Scott Simon received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego completing his degrees in 1988. Postdoctoral training in Immunology and Inflammation Biology was initiated at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, and completed at the University of New Mexico and the National Flow Cytometry Resource at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1993. He then joined the faculty at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine’s Section of Leukocyte Biology, Dept. of Pediatrics in Houston, TX, where he remained for 7 years and earned an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association and a Whittaker Investigator award. Scott has a lengthy record of progressive leadership and service to biomedical engineering research and education and the biomedical engineering profession. He was recruited as one of the founding faculty in a new Biomedical Engineering department at UC Davis in 1999, and rose to the rank of full Professor in 2002. He served as Vice Chair of the department for four years and is currently Deputy Editor of the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2005 and a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) in 2010. His service to AIMBE includes the Membership and Awards Committee (2009-present). His service to BMES involves Board of Directors (2004-2007), Chair Affiliations Committee (2005-2010), Chair Awards Committee (2010-2013), and Session chair (numerous years).