John Anderson

Who is John Anderson?

Professor John Anderson was a co-founder, a director and the chief technology officer of Intelesens Ltd. and HeartSine® Technologies Inc. Professor Anderson formed the Northern Ireland Bio-Engineering Centre and was its first director. He was also the Head of the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. He was the head of BioEngineering at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Northern Ireland, when the world’s first mobile coronary care unit was launched in 1967.

Later he was responsible for the development of the world’s first portable defibrillator designed for use outside of the hospital, which was subsequently manufactured and sold throughout the world. Professor Anderson received a M.Phil and D.Phil in BioEngineering and was granted a Personal Chair in Medical Electronics in 1990. In 1994 he was made a founding Fellow of the Biological Engineering Society. A Chartered Scientist and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He published over 300 papers in the field of bioengineering research and holds 40 patents in the field. He was previously an active member of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation standards committees for conventional defibrillation and semi automatic defibrillation.