Advisors
NHSi has recruited a network of leading physicians and scientists to advise the
management team, lead academic investigations, and facilitate communications between
NHSi and the scientific and medical communities. These medical scientists are leaders
in transcranial Doppler and neurosonology, surgery, translational medicine, and
red blood cell physiology.
Charles H. Tegeler, IV, M.D.,
McKinney-Avant Professor of Neurology, Director of
the Neurosonology Laboratory, and Head of the Section on Stroke and Cerebrovascular
Disease, Wake Forest University
Dr. Tegeler is the McKinney-Avant Professor of Neurology, Director of the Neurosonology
Laboratory, and Head of the Section on Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease. He also
was the senior editor for the textbook, Neurosonology (Mosby 1995). Dr. Tegeler
is a past-president of the American Society of Neuroimaging (ASN), and has been
Chairman of the ASN Neurosonology Examination Committee, Director of the Neurosonology
Program at the ASN Annual Meeting, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Neuroimaging,
for which he remains a member of the Editorial Board. He is the Alternate Delegate
to the AMA House of Delegates for the ASN, and represents the NC Neurological Society
as a member of the NC Medicare Carrier Advisory Committee. He has been President
of the Neuroimaging Section of the American Academy of Neurology, and represented
the AAN on the Board of Directors, and been Chairman of the Transcranial Doppler
Committee, of the Intersocietal Commission for Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories
(ICAVL) from 1990-1999. Dr. Tegeler has been Treasurer of the Neurosonology Research
Group of the World Federation of Neurology, and has been Secretary for the International
Cerebral Hemodynamics Society. He is Director of the Basic and Advanced Courses
in Neurosonology offered at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in conjunction
with the Center for Medical Ultrasound. He is in charge of the weekly Integrated
Neurosonology Teaching Conference, and Directs Fellowships in Stroke and Cerebrovascular
Disease, and Neurosonology. He is also Co-Chair of the Stroke Sub-Committee of the
Neurosciences Service Line at WFUBMC.
Dr. Tegeler's research activities focus on various new uses of ultrasound in concussion, stroke and cerebrovascular disorders, and the prevention and acute treatment of stroke. He participated in multiple stroke prevention trials including CATS, TASS, SPAF-I, and NASCET, and acute stroke treatment trials using Ancrod, Nimodipine, Citicoline, Lubeluzole, Pro-urokinase, and Clomethiazole. He was Principal Investigator (PI) for Prevalence and Natural History of Emboli in Stroke (RO1-NS30720), PI for the ultrasound reading center for SECORDS (NINDS), Co-I for the Ultrasound Reading Center for ARIC (NHLBIHC92-17), and is on the TCD Committee for SONIA (NINDS). He was PI for industry sponsored research projects, including Carotid Volume Flow in Normal Subjects (Philips Ultrasound International), Effect of Imitrex on NTG-induced Headache using TCD (S2B-150: Glaxo), Carotid Thrombus Imaging with DMP-444 (DuPont Merck), and was Co-I for Emboli in Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction (THISL: DuPont), and Paraspinal Ultrasound in Normal Subjects (SonoMed). He was PI for TCD in Epilepsy (NCBH Developmental Technology Grant), and has also been involved in numerous other minor or unfunded projects.
Dr. Rune Aaslid, Ph.D.,
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Bern, Germany
Dr. Aaslid designed the first dedicated transcranial Doppler instrument in 1981 at the Vascular Laboratory of the Neurosurgical Department of Inselspital in Bern, Switzerland. Dr. Aaslid is widely recognized in clinical and research medicine as the pre-eminent expert on cerebral vascular hemodynamics. He has published over 100 articles in the field that have been referenced in over 2000 publications by others.
James P. AuBuchon, M.D., President & CEO,
Puget Sound Blood Center
Dr. AuBuchon was formerly the E. Elizabeth French Professor and Chair of Pathology at Dartmouth Medical School. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Blood Banks, Vice Chair of the Transfusion Medicine Resource Committee in the College of American Pathologists, and served as the director of Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Blood Bank and Transfusion Service. He is also a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists and the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh). Dr. AuBuchon is a well-known expert in the field of decision analysis and blood safety. He received his training at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin and was a senior staff fellow at the National Institutes of Health.