Advanced Maternal–Fetal Monitoring SolutionsSM

Medical Advisory Board

Jerrold T. Bushberg, Ph.D.

Clinical Professor of Radiology and Director of Health Physics Programs at UC Davis

Dr. Bushberg received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Radiological Physics/Health Physics from Purdue University and has served as a consultant in Nuclear Medicine, Health Physics, and Radiation Biology to numerous national and state organizations. Dr. Bushberg was appointed as a member of the main scientific council of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement (NCRP) as well as its Scientific Advisory Committee on Radiation Protection in Medicine.

Dr. Bushberg is a diplomate of the American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine and the American Board of Medical Physics. He holds national board certification in several fields related to medical physics and radiation protection and is also is an expert on the biological effects and safety of non-ionizing radiation.

Maurice L. Druzin, M.D.

Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Stanford University School of Medicine

Dr. Druzin also serves as the Director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program and Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program and is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Stanford School of Medicine. He is the Chief of the Section of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Co-Director of the Johnson Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Services at Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.

Dr. Druzin completed a six-year combined premedical and medical school training program at the University of Witwaterstrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, a rotating internship at St. Luke’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado and residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Colorado Medical Center Affiliated Hospitals. His fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine was completed at the University of Southern California Medical Center, Women’s Hospital in Los Angeles, California. He was Chief of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cornell University Medical College before moving to Stanford in 1991. Dr. Druzin’s major areas of interest are in clinical investigation of autoimmune disorders in pregnancy, recurrent pregnancy loss, medical complications of pregnancy and fetal assessment, and innovative methods of education in Obstetrics and Gynecology. He has authored more than 100 publications.

William M. Gilbert, M.D.

Clinical Professor at UC Davis in Maternal Fetal Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Regional Medical Director of Women’s Services at Sutter Health

Dr. Gilbert received his undergraduate degree from Westminster College with a BA in Mathematics and Chemistry. He received his medical degree from University of Missouri-Columbia and completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

Dr. Gilbert completed a Dreyfus Foundation Fellowship at Kings’ College Hospital in London, England from 1986-1987 and completed a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship at the University of California, San Diego from 1987-1989. In 1996 and 2004 Dr. Gilbert received the APGO Excellence in Teaching Award for Medical Student Teaching, and in 1995 and 2003 he received the CREOG Faculty Teaching Award for Outstanding Resident Teaching. Dr. Gilbert is widely published in peer-reviewed journals and books.

Lisa Miller, C.N.M., J.D.

Founder of Perinatal Risk Management and Education Services

Ms. Miller is a certified nurse midwife with more than 30 years of clinical experience in a wide variety of settings. Ms. Miller served as an Assistant Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Medical School. She also holds a J.D. from The John Marshall Law School.

Given her legal and medical training, Ms. Miller has a unique understanding of the impact of law on medicine and nursing. Ms. Miller is committed to improving the quality of perinatal health care and lectures internationally on a variety of obstetric, women’s health, and risk management topics, with a current focus on the effects of cognitive bias during health care decision-making. She also is published in the areas of EFM, obstetrics, and patient safety. Ms. Miller is on the editorial board of the Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing, and provides peer review for the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. She is the co-author of Fetal Monitoring: A Multidisciplinary Approach (6th edition, Mosby 2009).

Ms. Miller is an active member of the Association of Woman’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM), and serves on the ACNM’s Quality Management board. Ms. Miller also provides consultation and education services to hospitals, individual providers, and professional organizations, where her concentration is on multi-disciplinary education and collaboration. She spends the majority of her time teaching the new standardized approach to fetal monitoring interpretation & management, based on the NICHD nomenclature.

Technical Advisory Board

Glen McLaughlin, Ph.D.

Glen has over 20 years of product development, innovation and leadership experience. He presently serves as CTO and Co-Founder of Zonare Medical Systems. He previously served as Zonare’s Vice President of Engineering for over 12 years, having led all technology and product development. He established and managed a world class engineering team to cover all aspects of engineering development, including electrical, mechanical, software, regulatory, transducers, and imaging physics. The team consisted of 30 engineers, 15 with Ph.D.s.

He has brought over a dozen products to market generating over $200M of revenue.  Glen holds over 20 issued patents in the medical device field with over 30 pending. His passion is to bring new technologies to market that can have a positive impact on humanity. He has established research collaborations with leading academic centers both in the US and abroad.

In addition he has held roles in venture capital as a technology partner at El Dorado Ventures and limited partner roles at Walden Ventures and JP Morgan Ventures. At InCube Labs, he was instrumental to the growth of a number of medical device companies, such as Fe3 Medical, Corhythm, Neurolink, and Python Medical.

Glen holds a BSEE from Carnegie Mellon University, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Simon Thomas

Simon has over 22 years broad-based experience in biomedical product development and manufacturing (in both single-use probes/sensors/catheters and capital equipment). He has extensive experience with clinical study design and biostatistics to support FDA submissions plus successful negotiation of labeling and post-market requirements. He has implemented quality systems that meet ISO 9001, EN46001, and QSR requirements.

He currently serves as Vice President of R&D, RA/QA and Operations for Novasys Medical. He has been responsible for the design and development of Novasys Renessa System which treats female stress urinary incontinence in the physician’s office using RF energy. He has set-up in house manufacturing for probes and scaled production for launch.

He has served at Novasys from 2001 to the present. He previously served with Tyco Healthcare (Nellcor) as Senior Director of R&D in the Perinatal Division. At Nellcor, he led Nellcor’s technical, clinical and regulatory functions in obtaining PMA approval of the breakthrough pulse oximetry system for fetal monitoring. He led a department of 55 people. He served at Tyco/Nellcor from 1997 to 2001.

Prior to Nellcor, he served with GE/Marquette (Corometrics) where he was Manager of Advanced Development and then Vice President of Engineering. At Corometrics he was responsible for all technology and new product strategies. He managed an engineering department of 60. Corometrics was ultimately purchased by General Electric and the Corometrics units are the industry standard monitoring device in the U.S., holding 80% market share. Simon has extensive experience in ultrasound based fetal monitoring.

Prior to Corometrics, Simon held senior engineering management positions at Novametrix Medical Systems and Physiological Instrumentation (a UK-based start-up). He was responsible managing for a team for sensor and transducer design, development and manufacturing engineering, plus monitor mechanical design, drafting, and documentation.

Simon holds a BS with Honors in Physics from Imperial College of Science and Technology in London.

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