Leadership Team
Steven Reeves – Founder and CEO.Avantrasara is a commercial organisation advised by a board of eminent clinicians and academics – all members of the Avert-IT Project Board.
Meet the Board here:
Iain Chambers, BSc, PhD, CEng, FIPEM
Director of Medical Physics, South Tees NHS Foundation Trust and Consultant Clinical Scientist. Over 30 years experience in clinical measurement in designing medical devices and improving combined with a strong academic research track record with over 180 peer reviewed publications and presentations. Chairman of the Association of Clinical Scientists the professional body representing all clinical scientists in the UK (Life Science, Physiological Science & Physics and Engineering).
Giuseppe Citerio, MD
Director of Neuroanesthesia and NeuroIntensive Care San Gerardo Hospital Since 01/06/1994 up to today. Contract Professor, University Milan Bicocca, in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Faculty of Medicine; in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Postgraduated School; in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Postgraduated School in Neurosurgery; Postgraduate Masters
Associated Editor, Intensive Care Medicine.
Chairman of the NICEM section (Neuro Intensive Care Emergency Medicine) of the European Society of Intensive Care, ESICM. Member of research Committee and Congress committee of the European Society of Intensive Care, ESICM. Member of the Editorial Board of Distance Learning Programme for Intensive Care (PACT). Participant and/or promoter of more than 20 clinical trials. Author of more than 80 scientific papers in PubMed and book chapters on neurointensive care/neuroanesthesia topics. Invited lecturer at more than 80 scientific meetings Attendance and presentation of scientific results at more than 100 scientific/medical congresses.
Karl Keining MD
Vice Chairman Dept. Neurosurgery, Chairman Div. Stereotactic Neurosurgery, University Hospital Heidelberg.
20 years of experience in experimental and clinical research on traumatic brain injury, with a special focus on advanced intracranial monitoring.
60 peer reviewed publications and numerous posters and presentations.
Per Enblad, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurosurgery and Consultant Neurosurgeon at Uppsala University and Akademiska sjukhuset, respectively, Uppsala, Sweden. Head of the neurointensive care, traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disorders. The neurointensive care has been organized into a ”laboratory-like” environment with standardized care, powerful multimodality monitoring and computerised data collection which provides a unique opportunity to monitor the acute brain injury process and the effect of treatment strategies, enabling the study of pathophysiological and neurochemical mechanisms of acute brain injury directly in the human brain. The Neurointensiv care unit serves as a platform for The Center of Excellence Neurotrauma and for the Uppsala Brain Injury Center – UBIC . The clinical management and the associated research has been widely appreciated internationally and Uppsala university is a world authority within this area of research.
Tim Howells, MSc, Phd
Software developer and researcher in the Department of Neurosurgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden. Author or co-author of 19 Medline indexed papers. Developer of the HypoPredict software which uses Bayesian neural network technology to predict the occurrence of hypotensive events in patients in intensive care. Also developed the Odin software which is used for data acquisition and analysis in the intensive care environment. Previously worked at the Mitre Corporation in Burlington, MA, USA where he conducted research and published in the areas of natural language processing, speech recognition, image recognition, and neural networks.
Pelle Nilsson, M.D., Ph.D.
Consultant in Neurosurgery, Head of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Assistant Head Neurointesive care , Akademiska Sjukhuset, Uppsala, Sweden. Member of Swedish Therapy group for CNS tumors in children. Over 20 years experience in experimental and clinical research related to traumatic brain injury, neurointensive care and multimodality monitoring. This has resulted in more than 40 peer-reviewed publications.
Ian Piper, BSc, PhD, CSi, MIPEM
Principal Health Care Scientist, Southern General Hospital, Greater Glasgow Health Board. Over 30 years experience in developing and testing medical devices and monitoring systems for improving the neuro-intensive care management of patients with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Coordinator and co-founder of the Brain Monitoring with Informatioin Technology research group -BrainIT – a consortium of over 20 neuro-intensive care centres across Europe collaborating on the development and testing of new health care technology for monitoirng patients with TBI. Over 100 peer review publications with a strong track record in obtaining UK and EC framework project grant funding.
Arminas RAGUSKAS, Full Univ. Professor, DSc, FBC, FLSHD
Head of Telematics Sc. Lab., Kaunas University of Technology (Kaunas, Lithuania).Vicechairman of University Senate, Elected Member of University Council.
Over 40 years experience in industrial, scientific and clinical measurements and in design of innovative measurement and monitoring devices combined with a strong academic research track record. PI of many projects funded by European Commission, by the USA Dept. of Defence and other agencies. PI of contracts with German, Lithuanian and the US companies. Author and co-author of more than 130 patented inventions. More than 100 scientific papers and presentations in international conferences. Invited speaker to the world congresses in the USA, India, Hong Kong, etc. Inventor and developer of innovative technologies for intracranial pressure absolute value non-invasive measurement, non-invasive real-time monitoring of cerebrovascular autoregulation and slow, respiratory and pulse volumetric intracraniospinal waves.
Juan Sahuquillo, MD, PhD.
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Head of Department, Department of Neurosurgery
Coordinator of the Neurotraumatology and Neurosurgery Research Unit, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.
Papers indexed in Medline (132):
Professor Richard O. Sinnott PhD, MSc, BSc
Technical Director of the National e-Science Centre at the University of Glasgow. He is also deputy director of the Bioinformatics Research Centre at Glasgow, and Technical Manager of the National Centre for e-Social Science based in Manchester. He holds a PhD from the University of Stirling where his research was based on the architectural design of open distributed processing systems; an MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Stirling, and a BSc in Theoretical Physics from the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Professor Sinnott’s current research is focused around Grid computing and it’s application to solve e-Research problems across a variety of research areas with specific focus on security. He has over 120 peer reviewed publications.
