In January 2018, Dr. Antaki officially joined the faculty of the Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell as the Lowell and Susan McAdam Professor of Heart Assist Technology. Antaki comes to Cornell after many years at Carnegie Mellon, where he was a professor of biomedical engineering. From 2003 to 2018, Antaki also held two adjunct professor positions at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Surgery and the Department of Bioengineering.

For most of his professional career Antaki has worked to develop blood-wetted medical devices. Several of the devices he has contributed to were eventually used clinically, including the Heartmate-II, Novacor, Ventracor, TandemHeart, and Levacor. He also directed a multidisciplinary team that produced the world’s first magnetically-levitated rotodynamic blood pump to be tested in vivo—the Streamliner heart-assist device.

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