Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of a biotechnology research & development company with a goal of developing safe and effective antibody-based prophylactic and therapeutic countermeasures against infectious diseases with an initial focus on flaviviruses.

Chair of a basic science department at an academic medical university. Provide strategic leadership and support to basic scientists, post-doctoral researchers, PhD candidates, and laboratory technicians exploring topics in virology and immunology. Develop the vision and strategy for translating basic science discoveries into tangible medical solutions. Support a robust educational environment inside the Department and across the University.

Provide strategic and technical leadership to a University enterprise focused on addressing high impact, global community health challenges through clinical service-learning, education, and research initiatives. Support the Centers for Clinical Research, International Research, Environmental Health & Medicine, and Educational Programs and Training as they build strategic partnerships and robust project and work portfolios. Prospect and explore new opportunities with a focus on projects with tangible and actionable deliverables. Lead the development of Institute operational frameworks and financing initiatives to support Institute sustainability and growth.

Chair (interim) of a basic science department at an academic medical university. Provide strategic leadership and support to basic scientists, post-doctoral researchers, PhD candidates, and laboratory technicians exploring the immunology and pathogenesis of a variety of infectious diseases. Develop the vision and strategy for translating basic science discoveries into tangible medical solutions. Support a robust educational environment inside the Department and across the University.

Direct report to the Chair, Department of Medicine and senior report to the Dean, College of Medicine, Upstate Medical University. Support the SUNY Upstate mission to improve local and global health by leading medical education initiatives, executing innovative biomedical research and translational science, and providing high quality sub-specialty health care. Lead the Division’s strategic planning process and implementation of identified initiatives across the pillars of health care delivery, medical education, and research. Lead a staff of Infectious Diseases physicians, mid-level providers, and support staff ensuring professional, academic, and institutional goals and objectives are established and achieved. Lead the identification, analysis, and pursuit of business development initiatives ensuring financial profitability and promoting growth. Coordinate and partner with Upstate Departments, Centers, and Divisions on the identification, planning, and execution of basic, translational, and clinical research. Work with the ID Fellowship Director and faculty colleagues to build a high quality and sought after fellowship program training the next generation of Infectious Diseases specialist. Identify and engage regional, national, and global partners to facilitate meeting institutional strategic objectives.

Co-founder and Strategy Director for a company providing personalized and specialty-specific physician valuation information and analytics. Advise the Phairify leadership team on industry and market trends, competitive threats, and business opportunities. Provide guidance on new market opportunities and the development and launch of new products or the dissolving of existing products. Work closely with the Director, Sales and Marketing to transition strategy into new client engagement, acquisition, and management.

Founder and CEO of a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) registered in New York State. Certified by the Veterans Administration and New York State as a SDVOSB. Our mission is to support life science basic, translational, and clinical research initiatives with a focus on biopreparedness and medical countermeasure development.

Transitioned from the US Army and joined the SUNY Upstate Medical University, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Syracuse, NY.

Focused on providing strategic and technical leadership to WRAIR science and science support teams in Africa, Asia, and the U.S. conducting biosurveillance and vaccine research and development activities in support of U.S. military force readiness and the Whole of U.S. Government response to the Zika epidemic. Lead coordination and collaboration of WRAIR Zika activities with other USG agencies.

Focused on providing strategic, operational, and technical leadership to a global biomedical research enterprise encompassing more than 2,100 employees. Responsible for ensuring daily operations in the U.S., Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Caucasus region run smoothly and supporting risk mitigation and improvement strategies when they do not. Align institutional mission, vision, and daily operations with the needs and objectives of the U.S. National, Military, and Global Health Security Strategies. Ensure the global budget exceeding $290M USD/year is appropriately expended according to mission objectives and federal laws and regulations. Responsible for identifying and aligning government, academic, and industry market needs and opportunities with institutional capabilities, competencies, and mission objectives. Develop evidence-based and data-driven institutional business and accounting practices and contracting/acquisition strategies. Direct the development of marketing, strategic communications, and external relationship management products and practices. Responsible for providing strategic counsel and oversight to institutional identification, recruitment, hiring, development, and retention of the best and brightest physicians, basic scientists, and science support personnel. Responsible for representing the institute within the Department of Defense, U.S. Government, and community through publication in the scientific literature, speaking engagements, and the media.

