MEDICAL AUTOMATION EXPERTS
Terry Sharrer's bio:
 | Dr. Sharrer began as Executive Director, Medical Innovation and Transformation Institute, with the Inova Health System (Fairfax, VA) in July 2007. Formerly, he was the Curator of Health Sciences at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, where he had worked for thirty-six years. Terry Sharrer speaks and writes about a range of life science subjects. In 1987, he co-organized an exhibition titled "The Search for Life: Genetic Technology in the 20th Century." This show also was the inaugural exhibition for the DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. He has done video documentaries on the Human Genome Project, the beginning of gene therapy, and the molecular biology of cancer. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Maryland, has authored some three dozen publications-including A Kind of Fate, Agricultural Change in Virginia, 1861-1920 (about the biological consequences of the Civil War and the beginning of germ theory practices, Iowa State University Press, 2000)-and currently is writing a history of molecular medicine. For outreach work, has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Foundation for Cancer Research (Bethesda, MD), board member of the Carilion Biomedical Institute (Roanoke, VA), board member, Immune Deficiency Foundation (Towson, MD), and board member, Inova Fairfax Hospital Cancer Advisory Committee (Fairfax, VA). Currently, his public service includes: board member of the Fund for Inherited Disease Research (Bryn Mawr, PA); and Science Advisor, for the Loudoun County, VA Department of Economic Development, the Clarke County VA Education Foundation, and the Arizona Science Alliance. With his wife Patty, and sons Alex, age 13, and Nicholas, age 17, he lives in Hamilton, Loudoun County, VA. Disclosure: G. Terry Sharrer, PhD has stock dividends in Merck and Pfizer. |
Terry Sharrer's posts:
KEEN: “Engineery” Today
“Engineering” derives from the Latin, and comes into Middle English around 1325. It originally applied to building military “engines,” but [MORE]
Mobile Health at Last Month’s CES
At CES 2012 in Las Vegas last month, mobile health was a prominent theme, with providers introducing wearable weight-loss [MORE]
The $1,000 Genome, Pretty Soon
Ion Torrent, a division of Life Technologies Corporation (Carlsbad, CA) is now taking orders for it’s “Ion Proton” DNA [MORE]
miRNA Insights to Hypertension
Many investigators have suspected that regulation of renin-an enzyme that mediates the extracellular fluids volume in blood-plays a key role [MORE]
Stem Cell-Derived Pituitary Gland
This is one of those things that is almost inconceivable until it happens: scientists at Japan’s RIKEN Center for Developmental [MORE]
Simulation: Aging Avatars
Avatars are becoming more common in medical training, and new work in this field comes from the University of [MORE]
Microrobots for Drug Delivery
Korean engineers are experimenting with microrobots that can move through blood vessels by means of magnetic fields. Not only do [MORE]
“Microvascular Stamp” Bandage
In the mind’s eye, imagine a postage stamp with live cells arrayed upon its surface in a specific pattern. [MORE]
Optoelectronic Blood Pressure Monitoring
This piece only peaks curiosity, but it tells of a British company, Tarilian Laser Technologies (Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, [MORE]
First Transfusion of Cultured Blood
Despite almost a quarter century of being able to isolate blood progenitor stem cells, it wasn’t until last summer [MORE]
Medicine in the year 2060
Physicist Michio Kaku predicts how today’s breakthroughs in medicine and healthcare-organ regeneration, nanoparticle drug delivery, implantable robots, “smart” bathrooms, [MORE]
Perspective on Nanomedicine
You’ll have to go to the journal Molecular Pharmaceuticals to get the full text of this nanomedicine review, but [MORE]
Visualizing Cancer Cells in Vivo
Cancer gets its name from the crab because of its resemblance to a mass with many legs. Surgical resection [MORE]
Monitoring Tear Glucose
Not long after Banting and Macleod won a 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering insulin, scientists began investigating tears as [MORE]
Heart Parts from Stem Cells, Sooner Than You Think
Regenerative medicine took a leap when Doris Taylor, at the Univ. of Minnesota, grew a rat’s stem cells into [MORE]
Helmsley Trust Funding Telemedicine in Midwest
Leona Helmsley will be remembered at “the Queen of Mean,” and for saying that “only the little people pay [MORE]
Non-Invasive Continuous Glucose Monitor
The YouTube video at this site is a promotion of C8 MediSensors (San Jose, CA) continuous glucose monitor which [MORE]
Smart, Light-Sensing Polymer for Medical Devices
Researchers at the University of California-San Diego have developed what they call a “smart” polymer that can encapsulate medications [MORE]
Looking for Cancer with a Flashlight
It is a flashlight of sorts, but a more accurate description is an endoscope that emits short bursts of [MORE]
Ultrasound Activated Pacemaker
Startup company, EBR Systems (Sunnyvale, CA) is developing a new generation of pacemakers that rely on ultrasound signaling rather [MORE]