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:
Implantable, Electronic Drug Dispensing
A research group at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill recently presented their technology for delivering anticancer [MORE]
West Wireless Health Institute
With $90m from the Gary and Mary West Family Foundation, the “West Wireless Health Institute” recently opened in San [MORE]
Algorithm for Lower Dose CT Imaging
Virtual colonoscopy, which uses a CT scan instead of the traditional probe, has the advantage of being non-invasive, but carries [MORE]
Artificial Pancreas for Nocturnal Hypoglycemia in T1 Diabetes
An artificial pancreas is a closed loop device that delivers both insulin and glucagon and can be particularly advantageous [MORE]
Nanobiosensors for Elders
ActiveCare, Inc.(West Valley City, UT), makers of the “ActiveOne+” monitoring watch, and Vista Therapeutics (Santa Fe, NM), developers of [MORE]
Biological Basis of Stress
Among many mysteries of molecular psychiatry, researchers have long wondered why females are more prone to depression and stress-related [MORE]
Growing Heart Tissue in China
Because drugs can only slow the pace of heart failure and also because transplantable hearts are in short supply, [MORE]
NIH Top Grant Winners
In this NIH listing of grant winners in 2009, Johns Hopkins University ranked first with nearly three-quarters of a [MORE]
Telemedicine Device Market
“Consumer telehealth will be an extension of the current home-use medical device market, with manufacturers offering additional internet-based services [MORE]
“Molecular Imprinting” for Plastic Antibodies
UC-Irvine chemistry professor Kenneth Shea has lead research in mice studies that shows two different fluorescent imaging probes-one attached [MORE]
Hospital Delirium
About one third of elderly patients in hospitals experience and inexplicable disorientation called “hospital delirium.” Infections, surgery and medications [MORE]
Medical Home and Medical Monitoring at Home
Daniel Z. Sands, M D, MPH a primary care physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston and a director [MORE]
First Custom-Fit, Degradable Bone Implant
Researchers at the University Medical Center and the Fraunhofer Institute in Aachen, Germany have teamed up to create a [MORE]
New Bone Cement
Patients suffering from compression fractures of the spine can undergo a minimally invasive procedure called balloon kyphoplasty. In this, [MORE]
Thomson Reuters Top 10 Healthcare Providers in the US
The news service company Thomson Reuters announced its second annual review of the top ten healthcare systems in the [MORE]
LivingWell@Home
Last month, the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust (New York City) announced a $8.1m gift [MORE]
Stem Cell Banking
The one hundred or so genes on Chromosome 6 that make up the Major Histocompatibility Complex govern the cell [MORE]
Kinematic Automation
Kinematic Automation (Twain Harte, CA) builds state of the art manufacturing systems for medical and diagnostics businesses, from proof [MORE]
Tissue Engineering for Hearing
Hearing loss will be a rising medical concern as “baby boomers” move into retirement. Loud music over the years [MORE]
Noninvasive, Continuous Hemoglobin Monitoring
In another “measure through motion” application, Masimo Corporation (Irvine, CA) recently announced results from a European study showing that [MORE]