Clinical and Scientific Advisory Board

AirMid is very grateful to have the professional support of the highly esteemed members of our Medical Advisory Board*. We believe the collective breadth and depth that their expertise represents validates the urgent, clinical need for our groundbreaking technologies.

Peter Cullum, CEO
*MAB appointees are uncompensated

Elizabeth Frost, MBChB

  • Professor of Anesthesiology: Icahn Medical Center at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

  • Appointed professor in 1980: one of the few women appointed to professor status at the time

  • Former Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology: New York Medical College

  • Pioneer in the treatment of Central Nervous System Injury

  • Multiple award winner

  • Editor/contributor to multiple publications: Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology, Topics in Pain Management, New England Journal of Medicine, Anesthesiology News 

  • Chair: anesthesia foundation of New York International Scholars Program

  • Over 150 journal publications

  • Over 100 book chapters

  • Former editor of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists Journal

Anesthesiologist

Bruce Spiess, MD

Anesthesiologist

  • Present Day Appointments: University of Florida-Gainesville
    Professor of Anesthesiology
    Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Hematology
    Associate Chair for Research

  • Expertise in:
    Cardiac Anesthesia
    Blood Products/Blood Substitutes

  • Multiple grant recipient: Department of Defense and Naval Research

  • Grant reviewer for Department of Defense

  • Board of Directors:
    Past: European Association of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists
    Present: - Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management

  • Steering Committee of the NIH Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

“The simplicity of design and the engineering of it is contemporary and solves serious problems caused by today’s device.”

Robert Study, MD, PhD

Anesthesiologist

  • MD Yale University

  • PhD In Pharmacology- Yale University

    Laboratory of Paul Greengard, Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 2000
    NIH General Medical Sciences
    NIH/Johns Hopkins Laboratory of Neurophysiology

  • Experienced Anesthesiologist in both Academia and Private Practice:

  • Past: Assistant Professor – The Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard University

  • Present: Chair - Department of Anesthesiology Frederick Memorial Health System

  • Partner:  United States Anesthesia Partners

“ as we have realized the dangers of providing breath sizes that are too large we have changed to provide safer guideline settings on mechanical ventilators but there has been no way to provide these safer guidelines on the manual side - until now.”

Leslie Garson, MD, MIHM

Anesthesiologist

  • Academic and Private practice experience

  • Additional expertise in Critical Care and Pediatric Anesthesia

  • Expert in the Perioperative Surgical Home

  • Entrepreneur

  • Past:  Associate clinical professor at the University of California/Irvine
    President of the New Mexico Society of Anesthesiologists
    Director of Perioperative Services

  • Present: Staff Anesthesiologist -Christus Health,NM

  • Publications:  book chapters, journals 

  • Member of numerous medical societies

  • Physician volunteer:  International Medical Missions

“Inhale the future, exhale the past. Let known science drive our practice of medicine”

Richard Dutton, MD, MBA

Anesthesiologist and Quality Management

  • United States Naval Reserve (ret)

  • Academic positions:
    Past: Instructor – Harvard
    Professor of Anesthesiology: R Cowley Shock Trauma Center
    Clinical Associate – University of Chicago  
    Present: Adjunct professor, Texas A and M

  • Director of Trauma Anesthesiology

  • Expertise in Quality management, measurement, performance and outcomes

  • Multiple professional memberships, Honors and Awards

  • Multiple Committee and Senior Leadership roles

  • Member of NIHBLI Protocol Review Committee on Resuscitation

  • Journal Reviewer- Journal of the AMA, Journal of Thrombosis, Trauma Care, Anesthesia and Analgesia and others

  • Multiple grants from entities such as the United States Air Force and United States Army

  • Over 200 publications – including journal and book chapters

  • Over 400 invited presentations

"Airmid Technology will improve ventilation of critically ill patients during prehospital care and intrahospital transport - It represents the first and most economical advance on the bag, valve, mask system in over 70 years."

Keith A. Horvath, MD

Cardiothoracic Surgeon

  • Present : Senior Director, Clinical Transformation

  • Association of American Medical Colleges

    Helping medical centers in improving outcomes

    Value based care, EHR and telehealth

  • Multiple Honors and Awards

  • Past Academic Appointments

    Associate Professor of Surgery , Northwestern University

    Adjunct Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University

    Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery, NIH Heart Center at Suburban Hospital

    Director, Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Program , NHLBI, NIH

  • Professional and Scientific Activity

    American Heart Association :

    • Board of Directors

    • Leadership Committee

    Society of Thoracic Surgeons :

    • Cardiothoracic Surgery Clinical Trials Network

    • Workforce on Health Policy, Reform and Advocacy

  • Multiple Editorial Appointments

  • Experienced Researcher and Recipient of over $60 million in research funding .

  • Over 400 Publications and Presentations

Christopher Holland, MD, PhD

Neurosurgeon

  • PhD - Anatomy and Neurobiology with doctoral research in neurologic imaging

  • Specialty :  Neurosurgery with a subspecialty in Complex Spinal Surgery

  • Member of Carolina Neurosurgical & Spine Associates- one of the country’s oldest and  largest neurosurgical practices in the United States

  • Numerous peer reviewed manuscripts

  • Healthcare Entrepreneur and investor

  • Named one of Medtech Boston’s 40 under 40 Healthcare Innovators

“AirMid has developed the technology to not only improve the safety and quality of care for every patient requiring manual or mechanical ventilation, but will certainly become the de facto standard. These advances are long overdue and could not be more relevant in the context of the current pandemic.”

