Ashley Szabo Eltorai Editor

Dr. Eltorai MD, PhD completed his graduate studies in Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology along with his medical degree from Brown?University.? He has invented?several medical technologies (from immunotherapies to medical devices) and developed innovations from in vitro studies and animal work through randomized clinical trials. Dr. Eltorai has?published over 200 scientific journal articles, abstracts, books, book chapters. Ms. Patterson is a Venture Analyst and the President and CEO and Founder of Strategy Inc. (in 2000) for US and International clients. Ms. Patterson has over 18 years’ experience in senior business development and marketing roles with emerging technology medical device companies, the last three of which were acquired by multinational medical companies for $205M, $387M and $508M. Ms. Patterson has held the position as the Vice President, Commercialization for the Foundation for Biomedical Engineering. In her executive role she managed the due diligence function for philanthropic foundations such as the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa that focuses on the translation and commercialization of compelling biomedical technology. From 2006 to 2015, she was a guest lecturer in the Medical School at the UCLA core Business of Science program. This graduate school program, one of the most popular in the medical school, teaches about the path to successful commercialization for life science technology. In 2010 she was an invited presenter at IESE for Healthcare 2020 in Barcelona. She developed and taught a series of courses as a guest lectured at University of California, Irvine entitled “Securing funding for your compelling medical device technology”. Ms. Patterson is an immunologist from University of Michigan and also has an MBA from University of Southern California. Dr. Ashley Szabo Eltorai is a staff physician in Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the YaleNew Haven Hospital. She is also an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine at Yale University. Dr. Szabo Eltorai received her M.D. at the Case Western Reserve UniversitySchool of Medicine. She is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiology. Dr. Piyush Mathur is a Staff Anesthesiologist and Intensivist at The Cleveland Clinic. Since 2015, he has been the Program director of the Anesthesia Critical Care Fellowship Program at The Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Mathur received his MBBS from the Armed Forced Medical College and completed subsequent fellowships at The Cleveland Clinic in Critical Care Medicine.