Lyn Thayer Denend

Lecturer

Lyn Thayer Denend

Lecturer, Stanford School of Medicine

Additional Administrative Titles

Director for Academic Programs, Stanford Biodesign

Teaching Statement

Lyn Denend teaches health technology innovation with her colleagues from Stanford Biodesign. Through an experiential, team-based, hands-on approach, she helps equip aspiring innovators with a repeatable process for identifying important unmet health-related needs, inventing solutions to address them, and preparing to implement those solutions into patient care.

Bio

Lyn Denend is Director for Academic Programs at Stanford Biodesign and a Lecturer in the Stanford School of Medicine. In her Biodesign role, she leads curriculum development and program execution across Stanford Biodesign’s portfolio of educational offerings. She teaches numerous courses, including the graduate-level Biodesign Innovation class and the undergraduate Needs Finding in Healthcare program. Lyn spearheaded Stanford Biodesign’s efforts to codify its core innovation process, is the principal author of the textbook Biodesign: The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies (1st and 2nd editions), and led the development of the online teaching materials available at ebiodesign.org and biodesignguide.stanford.edu. She also helps disseminate best practices in health technology innovation education as an organizing member of the Biomedical Engineering-Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship Alliance (BME-IDEA) in the United States and Asia Pacific. Prior to Stanford Biodesign, she created multimedia teaching materials at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she authored more than 100 case studies. Lyn was a Senior Manager with Ernst Young’s management consulting practice. She earned an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a BA in Communications from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Academic Degrees

  • BA, Communications, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1989
  • MBA, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 1996

Academic Appointments

  • Lecturer, Stanford School of Medicine, 2021–2024

Professional Experience

  • Senior Consultant, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (formerly Ernst & Young Consulting), 1996-2003

Awards and Honors

  • Stanford Medicine, Inspiring Change Leadership Award, 2014

Publications

Journal Articles

Nassir Mokarram, Lyn Thayer Denend, Johnathan Lyon, Douglas Rait, Todd Brinton, Josh Makower, Paul Yock
Annals of Biomedical Engineering
June 2021 Vol. 49 Pages 1587–1592
Lyn Thayer Denend, Shiqin Xu, Paul Yock, Ross Venook
Biomedical Engineering Education
May 24, 2021 Vol. 1 Pages 291–300
Janene H. Fuerch, Paul Wang, Ryan Van Wert, Lyn Thayer Denend
Surgical Innovation
February 18, 2021 Vol. 28 Issue 1
Lyn Thayer Denend, Stacey McCutcheon, Mike Regan, Maria Sainz, Paul Yock, Dan Azagury
Annals of Biomedical Engineering
February 20, 2020 Vol. 48 Pages 1573–1586
James Wall, Eva Hellman, Lyn Thayer Denend, Douglas Rait, Ross Venook, Linda Lucian, Dan Azagury, Paul Yock, Todd J. Brinton
Annals of Biomedical Engineering
2017 Vol. 45 Pages 1163–1171
Rohini Paul, Stacey Paris McCutcheon, Jenna Penelope Tregarthen, Lyn Thayer Denend, Stefanos Zenios
American Journal of Nursing
August 2014 Vol. 114 Issue 8 Pages 34–44

Books

Stefanos Zenios, Joshua Makower, Paul Yock, Todd J Brinton, Uday N. Kumar, Lyn Thayer Denend, Thomas M. Krummel
Cambridge University Press
2009

Academic Publications

Lyn Thayer Denend, Paul Yock, Dan Azagury
Harvard Business Review
November 6, 2020
Lyn Thayer Denend, Amy Lockwood, Michele Barry, Stefanos Zenios
Stanford Social Innovation Review
2014

Stanford Case Studies

Lyn Denend, Tim Elliott, Stefanos Zenios
2013
Lyn Denend, Tim Elliott, Stefanos Zenios
2013
Lyn Denend, Haim Mendelson, Stefanos Zenios
2010
Lyn Denend, Marianna Samson, Cynthia Yock, Paul Yock, Stefanos Zenios
2010
Nathan Blair, Lyn Denend, Stefanos Zenios
2010
Will Boenig, Lyn Denend, Ruby Majumdar, Daniel Riskin, Stefanos Zenios
2010
Lyn Denend, Anicham Kumarasamy, Stefanos Zenios
2010
Robert Burgelman, Lyn Denend, Robert Siegel
2010
Robert Burgelman, Lyn Denend, Robert Siegel
2010
Lyn Denend, Erica Plambeck
2010
Annie Adams, Lyn Denend, Sarah Garrett, Whit Keuer, Garth Saloner
2009
Bruce McKern, Lyn Denend
2009
Robert Burgelman, Lyn Denend
2008
Lyn Denend, Erica Plambeck, Fraser Stark
2008
Robert Chess, Lyn Denend, Stefanos Zenios
2008
Robert Chess, Lyn Denend, Sara Gaviser Leslie, Stefanos Zenios
2008
Robert Chess, Lyn Denend, Sara Gaviser Leslie, Stefanos Zenios
2008
Victoria Chang, Lyn Denend, R. McKern, Katya Reuk
2008
Lyn Denend, Erica Plambeck
2007
Robert Burgelman, Lyn Denend, Robert Siegel
2006
Robert Chess, Lyn Denend, Stefanos Zenios
2006
Robert Chess, Lyn Denend, Stefanos Zenios
2005
Robert Chess, Lyn Denend, Stefanos Zenios
2005
Robert Burgelman, Lyn Denend, Robert Siegel
2005
Lyn Denend, R. McKern
2005
Robert Burgelman, Lyn Denend, Robert Siegel
2004
Lyn Denend, R. McKern
2004
Lyn Denend, Charles Holloway, Hau Lee, Terry Taylor
2000

Stanford University Affiliations