Our Team | Bio-Sim Corporation

The Bio-Sim Corporation team is well balanced in talents, experience, and contacts. It consists of seasoned professionals that have: Fortune 500 and global market experience, familiarity with FDA procedures, and seasoned management and execution skills. These individuals provide the breadth and depth of knowledge, expertise, and contacts to ensure appropriate corporate representation.

James E. Burk, Attorney
Mr. James Burk has been in the private practice of law for over 30 years. He assists emerging companies in their initial stages of organization and then nurturing the companies through the public offering stage. Mr. Burk began his career in 1969 as an attorney with the Federal Trade Commission investigating consumer protection matters. He then returned to his hometown of San Antonio, Texas where he served as Senior Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. After completing his District Court clerkship, he was appointed Attorney-Advisor to a judge on the U.S. Tax Court in Washington, DC. He has been a senior partner in law firms located in New York and Washington. He has offered legal advice and counsel as a sole practitioner and is currently as a senior member of the Burk & Reedy Law Firm, P.C. Mr. Burk assists domestic and international clients with business matters including corporate issues, contracts, mergers, acquisitions, venture capital financings, tax, asset protection, securities and franchise law. He has also assisted companies in securing seed and mezzanine funding for emerging companies. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin Law School and is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and Texas.

Ty Endean, D.O., Orthopedics
Dr. Ty Endean attended California State University, Sacremento on a full football scholarship and graduated as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He went on to graduate from Western University College of Osteopathic Medicine with honors, received the Clybourne Award as Outstanding Orthopedic Intern at Doctors Hospital, in Columbus, Ohio, and completed his orthopedic residency at Memorial Hospital, York, Pennsylvania and Siani Hospital in Maryland, where he was honored as Outstanding Orthopedic Resident. He served as an orthopedic consultant for the Oakland Raiders and as team physician for the USA Rugby Team, World Cup 2003. He was a sports medicine fellow at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Palo Alto, California in 2002-2003 before joining Arizona Orthopedics private practice in Tucson. He serves as team physician for the Arizona Heat and orthopedic consultant to the San Jose Sharks, as well as, Cienega and Rincon high schools. Ty acts as a medical consultant to Clearant Technologies and Stryker Surgical. He actively publishes in peer-review journals.

Allan J. Hamilton, M.D., Neurosurgery & TBI
Dr. Allan J. Hamilton graduated from Harvard Medical School with honors, and completed his neurosurgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health before joining the University of Arizona faculty in 1990, and has since served, not only as Professor and Chairman in Department of Surgery there, but also at the Arizona Cancer Center, and the Biomedical Engineering Program. He also has Clinical Professorships in the Departments of Radiation Oncology and Psychology. In 1993, the American Cancer Society selected him for a Young Investigator's Career Development award. Co-author of more than 50 journal articles, and a dozen book chapters, Dr. Hamilton was awarded the top stereotactic neurosurgical award in the U.S., the Cosman Award for Innovation. Under Dr. Hamilton's leadership, the University of Arizona is the only institution in the United States to be awarded the International Lars Leksell Award for his pioneering contributions to the field of extracranial stereotactic neurosurgery. Other institutions receiving this award include such prestigious medical universities as the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, Oxford University in the United Kingdom, and the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He holds patents for several medical inventions and is a past Fellow of the International Albert Schweitzer Foundation. He has received numerous teaching awards, including the Robert G. Ojemann Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Arizona Deans Teaching Scholar. For the past nine consecutive years, he has been selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Doctors in America (1995 -2005). He has been chosen as one of the Leading Intellects and Thinkers of the 21St Century and was awarded the Residential Medal of Merit, awarded to him in 2003 by Senator John McCain. He has appeared numerous times on television programs including MSNBC, CNN, PBS, and the Discovery Channel and has been featured in national newspapers such as the New York Times, USA Today, and Newsweek magazine. His outside interest include running his ranch, Rancho Bosque, in Tucson, Arizona, raising prize Brahangus cattle, and preserving pureblooded Lipizzaner stallions. Allan is a nationally renowned horse trainer and equine therapist who holds clinics around the country and has been featured in Western Horseman, Practical Horseman, and Equas magazines.

