November 10, 2023
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One Engineer’s Journey: Where Preparation Meets Opportunity
Travelle (Franklin-Ford) Ellis, MD, PhD
Sponsored by the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Mr. Peter Tong and the Tong Family Foundation
Travelle (Franklin-Ford) Ellis is Health Equity Director at Exact Sciences. Previously Dr. Ellis was Associate Director of Minority Initiatives at Zimmer Biomet. She is a lifetime member of the Student National Medical Association, serving as National President from 2009-2010. She received her PhD’11 in BME and MD’13, both from UW-Madison. In 2020, she was named to the National Minority Quality Forum’s 40 Under 40 Leaders in Minority Health and was in the documentary: Changing the Face of Medicine: Black Women in Medicine. She is the 2023 recipient of the College of Engineering’s Early Career Achievement Award from the Department of Biomedical Engineering.