Michael Finn-Henry is a climber and researcher.
Biography
Finn-Henry was educated at Carroll School and the Brimmer and May School. Later, he studied at Vanderbilt University, where he was a recipient of the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Class of 1981 Honor Scholarship.
Finn-Henry began climbing as part of a dyslexia therapy program. He later received a bronze medal at the IFSC Youth World Championships in 2017.
In 2021, Finn-Henry, representing the United States, won the North American Cup Series. Subsequently, due to his dual citizenship, he competed as a member of the Canadian national team. Since then, he has broken the Canadian national record twice: first, at the 2022 Chamonix men's World Cup with a time of 5.69 seconds and again at the 2023 Salt Lake City men's World Cup with a time of 5.59 seconds.
As a researcher, Finn-Henry worked in Professor Michael Goldfarb's mechanical engineering lab. Alongside Olivia Busk and two VUMC surgical fellows, he co-developed a hemorrhage control device named EndoShunt. This innovation received funding from NSF's I-Corps program in collaboration with Vanderbilt's VISE.
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Living people
American rock climbers
Canadian rock climbers
Vanderbilt University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)