Expert Details
CLIA/CAP/NYS Laboratory Testing; Tissue/Cornea/Live Cell Donor Suitability
ID: 731486
Colorado, USA
He is board certified in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine. Expert has Blood Bank medical director experience with cord blood stem cells, and current lab director for two somatic stem cell banks and is the physician of record for three direct to consumer laboratories. Medical director/infectious disease consultant for several eye and tissue banks.
Consulting CLIA lab director for 4 labs. Consulting CAP lab director for 1 lab. Physician of Record MD for 3 directo to consumer labs; Medical director for tissue banks; infectious disease MD on-call for several eye banksProject consultant for three somatic stem cell companies.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1992 | Degree: MD | Subject: Medicine | Institution: Loma Linda University School of Medicine |
| Year: 1985 | Degree: MDiv | Subject: Theology | Institution: Andrews University Seminary |
| Year: 1980 | Degree: BA | Subject: Ministerial Studies | Institution: La Sierra/Loma Linda University |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2000 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: President | Department: Undisclosed |
Responsibilities:President of all consultancies. Currently 5 physicians under contract |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2002 to 2007 | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Medical Director | Department: Undisclosed |
Responsibilities:Responsible for all medical, donor and laboratory-related activities |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2000 to 2002 | Employer: The Blood Center of New Jersey | Title: Undisclosed | Department: Administration |
Responsibilities:Responsible for all medical, donor, and laboratory testing activities |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1998 to 2000 | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Associate Medical Director | Department: Undisclosed |
Responsibilities:Responsible for apheresis; donation and therapeutic. Hopsital on-call. Back up for all medical director activities |
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International Experience
| Years | Country / Region | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Years: 2011 to 2011 | Country / Region: Belgium | Summary: Helped set up CLIA lab in Leige, then served as CLIA director until project got transferred to US. |
| Years: 2011 to 2012 | Country / Region: Marcailles, France | Summary: Helped set up CLIA lab in CT. Company lost funding. |
Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| Physicians' Concil, Accrediation Committee, Standards Committe, American Association of Tissue Banks. Certified Tissue Bank Spedialist. |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| Medical Licenses: CA, WA, CO, AZ, WY, MS, TX, FL, NJ, NY, MD, RI, GA, IA, OH, PA, MI, ID, OK, NH, CT, MA |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Tissue banking donor suitability. |
| Training / Seminars |
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| Tissue/eye bank donor suitability lectures at AATB, EBAA and for clients |
| Marketing Experience |
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| Expert in eye and tissue banking donor suitability |
Fields of Expertise
clinical laboratory, Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988, clinical pathology, allograft, blood transfusion, donor selection, human tissue, tissue and organ harvesting, epigenetics, tissue expansion, diagnostic laboratory immunology, apheresis, nutrition therapy, bone transplantation, connective tissue disease, ocular transplant, corneal transplantation, laboratory quality assurance, lab testing equipment, clinical laboratory testing, informed consent, procurement of allograft, human tissue repairing, allograft processing, skin transplantation, pharmacogenetics, fetal tissue, ligament graft, vein grafting, laboratory procedure, bone healing, cell bank, tissue culture medium, culture medium, clinical laboratory regulation, ligament, allograft development, autograft, human tissue transplantation, blood assay diagnostic instrumentation, tissue fixation, laboratory, vascular tissue, vascular graft, tendon, tissue graft, cartilage, bone, tissue culture, Good Laboratory Practice, gene expression, DNA analysis, connective tissue, blood cell, blood, antigen, antibody, adipose tissue