Dr. Pras Pathmanathan is a senior scientist at the Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories (OSEL), the regulatory science research Office within FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). His research focuses on methods for establishing the credibility of computational models, covering the wide range of models relevant to medical devices, with a focus on physiological models including computational cardiac models. He leads or collaborates in numerous initiatives advancing computational modeling in healthcare, including co-founding and co-Chairing FDA’s Modeling and Simulation Working Group, and leading OSEL’s regulatory science program on Credibility of Computational Models. He received a BA in mathematics from Cambridge University and an MSc and PhD in computational cardiology from Oxford University.