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30 years of experience in Medical Electronics including 20 years of service at Nihon Kohden America, Inc. (NKA) dedicated to development of patient monitoring products and operations management. Current Vice President, Patient Monitoring Business Unit at NKA, driving business unit growth on average by 33% annually. Developed Defensive Monitoring strategy to provide clinician with continuous vital signs status on traditionally unmonitored floors; closing the gap between patient condition deterioration and time to intervention. Introduced award winning products focused on hospital quality and cost issues including several generations of new bedside monitors, central stations and telemetry product innovations. Received U.S. Patent in January 2009 for “Computer process for modeling flow of patients through hospital units”; patent pending for “Clinical data monitoring and alarming apparatus and methods”. Currently serves as an advisory board member for “ACCE-HTF” (Healthcare Technology Foundation), a non-profit dedicated to improving healthcare delivery outcomes by promoting the development, application and support of safe and effective healthcare technologies.Specialties: Patient Monitoring, Business Development, Product Strategy & Development, Marketing