About UIA

Leadership

2025 - 2026 Board of Directors

OFFICERS

Margaret Lucas President University of Glasgow

Kevin Houser Vice President Ethicon Endo-Surgery

Andrew Mathieson, Secretary Ultra Marine

Brian Julius, Treasurer APC

Dominick DeAngelis Immediate Past President Kulicke &Soffa Ind

DIRECTORS

David Grewell, Northern Illinois University

Rebecca Cleary Nami Surgical

Daniel Cotter Integra Life

Sunita Chauhan Monash University

Tony Crandall Independent Consultant

Andrew Feeney, University of Glasgow

David Grewell, Northern Illinois University

Myra Flitcroft, Moog

Mark Hodnett NPL

Rasmus Lou-Moeller CTS-Ferroperm

Ron Manna Square One

Mark Schafer, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, WVU

Jay Sheehan Integra Life

Ron Staut, APC

Dan Voic, Bioventus

Dong Wang, University of Exeter

Fran Rickenbach, Executive Director

Past Presidents

UIA has been serving the ultrasonics industry since 1958. Here is the roster of distinguished leaders of the UIA and its predecessor, the Ultrasonic Manufacturer Association.

2018 - 2023	Dominick DeAngelis	Kulicke & Soffa
2017 - 2018	Tony Crandall	Biosonix
2015 – 2016	Daniel Cotter	Integra LifeSciences Corp.
2010 – 2014	Mark Hodnett	National Physical Laboratory
2008 – 2009	Robert Muratore	Riverside Research Institute
2006 – 2008	Foster Stulen	Ethicon-Endo Surgery
2005 – 2006	Tom Kirkland	Dukane Corp
2002 – 2005	Ronald Manna	Misonix, Inc.
2001 – 2002	Jeff Vaitekunas	Ethicon-Endo Surgery
1999 – 2001	Mark Schafer	Perceptron
1998 – 1999	Janet Devine	Sonobond Ultrasonics
1996 – 1997	Alan Broadwin	Ainslie
1994 – 1995	Robert L. Armstrong	Branson Ultrasonics Corp.
1991 – 1993	Alan Broadwin	Ainslie
1988 – 1990	Howard Alliger	Heat Systems Ultrasonics
1984 – 1987	Carl Stohl	Blackstone Ultrasonic
1982 – 1983	Roger Robbins	Dukane Corp
1980 – 1981	Robert Bongo	Sonics & Materials, Inc
1979	J. E. Smallwood	Bendix Corp.
1978	James Anderson	Linden Laboratories
1975 – 1977	Roger Robbins	Dukane Corp.

Prior to 1975, the Ultrasonic Manufacturers Association (UMA):

1973 – 1974	Duncan Hunt	Cavitron Ultrasonics Corp.
1971 – 1972	Edward Seidler	Ultrasonics Systems, Inc.
1970	Cary Evans	Cavitron Ultrasonics Corp.
1968 – 1969	John Antonevich	Blackstone Corp.
1964 – 1967	Edward Cook	Crest Ultrasonics Corp.
1962 – 1963	James Fisher	Sprague Electric Co.
1960 – 1961	Stanley Jacke	Branson Ultrasonic Co.
1958 – 1959	Jack Welch	Sheffield Corp.
1956 – 1957	William Potthoff	Aeroprojects, Inc.