Research Interests

  • Pediatric medical devices
  • Regulatory science
  • Clinical trials

Biography

  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Smith Child Health Outcomes, Research, and Evaluation Center, Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
  • Assistant Professor (Pediatrics), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Director, Medical Device Clinical Trials Unit, Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics (CTIP)

Grzegorz Zapotoczny, PhD, specializes in pediatric medical device innovation and regulatory science research.
 
As the Medical Device Clinical Trials Unit Director for The Consortium for Technology Innovation in Pediatrics (CTIP), an FDA-funded pediatric device accelerator, Dr. Zapotoczny serves as the regulatory expert for medical product development, designs and executes clinical evidence generation programs, and collaborates with industry partners on SBIR/STTR grants.
 
Dr. Zapotoczny aims to address the most important component missing from pediatric innovation: simultaneously engaging clinicians, engineers, regulators, hospital administrators, patients, and the business community in the process of assessment and development of technology.

Education and Background

  • MS, University of Southern California 2021
  • PhD, University of North Carolina 2016
  • MS, University of Wroclaw 2010

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