Team
Founder, Tim Szczykutowicz PhD
Tim "Stick" Szczykutowicz is an internationally-known figure in the field of radiology. He is an associate professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With over a decade of experience in academic and clinical radiology, he authored the book "The CT Handbook: Optimizing Protocols for today's feature rich scanners", and has published more than 60 papers and 4 patents. Tim co-developed CT protocols that have been disseminated to thousands of practices around the world. Tim has consulted and advised six different medical imaging companies, assisted with product development, identified problems and solutions, and developed marketing strategies.
Contact Tim via tim@RadUnity.com
Product Strategist, Eric Schloesser MS
Eric Schloesser is a distinguished leader in the medical device industry, with an extensive 25-year career encompassing Research and Development, Engineering, Service, Manufacturing, Business Development, Human Resources and Business Leadership. He has held leadership roles in public, private, startup, and large companies, and as a board director. He has experience in digital medicine product development and commercialization, organizational development, customer satisfaction, IPOs, fund-raising, and mergers & acquisitions. Eric is a thoughtful leader with proven results leading high-performance multi-disciplinary organizations, functional teams, and project teams.
Contact Eric via eric.schloesser@radunity.com
Operations Manager, Katherine Pulaski CNP
Katherine is a Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) with a background in Anthropology and Nonprofit Administration. She has experience teaching overseas as a Fulbright scholar, conducting extensive literature reviews to create trainings supporting human rights research in Cape Town, South Africa, and working as a community organizer for various Michigan organizations.
Contact Katherine via katie.pulaski@radunity.com
Contractors
Asher Orion Group LLC (John Kalafut PhD and team)
The Asher Orion Group provides professional advising services to companies in the Medical Imaging space. Their team brings market insights, product development guidance, solution architecture, scientific and clinical development support.
The CEO, John Kalafut, was Chief Scientist of Informatics Research at GE Healthcare. His stewardship of an AI-enabled, diagnostic pathway solution led to their first Breakthrough Designation by the US Food and Drug Administration. He led architecture of learning platforms and applications co-created by GE Healthcare and its clinical partners at world-renowned academic health systems, including Mass General Brigham Healthcare and Boston Children’s Hospital.
Innolitics (Yujan Shrestha, MD and Jim Luker, RN)
Innolics has successfully taken multiple software based medical devices through regulatory clearances and on to market. The team comprises a highly skilled group of software engineers, developers, and regulatory experts who specialize in providing comprehensive solutions for the end-to-end development and 510(k) documentation of Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) products.
Yujan Shrestha, MD - Chief Technology Officer
Yujan Shrestha, MD, serves as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Co-Founder of Innolitics, bringing with him an impressive professional background as a Software Engineering Consultant for numerous organizations. His early career milestones include noteworthy positions as the CEO and Co-Founder at Matrix MD, as well as the Co-Founder and Lead Developer at M.Y. Developers LLC. An software engineering Medical SAS expert, Dr. Yujan Shrestha possesses over a decade of invaluable experience encompassing medical imaging, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), entrepreneurship, and regulatory consulting.
Jim Luker, RN - Vice President of Regulatory Affairs
Jim Luker, RN, currently holds the position of Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at Innolics, while also serving as the Senior Consultant at leanRAQA, and the Owner-Principal Consultant at Tactos MDC. WIth a distinguished career history, Jim previously directed activities related to Regulatory Affairs, Quality Management Systems and Technical Publications at Sun Nuclear Corporation, as well as worked as an Graduate Faculty member at Northeast University. He possesses a robust clinical background and a wealth of knowledge in medical imaging, regulatory affairs, and product development.
Michael Nilo, MS - President and Principal Consultant
Michael Nilo has more than 10 years of experience in the medical device industry, including direct experience with FDA device review processes and intricacies. He has hands-on familiarity with most functions and departments of a successful medical device company, and has provided consulting advice for verification and validation testing, quality systems, and regulatory submissions for different classes of medical devices. He authored and submitted applications to FDA for Class II and III medical devices, and has extensive experience with clinical trial development for medical devices, quality system regulations, and all manner of FDA interactions.
Advisors
Carrie Bartels RT(R)(CT)
Lawrence Tanenbaum MD FACR
Lawrence Tanenbaum MD FACR
Carrie brings decades of experience training CT technologists and radiologists on how to perform image post processing and run CT scanners. In her day job at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Carrie is part of a team that provides CT protocols (i.e., cookbook instructions for how to run CT scanners) to customers of a major CT OEM (GE H
Carrie brings decades of experience training CT technologists and radiologists on how to perform image post processing and run CT scanners. In her day job at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Carrie is part of a team that provides CT protocols (i.e., cookbook instructions for how to run CT scanners) to customers of a major CT OEM (GE Healthcare) all over the world. Carrie has experience won by hard knocks, dealing with technology implementation at a wide range of sites spanning rural outpatient clinics to major academic institutions. She is respected by AI vendors and CT OEMs as a KOL who provides input on product development and product feedback for digital solutions in the imaging space.
Lawrence Tanenbaum MD FACR
Lawrence Tanenbaum MD FACR
Lawrence Tanenbaum MD FACR
Lawrence Tanenbaum is a board certified radiologist and a fellow of the American College of Radiology. Dr. Tanenbaum brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the RadUnity advisory board. Dr. Tanenbaum is currently serving as a vice president and the chief technology officer of a large radiology group (Radnet Inc, which has over a b
Lawrence Tanenbaum is a board certified radiologist and a fellow of the American College of Radiology. Dr. Tanenbaum brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the RadUnity advisory board. Dr. Tanenbaum is currently serving as a vice president and the chief technology officer of a large radiology group (Radnet Inc, which has over a billion dollars of annual revenue and 350 locations). Dr. Tannenbaum is a long-term collaborator with the medical imaging industry and chairs several advisory boards (OEM, pharma, and AI). He has authored over 100 scholarly and peer reviewed articles and has delivered close to 2000 invited lectures around the world.
John Garrett PhD
Lawrence Tanenbaum MD FACR
John Garrett PhD
John Garrett brings a wealth of experience implementing radiology informatics solutions. He has helped specify and implement multiple AI CADe/x workflows at a major academic site. Professor Garrett is the director of informatics and a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin Madison Department of Radiology.
The rubber meets the roa
John Garrett brings a wealth of experience implementing radiology informatics solutions. He has helped specify and implement multiple AI CADe/x workflows at a major academic site. Professor Garrett is the director of informatics and a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin Madison Department of Radiology.
The rubber meets the road when solutions need to pass internal informatics security reviews, obtain secure feeds from the EMR and scanners, penetrate an institution's firewall in a PHI safe manner, and communicate results back to radiologists. John has experience with all of these important aspects of implementing a SaaS solution.