Pioneers
Occasionally the mechanics of two industries and their problems are so similar that’s its only natural for experts in one field to seek solutions in the other. The collaboration between cardiovascular and the oil and gas arose when Dr. Alan Lumsden visited a Galveston oil and gas museum, followed shortly by an ExxonMobil event where he met Dr. William Kline. The conversation turned to the remarkable overlap in their professionals and once Dr. Ioannis Kakadiaris, a computer science and biomedical engineer joined them, Pumps and Pipes was born.
Alan B. Lumsden, M.D.
Professor & Chairman,
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
Medical Director,
Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Ph.D.
Eckhard Pfeiffer Professor,
Department of Computer Science
Director & Founder,
Computational Biomedicine Lab
University of Houston
William E. Kline, Ph.D.
Manager,
Drilling & Subsurface,
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Mark G. Davies, M.D., PH.D.
Senior Member
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute
Professor of Surgery and Vice Chairman
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
The Methodist Hospital
Stephen R. Igo
Director, Entrepreneurial Institute
Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
Senior Associate, Methodist Research Institute
