Dr. Manns was elected for his major contributions to the technology employed in ophthalmology and in training specialists in medicine and engineering.
The College of Fellows is composed of 1,500 individuals who are outstanding bioengineers in academia, industry, clinical practice and government. Fellows are nominated, reviewed, and elected each year by their peers and represent the top 2 percent of the medical and biological engineering community. The honor is very competitive – fewer than 60 percent of nominations are accepted. He was inducted at the AIMBE Annual Meeting in March 2019 in Washington, D.C.
Fellows are among the most distinguished medical and biological engineers, which include Nobel Prize laureates, Presidential Medal of Science and/or Technology and Innovation recipients, and hundreds have been inducted to the National Academies of Engineering, Medicine and Sciences.
Manns has been a member of the University of Miami faculty since 1998, and has received awards including UM’s 2016 Provost Funding Award, the CoE’s 2016 and 2013 Johnson A. Edosomwan Researcher of the Year Awards and the Department of Biomedical Engineering’s 2016 Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award.
The AIMBE is an authoritative voice advocating for the value of medical and biological engineering to society. The organization’s mission is to recognize excellence, advance the public understanding, and accelerate medical and biological innovation.
