Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Desig
Overview
My career has encompassed practicing, studying, and teaching design across a range of contexts. I have investigated and applied design engineering, strategic design innovation, and user centred design in maxillofacial, orthopaedic, and cardiovascular fields.
In particular, I have liaised with surgeons, prosthetists, and engineers to develop designs for patient-specific guides and implants in cranio-maxillofacial surgery; and have led the development of publications describing such innovations in peer-reviewed journals. I worked part-time on a Ph.D. to refine quality procedures and to standardise a personalised implant design process. In parallel, I developed and implemented a certified ISO 13485 quality management system for implant design. More recently, I have planned hundreds of robotically-assisted hip and knee replacements, at the cutting edge of orthopaedic surgery.
In my previous role, I led the writing of a successful ARC funding bid on behalf of, and in collaboration with an industrial partner and senior academic investigators. Similarly, I extended my publication record with a range of peer-reviewed contributions on medical design innovation. They addressed mechanical circulatory support specifically, and patient-centred healthcare more generally. This work explored themes of entrepreneurship, design management, usability, quality-of-life, and emotional wellbeing in high-risk scenarios.
At the University of Queensland, I have independently co-ordinated, lectured, and tutored for the brand new Design: Experience (DSGN1200) course, in the new university-wide Bachelor of Design program. I love distilling complex and multi-faceted problems into manageable, testable, and explanatory concepts, especially for students and non-designers.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy of Design
- Bachelor (Honours) of Industrial Design, Loughborough University
Publications
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Journal Article: EDITORIAL
Peel, Sean (2022). EDITORIAL. Journal of Design, Business and Society, 8 (1), 3-7. doi: 10.1386/dbs_00030_2
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Journal Article: Patient names for mechanical circulatory support devices: Developing emotional insights
Wrigley, Cara, Peel, Sean, Ko, Kimmi Keum Hee and Straker, Karla (2021). Patient names for mechanical circulatory support devices: Developing emotional insights. Heart & Lung, 50 (6), 953-967. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2021.08.003
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Journal Article: Designing a dangerous unicorn: lessons from the Theranos case
Straker, Karla, Peel, Sean, Nusem, Erez and Wrigley, Cara (2021). Designing a dangerous unicorn: lessons from the Theranos case. Business Horizons, 64 (4), 525-536. doi: 10.1016/j.bushor.2021.02.016
Publications
Book Chapter
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The role of computer-aided design and three-dimensional printing in posttraumatic correction
Eggbeer, Dominic and Peel, Sean (2020). The role of computer-aided design and three-dimensional printing in posttraumatic correction. Atlas of operative maxillofacial trauma surgery. (pp. 143-162) London, United Kingdom: Springer London. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4471-5616-1_11
Journal Article
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Peel, Sean (2022). EDITORIAL. Journal of Design, Business and Society, 8 (1), 3-7. doi: 10.1386/dbs_00030_2
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Patient names for mechanical circulatory support devices: Developing emotional insights
Wrigley, Cara, Peel, Sean, Ko, Kimmi Keum Hee and Straker, Karla (2021). Patient names for mechanical circulatory support devices: Developing emotional insights. Heart & Lung, 50 (6), 953-967. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2021.08.003
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Designing a dangerous unicorn: lessons from the Theranos case
Straker, Karla, Peel, Sean, Nusem, Erez and Wrigley, Cara (2021). Designing a dangerous unicorn: lessons from the Theranos case. Business Horizons, 64 (4), 525-536. doi: 10.1016/j.bushor.2021.02.016
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Peel, Sean, Ko, Kimmi Keum Hee, Nusem, Erez, Straker, Karla and Wrigley, Cara (2021). A systematic review of psychosocial design considerations for the next generation of mechanical circulatory support. Heart and Lung, 50 (3), 397-406. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2021.01.021
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Peel, Sean (2020). Human factors and design for medical devices: a conversation with Dr Ian Culverhouse, co-founder at Rebus Medical. Journal of Design, Business & Society, 6 (2), 279-286. doi: 10.1386/dbs_00015_7
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Standardizing the patient-specific medical device design process via a paper-based pro-forma
Peel, Sean, Eggbeer, Dominic and Dorrington, Peter (2020). Standardizing the patient-specific medical device design process via a paper-based pro-forma. Journal of Design, Business and Society, 6 (2), 233-258. doi: 10.1386/dbs_00013_1
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Budak, Igor, Kiralj, Aleksandar, Sokac, Mario, Santosi, Zeljko, Eggbeer, Dominic and Peel, Sean (2019). Computer-aided methods for single-stage fibrous dysplasia excision and reconstruction in the zygomatico-orbital complex. Rapid Prototyping Journal, 25 (4), 728-737. doi: 10.1108/rpj-05-2018-0116
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Burton, Hanna E., Peel, Sean and Eggbeer, Dominic (2018). Reporting fidelity in the literature for computer aided design and additive manufacture of implants and guides. Additive Manufacturing, 23, 362-373. doi: 10.1016/j.addma.2018.08.027
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Additively manufactured versus conventionally pressed cranioplasty implants: an accuracy comparison
Peel, Sean, Eggbeer, Dominic, Burton, Hanna, Hanson, Hayley and Evans, Peter L. (2018). Additively manufactured versus conventionally pressed cranioplasty implants: an accuracy comparison. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 232 (9), 949-961. doi: 10.1177/0954411918794718
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Peel, Sean, Bhatia, Satyajeet, Eggbeer, Dominic, Morris, Daniel S. and Hayhurst, Caroline (2017). Evolution of design considerations in complex craniofacial reconstruction using patient-specific implants. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 231 (6), 509-524. doi: 10.1177/0954411916681346
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Additively manufactured maxillofacial implants and guides - Achieving routine use
Peel, Sean and Eggbeer, Dominic (2016). Additively manufactured maxillofacial implants and guides - Achieving routine use. Rapid Prototyping Journal, 22 (1), 189-199. doi: 10.1108/RPJ-01-2014-0004
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Post-traumatic zygomatic osteotomy and orbital floor reconstruction
Peel, Sean, Eggbeer, Dominic, Sugar, Adrian and Llewelyn, Peter (2016). Post-traumatic zygomatic osteotomy and orbital floor reconstruction. Rapid Prototyping Journal, 22 (6), 878-886. doi: 10.1108/RPJ-03-2015-0037
