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Expert K. Expert has spent 30 years in the medical products business, in which he developed sterilization processes such as ethylene oxide, gamma radiation, vapor phase hydrogen peroxide, plasma sterilization, aseptic processing, disinfection with formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, and steam sterilization. Novel sterilization processes involving high pressure hydrostatic cycles, and vapor phase-plasma combinations are presently under research.

Expert has spent four years developing unique osteoconductive and osteoinductive allografts for use in orthopedic and neurosurgery. He has had three patents issued on the processing of tissue, and the sterilization of dead tissue.

Expert has spent 30 years in the management of technical teams who carry out product development for healthcare companies. Technology companies in which he has operated are: absorbable polymers for sutures and drug release, orthop

Expert has ten years of experience in the toxicology of biomaterials used in medical products, devices, and drug containers. He has experience in the preparation of experimental protocols for both in vivo and in vitro toxicity testing. He has also carried out acute, sub-acute, and chronic toxicity tests.

For four years, Expert was the head of Osteotech, Inc.'s research in developing osteoinductive allografts and surgical bone pastes, liquids, and methods of sterilizing tissue products.

Expert's academic training in polymer toxicology and his industrial career in the health care industry caused him to be exposed to a large number of candidate polymers for use in contact with living cells and tissues. He was deeply involved with testing methods for safety tests and

During his four years at Ethicon, Expert studied the rates of absorption and tensile strength loss for absorbable polymers such as Lactide Glycolide copolymers, catgut, and drug release polymers such as monoglycerides.

Throughout his entire career in healthcare products, Expert has been researching the uses of cobalt 60 irradiation, E-beam, steam, and ethylene oxide disinfectants. He is currently researching the use of high-pressure sterilization for those products and materials which cannot have the residuals of a sterilant but must be sterilized.

Expert has used cobalt 60 and electron-beam (E-beam) sterilization in his product development activities since 1962.

Expert is experienced with tissue cultures. He has used USP cytotoxicity testing for biomaterials.

Expert is an expert in toxicity testing including pathology and histochemistry techniques. He has experience in carrying out protocols for wound healing methods such as those described by Dr. Thomas Hunt at the University of California at San Francisco. He also has extensive experience in suture models for wound healing.

In his three years researching and formulating plasticizers for PVC, Expert has had a special focus on the use of non-toxic citric acid esters for medical devices. He also worked with the phthalate esters.

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