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    Stephaney Shanks

    Director, Integrative Health and Performance Sciences
    BlueHalo
    Dayton, OH, United States

    Dr. Stephaney Shanks is currently the Director for Integrative Health and Performance Sciences of UES, a BlueHalo company, in Dayton, OH. Throughout her career, she has fostered a culture of collaboration and excellence to drive innovations that will solve complex human health-relevant challenges. She has collaborated with groups across the United States and is passionate about developing technologies that function in real-world environments. Stephaney has authored several peer-reviewed manuscripts on this topic and a book chapter related to rapid detection capabilities for national security applications. Stephaney received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of South Florida that served as the foundation for her development and evaluation of portable biosensor technologies for the Army while at the Center for Biological Defense in Tampa, FL. She then joined UES in Dayton, OH, with an initial focus on real-time systems for detection of human performance and disease biomarkers. Over the past decade, Stephaney has led numerous teams across contracts for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing worth over $200M that have focused on development of wearable, real-time technologies to detect signatures of human molecular responses resulting from stress to infectious agents and exposure to environmental contaminants in military-relevant scenarios. She is also the Industry Chairperson for the NanoBio Materials Consortiumy. Stephaney has also participated in the NextFlex Human Monitoring System Technical Working Group for several years where she has assisted in helping roadmaps to improve the manufacturing readiness level of novel human performance-focused technologies. During her time as the NBMC Industry Chairperson, she also had the pleasure to assist in the development and implementation of the NBMC Internship program in collaboration with AFRL that provides opportunities for college graduates and graduate students to engage in hands-on research focused on developing novel monitoring, augmentation, and diagnostic capabilities. Lastly, Stephaney is an inaugural member of the SEMI Smart MedTech Initiative’s Governing Council that aims to reduce the time needed to deliver better digital health products and solutions through focus on topics such as Wearables and Artificial Intelligence applications to drive tangible improvements in healthcare delivery and outcomes.


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