Joseph Brain, M.S., Sc.D.

Dr. Brain received his Master of Science and Doctor of Science degrees from Harvard University. He is the Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology at Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Brain’s research emphasizes responses to inhaled gases, particulates, and microbes. His studies extend from the deposition of inhaled particles in the respiratory tract to their clearance by respiratory defense mechanisms. Of particular interest is the role of lung macrophages; this resident cell keeps lung surfaces clean and sterile. The context of these studies on macrophages is the prevention and pathogenesis of environmental lung disease as well as respiratory infection. Dr. Brain’s research has utilized magnetic particles in macrophages throughout the body as a non-invasive tool for measuring cell motility and the response of macrophages to various mediators and toxins. Another area of study is drug delivery to and through the lungs.

Molly Coye, M.D., M.P.H.

Dr. Coye is an internationally renowned authority on the market introduction of innovative technologies that impact health care delivery. She is currently the chief innovation officer of UCLA Health, and serves as a director for Aetna Inc. and Prosetta Biosciences Inc. Over the past decade, Dr. Coye has amassed a stellar record of achievement as a pioneer in the development, assessment and diffusion of health-related technology. She founded and served as CEO of the Health Technology Center, a preeminent forecaster of the impact of emerging technologies. Dr. Coye co-founded and served as chair of the board of directors and CEO of CalRHIO, California’s first statewide health information exchange organization. She is a member of the prestigious Institute of Medicine and co-authored two landmark Institute reports on healthcare quality. Dr. Coye received her M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from Johns Hopkins University and is board certified by the American College of Preventive Medicine.

David Goldsmith

David has over 35 years of experience in health care financing and has worked with a diverse range of organizations, ranging from startups through large companies. His expertise includes public market research, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and buyout transactions. David is an active health care investor and student of the industry. He has served as an interim chairman of Endocare Inc. since March 2009 and has served as its director since June 2005. David served as chairman of Apria Healthcare Group from February 2005 to October 2008 and served as its director from 1987 to October 2008. He is currently a director at Thap!, Validare Inc., ParadigmHealth Inc., Paradigm Health Corp., AirLogix Inc, and John Muir Health, and is a member of advisory board at MedidaMETRICS Inc. David has been a director at Balanced Care Corp. since 1996. He has made numerous investments in both medical products and medical services companies, including Tokos Medical, Deknatel Snowden Pencer, and Devilbliss Healthcare. David has an MBA from Columbia University, a bachelor’s degree from Occidental College, and is a chartered financial analyst.

Nicholas Hill, M.D.

Dr. Hill is a professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and chief of the Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Division at Tufts Medical Center. He also oversees pulmonary hypertension clinics in Boston and in Providence at Rhode Island Hospital. Dr. Hill’s primary research interests include the role of angiogenic factors in pulmonary vascular biology, therapeutic approaches for clinical pulmonary hypertension, and evaluating ways of delivering and testing the efficacy of noninvasive ventilation. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as American Journal of Physiology, Respiratory Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Hill is the immediate post-chair of the program committee of the critical care assembly of the American Thoracic Society. He holds a Distinguished Scholar Award from the American College of Chest Physicians. Dr. Hill is an associate editor of the journal Chest and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

David Hillman, M.D.

Dr. Hillman is head of the Department of Pulmonary Physiology and Sleep Medicine at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, Western Australia, and director of the West Australian Sleep Disorders Research Institute. He is an anesthesiologist and sleep physician. Dr. Hillman’s clinical and research interests are centered on respiratory and upper airway physiology and their relationship to sleep disorders and anesthesia. He has published extensively in related areas. Dr. Hillman is a clinical professor at the University of Western Australia, immediate past president of the Australasian Sleep Association, and founding chair of Australia’s Sleep Health Foundation.

Jon-Erik Holty, M.D., M.S.

Dr. Holty is currently a clinical assistant professor (affiliated) in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division at Stanford Medical School, and an adjunct associate at the Center for Health Policy (CHP/PCOR) at Stanford. He joined CHP/PCOR in July 2002 to participate in the VA’s Ambulatory Care Practice and Research fellowship program. Dr. Holty completed his master’s degree in health research and policy at Stanford in 2005 and subsequently completed clinical fellowships at Stanford in pulmonary critical care and sleep medicine. His current research focuses on healthcare utilization and costs in veterans with sleep complaints, disturbance and disorders. Dr. Holty received a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and political science from UCLA, an M.D. from Columbia University, a master’s degree in health services research from Stanford, and completed an internal medicine residency, a pulmonary critical care fellowship and sleep medicine fellowship at Stanford.

Avram Miller

Avram is the CEO of The Avram Miller Company, a strategy and business development corporation. He was one of the first individuals to recognize the potential of the internet to become a powerful new medium and had a leading role in the development of broadband technologies starting with the development of the cable modem in 1993. Avram is known for his successful investments in early stage companies and has appeared several times in the Forbes Midas list of the top 100 venture investors including occupying the eighth position in 2003.

Avram joined Intel Corp in 1984 and served as vice president and director of corporate business development until 1999. While at Intel, he played a principal role in establishing the company’s venture activities and founded Intel Capital. Avram participated in Intel’s strategy committee and was responsible for developing Intel’s relationships with both the communications and media industries. Before joining Intel, he held a number of senior positions in the computer industry including serving as president of Franklin Computer Corporation and as group manager at Digital Equipment Corporation. Avram spent the majority of the 1970s applying computer technology to medical care. He has held academic positions at the Medical School of Erasmus University in Rotterdam and the Medical School of Tel Aviv University where he was an adjunct associate professor. Avram has served on the boards of a number of public and private technology and entertainment companies as well as advising various financial service companies.

Mary Morrell, Ph.D.