David M. Joseph, M.D.
Dr. David M. Joseph received a degree in biomedical engineering from MIT, where he received numerous honors. As a Biomedical design engineer at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Dr. Joseph spent seven years designing and developing medical products. Dr. Joseph received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and served a residency in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and fellowships at both the MGH and the Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He is board certified in both anesthesiology and pain management. Dr. Joseph received his management training at the Center for Executive Education at Babson College, the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and the American College of Physician Executives. Dr. Joseph has served as CEO of a 65-physician group practice, as Chairman and CEO of a large regional MSO, as the Director of the Healthcare Division of an international consulting firm, and as Chief Medical Officer of two medical device companies. Dr. Joseph has published extensively in the field of medical management, has served as a columnist for Healthcare Business Digest, and has been awarded advanced standing in the American College of Physician Executives. He is the inventor or co-inventor of over a dozen devices, and is a founding member of the Desert Angels. Dr. Joseph has served as trustee and fiduciary of a $25M retirement plan, on the finance committee of the Arizona Medical Association, and on the examining committee of Northwestern Mutual Financial Services ($86B in assets). Dr. Joseph has served as a managing partner of an investment fund as well as a director, trustee, consultant or advisory board member for numerous organizations, ranging from hospitals to start-up companies to Fortune 500 corporations.

Ioanna T. Morfessis, Ph.D.
In 2004, Dr. Morfessis started her consulting practice, IO.INC.; a visionary consulting practice that delivers expert and effective strategies and solutions to help leaders, organizations and places grow. The firm's mission is to help leaders and their organizations or communities envision, define and execute strategies and solutions that maximize growth and success. Among IO.INC's clients are Fortune 500 companies; master planned community developers; mid-cap firms; local, regional and national non-profits, and municipalities. Previously, she was the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore, that region's private-public partnership for economic development. For the first time in the region's 300+ year history, local and state governments joined together with business and educational leaders to expand economic and earnings potential for the entire community. During her tenure, the Economic Alliance helped generate more than $5.2 billion of new private economic activity in Greater Baltimore's economy. She has served as the founding President/CEO of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, where she helped lead the movement to combine 18 organizations into a unified effort, and transform the Phoenix region's economy into one of the highest performing urban economies in the US. Prior to that, she served as the first Director of Economic Development in Montgomery County, Maryland, where she initiated what today is one of the world's foremost life sciences and biotechnology centers. Dr. Morfessis served as the Chairman of the International Economic Development Council (formerly CUED) from 1993-1995, and has served on its Board for 20 years. As a civic steward, Dr. Morfessis serves or has served on the boards of many local, state and national charities and non-profit organizations, including art and science museums, community foundations, private charitable trusts and service organizations. Currently, she is a founding director of the Helios Education Foundation, a new $600 million endowed foundation that provides access to post-secondary education in Arizona and Florida. Throughout her career, she has received numerous awards and acclamations, had many articles published in respected trade journals and has appeared on several major network and cable television and radio programs. She received her bachelor's degree from The American University (magna cum laude), her master's degree from George Washington University, and her doctorate from Arizona State University. She resides in Phoenix, Arizona.

