Jay H. Sanders

Corporate Officer/Principal chez

Kura MD, Inc.

Health Services

Profil

In addition to his role with Vesalius Ventures, Dr. Sanders is President and CEO of The Global Telemedicine Group, Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Adjunct), and a founding board member of the American Telemedicine Association where he serves as President Emeritus and Chairman of their Distinguished Advisory Council.
As a Senior Consultant to NASA, he serves as a member of the Biological and Physical Research Advisory Committee as well as the Scientific Director of the NASA Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Commercial Space Center and is a consultant to the NASA Space Communication Center.
He is a consultant to the Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, the Air Force Center for Telehealth and Theater Informatics, and has served on the Department of Defense Telemedicine Board of Directors with the Surgeon Generals of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
In the area of bioterrorism defense, He sits on the Southern Governors Task Force on Telehealth and Homeland Security.
He directed the U.S.
telemedicine initiatives to the G-8 nations, has been a consultant to the World Health Organization on Health Telematics, and now serves as a consultant to the Russian Telemedicine Foundation.
Dr. Sanders earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School Magna Cum Laude and was a member of AOA. He did his residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston where he became Chief Medical Resident, and did a research fellowship in Immunology at the National Institutes of Health.