T. Kim Parnell, PhD, PE

Parnell Experience Summary:

Dr. Parnell is a Stanford PhD and MSME in Mechanical Engineering, a BES from Georgia Tech, and also a Registered Professional Mechanical Engineer in California.  He is an ASME Fellow and an IEEE Senior Member, and also a Member of ASM International and SAE.  He has over 30 years of consulting experience including design, regulatory, and failure/reliability issues of a variety of medical devices, medical equipment, consumer products, and other devices spanning a wide range of systems and applications.  

Dr. Parnell has testified in both trial and depositions for patent cases, product liability, personal injury, and other types of litigation.  He has authored numerous expert reports and provided 8 IPR Declarations and testified in a patent trial.  All matters are detailed on his CV.

Dr. Parnell has direct experience with medical devices and durable medical equipment including spinal, orthopedic, cardiovascular, ventilation, and other applications.  His work includes design and failure analysis aspects of medical devices, user interfaces, battery technology, leads, and electro-mechanical devices.  He was recently involved with litigation against the manufacturer of a defective ACL device. Dr. Parnell has performed extensive finite element simulations for these products for design and in support of litigation.  Dr. Parnell taught full-time in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Santa Clara University for two years and taught courses on Materials, Manufacturing, and Mechanical Design. He was also a Visiting Professor at Stanford University.