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Scientific Advisory Board
LTG Ronald R. Blanck
USA (Ret.), DO, Scientific Advisory Board, is Vice Chairman in of Martin, Blanck & Associates. Prior to joining Martin-Blanck,
Dr. Blanck served as President of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. Blanck began his military
career in 1968 as a medical officer and battalion surgeon in Vietnam. He retired 32 years later as a Lieutenant General and
Surgeon General of the U.S. Army and commander of the U.S. Army Medical Command -- with more than 46,000 military personnel and
26,000 civilian employees throughout the world. During his distinguished military career, Dr. Blanck also served as commander
of Walter Reed Medical Center North Atlantic Region Medical Command and director of professional services and chief of Medical
Corps Affairs for the U.S. Army Surgeon General. Other assignments included assistant chief of the General Medicine Service in
the Department of Medicine at Walter Reed, assistant dean of student affairs at the Uniformed Services University School of
Medicine and chief of the Department of Medicine at Brooke Army Medical Center.
Clifford Martin, Ph.D.
Scientific Advisory Board, is President of Odyssey Consortium, a high technology systems analysis and design company. Previously,
he was Vice-President of Engineering for the Silicon Valley Group, a cofounder of Taunton Technology, Inc. (later known as VISX),
and a senior manager with Perkin-Elmer Corporation.
Reuben Mezrich, M.D., Ph.D.
Scientific Advisory
Board, is the Chairman of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the University of Maryland? School of
Medicine. Prior to going to medical school, Dr. Mezrich worked as an electrical engineer at Johnson & Johnson and had a key role
in the development of ultrasound mammography systems to detect breast cancer. Dr. Mezrich holds 25 patents.
Jay H. Sanders, M.D.
Scientific Advisory Board, is President and CEO of The Global Telemedicine Group, Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine (Adjunct), and a founding board member of the American Telemedicine Association where he serves
as President Emeritus. He is a consultant to the Army? Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) at Ft.
Detrick, as well as to the CIO of the Military Health System, and previously to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA), and served as a consultant to the Air Force Center for Telehealth and Theater Informatics, and was a member of the
Department of Defense Telemedicine Board of Directors with the Surgeon Generals of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. He is a
consultant to Vesalius Ventures, a Venture Capital Firm focusing on telehealth, medical informatics, and medical sensors,
and was a consultant to Columbia University School of Medicine and their Center for Advanced Technology, and was formerly
Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Medicine and Professor of Medicine and Surgery and Director of the Telemedicine
Program at the Medical College of Georgia, where he held the Eminent Scholar Chair in Telemedicine.
Bergitta Smith
FACMPE, Scientific Advisory Board, is the Executive Vice President of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, a division of
the Association of American Medical Colleges. She has been the Chief Operating Officer of the National Patient Safety Foundation,
the Assistant Executive Director of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the Director of Medical Staff Affairs at the
Philadelphia Children? Hospital, and Executive Director of the Retina Service of Wills Eye Hospital. She has also served as the
Chairman of the Board of the Medical Group Management Association and chaired its Finance and Audit and Investment Committees.
Neal Walker, M.D.
Scientific Advisory Board, is co-founder of Octagon Research Solutions. He is a Board-certified practicing dermatologist with
nearly 10 years of experience as a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry. Neal has worked as a medical consultant for Johnson
& Johnson, AstraMerck and AstraZeneca. Additionally, he has served on the Advisory committee safety team for the prescription to
OTC switch of Prilosec.
Les Wold, M.D.
Scientific Advisory Board, is JARI Research Corporation's Chief Medical Director. Dr. Wold assumed this position in July 2006.
As chief medical director, Dr. Wold plans and directs all aspects of JARI's medical policies and programs. He is responsible for
strategic clinical relationships with physicians and health care providers. He ensures all clinical programs align with JARI's
goals and priorities. Before joining JARI, Les had a distinguished 25-year career with the Mayo Clinic. Most recently he was
professor of pathology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and emeritus chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and
Pathology.
Stanley Alterman, Ph.D.
Special Consultant for Government Relations, has more than thirty years experience in the Defense industry, both in government
and private sectors. During the Reagan administration he served as Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of Defense. After leaving
government service, Dr. Alterman founded Alterman Associates Inc., a defense consulting firm. He has served as a member of and/or
consultant to the Defense Science Board, the Air Force Science Advisory Board, the ASD Division Advisory Group of Argonne National
Labs, the Air Force Director of Test and Evaluation, the FAA, the Air Force Space Command and a consultant to defense industry
firms including Lockheed Martin, L-3 Communications, and ITT. Prior to his term in the Pentagon, Stan worked at Raytheon
Corporation where he was Executive Vice President of the New Jersey Electronic Warfare Operation. Prior to this he was Director
of Electronic Warfare and Development at ITT Avionics Division.