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.

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 Pathologiests, and served as the director of Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Blood Bank and Transfusion Service. He is also a Fellow of the College of American Pathologiests 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.


Charles H. Tegeler, IV, MD
McKinney-Avant Professor of Neurology, Director of the Neurosonology Laboratory, and Head of the Section on Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease, Wake Forest University

At Wake Forest, Dr. Tegeler also serves as the Director of Basic and Advanced Courses in Neurosonology. He is also a past President and Board Member of the Neuroimaging Section of the American Academy of Neurology and for many years was Chairman of the Transcranial Doppler committee of the Intersocietal Commission for Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories. Dr. Tegeler’s particular research focus is on developing new uses of ultrasound for application in concussion, stroke, and cerebrovascular disorders.