The Team
Built out of the Biomedical Research and Design Hub at Montana State University. Advised by Dr. Bernadette McCrory, PhD, MPH, PE, CHFP.
Ryan Kalsher
Operations & Strategy
MBA. BS Civil Engineering. Previously at Deloitte, supporting federal defense and infrastructure initiatives. Leads operations, supply chain, and go-to-market for Coincident.
Mike Poplin
Software & Systems
Fifteen years building production software across healthcare, government, and consumer platforms. Platform architecture, real-time systems, distributed infrastructure. MS candidate, Industrial Engineering, Montana State University.
Alex Westlund
Finance & Risk
MS candidate, Industrial Engineering, Montana State University. Financial engineering and quantitative risk modeling. Private investor. Graduate research fellow, BioReD Hub.
Faculty Advisor
Bernadette McCrory, PhD, MPH, PE, CHFP
Co-Director, BioReD Hub · Montana State University
Department of Industrial & Management Systems Engineering
Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) · Certified Human Factors Professional (CHFP) · PhD, Industrial & Systems Engineering · MPH
Dr. McCrory co-directs the Biomedical Research and Design Hub at Montana State University, an interdisciplinary research center on biomedical systems engineering, healthcare system improvement, and translational health sciences. Her work spans surgical human-factors engineering, rural health-system access, and the design of safer clinical workflows.
Coincident Systems was built inside Dr. McCrory's department, drawing on the BioReD Hub's clinical partnerships across rural and frontier Montana. She advises the team on research methodology, healthcare systems engineering, and the path from prototype to clinical translation.