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Richardson, Texas (June 16, 2004)
Zyvex Corporation today announced that Hon.
Jonathan C. Javitt, MD, MPH has joined its Scientific Advisory
Board. Dr. Javitt is a Senior Fellow of the Potomac Institute
for Policy Studies and an adjunct Professor of the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine. In May 2003, Dr. Javitt was
appointed by President George W. Bush to the President’s
Information Technology Advisory Committee, where he chairs
the subcommittee on health information technology.
“Jonathan Javitt has earned a world-wide
reputation in the Health Care industry,” said James
Von Ehr, Zyvex Founder and CEO. “Adding him to our Scientific
Advisory Board further reflects our commitment to nanotechnology
commercialization. He adds unique professional competencies
and exceptional business experience.”
Javitt is also Vice-Chairman of Health Directions,
LLC a Bethesda-based investment group that focuses on developing
computer solutions to improve the delivery of Health Care.
He is Chief Scientific Officer of Active Health Management,
Inc.
“Dr. Javitt is regularly consulted on
national policy and legal issues and has been admitted as
an expert consultant in both Federal and State jurisdictions,”
said Zyvex President, Dr. Thomas A. Cellucci. “We are
very pleased that he has joined our team.”
Javitt was appointed to the faculty of Johns
Hopkins University in 1988 and was the first ophthalmologist
to be granted a Physician Scientist Award by the National
Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health. He joined
the faculty of Georgetown University in 1990. He is also the
author of more than 200 publications related to health care
delivery and holds two U.S. patents. His work has been published
in the “New England Journal of Medicine,” the
“Journal of the American Medical Association,”
as well as numerous other peer-reviewed publications.
In 1984, Javitt authored “Computers in
Medicine: Applications and Possibilities,” one of the
earliest books in the field. Since that time, he has been
involved in the development and commercialization of a variety
of Health Care computer applications, including electronic
medical record systems, epidemiologic tracking systems, and
most recently, sentinel systems for detecting medical errors.
Javitt has served as a member of the White House Health Reform
Task Force. He has been an expert consultant to the World
Bank, the National Institutes of Health, the Health Care Financing
Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the
ministries of health of United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia,
Japan, and the Netherlands. Dr. Javitt has been active as
a consultant in pharmacoeconomics and pharmaceutical development.
He has completed product development projects for Alcon, Allergan,
American Home Products, Chiron, Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, and
Pharmacia.
Javitt has been honored as a visiting professor
by the University of New South Wales (Sydney, AU), the University
of Melbourne (Melbourne, AU), Yamanashi Medical College (Kofu,
Japan), and numerous institutions in the United States. He
is listed in “Who’s Who in the World” and
has been elected to membership in the Cosmos Club (Washington,
DC).
Javitt graduated in 1978 with honors in Biochemistry
from Princeton University and earned his MD at Cornell University
Medical College. He was awarded a Kellogg Foundation Fellowship
to attend the Harvard School of Public Health, from which
he graduated with an MPH. in Health Policy and Management.
Other Zyvex Scientific Advisory Board members
include Dr. Alan MacDiarmid, a 2000 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry,
a Member of the National Academy of Science, and a member
of the National Academy of Engineering; Dr. Nicholas J. Colella,
Tessera Technologies; Dr. Wilson Ho, University of California
(Irvine);
Dr. Joseph W. Lyding, University of Illinois;
Dr. Kristofer S. J. Pister, University of California (Berkeley);
Dr. Rodney S. Ruoff, Northwestern University; Dr. Paul S.
Weiss, Pennsylvania State University; Dr. Peter Will, University
of Southern California.
Zyvex’s Scientific Advisory Board contributes
to Zyvex’s vision of providing flexible, automated manufacturing
at ever decreasing size scales.
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