Director of Engineering
Bill Combs has over 35 years of experience researching and implementing novel medical device therapies and diagnostics. Over a 29-year career at Medtronic, he held a wide range of positions relevant to implementation and commercialization of concepts and technologies including leadership positions in Systems Engineering, Product Planning and Research. Bill was a Medtronic Technical Fellow, holds 40 issued patents and was twice named Medtronic Technical Contributor of the Year. Bill has directly participated in the commercialization of impedance monitoring in implanted pacemakers and defibrillators, leading the Research team that investigated the applications and commercialization of accelerometer and impedance-based rate adaptive cardiac pacing and heart failure fluid status monitoring,He is a Clinical Associate Professor for the IUPUI School of Biomedical Engineering, graduated with a MSEE degree from Purdue University where he participated in research investigating cardiac defibrillation with indwelling lead and electrode systems. Bill is presently leading 3DT efforts to identify and implement novel technologies that will improve patient outcomes.