Quoch-Ahn Thai, MD

Neurosurgeon

  • Hopkins educated and trained

  • Past:
    Division Chief: Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery –National Capital Region
    Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
    Medical Director of Neurosurgery -Northwell Health/Mayo Clinic Care Network

  • Present:
    Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurosurgery:  Methodist/Weil Cornell Medical College

  • Other:
    FDA consultant

  • Multiple Awards and Honors

  • Multiple National and international presentations

  • Numerous book chapters and journal publications

  • Certificates in: business management, Management and Leadership and Accountable Care

“Prehospital ventilation precision is critically important in the setting of traumatic brain injury, and Airmid's VCMV technology offers a solution to decrease iatrogenic injuries associated with todays inconsistent manual ventilation." 

Warren Rosenfeld, MD

Pediatrician

  • Additional expertise: neonatology

  • Professor of Pediatrics
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  • Chief of Pediatrics

  • Member of multiple societies

  • Recipient of multiple honors and grants

  • Editor and advisor

  • Numerous lectureship both nationally and internationally

  • Over 150 publications and abstracts

  • Numerous book chapters

“The development of a ventilation system that prevents over distention of the lung will be a major step forward in the prevention of chronic lung disease in neonates who require positive pressure ventilation delivered through a mask or endotracheal tube. Airmid’s Volume Controlled Manual Ventilator has the potential to provide safe and accessible respiratory support for the numerous babies who require ventilation in the first days of life.”

Mauro Sarmiento, MD, PhD, MBA

Critical Care Medicine

  • Chief Medical Officer: Corizon Health

    Expert in leadership, management, business case analysis

  • John Hopkins Health Care/Suburban Hospital Health: 

    Former Medical Director of Respiratory Services

    Critical Care expert

  • Expert in:

    Sepsis, ARDS and COVID management

  • United States Air Force:

    Air Wing Medical Group Commander

    Flight Surgeon

  • Honors: Numerous Achievement Medals 

  • Published Researcher

“Limiting lung-injury is proven to improve patient outcomes in ARDS. Thus, all efforts to lessen the inflammatory consequences of volutrauma are essential to optimizing the outcome of our patients. The AirMid device will ensure that lung protection strategies are adopted as soon as possible.”

Raul Gazmuri, MD, PhD

Critical Care Medicine

  • Rosalind Franklin School of Medicine

  • Internationally known resuscitation researcher

  • Professor of Medicine and Physiology

  • Director of Critical Care Medicine

  • Director of Resuscitation Institute

  • Voluminous grants and publications

  • Member of the International Liason Committee on Resuscitation

  • Member of the American Heart Association Guideline Committee

“...controlled ventilation during chest compression could strengthen the relationship between PETCO2 and the blood flow generated by chest compression, thus enhancing the usefulness PETCO2 for assessing CPR quality, guiding hemodynamic interventions, predicting the likelihood of successful resuscitation, and recognizing the return of spontaneous cardiac activity during CPR. This has not been possible until now.”

Alan Shapiro, MD

Emergency Medicine

  • University of Pittsburgh

  • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - Passavant

  • Medical Director of Pre-hospital Care

  • Duke LifePoint – Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center

  • Clinical faculty of the Department of Emergency Medicine

  • Corporate consultant

  • Former Paramedic

  • Several Publications and Presentations

“Volume controlled ventilation via bag-valve mask is a long awaited technology both in the emergency setting and in pre-hospital care. Consistent tidal volumes are important to provide lung protective strategies during manual ventilation to avoid lung injury and hyperinflation during a patient's most critical moments during emergent airway management.”

Emergency Medicine

Robert Shesser, MD, MPH

  • George Washington University Medical Center

  • Professor of Emergency Medicine 

  • Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine 

  • Co-director of the Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine

  • Journal  reviewer: JAMA, Archives of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Emergency Medicine

  • Multiple grants, book chapters and abstracts 

  • Creator of medical educational software

"Airmid's manual ventilatory device has the potential to take the guesswork out of ventilation and reduce the chance of iatrogenic lung injury during a resuscitation"

Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Chief Quality Officer, and Chief Medical Officer (recently retired)

Mark L. Cohen, MD, PhD

  • Retired in 2021 from Piedmont Atlanta Hospital and the Piedmont Heart Institute:

    Chief Medical Officer, Piedmont Atlanta Hospital

    Chief of Quality and Informatics, Piedmont Heart Institute

    Chief of Research, Piedmont Heart Institute 

    Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiologist

  • PhD- Biomathematical Sciences 

  • Multiple Professional Society Memberships

  •  Positions at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Atlanta:

    Chair of the Department of Medicine

    Chief of Cardiology 

    Medical Director, Cardiac Care Unit

  • Author of multiple publications and abstracts 

  • Owner and Co-owner of two patents 

"Primum non nocere: First, do no harm. When science tells us that our current approach to care is causing harm, and new technology allows us to manage the patient without causing harm, we are obligated to implement the change. Doing any less is to violate our oaths as physicians."