The recruitment of designer Ed Matthews as Senior Research Fellow in Healthcare and Patient Safety significantly boosts the Helen Hamlyn Centre’s capability in the medical area.
Matthews, an engineer by background and an RCA Industrial Design graduate, joined the centre on 1 February 2007 from PA Consulting Group where he led a series of medical projects as managing consultant.
He is highly experienced in product development in a broad range of sectors, and has specialised in medical devices and healthcare products since 1990.
He has a track record of combining different working cultures and technologies to establish new approaches to development. He has also pioneered the provision of technical expertise, design-for-manufacture, materials selection and CADCAM capabilities within industrial design consultancy.
His commercial experience includes setting and implementing strategy as partner and technical director of design company Pearson Matthews, and working in a senior consulting role for PA Technology. His medical work has led him into the fields of diagnostics, drug delivery, laboratory equipment and surgical instrumentation and implants.
