Benton Chuter

Medical Devices

As a physician-engineer, I design medical devices that move from the bench to the bedside — balloon catheters, clinical VR systems, and low-cost training tools built for real clinical use.

Low-compliance angioplasty balloon system

Flux PD · lead design engineer

Led the design, manufacture, and testing of a novel angioplasty balloon system, including design modifications to low-compliance balloons that minimize inflation-induced straightening. Presented at the VEITH Symposium (2019); abstract published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery.

CHARIOT clinical devices

Stanford Chariot Program · lead design engineer (Lucile Packard Children's Hospital)

Designed and manufactured devices to improve the perioperative experience of pediatric patients, adapting consumer technology for the clinical environment:

Patents