Program Overview & Methodology
Management & Boards
Management & Boards

We have carefully selected our board members to include a cross section of community and medical technology leaders.  Through our board members, NTEC provides a broad base of support, both internally and through our extensive rapid plug-in network.


MANAGEMENT
Larry Calton, Executive Director
Kim Cogbill, Operations Manager
Tom Franklin, PhD, Senior Scientific Advisor
Robert I. Kramer, MD, Senior Medical Advisor
Phil Ralston, MBA, Director
Christina Vaughn, Office Administrator
Hubert Zajicek, MD, MBA, Director

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Donald Braun, President, Hall Financial Group
Doug Brenner, Former President, Elcoteq SE
Phil Buttell, VP of Business Development, Creighton University Medical Center
Jim Gandy, President, Frisco Economic Development Corporation
Kenneth Hawari, Former Executive VP, Advanced Neuromodulation Systems
Jim Kildebeck, President, Appointment Desk, Inc.

BOARD OF ADVISORS
Mike Bartlett, Vice President (retired), Texas Instruments
Dave Clements, CEO, First Care, Inc.
Terry Crabtree, Former President & CEO, Inoveon Corporation
Pat Custer, Chairman, Venture Pacific Group
Bob England, Former President & CEO, Cumbre Pharmaceuticals
Bob Robb, President, Venture Development Associates
Mike Short, Principal, Short & Associates
Mark Wagar, President, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield
Jerry White, Director, Caruth Institute at Southern Methodist University
Jeff Williams, Managing Director, Hunt Ventures

MEDICAL & SCIENTIFIC ADVISORS
Azam Anwar, MD, Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at Baylor Medical Center
Douglas Ball, MD, Founder, BioForge Corporation
Paula Barton, PharmD, JD, Consulting Services, Pharmacy Healthcare Solutions
Arthur Bollon, PhD, Chairman and CEO, Hemobiotech
Doug Brenner, PhD, MBA, Former President, Elcoteq SE
George Brody, MS, Founder and CTO, GlobeRanger Corporation
Keith Brown, MBA, Chief Executive Officer, TissueGen
Scott Bundy, MD, Neuro-Radiologist, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas
Gregg Cohen, PhD, Director, Medical Technology, Abrio Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
Kenneth Diller, PhD, Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering at UT Austin
Kristin Drake, PA, MA, Director, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs for Organ Transport Systems
Rebecca Dubowy, MD, MBA, Principal, H*Works
Thomas Franklin, PhD, Former President, Texas Health Research Institute
Dale Fuller, MD, Radiation Oncologist
Susan Garstang, MD, Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at UT Southwestern Medical
Joe Gatewood, PhD, Founder and President, SeiraD
Ted Gaubert, PhD, MBA, Founder of XenTec Systems, Inc.
Scott Giambalvo, MBA, Executive Vice President, Orametrix
Robert Giles, PhD, Executive Director - Global R&D, Orchid Cellmark
Ronald Goode, PhD, VP of Clinical Research and Scientific Affairs (retired), Pfizer
Mikhail Gorbatenko, MBA, Consultant, Health & Life Science Practice, Accenture
Joel Granier, MBA, Manager of Marketing, Roche Diagnostics
Kathleen Hamilton, DDS, MBA, President, Electro Medical Systems Corporation
Christopher Hanna, MBA, Director of Manufacturing and IT at Neuro Resource Group
Jack Hart, PhD, Assistant Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering at UT Austin
Robert Hendler, MD, Vice President, Clinical Quality & Chief Medical Officer, Tenet Healthcare
James Hinson, PhD, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc.
Steve Howe, PhD, Director, Center for Space Nuclear Research (CSNR)
Andrew Johnson, MBA, VP of Regulatory & Clinical Affairs, Advanced Neuromodulation Systems
Bob Kramer, MD, CEO, Decision Health
Jimmy Laferney, MD, Vice President for Medical Staff Affairs, Baylor Medical Center at Frisco
Rich Mah, PhD, Director of Weapons Design and Manufacturing, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Alan Menter, MD, Principal, Texas Dermatology Associates
Toby Miles, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, OsteoMed
Gregory Miller, PhD, Biomedical Engineer
Siroos Mirzaei, MD, Professor of Nuclear Medicine, Wilhelminenspital, Austria
Clyde Musgrave, MBA, PhD, www.DrClydeM.com
Tom Myers, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon, American Sports Medicine Institute
Krista Oakes, Principal, Amica Solutions
John Peloza, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon, Frisco Medical Center
Raghu Raghunathan, MSEE, Director, Couth Infotech
Michael Ramsay, MD, President, Baylor Research Institute
Robert Rawitscher, MD, Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Homero Rivas, MD, Assistant Professor, Dept of Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Irene Rombel, PhD, MBA, Senior Analyst, Walker Smith and Greenway Capital
Ronald Schachar, MD, PhD, CEO, Velatec
Alison Schmidt, PhD, President, ALS Group
Michael Sills, MD, President, Cardiology Consultants of Texas
Michael Simpson, MD, Plano Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center
Edic Stephanian, M.D., M.B.A. , North Dallas Surgical Specialists
Malcolm Stewart, MD, Director of Parkinson Disease Center, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas
Kelley Stone, MBA, Director of Homeland Security, Collin County
Daniel Tobey, MD, JD, Founder, FlashLaw, LLC & Executive Consultant, Wolters Kluwer
Richard Treharne, PhD, MBA, VP of Orthopaedic Research, Active Implants Corporation
Lihong Wang, PhD, Director, Optical Imaging Laboratory at Texas A&M University
Richard Wood, MD, Chief of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, North Texas Cardiovascular Surgical Assct
John Zehmer, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center