Carestream NDT Digital R&D leader wins esteemed award
12/01/2023
Lauded for her efforts in innovation, Dr Lynn La Pietra, Digital Research and Development (R&D) Leader in Carestream’s Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) group, has won a Silver Stevie Award in the Most Innovative Woman of the Year – Technology category at the 2022 Stevie Awards for Women in Business. Lynn has been instrumental in developing products to detect problems in complex infrastructures across industries. 
An innovation translator and one of few women leaders in the NDT industry, Lynn relies on cross-functional communication and collaboration to bring products to life, drawing on the core strengths of her team.
“I am among a field of very talented women with many outstanding credentials. Just being a finalist has been a tremendous honour,” Lynn said. “As women in business, we recognise how diverse thought can be transformative to technology and to industry, so thank you to the Stevie Awards for recognising our gifts and achievements.”
Carestream NDT’s breakthrough technology, its first non-glass large-format detector, the HPX-DR 3543 PE, is an illustration of Lynn’s approach: collaboration yields success. She directed developing technology, originally designed for a medical device, towards NDT, a completely different industry.
The new next-generation non-glass detector is built for durability and reliability in harsh environments. It is the culmination of collaboration within Carestream NDT and customers, leveraging technology to address unique needs. It resolves a challenge: glass used in a detector panel could break, resulting in downtime and associated expenses.
“With over 25 years in research, I have found there can be a multiplicative power to one’s own innovative abilities, by combining with another or, even better, a team: it is the collaborative power that can bring forth grand innovation,” Lynn said. “I am so grateful and proud of my team, for their dedication and their multiplicative innovative spirit.”
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honour women executives, entrepreneurs, employees and the companies they run worldwide. More than 1500 entries were submitted this year for consideration in more than 100 categories, including Executive of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, Company of the Year, Start-up of the Year, Women Helping Women and Women Run Workplace of the Year. Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners were determined by the average scores of more than 200 business professionals around the world, working on eight juries.
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