Frank Magnarelli has broad experience developing and managing cost-effective, customer-focused clinical engineering departments in single and multi-hospital settings in the U.S. and in the Middle East. He is a proven innovator with expertise in program development, planning, teaching, organizing, problem solving and motivating staff through empowerment. Magnarelli founded the clinical engineering department at Miami Children’s Hospital in 1990 and served as its director until his retirement in 2006. There, he led a team of managers in establishing an asset management program that reduced hospital-wide maintenance costs by $700,000 every year. He is active in AAMI and the South Florida Association for Biomedical Instrumentation, serves on the advisory board for Keiser College and is a co-founder of the Florida Biomedical Society.