Management Team
Norman A. Paradis, MD
President/Founder/CEO
- Emergency physician with significant experience in private sector biomedical device development
- Currently leads a large collaboration developing a shock device for the Department of Defense
- Holds patents on multiple innovations to be incorporated into CPR Therapeutics device
- Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
Henry Halperin, MD
Chief Scientific Advisor
- Cardiologist, Professor of Medicine, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
- Co-inventor of circumferential chest compressions, with 180+ peer reviewed publications
- Fellow of National Academy of Inventors, with 75+ patents
- Past chair of the National American Heart Association ACLS Subcommittee
David Danielsen
Business Advisor
- Experienced business leader with background in commercial operations and product management
- Senior roles in large and small medical products companies, including Hologic, Genzyme, Boston Scientific, US Surgical, CRA Health, and CairnSurgical
Mike Black
Business Advisor
- 20 years of executive management experience in resuscitation-related medical device companies
- Led early-stage company with novel product for assisting CPR through FDA PMA process
- Successfully grew and sold company to ZOLL Medical
Science Advisors
Graham Nichol, MD
Science Advisory Board
- Emergency Physician, Professor of Medicine and Leonard A. Cobb Medic One Foundation Endowed Chair in Prehospital Emergency Care, University of Washington
- Experienced clinical trialist and resuscitation researcher; Led randomized trials including the PARR 2, VELOCITY, ROC PRIMED, CCC and PART Trials
- Medical Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC)
- Coordinating Center Author of multiple AHA scientific statements
- Master of Public Health Harvard School of Public Health
Karl Kern, MD
Science Advisory Board
- Renowned for his research on cardiac arrest, co-discoverer of hands only CPR and coronary intervention after sudden death
- Gordon A. Ewy, MD Distinguished Endowed Chair Cardiovascular Medicine, Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona
- Co-Director of the Sarver Heart Center
Awards
ACEP – Finalist – EM Innovator of the Year
AngelMD – Finalist EM Pitch Club
RESI Innovator’s Pitch Challenge – Finalist
STEMI X Innovation Symposium Finalist
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