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One-liner bio

Katie Smiley is a design researcher at GE Healthcare who speaks about user research inside regulated medical device development, communicating complex findings across disciplines, and designing for women's health as both researcher and patient.

Short bio

Katie Smiley is an Architect of User Experience Research at GE Healthcare, where she leads discovery research on pre-market medical devices across cardiology, imaging, and clinical AI. Trained as a cultural anthropologist and industrial designer, she has taught design research at Tufts and RISD and writes about health equity and the patient experience.

Long bio

Katie Smiley is an Architect of User Experience Research at GE Healthcare, where she leads discovery research on pre-market medical devices — work spanning interventional cardiology, MR hardware and patient experience, hospital operations, and AI clinical decision support. She previously led design research and strategy for AI-enabled radiology at IBM Watson Health, and began her career conducting audience research for museums including the Exploratorium and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Katie holds a Master's in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Bachelor's in Cultural Anthropology from Northwestern University, and has taught design research at Tufts and RISD. A breast cancer survivor, she writes and speaks about women's health, access to early detection, and what the healthcare system looks like from the patient's side of it.