Harold Minkowitz, MD: Scientific & Clinical Architect
Dr. Minkowitz is a board certified Anesthesiologist. He began his professional career as an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He has since left the University setting to practice at Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center where he currently maintains active staff status.
In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Minkowitz has always had a keen interest in clinical research. This began during his residency training, and has been his passion throughout his career. He is now in his third decade of being involved in clinical research. He specializes in acute perioperative clinical studies, with an emphasis on acute pain. He has an understanding of the operational challenges involved with completing these trials in an expedient manner.
Mark Sacaris: Strategy
Mark’s career started in the financial services industry after college, where he spent several years with a boutique investment management firm.
In 1990, Mark transitioned into the pharmaceutical industry, going to work with Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals as a pharmaceutical and hospital sales representative and regional acute care manager in the Midwest. Ready for his next challenge, Mark moved into marketing with RPR as a marketing manager for an emerging drug called Lovenox. Along with a small marketing team that managed the brand, Mark was responsible for several sNDA launches, treatment of DVT and PE, Long-term Hip Replacement Prophylaxis as well as managing the day to day hip and knee replacement franchise. In 2000 Mark moved to San Diego to work in the area of hematological malignancies for Ligand Pharmaceuticals. During his time at Ligand, Mark was initially responsible for a diphtheria toxin (Ontak) and then eventually in charge of the Marketing Department that was responsible for Ontak, Targretin Capsules and Gel, Panretin Gel, and Avinza.
In August of 2001 Mark and his business partner launched OnPoint Resources, a medical communications and education company dedicated to serving the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries. This venture expanded into several other medical communication companies, including Tracxion World Medical and Center for Healthcare Education and Research, Inc. (CHE). CHE is a full service medical communications and education organization dedicated to the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries. It has evolved into its current business model allowing it to engage leaders in many therapeutic areas and to play a role in launching blockbuster drugs. In addition, CHE helps companies reposition existing products and assists clients build strategies around evidence based medicine to increase the success of their current product or portfolio. CHE has developed several educational initiatives, such as the creation of a heart failure nursing society, as well as transformed the educational platform of an existing orthopaedic society, effectively expanding its reach from a singular, U.S. based vision into a worldwide educational organization and powerful content distribution portal in the global orthopaedic community.
W. Frank Peacock, MD, FACEP, FACC, FESC
W. Frank Peacock IV, MD, FACEP, FACC is a Professor of Emergency Medicine, Associate Chair, and Research Director for the department of Emergency Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas. He serves as a member of the Accreditation Management Board for the American College of Cardiology, as well as on the NCDR Action Registry-Get With The Guidelines Research and Publications Subcommittee.
With over 500 peer reviewed publications, predominantly on heart failure and acute coronary syndromes, Dr. Peacock is also the co-editor of the textbooks Cardiac Emergencies, Short Stay Management of Heart Failure, Short Stay Management of Chest Pain, and Short Stay Management of Atrial Fibrillation.
Dr. Peacock is the 2004 and 2010 winner of the Best Research Paper Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians. He continues to serve as PI or co-PI for many high profile national and international clinical trials. His research focus is all aspects of cardiovascular emergency medicine. He is also the founder of Comprehensive Research Associates, LLC, a contract research organization and Emergencies in Medicine, LLC, a medical education company. Finally, Dr. Peacock received his medical degree from Wayne State University Medical School and completed his Emergency Medicine training at William Beaumont Hospital, Detroit, Michigan.
Ira H. Kirschenbaum, MD
Dr. Kirschenbaum's career as an orthopaedic surgeon is notable and unique. It includes in-depth experience in operations leadership, process reengineering, information technology, and innovation design. He has lectured and published extensively on information technology, electronic media, and practice management, as well as clinical topics in orthopaedic surgery, including joint replacement. Dr. Kirschenbaum has designed major joint replacement systems and is recognized in this surgical technique.
Prior to joining BronxCare, Dr. Kirschenbaum served as Chief of Adult Reconstructive Surgery for the Kaiser Permanente System, and was the managing partner of a large multi-specialty group. He was also involved in a solo joint replacement practice that completed nearly 500 operations annually. Dr. Kirschenbaum was part of the team that developed Medscape and eventually sold it to GE and then to WebMD. He also served as the Community Health Editor of WebMD. His patient message board and blogs in medical ethics and arthritis/joint disease were especially popular.
Dr. Kirschenbaum attended Brown University where he graduated magna cum laude. He subsequently attended and graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After an internship in General Surgery, he performed a research fellowship in cartilage and joint aging at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he completed an orthopaedic surgery residency (which also included Montefiore Medical Center, Jacobi Hospital, and North Central Bronx Hospital). Following his residency, Dr. Kirschenbaum continued his training at the prestigious Rothman Institute, Pennsylvania Hospital and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. There, he completed his fellowship in hip and knee replacement and reconstructive surgery.
Daniel Hochman, MD
Dr. Hochman attended the University of Texas in Austin where he received two degrees with Honors, and the All-American Scholar Collegiate Award. He completed medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, where he received the Global Healthcare Scholarship to pursue his interest in indigent care in Latin America. He completed his residency in Denver at the University of Colorado. There he was chosen to serve as Chief Resident, and was awarded the Psychiatry Academic Achievement Award. He is board certified in General Adult Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Dr. Hochman has worked in and taught addiction in a range of clinical settings, including: private addiction rehabs, outpatient addiction clinics, an academic rehab center (CeDAR: Center for Dependency, Addiction and Rehabilitation), Department of Defense programs (Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System).
Dr. Hochman regularly trains and speaks for addiction facilities, hospitals, and professional organizations to advance addiction care. He supervises at University of Texas Dell Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, and has a private practice where he treats addiction cases that have not fully responded to other forms of treatment. Dr. Hochman is the Past President of Texas Physicians for Social Responsibility, which he enjoys as a way of serving the community in creative ways beyond the clinical setting.
C3 Staff
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