Cardiac Motion, LLC is a startup company incubated by the Tahoe Institute for Rural Health Research in partnership with UC Davis Engineering College and School of Medicine as well as the Tahoe Forest Health System in Truckee, CA.
TEAM
Saul Schaefer, MD - Chief Medical Officer - Dr. Schaefer is Cardiology, Professor of Medicine at the UC Davis Medical Center. He is also Board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease with previous research experience on heart motion abnormalities https://www.linkedin.com/in/saul-schaefer-73baa07/
Dennis Matthews, PhD - Founder and Chief Science Officer - Dr. Matthews, who is also Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, has extensive experience at R&D program leadership, NSF, DOE, DARPA and NIH Grant leadership, medical needs-driven device innovation and commercialization. He helped pioneer the applications of radar in medicine while directing the Medical Technology Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennis-matthews-a998942
Ken Pawlak - Chief Operating Officer – Mr. Pawlak serves as CEO to Truckee Applied Genomics, is a co-founder of Cardiac Patterns, Inc, and invests in and advises other life science startups. He brings product and business development experience from management roles at Microsoft, Intel, UTC and Xinova (Intellectual Ventures spin out) along with startup executive experience from venture-backed and bootstrapped companies. He holds an MBA from Darden at the University of Virginia. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenpawlak/
Justin Hunt, MD - Head of Biomechanical Engineering - Dr. Hunt completed his medical education at Ohio State University, internship/residency at Texas A&M in General Surgery, and completed a fellowship in Colon & Rectal Surgery at St. Francis Hospital. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Surgery. https://www.tfhd.com/our-providers/hunt-md
Tom Hobday and Betsy Cole • Founding members of Cardiac Motion LLC
Publications
TEAM
Saul Schaefer, MD - Chief Medical Officer - Dr. Schaefer is Cardiology, Professor of Medicine at the UC Davis Medical Center. He is also Board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease with previous research experience on heart motion abnormalities https://www.linkedin.com/in/saul-schaefer-73baa07/
Dennis Matthews, PhD - Founder and Chief Science Officer - Dr. Matthews, who is also Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, has extensive experience at R&D program leadership, NSF, DOE, DARPA and NIH Grant leadership, medical needs-driven device innovation and commercialization. He helped pioneer the applications of radar in medicine while directing the Medical Technology Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennis-matthews-a998942
Ken Pawlak - Chief Operating Officer – Mr. Pawlak serves as CEO to Truckee Applied Genomics, is a co-founder of Cardiac Patterns, Inc, and invests in and advises other life science startups. He brings product and business development experience from management roles at Microsoft, Intel, UTC and Xinova (Intellectual Ventures spin out) along with startup executive experience from venture-backed and bootstrapped companies. He holds an MBA from Darden at the University of Virginia. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenpawlak/
Justin Hunt, MD - Head of Biomechanical Engineering - Dr. Hunt completed his medical education at Ohio State University, internship/residency at Texas A&M in General Surgery, and completed a fellowship in Colon & Rectal Surgery at St. Francis Hospital. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Surgery. https://www.tfhd.com/our-providers/hunt-md
Tom Hobday and Betsy Cole • Founding members of Cardiac Motion LLC
Publications
- Songjie Bi and Dennis Matthews and Xiaoguang Liu, "An experimental study of 2-D cardiac motion pattern based on contact radar measurement," Apr., 2015. DOI:10.1109/WAMICON.2015.7120390 |
- Songjie Bi, Juan Zeng, Marzhan Bakbalanova, and Xiaoguang Liu, "Contact-Based Radar Measurement Of Cardiac Motion - A Position And Polarization Study," Jan., 2016. DOI:10.1109/BIOWIRELESS.2016.7445553 |
- Songjie Bi, Xiaomeng Gao, Victor M. Lubecke, Olga Boric-Lubecke, Dennis Matthews, Xiaoguang “Leo” Liu, "A Multi-Arc Method for Improving Doppler Radar Motion Measurement Accuracy," Jun., 2018. DOI:10.1109/MWSYM.2018.8439687 |
- Xiaomeng Gao, Xiaonan Jiang, Songjie Bi, Dennis Matthews, Saul Schaefer, and Xiaoguang Liu, "Measurement of the Complex Human Atrial-Ventricular Motions using Contact-Based Doppler Radar," Apr., 2019. DOI:10.1109/WAMICON.2019.8765441 |
- Xiaomeng Gao, Xiaonan Jiang, Songjie Bi, Dennis Matthews, Saul Schaefer, and Xiaoguang Liu, "Measurement and Modeling of Complex Cardiac Motions using a Quadrature Doppler Radar in Contact Mode