John Valdovinos, PhD
Biography
John Valdovinos is an associate professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at California State University Northridge. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California Los Angeles in Biomedical Engineering in 2014. In addition, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale School of Medicine under the American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2015. Professor Valdovinos has expertise in the design of circulatory support medical devices for adult and pediatric heart failure patients. In his seven years at CSUN, Professor Valdovinos has supervised a various senior design teams and served as a mentor for students participating in programs like BUILD PODER and AIMS2. Professor Valdovinos also served as the faculty advisor for the CSUN Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) chapter from 2017-2022.
Projects
NIH’s AIM-AHEAD PAIR: Health Equity in Aging Congenital Heart Patients