Thomas P. Stagnaro, M.B.A.
Mr. Stagnaro received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Oregon State University, and his Masters of Business Administration from San Jose University. He has over forty years of experience in the medical, and biotechnology fields. His career includes sales, marketing, management and fund raising experience. He has served as a top level manager or director in over a dozen companies, including InKine Pharmaceuticals, Ixion Biotechnology, Board of Visitor for University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) and Intellivax International Inc., Protalex, Inc., Keck Graduate School, Claremont Colleges and LSRO; and is an active member of BIO (Biotechnology Industry Organization). He has negotiated numerous contracts with US biotech companies and successfully built the infrastructure of many of the organizations that he managed, both in human resources and in sales volumes. He has been responsible for managing hundreds of people and multiple sales pipelines in excess of $220 - $250 million. His achievements include: taking Univax public through a secondary IPO offering after raising $80 million, introducing WinRho SD® and assisting 3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in raising over $35 million from venture capitalists and corporate partners; in total, he has raised over $250 million during the last 15 years. He has extensive experience bringing products to market, including those requiring clinical trials and FDA approval. At Agile, he initiated multiple phase II trials evaluating a transdermal patch. He licensed a late-stage product, WinRho SD, from Cangene and successfully brought the product through CBER and introduced it into the United States. He has licensed technology from NIH, Stanford, University of Oregon, Walter Reed Army Hospital, and from numerous other biotech companies: ImmuCell, Cambridge Biotech, Genentech and Chiron. Recently, he was invited to become part of the board of directors of the Singapore National Science Foundation, responsible for allocating over $360 million in incubation funds to start-up companies. When he is not traveling abroad, he enjoys playing racquetball, golf and power boating with his children and grandchildren.

Robert L. Phillips, M.B.A. & Ph.D.
Dr. Phillips has a degree in Engineering from West Point, NY; an MBA and Ph. D., from the The Ohio State University. He has repeated experience in managing small and large organizations. He is also an excellent teacher and administrator, with a focus in teaching MBA students, as a professor of management. He was voted favorite MBA Professor, twice, by graduating MBA classes, and has published numerous books and articles. Dr. Phillips has extensive experience in fund raising for new ventures and the organization and development of research organizations. He has also served as a Dean of the College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University, where he was responsible for all graduate programs in the College. He was the co-founder of the Northwest Texas Small Business Development Center (serving 95 counties), a program which has incubated over 300 entrepreneurial companies. Dr. Phillips has been awarded over $1M in extramural research grants (on leadership), and has been an invited speaker for the National Academy of Management, the International Congress of Psychology, and the Eastern and the Western Economic Society. He has numerous publications, including two books and two textbook chapters, and he is a peer-review editor for four management journals. Dr. Phillips has served as a consultant to Young & Rubicon, The Battelle Institute, and SSC&B Lintas worldwide. Prior to joining Izon, Dr. Phillips served as CEO of Apotheus Ltd (a medical start-up company), Scott Laboratories (a high-tech medical start-up; intellectual property acquired by a division of Johnson & Johnson), and Cardiarc (a medical start-up in acquisition negotiations with a F50 corporation). The first exited with a deal with Johnson & Johnson ($60,000,000 and 6% royalties on sales estimated by J&J to be between $500 and $800 Million); the second start-up currently preparing to enter the market – technology is developed and FDA clearance has been obtained.

Jerzy W. Rozenblit, Ph.D., Computer & Electrical Engineering
Dr. Jerzy Rozenblit is Professor and Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at The University of Arizona. During his tenure, he has established the Engineering Design Laboratory with major projects in design and analysis of complex, computer-based systems, software engineering, embedded systems, and symbolic visualization. The projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation, US Army, Siemens, Infineon Technologies, Rockwell, McDonnell Douglas, NASA, Raytheon, and Semiconductor Research Corporation. He has extensive teaching experience and conducts a vigorous graduate program as evidenced by many successful Ph.D. and M.Sc. students and Best Teacher awards. He is active in professional service capacities, ranging from editorship of ACM and Society for Computer Simulation Transactions, program and general chairmanship of major conferences, to participation in various university and departmental committees. Among several visiting assignments, he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Systems Science, Johannes Kepler University, Austria, Research Fellow at the US Army Research Laboratories, Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich, and Fulbright Senior Specialist in Cracow, Poland. Over the years, he has developed strong associations with the private sector and government entities. His management and project experience includes over $8 million in externally funded research. He served as a research scientist and visiting professor at Siemens AG, Infineon AG Central Research and Development Laboratories in Munich, where over the last decade he was instrumental in the development of design frameworks for complex, computer-based systems. Through this experience, he developed a thorough understanding of a multinational, worldwide corporate culture and the day-to-day operations of a high technology company. For the last eleven years, he has led a vigorous research program at the University of Arizona in visualization, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence funded by the US Army. Currently, he is developing virtually assisted surgical training methods and systems in collaboration with the Arizona Simulation Technology and Education Center. Co-author of several edited monographs and over a hundred publications, Jerzy holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Wayne State University, Michigan and the M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland. He is an avid skier and photographer.

