Management Team / Advisory Board Bios
John P. Clark
CEO
Mr. Clark brings over 25 years of medical sales and business experience and is the founder, chairman and CEO of American Radiosurgery. Mr. Clark specializes in the development and commercialization of medical technologies into going corporate concerns. Mr. Clark has purchased technologies and developed patents for various medical applications Mr. Clark was a financial partner of Endolase Inc., an OTC public medical laser company that introduced surgical YAG lasers to the US marketplace. Through this company, Mr. Clark was responsible for successfully merging Clark Medical Technologies (a regionally owned medical distributorship} into a "blind pool" public structure that traded on regional exchanges. Mr. Clark has also served as founder and CEO of Edmonds Medical Systems Inc., Clinical Diagnostic Products Inc., Medi-Rep Leasing Inc., Andros Medical and Lasers Centers, Katie Healthcare Systems, and Cosmos Medical Technologies.
Dr. Santosh Kesari
Dr. Santosh Kesari is a world-renowned board-certified neurologist and neuro-oncologist and is currently Chair, Department of Translational Neuro-Oncology and Neurotherapeutics, John Wayne Cancer Institute. He is also Director of Neuro-Oncology, Providence Saint John’s Health Center; and Member, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute. Dr. Kesari is ranked among the top 1% of neuro-oncologists and neurologists in the nation, according to Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. and an internationally recognized scientist and clinician. He is a winner of an Innovation Award by the San Diego Business Journal. He is on the advisory board of American Brain Tumor Association, San Diego Brain Tumor Foundation, Chris Elliott Fund, Nicolas Conor Institute, Voices Against Brain Cancer, and Philippine Brain Tumor Alliance. He has been the author of over 250 scientific publications, reviews, or books. He is the inventor on several patents and patent applications, and founder and advisor to many cancer and neurosciences focused biotech start-ups. Dr. Kesari graduated from University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences, in 1992 and earned a Ph.D. degree in molecular biology and an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine. He completed his residency in neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and his neuro-oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. He was previously assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women’s Hospital and then professor of neurosciences at UC San Diego.
Sadik Esener, PhD
Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering degree from UCSD; Professor of Nanoengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego. Internationally known expert in photonics, opto-electronics, and cancer nanotechnology. Sadik served as director of major research centers including NCI-funded NanoTumor Center at UCSD. Specializes in cancer nanotechnology, in vivo imaging, optical systems and their interface with electronics and software. Sadik has been closely involved with 12 startup companies as co-founder. including Genoptix, Nanogen, OriMedix, Devacell, and Ziva. Dr. Esener has authored more than 350 publications.
Wolf Wrasidlo, PhD
Organic Chemistry degree from San Diego State University and University of Erlangen. Highly experienced polymer and organic chemist. Head of the Chemical Biology Program at the Moores Cancer Center at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and a Research Scientist in the Department of Neuroscience. Held senior level positions at The Scripps Research Institute, Humboldt University Berlin Medical School, University of Tuebingen Childrens' Hospital, and Columbia University. Distinguished Research Fellow at TargeGen, a Founder and the Head of Research at Brunswick Biotechnetics, a Research Scientist at General Atomics, and a member of the Member- Macromolecular Chemistry Group at the Boeing Scientific Research Institute, and founder of Neuropore.
Milan Makale, PhD
Radiation Biology degree from the University of Alberta. Biomedical engineer, faculty member at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center. Specializes in medical devices and imaging, worked in academia and development stage pharmaceutical companies. A U.S. National Research Council Associate at the U.S. DoD. MS in Biomedical Engineering from George Washington University, and worked in functional and structural neuroimaging research at NINDS, NIH Bethesda, MD. Co-founded Engineered Medical Devices Inc., and Lemma Pharmaceuticals. Member of the American Chemical Society, the Society for Neuro-Oncology, and the Whittaker Institute of Bioengineering.
