SurgiVance: developing the simple, robust confocal optics [see reference 1] for the cellular and nuclear resolution pathology requires. The software [see reference 2] enhances the image to improve surgeon/pathologist experience and potentially leverage AI.
After a rigorous selection process, SurgiVance has appointed its first Advisory Board and its first Board of Directors, with a mission to anchor SurgiVance to definitive standards in microscopy and medicine, with an eye for innovation.
ADVISORY BOARD
Optics are core to our mission. Stan Schwartz is an imaging professional all aspects of the light microscopy industry, from field sales, product management, new product launches, product development, marketing and advertising, training and support, operations, service, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, licensing, and business diversification.
Aaron Farberg, MD. Dr. Farberg is a board-certified dermatologist and Mohs surgeon specializing in skin cancer and inflammatory disease who was named the sixth best medical dermatologist in the US by Newsweek Magazine.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Macrene Alexiades, MD, PhD, FAAD. Dr. Alexiades has achieved Double Board-Certification in dermatology in the European Union. She is also a US. Diplomat of both the American and European Boards of Dermatology.
She has numerous publications and discoveries in the fields of basic science, dermatology, and laser surgery. Dr. Alexiades’s entrepreneurial venture Macrene Actives is a skin cream product with a #molecularbiology underpinning and she is a world-class expert in optical imaging devices associated with #cancerscreening and management in dermatology.
Anna Bar, MD. Dr. Bar, a board-certified dermatologist and Mohs surgeon, has a publication record including early work with Dr. Daniel Gareau on the utility of ex vivo confocal technology in dermatology as specifically applied to skin cancer. She serves on the Board of Directors for the largest dermatologic surgery organization, the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery.
Bob Kinkel. Bob is a music producer and professional session keyboardist and co-creator of the TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA, INC. which is currently one of the top 10 touring acts in the world. Bob has worked with artists such as Five for Fighting, The Who, Aerosmith and Genesis. Bob brings his understanding of business and the vital role of instrumentation in music to bear on our development of intraoperative surgical instrumentation.
Jeremy Dworkin received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Middlebury College and his Juris Doctor degree from Case Western Reserve Law School. He maintained a solo law practice for 50 years, specializing in litigation. His general council to SurgiVance is instrumental to supplement ongoing legal matters of corporate and IP nature.
References:
[1] Gareau DS, Krueger JG, Hawkes JE, Lish SR, Dietz MP, Mülberger AG, Mu EW, Stevenson ML, Lewin JM, Meehan SA, Carucci JA. Line scanning, stage scanning confocal microscope (LSSSCM). Biomed Opt Express. 2017 Jul 24;8(8):3807-3815. doi: 10.1364/BOE.8.003807. PMID: 28856051; PMCID:
PMC5560842.
[2] Marc Combalia, Sergio Garcia, Josep Malvehy, Susana Puig, Alba Guembe Mülberger, James Browning, Sandra Garcet, James G. Krueger, Samantha R. Lish, Rivka Lax, Jeannie Ren, Mary Stevenson, Nicole Doudican, John A. Carucci, Manu Jain, Kevin White, Jaroslav Rakos, and Daniel S. Gareau, “Deep learning automated pathology in ex vivo microscopy,” Biomed. Opt. Express 12, 3103-3116 (2021)
