Skills and Previous Work Experience
Ancillary Experience
Director, Cervical Spine Advisory Group, Medicrea Inc, Neyron, France, 2014-Present
Consultant, Medicrea Inc, Neyron, France, 2012-Present
Member, Surgeon Advisory Board, Lanx Inc., Broomfield, CO, 2011-2012
Consultant, Globus Medical, Inc., Audobon, PA, 2008-2010
Consultant, Synthes Spine, Inc., West Chester, PA, 2004-2007
Plenary Speaker, Synthes Annual Meeting, Hollywood, FL, May, 2005
Cervical Spine Think Tank, Synthes Spine, Boston, Sept, 2003
Think Tank for Biological Approaches to Spinal Disorders, Medtronic/Sofamor Danek Amelia Island, Florida, May, 2001 and May, 2002
NIH Grant Review Committee, NINDS, RFA-NS-02-007 for Gene Therapy of Neurological Disorders; March, 2002
Peer Review Panel on Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program on Defense and Veterans Head Injury Program (USAMRMC), October, 2000
Grant Reviewer, American Institute of Biological Sciences, July, 2000
Peer Review Panel on Neurotoxin Exposure for US Army Medical Research and Material Command (USAMRMC), September, 1998
Developed Residency brochure and Website for Department of Neurosurgery, Thomas Jefferson University
Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Parkinson’s Disease Gene Therapy Consortium, an international organization of approximately 60 scientists and clinicians dedicated to evaluating gene therapy and related approaches to Parkinson’s Disease–first meeting held April 11- 13, 1996; renamed The CNS Gene Therapy Consortium
Ad-hoc Reviewer: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), Journal of Controlled Release, Brain Research, Biomaterials, Human Gene Therapy, Neurosurgery, and Experimental Neurology
Referee for Marsden Fund; New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and Technology
Board of Directors, Canavan Disease Research Foundation
Conversant in French and German
Invited Guest Editor for Experimental Neurology, March, 1997 issue
Organized International Conference on Gene Therapy for CNS Disorders, sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, held June 8-10, 1995, Philadelphia, PA