Team
Richard Chiao
Richard is currently VP of R&D at BD Biosciences. Prior to this role, Richard was with Siemens Ultrasound and GE. At Siemens, Richard was VP of Product Portfolio & Strategy, VP and GM of Siemens Ultrasound Operations in Korea, and VP of Innovations. At GE, Richard was initially at the GE Global Research Center in Schenectady, NY, and subsequently at GE Medical Systems in Milwaukee, WI.
Richard served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Web Editor for IEEE UFFC Society, and Technical Program Committee member for IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium. He is Six Sigma Master Black Belt certified, holds 42 patents and has 31 publications. Richard received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana.
Vernon Huang
Dr. Huang is Clinical Advisor to Clear Guide Medical. Currently, he serves as Chairman of Anesthesia, Mills-Peninsula Health Services in the San Francisco Bay Area. Formerly, he led the health care market development efforts within Apple Computer. Dr. Huang was an early stage employee at PatientKeeper, Inc. and co-founded Shareable Ink, a company involved in making adoption of electronic medical records seamless and pain free for health care providers. He advises Clear Guide Medical on topics related to anaesthesiology and clinical applications.
Clifford R Weiss
Dr. Weiss is Clinical Advisor to Clear Guide Medical. Currently, Dr. Weiss is Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Clinical Director at the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID). Dr. Weiss’ clinical focus lies in vascular and interventional radiology. He specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of vascular malformations, MRI-guided interventions, and advanced biliary interventions. He advises Clear Guide Medical on topics related to interventional radiology, clinical applications, and device usability.
Emad M Boctor
Emad is a co-founder of Clear Guide Medical, advises in the ultrasound field, and Assistant Professor of Radiology, Computer Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the director of the Medical Ultrasound Imaging and Intervention Collaboration (MUSiiC) research laboratory.
His research interest for over 10 years has focused on image-guided intervention and advanced ultrasound imaging, a subject in which he has over 35 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 100 conference articles, and more than 25 pending/issued patents. His lab has industry collaborators including Siemens Medical, Actuated Medical Inc., Acoustic MedSystems, Think Surgical, Sonavex Surgical, and Intuitive Surgical.
Dorothee Heisenberg
Dorothee focuses on the business, strategic, financial and organizational needs of Clear Guide Medical. Before co-founding Clear Guide Medical, Dorothee was the Associate Director of the second largest major in the JHU Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and previously held the S. Richard Hirsch Chair at the Paul Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. Dorothee began her career at what is now JP Morgan Chase & Co. where she managed a credit portfolio of more than $60 billion and sold investment banking products to her portfolio clients. She is the author of numerous books and publications in the area of organizational decisionmaking and international political economy.
Dorothee received her BS in Business Administration and Psychology from the University of New Hampshire, and her Ph.D. from Yale University.
