Paul J Fearis
Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
Innovation & product development processes, design for manufacture
Bio
Paul Fearis joined Duke after 28 years in the medical device design consulting industry with PDD, Sagentia and latterly his own consultancy Clinvue.
Originally trained in Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art and in Mechanical Design at Cranfield Institute of Technology in the United Kingdom, Paul helped to define and bring to market a broad range of medical devices for both multinational corporations and startups in the United States and around the world.
Paul specializes in human-centric product design with particular emphasis on front-end innovation and product specification processes, including ethnographic observational research and the identification of unmet, underserved and unarticulated clinical/stakeholder needs.
Positions
- Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Publications
- Economopoulos KP, Fearis P, Simmons WN, Richardson ES, Montgomery SP. A Portable Negative Pressure Isolation System as a Solution to Minimize Exposure of Health Care Providers to Infectious Pathogens. Am Surg. 2022 Aug;88(8):1901u20133.
- Erickson MM, Richardson ES, Hernandez NM, Bobbert DW, Gall K, Fearis P. Helmet Modification to PPE With 3D Printing During the COVID-19 Pandemic at Duke University Medical Center: A Novel Technique. J Arthroplasty. 2020 Jul;35(7S):S23u20137.
- Robinson DG, Subramaniam A, Fearis PJ, Shi R, Walsh M, Hanna LA, et al. Focused Ethnographic Examination of Barriers to Use of Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics. Psychiatric services (Washington, DC). 2020 Apr;71(4):337u201342.
- Fearis PJ, Craft B. Sustaining the success of medical device innovation. Surgery. 2016 Nov;160(5):1130u20134.
In The News
- Developing Biomaterial Implants to Improve Human Health (Jun 1, 2021 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- Duke Design Health Program Impresses on the National Stage (Apr 26, 2021 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- Innovation Amidst a Pandemic: A glimpse into Dukeu2019s COVID-19 Engineering Response Team (Apr 1, 2021 | DukEngineer Magazine)
- Designing Better Healthcare at Duke (Aug 11, 2020 | )
- 3-D Printing to Give Medical Teams the Highest Level of Protection (Apr 10, 2020 | Duke Today)
- Solving Pressing Challenges: 3D Printing of Medical Grade Face Shields (Apr 2, 2020 | Duke Today)