Omar Badawi, PharmD, MPH, FCCM is the Director of Medical Device Safety for the National Evaluation System for health Technology Coordinating Center (NESTcc) where his primary role is in the development of an active surveillance program for medical device safety. Prior to NESTcc, he led the research for developing product-related predictive algorithms and decision support tools for acute care telehealth systems at Philips Healthcare and was the Program Manager for the Philips eICU Research Institute which supports collaborative research between industry, academia and clinicians using de-identified clinical data representing over 6 million ICU patients. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a Master in Public Health degree with a focus in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is also a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.