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Prof. Banu Onaral –
Chairman of the Board
Dr.
Onaral
is H. H. Sun Professor of Biomedical
Engineering and Electrical Engineering at
Drexel University. She holds a Ph.D. in
Biomedical Engineering from the University
of Pennsylvania and BSEE and MSEE in
Electrical Engineering from Bogazici
University, Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Onaral
joined the faculty of the Electrical and
Computer Engineering Department and the
Biomedical Engineering and Science Institute
in 1981. She has served as the founding
Director of the School of Biomedical
Engineering Science and Health Systems since
1997. Dr. Onaral's academic focus both in
research and teaching is centered on signals
and systems engineering with special
emphasis on biomedical signal processing.
She has led major research and development
projects sponsored by the National Science
Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of
Health (NIH), Office of Naval Research
(ONR), DARPA and Department of Homeland
Security (DHS). She supervised many graduate
students and has an extensive publication
record in biomedical signals and systems.
She is the recipient of a number of faculty
excellence awards including the 1990
Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award of
Drexel University, the EDUCOM Best
educational Software award and the NSF
Faculty Achievement Award. Dr. Onaral's
professional services include chair and
membership on advisory boards and strategic
planning bodies of several universities and
funding agencies, including service on the
National Science Foundation's Engineering
Advisory Board, and on the proposal review
panels and study sections. Her editorial
responsibilities have included service on
the Editorial Board of journals and the CRC
Biomedical Engineering Handbook as Section
Editor for Biomedical Signal Analysis. She
served as the President of the IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
(EMBS), the largest member-based biomedical
engineering society in the world. Earlier
she had organized and chaired the 1990
Annual International Conference of the EMBS.
She is currently serving as the Co-Chair of
the 2004 Annual Conference of the Biomedical
Engineering society. She has been a member
of the inaugural Board of the American
Institute for Medical and Biological
Engineering. She is a Founding Fellow of the
American Institute for Medical and
Biological Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE
and the AAAS.
Peter Chance – President, Non-Invasive
Technology, Inc.
Mr. Chance
is President of Non-Invasive
Technology, Inc., a private company
which licenses fundamental patents to the
diagnostic, non-invasive medical device
area. Previously, using his background in
Artificial Intelligence, he began work
at Unimation, at the time the
nation's largest and oldest industrial
robot manufacturer. Mr. Chance
left Unimation with Mr. Weiss, an
MIT graduate, to start their own robot
manufacturing company, U.S. Robots.
After producing its first and second
generation assembly robots, the Maker
100 and 200 series, they sold
the company to Square D Company, an
electrical equipment manufacturer. Mr.
Chance is a proponent of technology,
innovation, and change, with a particular
interest in the potential of Artificial
Intelligence on the future. Mr. Chance
belongs to a five generation Penn
family, as the son of Dr. Britton Chance,
an internationally known scholar and
Professor Emeritus in
Biochemistry/Biophysics, and nephew of
Henry Chance II, a Penn Trustee and
President of United Engineers, a
family business founded by his grandfather,
Edwin M. Chance, a graduate in
Civil Engineering at Penn.
Baruch Ben Dor –
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Ben Dor is a Physics
Ph.D. and a graduate of the highly
prestigious “Talpiot” academy of the Israeli
Air Force with over 17 years experience in
the Electro Optics (EO) field - 9 years in
the defense industry and 8 years in the
medical equipment industry. In his recent
job, Dr. Ben Dor was the general manager of
a start up company (Medibell Medical Vision
Technologies Ltd.) in the field of
ophthalmic digital photography leading it
through finishing of prototype R&D, beta
testing, production setup and sales and
marketing network development. Prior to
Medibell Dr. Ben Dor served for a short
period as the director of marketing in
Medibell’s mother company, CMT Medical
(OEM
producer of digital X-ray for Toshiba
Medical). Dr. Ben Dor gained his
international marketing experience as the
vascular program director in the marketing
department of ESC/Sharplan, an Israeli based
worldwide leader company in the field of
medical lasers (called Lumenis today, after
a merge with Coherent medical), building
worldwide net of reference sites for sales
support, conducting clinical studies and
producing successful marketing campaigns.
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