Jules Sherman, MFA Design

Jules Sherman is the Director of the Biodesign Program at Children’s National Hospital in Washington DC. Jules works with clinicians and engineers to design pediatric medical devices, and helps guide entrepreneurs that are awarded grants from the Alliance For Pediatric Device Innovation. In addition, Jules is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland’s Fischell Department of Bioengineering in the A.James Clark School of Engineering.

In the past, Jules co-developed and co-taught various healthcare design classes at Stanford’s d.school with clinicians from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. These 1 or 2-quarter classes focused on designing products or services that improve healthcare disparities, pediatric and maternal care. In parallel she worked as a product designer for Stanford Medicine at the Safety Learning Lab for Neonatal and Maternal Care.

The results of Jules’s work include 12 published articles, 6 issued patents, 3 pending patents, and a product acquisition by Lansinoh.

Before spending the last thirteen years focused on healthcare design, Jules developed consumer products for some of the world's most well-known brands including Costco, Walmart, Target, Restoration Hardware, and Limited Brands. She holds a BFA in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA in Design from Stanford University.

Jules is the mother of an amazing teenager, Kyle, and the guardian of a released CCI dog, Ingrid.