Andres Betts M.D., D.A.B.P.M., Founder and Chairman of the Board at Vertech, Inc. Presentation Title: New Frontiers in Pain Management Dr. Betts is the inventor of several of Vertech's patented devices and has practiced medicine for over 19 years. He is a board certified anesthesiologist and Diplomat of the American Board of Pain Medicine. He is in private practice as an interventional pain specialist skilled in the state of the art pain therapies. He is a national speaker and published author of multiple articles in peer reviewed medical journals, and is a nationally recognized expert in the treatment of spinal compression fractures. Dr Betts is frequently selected as an instructor to teach other physicians the specialized techniques of Kyphoplasty and Vertebroplasty, including the instruction of physicians enrolled in University Pain Fellowship programs. Dr. Betts also is an acting consultant for several large medical device corporations involved in new product design, development, and physician support/instruction. Dr Betts has extensive research experience in cell and molecular biology and a keen back ground in fundamental physics. He is married and lives with his wife and 3 year old son in San Clemente, California, and is actively involved in community and family functions.
		John C. Longhurst, MD, PhD Presentation Title: Acupuncture and its Role in Heart Heath Dr. Longhurst is Professor of Medicine, Physiology & Biophysics at the University of California, Irvine, & Director of the Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine, which is dedicated to advancing patient care through education, research & applied integrative medical therapies. He also holds two endowed chairs, the Susan Samueli Chair in Integrative Medicine and the Lawrence K. Dodge Chair in Integrative Biology.
		Eric Mabry, Vice President of Sales and Marketing Presentation Title: Opportunities & Challenges in Designing Balloon Catheters Eric has 25 years of experience in the medical device industry ranging from engineering to sales and marketing. He has held management positions with Beckman, SensorMedics (now a division of Viasys Healthcare), and most recently with I-Flow Corporation. Eric holds a bachelor of science in Chemistry from California State University Fullerton and is named as inventor on several patents.
		Majid Sarrafzadeh, Ph. D. Presentation Title: Medisens: Listen to What Your Body Has to Say Majid Sarrafzadeh received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in 1982, 1984, and 1987 respectively from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He joined Northwestern University as an Assistant Professor in 1987. In 2000, he joined the Computer Science Department at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). His recent research interests lie in the area of Embedded and Reconfigurable Computing, VLSI CAD, and design and analysis of algorithms. Dr. Sarrafzadeh is a Fellow of IEEE for his contribution to "Theory and Practice of VLSI Design". He has served on the technical program committee of numerous conferences in the area of VLSI Design and CAD, including ICCAD, DAC, EDAC, ISPD, FPGA, and DesignCon. He has served as committee chairs of a number of these conferences. He is on the executive committee/steering committee of several conferences such as ICCAD, ISPD, and ISQED. He was the program committee and the general chair of ICCAD in 2004 and 2005 - the premiere conference in CAD. Professor Sarrafzadeh has published approximately 350 papers, co-authored 5 books, and is a named inventor on 6 US patents. Dr. Sarrafzadeh is an Associate Editor of ACM Transaction on Design Automation (TODAES) and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers and a number of other journals. Dr. Sarrafzadeh has collaborated with many industries in the past fifteen years including IBM and Motorola and many CAD industries and was the architect of the physical design subsystem of Monterey Design Systems - Synopsys acquired the company. He was a co-founder of Hier Design, Inc. Hier Design was acquired by Xilinx in 2004.
		Shiva Sharareh, PhD Presentation Title: New Advances in Cardia Physiology Dr. Sharareh is the founder of Finite Medical Inc., Laguna Niguel, California, established June 2007. Finite Medical Inc. is a consulting company focusing on early stage product development of medical devices. The company holds multi-disciplinary expertise in areas of R&D innovation, product development, manufacturing and regulatory and clinical. Finite Medical, Inc. has been successful in assisting numerous start-up companies in all aspects of their product development needs through design, prototyping, documentation, manufacturing plans plus local and/or international operations assistance. Dr. Sharareh is a strategic, innovative, challenge-oriented leader with over 17 years of hands-on product, process, business and project management experience. She has extensive knowledge in medical device technology and in the drug industry in both areas of academic and industrial environments. In her management role at Finite Medical, Inc., she has served as Chief Technology Officer, Vice President of Product Development and Vice President of Operations. Since July 2007, Dr. Sharareh has been serving as Vice President of Product Development and operations at Neuromed Devices Inc. Additionally, during the past 11 years she has held various management positions at Biosense Webster, a Johnson & Johnson Company, as well as Medtronic Inc. Dr. Sharareh is the author of many journals and holds various patents. Dr. Sharareh completed a post doctoral and Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in the areas of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. She holds an MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Mexico and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
		Dr. Leon M. Silverstone, President & Chairman, NeuroMed Devices, Inc. Presentation Title: New Advances in Non-Invasive Neuromodulation Treatment Devices Leon M. Silverstone obtained his sciences and pre-medical education at Queen Mary College, University of London, UK, and his professional degrees from The Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the University of Leeds School of Dental Surgery. He obtained his Ph.D. in pathology from the University of Bristol, UK, and then became the first recipient of the D.D.Sc. degree by thesis from the University of Leeds for his work on experimental remineralization. He was a Reader and Hospital Consultant at The Royal London Hospital Medical College, and in 1976 left the UK for the U.S. where he held appointments as Professor and Head of the first Division of Cariology in the U.S. at the Dows Institute for Dental Research, University of Iowa Health Sciences Center in Iowa City, followed by Associate Dean for Research at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. In 1989, after 26 years in full-time academia, he joined the private sector where his research has focused on device development for treatment of pain and other disorders. In 1971 he was the recipient of the First International Research Award of the Nobel- Pharma A. B. Bofors Prize presented in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1973 The European Organization for Caries Research awarded him the ORCA-Rolex Research Prize in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1984 he received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the International Association for Dental Research. His scientific biography appears in the Who’s Who in the World; his editorial experience includes editor, editorial board member, and reviewer for a range of medical and scientific journals. He has worked with the Medical Research Councils of Great Britain and Canada, and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) branch of the World Health Organization (WHO), carrying out field assignments for PAHO in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is past President of the European Organization for Caries Research and the first to be appointed from the U.S. He is a past member of the Oral Biology and Medicine Study Section (grant review committee) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Small Business Innovative Research Committee (SBIR), and past Chairman of the NIDR Programs Advisory Committee (PAC) at NIH. He has authored 360 scientific publications, made many television, appearances and lectured by invitation worldwide. His research commenced in 1964 and has been involved with etiology, pathology and prevention of diseases in oral hard tissues, development of synthetic remineralizing fluids to physico-chemically repair demineralized tissues, and investigation of pain syndromes and neuro-degenerative diseases. In the 1980’s he developed the UltraCalm® device for noninvasive dental anesthesia (no needles), followed by the Synaptic® series of devices for treatment of acute and chronic pain syndromes. Over the past decade his efforts have been directed to treatment devices for sleep & memory problems, clinical tremor, depression, and neuro-degenerative diseases. He has also developed novel devices for viral diseases such as genital herpes, all of which are based on non-invasive brain neuromodulation. His patents over the past two decades reflect this body of work.