Experience

Verthermia

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Scientific Officer

  • Jun 2016 - Present

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Oct 2011 - Oct 2019

  Verthermia, Inc. is working on a treatment for metastatic cancers by developing proprietary hyperthermia equipment, filters, and therapies for use in our FDA Phase I clinical trial. Hyperthermia is the process of heating the body to 42 degrees Celsius (about 107 degrees Fahrenheit). Decades of research have demonstrated that tumors derived from solid organs absorb the heat and begin to disintegrate (necrosis followed by apoptosis then long term by upregulation of the immune system). Our first… Show more Verthermia, Inc. is working on a treatment for metastatic cancers by developing proprietary hyperthermia equipment, filters, and therapies for use in our FDA Phase I clinical trial. Hyperthermia is the process of heating the body to 42 degrees Celsius (about 107 degrees Fahrenheit). Decades of research have demonstrated that tumors derived from solid organs absorb the heat and begin to disintegrate (necrosis followed by apoptosis then long term by upregulation of the immune system). Our first FDA Trial (phase I for safety) was for non-small cell lung cancer and culminated in 2004 with a publication in a prestigious medical journal (Annals of Thoracic Surgery) where non-treated controls survived an average of 96 days and the hyperthermia-treated patients survived an average of 450 days with only one treatment. In January of 2014 we initiated our next FDA-approved Phase I (safety trial of up to 6 cycles) clinical trial for patients with Ovarian cancer. (Verthermia, Inc.)



Texas State Guard

• Armed Forces
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Group Commander

  • Dec 2009 - Dec 2013

  Led troops in disaster response for Hurricanes Ike, Alex and Gustov and served as site commander at multiple sites with Operation Lone Star Led troops in disaster response for Hurricanes Ike, Alex and Gustov and served as site commander at multiple sites with Operation Lone Star



UTMB

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care

• Associate Professor of Surgery

  • Jun 1991 - Jun 2009

  Climbed the academic ladder from Clinical Instructor to Associate Professor in Surgery. Also, while working full-time as a Clinical Perfusionist, I was able to earn my Ph.D. in Experimental Pathology while at UTMB where Dr. Paul Boor was my mentor. My dissertation, Pathobiology of Thermal Stress in Normal, Transformed and Malignant Lung Cells, was accepted in May of 1999. Was retired from UTMB as a result of devastation of Galveston Island and the UTMB campus by Hurricane Ike. Climbed the academic ladder from Clinical Instructor to Associate Professor in Surgery. Also, while working full-time as a Clinical Perfusionist, I was able to earn my Ph.D. in Experimental Pathology while at UTMB where Dr. Paul Boor was my mentor. My dissertation, Pathobiology of Thermal Stress in Normal, Transformed and Malignant Lung Cells, was accepted in May of 1999. Was retired from UTMB as a result of devastation of Galveston Island and the UTMB campus by Hurricane Ike.