Dr. Ted Dubinsky
Dr. Dubinsky serves as the Lawrence A. Mack Endowed Professor of Radiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington School of Medicine; and as the Editor in Chief of Ultrasound Quarterly. Dr. Dubinsky is a well-published and highly recognized luminary in the field of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound, having authored over 100 published peer-reviewed papers. At the University of Washington, Dr. Dubinsky served as the Director of Body Imaging and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Dubinsky achieved his medical degree from the University of Maryland after graduating from Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Aizik Wolf
Dr. Wolf is a world-renowned radiosurgery neurosurgeon who has performed more private practice brain cancer treatments with gamma knife radiosurgery than any other neurosurgeon in the world. A member of numerous professional organizations, including the American Medical Association, American Association of Neurological surgeons, and the International Brain Research Organization, Dr. Wolf is also a founding member of the International Radiosurgery Support Association. Dr. Wolf has been the recipient of numerous grants and research awards. He has acted as principal investigator for two clinical trials involving treatment for severe head injury, both of which were funded by the National Institutes of Health. Also, the American College of Surgeons presented Dr. Wolf and his investigative team with a Research Award for an abstract detailing a lobectomy procedure. Widely published, Dr. Wolf has authored and co-authored numerous book chapters and journal articles on neurological surgery, including work published in Advances in Neurology and the Journal of Neurosurgery. He has presented his research as an honoured speaker and invited lecturer at many medical meeting and conferences around the world, such as the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Society for Neuroscience and the International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society. Dr. Wolf graduated summa cum laude from Yale Medical School and trained at the University of Minnesota Hospitals. Earlier in his career, Dr. Wolf served as chief of epilepsy and skull-base surgery at the University of Maryland and assistant professor of neurology and neurosurgery. He received his Gamma Knife training at Brown University. Dr. Wolf founded the Miami Neuroscience Center in 1993. Over the past two decades, he and his team have performed nearly 7,000 Gamma Knife surgeries, acquiring a level of expertise unmatched in the field. The team's long-time collaboration also led to a number of medical breakthroughs. The team was the first to make extensive use of radiosurgery to manage multiple metastases. It was also one of the first to apply radiosurgery to treat large-sized benign tumors, and the first nationally to provide Gamma Knife treatments on an outpatient basis.
Dr. Maheep Gaur
In 1996 Dr. Gaur joined the fellowship program in Stereotactic Functional Neurosurgery and Radiosurgery at Stereotaxis and Gamma Knife Centre, Fujieda Heisei Memorial Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan, under Dr. Tatsuo Hirai and Dr. Takaaki Takizawa. During this fellowship he participated in about 500 Gamma Knife Surgeries and Micro-recording assisted functional neurosurgery procedures for movement disorders. He learned various aspects of stereotactic frame-based and frameless neuronavigation. On return to India in 1997 he joined Vidyasagar Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences [Vimhans] at New Delhi India as Consultant Neurosurgeon. In 1998 he established the first Gamma Knife centre in a dedicated neuroscience centre in SAARC region. He was designated head of Gamma knife Surgery at Vimhans. He has experience of conducting more than 2000 Gamma Knife Treatments collectively. He is the founder of the Asian Radiosurgery Conference and conducted the first Asian Gamma Knife Training Program at Saitama Japan.
Prof. Dr. Laszlo Bognar
Prof. Bognar graduated from Semmelweis University in 1982 and then obtained a specialist qualification in neurology and neurosurgery in 1986 and 1989, respectively. As of 2005, he has been director of the Clinic of Neurosurgery at the Center of Medical and Health Sciences of Debrecen University, Associate professor, as of 2006, professor. Apart from leading the clinic, he is an external consultant in child neurosurgery at the Institute. His key area of specialization is the research and treatment of brain tumors. He is greatly experienced in the surgical treatment of cerebralspinal fluid (CSF) circulation disorders, In epileptic surgery and in the operative treatment of cranial deformities. Professor Bognar founded the Rotating Gamma Institute – Debrecen and placed the first Rotating Gamma System (RGS) in Eastern Europe. Professor Bognár lectures around the world on stereotactic radiosurgery.