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An oncology visualization
company utilizing advanced computing technologies
to
provide better information for real-time clinical decision
making. |
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President and CEO
Morgan Nields |
| 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: http://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, http://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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Vice President of R&D
and CTO
David E. Gustafson, PhD |
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 29 years in industry. Prior to joining Mr. Nields as a co-founder of Abla-Tx Inc (now INTIO Inc) he led an advanced product development functions for Siemens Ultrasound, working with more than 40 engineers and scientists working in three locations, 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, INTIO) company R&D
management positions. He joined Mr. Nields as a founding member of INTIO 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. He is currently a member of the QIBA Volumetric CT technical committee.
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 Vice President
Marketing, Sales and Business Development
Scott G. Peairs
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| Scott Peairs brings a broad background in
general management, strategic planning, as well as sales and marketing
management experience to INTIO. He 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 |
| The INTIO engineering team is led by
an experienced engineering 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 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 (aka Desika) Nadadur, PhD |
Dr. Nadadur currently holds the position of Chief Scientist at INTIO Inc., working closely with the research and development teams. He joined the R&D division of INTIO in June 2005, originally as Senior Staff Scientist. Dr. Nadadur brings over 15 years of experience to the INTIO team.
Prior to joining INTIO, 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 (near Seattle), Washington. From 1993 to 1999 he was a Research
Associate at the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at
the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, and a
Software Engineer in the Advanced Technologies
Group at Electronics for Imaging (EFI), Inc. in Foster
City, California.
In 2001, Dr. Nadadur 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.''
He received his Master of Science
(M.S.) degree in Electrical Engineering from
Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington in 1993. In 1990, he received his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India.
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,
image/volume visualization, 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. On the software design and development side, he is interested in and uses Design Patterns, Agile Software Development Processes, and Open Source Software |
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