Dr. Maltese is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and an Affiliate Research Scientist at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention.
Matthew R. Maltese, PhD is the founding Executive Director of the Philadelphia (now Pennsylvania) Pediatric Medical Device Consortium, an FDA-funded endeavor established in 2013 to spawn development of pediatric medical devices. An Adjunct Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and an Affiliate Research Scientist at CHOP's Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Dr. Maltese serves as the Chief Innovation Officer at X-Biomedical – a CHOP spinout commercializing holographic stereoscopic surgical microscopy technology he co-invented. Dr. Maltese lectures regularly worldwide on medical devices and injury biomechanics and teaches brain injury biomechanics and medical device development at Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively.
Dr. Maltese is an Associate Editor of the journal Traffic Injury Prevention, sits on the Board of Directors of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, and is frequently retained as a consultant to the automotive and medical device industries.
BS, University of Maryland Baltimore County (Mechanical Engineering), 1994
MS, Johns Hopkins University (Mechanical Engineering), 2003
PhD, University of Pennsylvania (Bioengineering), 2012
Affiliate Research Scientist, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer, X-Biomedical, Inc.
Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
Jermakian JS, Edwards MA, Fein S, Maltese MR. Factors Contributing to Serious and Fatal Injuries in Belted Rear-seat Occupants in Frontal Crashes. Insurance Institute of Highway Safety. 2019.