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Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Expert has performed over 500 aortic reconstructions including all procedures and conditions listed above. Mortality for elective cases (not including ruptured aneurysms) is less than 1%. Expert has performed over 2,000 interventional cath lab procedures using all procedures listed above…
Microsurgery, Reconstructive Surgery, Hand Surgery, Breast Reconstruction, Nerve Reconstruction
Expert has significant experience in all aspects of microsurgery. He has an established clinical practice in which microsurgical techniques such as nerve reconstruction, vascularized bone transplantation, replantation, toe transplantation for hand reconstruction, and soft tissue transplantation are routinely utilized for…
Strategy Marketing Design, Pricing, Business Planning & Development
Entrepreneurship is "the process of looking at things in such a way that possible solutions to problems and perceived needs may evolve in venturing.” It is also the willingness to take the risks involved in starting and managing a business.…
Biomaterials and Product Development R&D for Orthopedic, Cardiovascular, and Other Implants
Expert has helped assemble, and been lead author on 510(k) and IDE applications to the FDA. This has often included telephone conversations, and occasionally personal visits, with the FDA to discuss unique aspects of the devices and/or materials in the…
Medical & Surgical Textiles
ABSORBENT STRUCTURES. Expert has studied absorbency in textile materials. He has examined the effects of fiber material, fabric construction factors, and fluid properties on rate of absorbency and capacity to hold fluid under pressure in nonwovens used in surgical and…
Cardiothoracic Surgery, ECMO, SWOG, CPB, Ischemic and Valvular Heart Disease, Esophageal Cancer
EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION (ECMO). Expert is an ECMO Program Director and has extensive experience with neonates, pediatric, and adult patient management. He has a longstanding interest in venovenous gas exchange. He helped develop the double lumen venovenous cannula. He is…
Blood Wetted Devices and Biomaterials
BLOOD-WETTED BIOMATERIAL; CARDIOVASCULAR PROSTHESES; ARTIFICIAL INTERNAL ORGANS. Expert has been involved in the design, development, and evaluation of extracorporeal and implantable artificial internal organs for many years, first with the artificial kidney (including hemodialyzers and those based upon selective absorption)…
Medical Technology
A significant portion of Expert's current activities include maintaining awareness and working knowledge of regulations that impact medical device manufacturers. She has specific experience with new medical device submissions, including combination products. Expert is proficient in total quality systems requirements…
Wound Healing, Combat Casualty Care, Hemostasis, Collagen, Pressure Ulcers, and Keloids
Expert's laboratory at The Wound Healing Center and the Laboratory of Tissue Repair has expertise in a variety of areas related to wound healing, tissue repair, chronic non-healing ulcers, and fibrosis. He and his staff have designed experiments to test…