Gwyn Arney-Sutherland works to improve patient safety by advancing medical device interoperability.
They are working on a variety of projects at Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT including physiologic closed-loop control for anesthesia, autonomous medical systems, and remotely-controllable medical devices for telemedicine and tele-critical care. As the Lead Engineer of the Medical Device Plug and Play Program at MGH, they led the five year NIH-funded effort to build OpenICE, an open source platform for interoperable medical apps.
Gwyn has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, focusing on quantitative methods and epidemiology of medical devices. They are an Instructor in Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. They spent a year at the FDA as a scholar in residence, and have been heavily involved in standards development with ASTM, AAMI, ISO, and other organizations.
