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Dr. Kriewall is presently a Program Director at the Kern Family Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to driving entrepreneurial education in engineering pedagogy at private universities across the United States. He is also President Emeritus of Wisconsin Lutheran College located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Kriewall was Vice President of Research and Development at Medtronic Xomed, where his teams developed surgical tools for ear-nose-throat (ENT) surgery. Earlier in his career he was Director of Research and Development at Medtronic Perfusion Systems, and Technical Manager at 3M Cardiovascular Systems, where he was responsible for the development of cardiopulmonary bypass systems. While at 3M, he was the technical lead for the first-ever cochlear implant to receive FDA approval in 1984.

Dr. Kriewall holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Michigan and Stanford University, respectively, and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Michigan where he served on their faculty for eight years before entering industry in 1981. He left Michigan as an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology where he conducted research in the field of perinatal medicine.

Dr. Kriewall is a Fellow of the American Institute of Engineering in Medicine and Biology. He has authored 19 publications in scientific journals, presented at numerous national and international meetings, written chapters in medical text books, and he is a co-inventor named on five patents.