Expertise

• Initiate, fund, develop and manage health information and biomedical programs ~Administration of medical and health-related programs
• Due diligence evaluation of medical research/biotechnology
• Intellectual property/technology transfer/patent process
• Medical writing
• Claims analysis/medical outcomes

Experience

• Principal Consultant, Medical Evidence Informatics Health information outsourcing company
• Consultant to Medical Science Partners Venture capital company and co-principal of satellite fund
• Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Brown University School of Medicine
• Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Human Behavior Brown University School of Medicine
• Research Director in Molecular Neurobiology Brown University Affiliated Hospitals
• Assistant and Associate professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry Harvard Medical School
• Research Director in Molecular Neurobiology Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital
• Research and Fellow Massachusetts GeneralHospital

Director of Industry-Sponsored Research Programs

• Mallinckrodt Medical, Inc. Area: R & D on a new diagnostic imaging agent for dementia
• Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Area: R & D on a new approach for the treatment of Alzheimer's
• Exemplar, Inc. Area: Development and testing of a transgenic rat for the identification of anti-Alzheimer drugs
• Medtronic, Inc. Area: R & D on devicesfor drug delivery
• Hybridon, Inc. Area: R & D on a new pharmaceutical for Alzheimer's Diseas

Biomedical R & D and Consulting Experience

• Biotechnology
• Molecular biology
• Nervous system disorders
• Disorders of aging
• Drug delivery
• Health policy/Medicare/Medicaid claims analysis
• Health information database organization and delivery
• Radio imaging: Diagnostics and therapeutics, Clinical laboratories, Pharmaceuticals, Medical outcomes research

Honors & Publications

• Publishedin 16 journals
• Author of over 200 medical research publications in clinical genetics and molecular neuroscience
• Over 100 lectures and conferences on medical R & D and biotechnology
• Issued patents and 3 patents pending

Awards and Honors in Medicine and Medical Research

• 1998 Cited in Who's Who in Medicine and Health care
• 1995 Cited in Who's Who in the East
• 1990 Metropolitan Life Foundation Award for Alzheimer Research
• 1988 Sandoz Foundation Award for Gerontological Research
• 1985 Wood Kalb Foundation Award
• 1995 Upjohn ward, Massachusetts General Hospital
• 1985 McKnight Foundation Neuroscience Development Aware
• 1986 Cited in American Men and Women in Science
• 1981 MacArthur Foundation Award

Education

• M.S. Dartmouth Medical School (anticipated degree)
• Field: Health Outcomes
• A.M. Brown University
• Ad eundem (honorary)
• Field: Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry
• M. Phil. Yale University
• Field: Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry
• M.D. Duke University Medical School
• Field: Medicine
• B.S. City University of New York
• Field: Chemistry and Biology