The Biofuse Team

Joe Stauffer, DO, MBA, FAPCR

Chairman of the Board Directors

  • CEO/Founder Alta Life Sciences, LLC
  • Chief Medical Officer of Antibe Therapeutics
  • Former Global Medical Director Abbott Labs
  • Former FDA Medical Review Officer in the Anti-Inflammatory & Analgesic Division of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
  • U. S. Navy Veteran

 

David Battleman, MD, MBA, MSc

President & Chief Executive Officer

  • Principal & Founder of TrueNorth Lifesciences
  • Proven healthcare executive and life sciences strategist
  • 20+ years working with highly innovative life science companies seeking to optimize and accelerate growth
  • Formerly served as Senior Principal in R&D and Commercial Strategy Practice of IMS Health Holdings (now IQVIA; NYSE: IQV)
  • Former management consultant at Bain & Company and former Sr. Director for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
  • MD – Weill Cornell Medical College
  • MBA – Wharton School of Business
  • MSc Harvard School of Public Health

 

Frank D’Amelio

Frank D’Amelio

Advisory Board Chair

30+ years of medical device experience with over 250 devices through the FDA

Previous Positions:

 

  • CEO, Epica International
  • President, Live Tissue Connect, Inc
  • Executive VP, CTO, Gyrus Corporation
  • Chief Manufacturing Officer, ACMI

Albert Juergens

Chief Technical Advisor

Extensive Background in medical device and product development

Experience in the development of electrosurgical generators

Designed and cleared through FDA 510(k) 3 RF generators

Holds 7 patents including two in electrosurgical generators

Technical expertise includes electronic hardware, software, and firmware as well as mechanical and optical systems designs, all while navigating governmental regulatory requirements

Rick Earley

Rick Earley

Board Director

  • Founder & former CEO MetPro Group
  • Former shareholder Floeter Retort pouches, Acq by ProAmpac
  • Major Investor in BioFuse

 

Roland Austrup

Board Director

  • Innventure appointee to BioFuse Board of Directors
  • Chief Financial Officer of Innventure, LLC
  • Chairman of WaveFront Global Asset Management Corp
  • Co-founder of Envest Corp

 

Guy Hoagland

Guy Hoagland

Board Director

  • Medical Doctor with certifications in Internal & Geriatric Medicine
  • Has served as Medical Director and Chief Operating Officer of Southern Care, Inc bringing in to the top 5 hospice providers in the nation

The Biofuse Advisory Board

Frank D’Amelio

Frank D’Amelio

Advisory Board Chair

30+ years of medical device experience with over 250 devices through the FDA

Previous Positions:

 

  • CEO, Epica International
  • President, Live Tissue Connect, Inc
  • Executive VP, CTO, Gyrus Corporation
  • Chief Manufacturing Officer, ACMI

John Monson, MD

Chief Medical Advisor

  • Executive Director of Colorectal Surgery at AdventHealth, Orlando
  • Former chair of the U. K.’s National Training Program
  • Advanced fellowship training at Mayo Clinic in surgical oncology, vascular surgery and colon and rectal surgery
  • Presented more than 1000 lectures around the world, authored 400+ original published papers, four books, and more than 250 book chapters

 

“For all surgeons, anastomotic leaking is the most dreaded of complications and continues to be the leading cause of post-operative mortality after colorectal surgery. It’s time for a new approach to creating the safest anastomosis.”  John Monson, M.D.

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Neil Hyman, MD

Senior Clinical Advisor

  • Expert in colon and rectal surgery. Specializes in the surgical treatment of gastrointestinal malignancies and inflammatory bowel disease
  • Serves as a Senior Examiner for the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery and as an Associate Examiner for the American Board of Surgery
  • Authored more than 200 peer-reviewed original articles or textbook chapters and serves as a reviewer for numerous scientific publications
  • Consistently named to the list of Best Doctors in America by Best Doctors, Inc. and America’s Top Doctors for Cancer by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd

Randal Dull, MD, PhD

Medical Advisor

  • Physician-executive, clinician-scientist, and healthcare consultant
  • Internationally recognized anesthesiologist
  • NIH-funded Principle Investigator and recipients of 2 endowed chairs
  • Widely published in the area of vascular biology, endothelial signaling and endothelia permeability.

John "Bob" Roberts MD MBA

Medical Advisor

  • Board-certified thoracic surgeon specializing in minimally invasive thoracic surgery, including thoracoscopy, robotic surgery and other surgical treatments of lung and esophageal cancers
  • Medical degree with honors from Yale University and an MBA from Auburn University
  • Medical staff of the Eugene M. & Christine E. Lynn Cancer Institute and BocaCare® Physician Network at Boca Raton Regional Hospital
  • Selected by his peers to the “Best Doctors in America” from 2003 – 2018

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