Meet Our Advisory Board Members

Dr. Webb is a Professor of Clinical Pharmacology & Anesthesia in the Colleges of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine at the University of Florida. His research areas include pharmacodynamics and kinetics of drugs used in the peri-anesthesia period, making drugs available to minor species, and welfare of experimental subjects. He has published over 50 papers, 9 book chapters, and presented over 50 talks in the areas of anesthesia, veterinary medicine, and drug residue avoidance in food of animal origin at national and international meetings.

Mrs. Paula Wilkerson is a regulatory consultant with an expertise in biomedical devices. She formerly served as Medical Device Reviewer / Inspector for the US Food and Drug Administration in the Office of Device Evaluation, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, as well as the Director of Regulatory Affairs for Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation and ZyzaTech/Osmonics, Inc. Her background in biomedical regulatory affairs, manufacturing, and quality systems will support clinical protocols and FDA submissions.

Professor Douglas B. Chrisey provides the organization with expertise in laser-material interactions and ablation, laser particle formation, and laser-based processes as well as biomaterial and tissue interactions.

Prof. Chrisey received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Virginia in 1987. He then joined the US Naval Research Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Research Associate before becoming a staff member in 1988. He spent the next 17 years there and his research interests include the novel laser fabrication of thin films and coatings of advanced electronic, sensor, biomaterial, and energy storage. These materials were used in device configurations for testing and typically have an improved figure-of-merit.

He is considered one of the pioneers in the field of Pulsed Laser Deposition and was the lead inventor of MAPLE processing technique. He has organized many laser-based conferences around the world and he publishes extensively in applied physics journals and gives frequent invited talks.

Prof. Chrisey became the Deputy Director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering at North Dakota State University in 2005. In 2006, he joined the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a Full Professor. His research has resulted in more than 400 citable publications and over 5,000 citations and he has edited or co-edited 15 books and has 18 patents. He also serves as the Chief Technology Officer for Nano Solutions and is President of Omni-Metrics.

Dr. Fitz-Gerald presently is an Assistant Professor in the Deptartment of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Virginia and a co-founder of Nanotherapeutics. Dr. Fitz-Gerald expertise encompasses laser synthesized coatings and materials characterization of particulate and luminescent materials. Dr. Fitz-Gerald holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Material Science and Engineering from the University of Florida and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Lowell.