2025 SBES Student Symposium Sponsor Profiles

Thank you to Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center for its generous sponsorship of the 2025 SBES Graduate Student Research Symposium. The Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center continues to earn recognition as one of the top institutions of its kind in the country. The cancer center serves all of North Carolina, including Winston Salem, Raleigh, and Durham, and is convenient to access for patients in South Carolina and Virginia. The center’s designation by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a comprehensive cancer center makes it one of three comprehensive cancer centers in North Carolina, one of 57 in the country and one of the very few to hold the designation continuously since 1990.  

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Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Comprehensive Cancer Center

1 Medical Center Blvd

Winston-Salem, NC 27157

Wake Forest Plastic Surgery, based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is a nationally recognized academic department within Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. The department provides expert care across the full spectrum of plastic and reconstructive surgery, from microsurgery and burn reconstruction to craniofacial and aesthetic procedures. With a strong focus on innovation, their clinical work is deeply informed by research and education.

As an integral part of an academic medical center, Wake Forest Plastic Surgery is committed to advancing the science of healing. Their faculty leads pioneering research in areas such as tissue engineering, wound healing, and regenerative medicine, helping to shape the future of surgical care. In parallel, they are dedicated to cultivating the next generation of physician-scientists through rigorous residency and fellowship training programs.

We are deeply grateful for the support of Wake Forest Plastic Surgery in helping to make the SBES 2025 Symposium possible. Their commitment to research, education, and patient-centered care embodies the spirit of innovation we strive to celebrate and promote.

Location
Wake Forest Plastic Surgery
Medical Center Blvd
Winston-Salem, NC 27157

Representatives: Travis Dillion and Parker Benzie   

Cook Medical has been working with physicians to create simple solutions to hard problems since 1963. By giving patients better, safer treatment and giving doctors simpler, more effective options, family-owned Cook has grown to more than 12,000 employees worldwide, serving 135 countries and offering more than 16,000 products. Today, the company manufactures and combines medical devices, drugs, biologic grafts, and cell therapies to serve more than 60 clinical specialties. 

Cook’s Endoscopy division, located in Winston-Salem, was founded on Cook’s core values in 1982. The Endoscopy division creates products that effectively treat those who suffer with problems anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract. Today, the division employs approximately 1000 people globally who manufacture a full line of products that help physicians across the globe efficiently care for those patients.  

Winston-Salem Location 

Cook Medical 

4900 Bethania Station Rd 

Winston Salem, NC 27105

Cook Medical Headquarters    

750 Daniels Way  

Bloomington, IN 47402

Elemance, LLC, an engineering software and services company, explores the interaction of technologies with the human body. Elemance enables nuanced design through finite element analysis and other data science-based approaches. They continually advance and license a suite of virtual human body models, giving companies and researchers tools to comprehensively evaluate products for safety and efficacy.

The creation of Elemance helped to expand the application of the Global Human Body Model Consortium by making the family of GHBMC models available to any researcher, whether in industry or academia. Elemance believes that giving deeper insight to how the human body behaves can improve the safety of technologies. They also believe that safety research should reflect a wide range of the population, so they continue to develop a family of models that represent a range of ages, sexes and sizes to help create technologies and procedures that take all types of people into account.

As the specificity and range of models has expanded, Elemance has also expanded its offerings to help R&D groups and individuals assess their designs in a detailed and accurate way through their team of biomechanics experts. Wherever technology touches a human, Elemance wants to be there to make sure that human is safe. 

Elemance

450 N Patterson Ave Suite 310

Winston-Salem, NC 27101

Representative: Concetta (Connie) Morino, PhD.

Engineering Systems Inc. (ESi) is an engineering and scientific investigation and analysis firm, founded in 1987, committed to providing clear answers to the most challenging technical problems. Our technical expertise, practical experience, technological resources, and extensive diagnostic, analytical, and physical testing capabilities empower us to provide our clients with the most comprehensive and efficient solutions across dozens of industries. The ESi team handles large and small-scale projects with diligence, accuracy, and discretion, and our experts are well-known for their professionalism, precision, response time, and scientific and academic contributions to the industries in which they work.

The leadership of ESi is dedicated to investing in advanced technology, quality personnel, and state-of-the art facilities that combine to make ESi a leader in engineering and scientific investigation. Our training programs are designed to address the latest needs and advances in the industries we work in by giving our personnel the opportunity to pursue new skills and certifications.

ESi has worked with clients and on projects in all 50 states, as well as with numerous companies, organizations, and governments internationally. Our offices and testing facilities have expanded over the last 30 years to include 21 offices in 15 states across the country. It has more than 350 in-house technical personnel, including licensed Professional Engineers (P.E.) with advanced degrees (both M.S. and Ph.D.), litigation experience, and industry expertise, uniquely position ESi, both professionally and physically, to provide our clients with superior results.

www.engsys.com 

Representatives: Lauren Rhodes, Kristen Renner, PhD.

Exponent is a leading engineering and scientific consulting firm that brings together more than 90 different disciplines to solve the most pressing and complicated challenges facing stakeholders today. Our vision is to engage the brightest scientists and engineers to empower clients with solutions for a safe, healthy, sustainable, and technologically complex world. We leverage over 50 years of experience in analyzing accidents and failures to advise clients as they innovate their technologically complex products and processes, ensure the safety and health of their users, and address the challenges of sustainability. Learn about our impact here:

https://www.exponent.com/company/our-impact

We offer opportunities for you to expand your engineering or scientific knowledge amidst experts from top programs at over 500 universities. At Exponent, you will apply your experience, technical skills, and prior academic research to a fulfilling career in consulting. You will have the opportunity to develop continuously through formal and informal development programs, coaching and mentoring, and involvement in a wide array of projects.  We are excited about your interest in joining our growing team!

Key statistics:

•      1100+ Team members

•      950+ Consultants

•      640+ Ph.D.s

•      30+ Offices globally