrated circuits, worked for Cordis Corporation designing pacemakers and worked for Sarns Incorporated designing heart lung machines. Dr Malkin received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Michigan in 1984. Dr. Malkin has received numerous awards, including service awards from The Republic of Nicaragua; IEEE – Memphis, EM Microelectronics and Cordis Corporation; an Outstanding Faculty Research Award from The College of Engineering, an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association and an award for Innovation and Excellence in Undergraduate Education from The President of The City College of New York. The Duke-Engineering World Health Summer Institute runs a program to enable undergraduates to make a significant contribution to developing world hospitals in Central America and Africa.