Dr. Julian Goldman receives INCOSE Pioneer Award

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The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) recently honored Julian M. Goldman, MD with its prestigious Pioneer award for his role in practicing systems engineering in the field of medicine.

This award recognizes Dr. Goldman for his contribution to the field of medicine, where he is well known for founding the interdisciplinary MD PnP Interoperability Program, sometimes known as Medical Device Plug and Play, which involves medical device integration to improve patient safety and clinical care.

“I’m so pleased to be able to honor one of our most notable INCOSE members,” INCOSE president Samantha Brown said. “Dr. Goldman’s body of work using systems engineering practices serves to demonstrate how systems engineering disciplines can help to solve the challenges every field faces.”

A not-for-profit membership organization, INCOSE was founded to share, promote, and advance the best systems engineering from across the globe to benefit humanity and the planet.

INCOSE presents the Pioneer Award annually to one individual or team whose achievements in the engineering of systems contributed uniquely to major products or outcomes that enhance society and its needs. In particular, INCOSE called out Dr. Goldman’s leadership and practice of systems engineering in the biomedical and healthcare fields that have had a remarkable influence on patients and families.

“It was gratifying to interact with an engineering group that ‘gets’ the importance and complexity of convening heterogeneous interdisciplinary groups and recognizes that they are part of a larger system,” Dr. Goldman remarked. “We have a unique opportunity to collaborate with INCOSE and through our shared vision, and I am hopeful that INCOSE will become more actively engaged in the CIMIT community.”

Dr. Goldman practices clinical anesthesia in the MGH Operating Room of the Future, serves as Medical Director of Partners HealthCare Biomedical Engineering, and is the Founding Director of the Medical Device “Plug-and-Play” Interoperability Program at CIMIT. The Interoperability program is a national collaboration of industry, government and academic medicine advocating for medical device interoperability.

About CIMIT

CIMIT is the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology. A ten-year-old non-profit consortium of Boston-area teaching hospitals and engineering schools, CIMIT provides innovators with resources to explore, develop and implement novel technological solutions for today’s most urgent healthcare problems. Participants in the consortium are Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, Boston University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Partners HealthCare and VA Boston Healthcare System.