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An oncology visualization
company utilizing advanced computing technologies
to
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President and CEO
Morgan Nields
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Morgan Nields has spent 30 years in developing new technology for innovative medical
applications. As a founder and CEO of Fischer Imaging, he led the development of
x-ray imaging systems for mammography, electrophysiology, and interventional radiology
markets. In addition, Fischer Imaging became a supplier to major medical companies
such as General Electric, Varian Medical, Philips Medical, Storz Medical and Dornier
Medical. Fischer supplied over $300M in systems to these major medical companies
as well as hundreds of millions of dollars of x-ray systems to hospitals on a worldwide
basis.
Mr. Nields took Fischer Imaging public in 1991, stepped down as CEO in 2000 and
was Chairman until leaving the company in 2003 to pursue the formation of Abla-Tx
Inc.(now INTIO)
He served for 10 years as a member of NEMA's Board of Governors. (National Electrical
Manufacturers Association: www.nema.org).
In addition, he has twice served as Chairman of the Board of the NEMA Diagnostic
Imaging Systems and Therapy Systems Division (www.nema.org/prod/med/), a $5B division of the $100B trade
association. He is currently a Director and Treasurer of AdMeTech, www.admetech.org, a non-profit organization that identifies,
funds, and manages research and development projects conducted at leading academic
institutions to expedite advancement of technologies that can improve the diagnosis
and treatment of many life-threatening and widespread diseases.
A member of several private company boards, Mr. Nields was also a board member of
Columbia Hospital Corporation, Diasonics Inc, Smith Laboratories, and Fischer Imaging.
Mr. Nields holds a B.A. from Williams College and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School
of Business Administration at Dartmouth College
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VP of R&D and CTO
David E. Gustafson, PhD
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Dave Gustafson’s extensive experience includes both academic research and teaching
and R&D management in industry. Following 5 years in academia, including teaching
in radiology residency and technologist programs, he has spent the last 24 years
in industry. Most recently he led an advanced research function for Siemens Ultrasound,
working with approximately 40 engineers and scientists, most of whom have advanced
degrees. As part of his managerial roles, he has focused on conducting and directing
product research and development, with a strong emphasis on strategic advanced development,
directing teams who executed product features from inception to product release.
This includes product developments for nuclear medicine, digital angiography and
x-ray imaging systems, computed tomography, and ultrasound systems.
He spent two years as Assistant Professor of Radiology in medical physics at the
University of New Mexico before joining the medical imaging industry, where his
work experience includes both large (Siemens, General Electric) and small (Fischer
Imaging) company R & D management positions. He joined Mr. Nields as a founding
member of Abla-Tx Inc. in 2005.
Dr. Gustafson has participated on ACR NEMA working groups and university advisory
boards, and has numerous publications in physics, medical physics, and medical imaging
journals, and two book chapters for imaging monographs.
Dr. Gustafson holds a B.A. in Physics from Hamline University and a Ph.D in Physics
from the University of Virginia. He did postdoctoral research in nuclear physics
at the Florida State University, and in Physiology and Biophysics at the Mayo Clinic.
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Senior VP, Marketing, Sales & Business Development
Scott G. Peairs
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Scott Peairs brings a broad background in general management, as well as sales and
marketing management experience to INTIO He has over 20 years of experience in the medical device field. Scott joined INTIO in January 2008 from Covidien
where he had been VP and General Manager of Covidien’s Interventional Oncology business.
In his most recent role at Covidien he developed the strategic plan and created
a worldwide division for Covidien’s market-leading tumor thermal ablation franchise.
Prior to heading up the Interventional Oncology Business, Scott had been the Vice
President and General Manager for the US region of the Energy Based Medical Device
Business Unit, and Scott’s experience in the medical imaging and surgery market
included being the Vice President of Marketing for Valleylab’s electrosurgery and
vessel sealing business and Director of International Marketing for Mallinckrodt’s
contrast imaging business.
At INTIO Scott has responsibility for all sales and marketing activities, business
development, and product management. His initial tasks include development of a
branding strategy, channel marketing development, development of the product specifications
via a Customer Requirements Assessment, and the creation of an experienced clinical
sales force.
Scott holds both a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Biology from Bucknell
University, and an M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut.
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Vice President of Engineering
Gary Dalmadge
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The Intio software engineering team is led by an experienced software development
manager, whose more than 30 years of experience includes over 5 years of medical
diagnostic imaging product research and development management. Prior to joining
Intio, Gary was Director of Software Engineering for Echostar, a major satellite
broadcast communications company. His experience includes numerous real-time operating
systems, including embedded systems, in applications in such diverse fields such
as security and monitoring, aerospace and defense, communications systems, geophysical
data control and logging, and identification systems used for personnel access and
remote baggage handling systems.
His team is responsible for the implementation of all imaging and mapping algorithms,
the development of intuitive user controls, and integration of all system software
controlled components including interfaces to ablative devices to assure real-time
monitoring and feedback of thermal therapy. His group is also responsible for local
or network support of medical industry standards for image archival, transmission
and retrieval.
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Chief Scientist
Desikachari Nadadur, PhD
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From 1999 to 2005, Dr. Nadadur was a Senior Scientist in the Advanced Imaging Applications
group of R&D at Siemens Medical Solutions, Ultrasound Division, Issaquah, Washington.
Since June 2005, Dr. Nadadur has been working as a Sr. Staff Scientist in R&D of
Abla-Tx, Inc.
From 1993 to 1999 Dr. Nadadur was a Research Associate at the Intelligent Systems
Laboratory at the University of Washington, and worked as a Software Engineer in
the Advanced Technologies Group at Electronics for Imaging, Inc., Foster City, California.
Dr Nadadur received his Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Electrical Engineering
from Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington in 1993. In 2001 he received his Doctor
of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in
Image Processing and Computer Vision from University of Washington, Seattle, under
the supervision of Professor Robert M. Haralick. His dissertation was titled, ''Noise
covariance estimation in low-level computer vision.''
Dr. Nadadur has co-authored several publications in the field of image processing,
mathematical morphology and computer vision and has filed several patents. His current
research interests include: image guided surgery, application of deformable, finite
element models, PDE and level set methods to medical image segmentation, Bayesian
and other statistical methods in image analysis, and performance characterization
of computer vision algorithms.
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