Dr. Morrell is a professor of sleep and respiratory physiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. She received her doctorate in physiology from London University, having previously trained and practiced as a nurse at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington. As a student in the department of respiratory medicine at Charing Cross Hospital, Dr. Morrell developed an interest in the control of breathing during sleep, which continues to drive her research. She was awarded a Wellcome Trust Prize International Travelling Research Fellowship that allowed her to post-doc at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Upon her return to the UK, Dr. Morrell collaborated with clinical colleagues to set up the Academic Unit of Sleep and Breathing, at the Royal Brompton Hospital. She has received career development and university fellowships from the Wellcome Trust; funding from the British Heart Foundation and the NIHR.

David L. Schlotterbeck

David Schlotterbeck has been in the medical technology and healthcare field for the past 25 years with another 20 years’ experience in other industries. He has been the chairman and CEO of three public and two private companies, and the vice chairman of a Fortune 20 company. He has completed two successful IPOs, raised $6bb in financing, done $7bb in M&A, and most recently created $11bb in shareholder value over a 10-year period. He has successfully completed nine turnarounds, each becoming a highly profitable world leader in its field.

Leading more than 10 M&A deals, he built the 5th largest medical technology company in the world. He served as its Chairman and CEO and doubled its market valuation in 18 months. He is known for his record of bringing innovative and market moving technologies into the healthcare field – many built into billion dollar businesses. He has served on over 20 public and private company boards in addition to several nonprofits at the national level. Schlotterbeck is a graduate of the General Motors Institute with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering. He holds a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University.

Deborah Schueren

Deborah has more than 25 years of experience working with innovative and growing companies in the medical technology and pharmaceutical/biotech sectors. Since 2001, she has served as CFO, board member, board advisor and consultant for multiple private companies, raising venture funding, leading strategic and financial planning and negotiating technology and product collaborations. Prior to 2001, Deborah worked in a variety of financial and corporate development positions in biotech, ultimately as CFO, CEO and board member. Earlier in her career, she was a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group and worked in corporate finance with Lehman Brothers investment banking division. Deborah holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kingman Strohl, M.D.

Dr. Strohl is the research director for sleep medicine at UH Case Medical Center and is a professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics at the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine. His distinguished career has spanned 35 years at CWRU where he has been a major contributor in educational and academic committees and a productive collaborator in the promotion of excellence in clinical training in pulmonary and sleep medicine. Dr. Strohl’s most prominent recognition comes through his research, publications and presentations on mechanisms for sleep apnea. His achievements include editorial responsibility for a number of journals and publications, designing data analysis software and participating in national task forces on sleep apnea, sleepiness, and driving risk. Dr. Strohl is currently involved in research on the genetics of respiratory control, pharmacologic modification of central apneas, the effect of early life on brain development, and sleep education.

Colin Sullivan, M.B.B.S., Ph.D, FRACP *

Professor Sullivan is recognized as an international leader in the field of sleep disordered breathing. His major research achievements include characterizing the basic physiology of breathing during sleep and the recognition that arousal responses from sleep are crucial to survival in respiratory failure. Professor Sullivan has been the key person in Australia promoting the investigation of sleep disorders medicine and he established the first diagnostic sleep laboratories for adults and children. He is known internationally for developing nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) to treat obstructive sleep apnea. This is now the most widely used treatment for this disease throughout the world.

J. Woodrow Weiss, M.D.

Dr. Weiss is the chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also the founder of the Harvard Medical School Division of Sleep Medicine and he remains a member of that Division’s Executive Committee. Dr. Weiss is active clinically on the Medical Intensive Care Service at Beth Israel Deaconess. His research focuses on the cardio-respiratory consequences of intermittent hypoxia and arterial pressure control in patients with obstructive sleep apnea. The laboratory uses human volunteers to examine causes of susceptibility to sleep apnea of cyclic intermittent hypoxia induced hypertension, and the laboratory uses animal models to study molecular pathways contributing to sustained chemoreflex hypersensitivity and its contribution to elevated arterial pressure after cyclic intermittent hypoxia.

Randall Whitfield

Randall Whitfield is an accomplished life science executive with nearly four decades of business experience, with over 15 years in the respiratory industry. He recently retired from Philips Healthcare where he led the Therapeutic Care group of four businesses, including Hospital Respiratory Care, the world leader in non-invasive hospital ventilation; Emergency Care and Resuscitation, the world leader in automated external defibrillators; Anesthesia Care; and Therapeutic Temperature Management. Prior to that, he was the President of Respironics Critical Care Business Unit, and President of Puritan. In addition to executive roles in Manufacturing, Operations, Sales and Marketing at American Hospital Supply Corp and Baxter Corp, he was also President and CEO of two venture capital backed start-ups, Camino Laboratories, and VIA Medical. Whitfield earned a BA in Management from Georgia College and State University, and an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Scott Wilkinson

Scott Wilkinson has held leadership positions in public and private companies in various functional areas including sales, marketing, R&D, and operations over his 35-year career. His diverse background includes expertise in patient marketing, clinical sales, international sales expansion, cost management, product development and lifecycle planning, manufacturing, distribution, restructure, and acquisition/integration. He served at Inogen, a market leader in home respiratory products, in a variety of commercial leadership roles over 15 years, including President & CEO. Scott is a recognized expert in the emerging area of direct response patient marketing and led sustained revenue growth from $10 million to over $350 million during his Inogen tenure. His experience at Inogen includes leading a private company through an IPO process and managing the transition to a publicly traded company.

Scott has additional leadership experience at Invacare, Johnson & Johnson, and Kimberly-Clark which helped him develop a deep understanding of homecare and acute care markets on a global level. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Akron and received his MBA from the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh. He also serves on the foundation board of directors at University Hospital – Parma in suburban Cleveland, OH.