Dr Peter Dorrington

POSITION:
Technology Translator

EMAIL ADDRESS:
pdorrington-pdr@cardiffmet.ac.uk 

BIOGRAPHY:
Peter Dorrington joined PDR as Technology Translator for our new Centre for patient-specific medical product development (within the Medical Applications Group). This centre has been created to improve the links between the clinical need and physical device creation for patient-specific products. Having completed his undergraduate degree in Product Design Peter spent a number of years in industry as a design engineer. Further work as Research Officer with the Manufacturing Advisory Service followed, before being awarded an EPSRC doctoral training grant to study at Cardiff Business School. Peter’s doctoral studies investigate how aspects of innovation management influence the success of emerging technologies in different organisational settings.

KEYWORDS :
Medical Applications Group, Patient Specific Products, Manufacturing