Focused on leading a science and science support team in the development of medical countermeasures against viral diseases threatening U.S. Service Members. Responsible for providing leadership and direct oversight to research activities spanning the R&D development pathway for vaccines, drugs, and diagnostic tests executed by approximately 40 staff. Conduct “gap” analyses identifying scientific voids in Branch capabilities; develop and implement a plan to build missing strategic competencies. Ensure the Branch budget exceeding $9M USD/year is appropriately expended according to mission objectives and federal laws and regulations. Responsible for identifying and aligning government, academic, and industry market needs and opportunities with Branch capabilities, competencies, and mission objectives. Directly responsible for building a highly functional research team through the identification, recruitment, hiring, development, and retention of the best and brightest physicians, basic scientists, and science support personnel.

Focused on providing infectious diseases sub-specialty medical consultation. Responsible for providing evidence-based, high quality, infectious diseases consultation to complex patients admitted to one of the U.S. military’s largest tertiary care centers. Provide lectures and patient-based teaching encounters to Staff colleagues, Infectious Disease Fellows, Residents, Interns, and Medical Students.

Direct report to the Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command focused on coordinating the Command’s response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, supporting Operation United Assistance, and U.S. domestic Ebola preparedness. Responsible for coordinating the Command’s logistic, medical, and R&D activities supporting 3,000 U.S. Service Members deployed to Liberia in support of the U.S. Government’s Ebola outbreak response. Responsible for advising the Commanding General on issues impacting Force Health Protection & Readiness and developing guidance for eliminating or mitigating medical risks to deploying personnel. Responsible for coordinating medical countermeasure R&D activities across the Command and with external Department of Defense and other U.S. Government agencies to hasten development of drugs, vaccines, and other potential treatment modalities. Responsible for representing the Command within the Department of Defense, U.S. Government, and community through publication in the scientific literature, speaking engagements, and the media.

Direct report to the U.S. Army Surgeon General focused on providing the U.S. Army’s top medical leader expert opinion and guidance on a range of infectious diseases issues. Responsible for providing expert opinion on Soldier health standards as they relate to, and are impacted by, infectious diseases threats. Participate in the development of U.S. Army policies related to the same. Responsible for providing U.S. Army Human Resources Command talent management expertise and guidance for alignment of the infectious diseases physician inventory with U.S. Army needs. Responsible for providing expert consultation and guidance to the Surgeon General’s staff as they plan medical support for missions and operations. Responsible for representing the capabilities and achievements of Army Medicine within the U.S. Government and to the community.

Focused on leading a science and science support team in the development of a U.S. FDA licensed dengue vaccine. Responsible for providing operational and technical leadership to a team of approximately 40 U.S. and Thai clinicians, basic scientists, and science support personnel as they plan and execute pre-clinical and clinical studies of dengue vaccine and drug candidates. Responsible for preparing clinical trial sites in Thailand and the Philippines to execute large scale regulated dengue vaccine trials. Engage with academic and industry partners to strategically plan scientific and R&D work items to meet future mission objectives. Responsible for identifying and aligning government, academic, and industry market needs and opportunities with Program capabilities, competencies, and mission objectives. Responsible for representing the U.S. Department of Defense’s dengue vaccine program regionally and globally through publication in the scientific literature, speaking engagements, and the media.

Focused on leading a science and science support team in the development of a U.S. FDA licensed dengue vaccine. Responsible for providing operational and technical leadership to a team of approximately 20 clinicians, basic scientists, and science support personnel as they plan and execute pre-clinical and clinical studies of dengue vaccine candidates. Engage with academic and industry partners to scope critical-path work items and secure and expend the financial resources (~10M/3 years) required to execute said items. Responsible for representing the U.S. Department of Defense’s dengue vaccine program regionally and globally through publication in the scientific literature and speaking engagements.

Focused on identifying and monitoring infectious diseases threats to U.S. Service Members in Southeast Asia and developing medical countermeasures to the same. Responsible for providing operational and technical leadership to a team of approximately 70 U.S., Thai, and Nepali science and science support personnel conducting biosurveillance missions and dengue vaccine candidate development. Responsible for developing clinical trial sites in Thailand and Nepal to execute large regulated dengue vaccine trials and observational clinical cohort studies.