Sarah Mandell

Sarah Mandell is the Director of Public Policy and Strategic Partnerships at the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. In this role, she is responsible for developing and implementing AIMBE's public policy initiatives on Capitol Hill. Sarah is tasked with increasing the understanding of medical and biological engineering among policy makers and the public, while engaging the bioengineering research community in public policy. She builds partnerships with industry, academia, lawmakers, and U.S. federal agencies to advance biomedical engineering. Sarah directs the AIMBE Scholars Program, which brings post doctoral researchers to Washington to spend a year working on regulatory science and policy at the FDA. She is responsible for organizing AIMBE’s annual congressional briefing series featuring Fellows conducting ground-breaking research, as well as AIMBE’s congressional NIH tour, Public Policy Institute, and more. Sarah previously managed one of the largest science & technology policy fellowship programs in Washington, DC for the Society for Research in Child Development. Sarah received a Bachelor of Science in Sociology and Political Science from Florida State University.