Leanne West is a Regents Researcher and the Chief Engineer of Pediatric Technologies at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she acts as innovation catalyst for medical devices. West is also the President of the International Children’s Advisory Network (iCAN), a non-profit whose members are youth with complex, chronic, or rare diagnoses. West serves on several Boards and Steering Committees, including the Board of Patient Focused Medicines Development (PFMD) and the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC) National Evaluation System for health Technology coordinating center (NESTcc) governing committee, as well as the MDIC Health Economics and Patient Value committee. She is also on the executive team for the International Society for Pediatric Innovation (iSPI), the Board of Georgia Technology Authority (GTA), the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Digital Health Board, the Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN) Board, and the steering committee for the Pediatric Trials Network (PTN).