W. Don Stull, P.E., M.B.A.
Mr. Stull received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering, with minors in architecture and mathematics, from Texas Tech University, where he received numerous honors, including the Murdough scholarship for the outstanding Civil Engineering student. He received his Masters of Business Administration from Texas Tech University as well. He is a registered Professional Engineer in three states. Mr. Stull has served as a special project engineer for the US Army Corp of Engineers, and spent 13 years in positions of increasing responsibility with two major engineering firms. As Chief Technology Officer for Alamosa PCS (NASDAQ: APCS), Mr. Stull developed the financial model, wrote the initial business plan, grew the staff from one employee to 60, secured $48.5M in equity investments, controlled a budget of over $150M, assisted in two acquisitions, and assisted in taking the company through the IPO process (second largest IPO in Texas history). Mr. Stull has assisted development stage companies by writing business plans for over 20 companies, has presented to numerous technology groups, and teaches entrepreneurship at the College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University.

Michael Valdiserri, Ph.D., Chairman, Neuropsychology & TBI
Dr. Valdiserri received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from West Virginia University, and completed an undergraduate internship in Neuropsychology at Chestnut Ridge Hospital’s Department of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry. He received a Ph.D. in Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Arizona. An accomplished researcher and manager, he has participated in original research under five National Science Foundation grants. He was the project director, for four years, on a National Institutes of Aging grant, examining aging memory, which ran as a large multi-site study between Harvard University and the University of Arizona. For two years, he was also project director of a National Institutes of Mental Health study, which examined EEG analysis of brain functioning and sleep disorders. He has had extensive neuropsychological assessment and diagnostic training at the University of Arizona’s Medical Center, Tucson Veteran’s Memorial Hospital, and Ruby Memorial Hospital at West Virginia University. He has served as a nationally based statistical consultant for the medical industry, specializing in home-health care delivery and efficacy of treatment. A gifted educator, he was an instructor at the University of Arizona’s Extended University and at one of the nation’s leading senior educational organizations. At that time, developed a series of nationally recognized proprietary teaching modules for mnemonic enhancement in seniors, and was critical in developing a nationally recognized computer-learning center, which received funding from the National Institutes of Aging. Under his direction, the Bio – Sim Corporation has developed numerous patent-pending medical solutions, with the potential to revolutionize medical technology. Over the past few years, he has won several awards for his work on neurological and neuropsychological predictors of self-consciousness and multiple neural systems involved in consciousness. In addition to serving as Chief Technical Officer of Bio-Sim, he has recently been offered two university positions: Adjunct Professor at Arizona Health Sciences Center Department of Neurosurgery and Director of Medical Information Systems for ASTEC (Arizona Surgical Technology and Educational Center). He is currently engaged in several lines of small grant-funded research investigating Neuropsychological Predictors of Traumatic Brain Injury and Self-Consciousness, Traumatic Brain Injury en and Navigation, and Self-Reference and Memory. He has initiated NIH and CDC grant proposals looking at: (a) frontal lobe functioning in risky decision making and self-awareness, and (b) neuropsychological predictors and multiple systems of consciousness. He is a Mensa member for life, an avid skier, and award winning ISKF Karate brown-belt.