Physician, engineer, innovator

Giovanni Traverso creates innovative health solutions – and, as both a physician and an engineer, he brings a unique perspective. “Bringing those two domains together is what really can help transform and accelerate our capacity to develop new biomedical devices or new therapies for a range of conditions,” he says. “As physicians, we're extremely fortunate to be able to help individuals. As scientists and engineers, not only can we help individuals… we can help populations.”

Traverso is the Karl Van Tassel (1925) Career Development Professor, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and a gastroenterologist in the Division of Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH).