Advisory Committee
ABS has assembled a world-class team of business and science professionals to deliver breakthrough products such as near real-time sensors to alert for viral, bacterial and fungal contamination, application processes that provide green, environmentally friendly solutions, many of which contain Titanium Dioxide (Ti02) PCO (photocatalytic oxidation) surface coatings under the direction of Charles A. Geoffrion, former Associate Vice President for Research at University of Arizona.
- Dr. Charles P. Gerba, Ph.D.,
- Mark L. Witten, Ph. D.,
- Anthony F. Vuturo, M.D., M.P.H.,
- Ronald J. Wysocki, Jr., Ph. D.,
- Stefan Bernard Baumrin, Ph.D. (Hopkins), J.D. (Columbia Law School)
- J. David Musgraves, Ph. D.in Materials Science.
- Louis P. Geoffrion,. M.B. A., P.E. [QUALITY] , Fellow, ASQ
- Suzanne L. Saxman, Esq.
- David M. Stumpo,
- Dr. Bifeng Gao,
- Kenneth Goodman, LEED AP,
Professor in the Department of Soil, Water & Environmental Science, College of Agriculture and Life Science at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. He is also a Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research interests include environmental microbiology, gene probes, water reuse, biocolloid transport in subsurfaces, virology, parasitology, and risk assessment. Gerba is affiliated with related faculties in the departments of Microbiology and Immunology, Nutritional Sciences, and the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. His books include: Pepper, I.L., C.P. Gerba, and J.W. Brendecke. 1995 & 2004 Environmental Microbiology - A Laboratory Manual. Academic Press, NY; Haas, C.N., J.B. Rose, and C.P. Gerba. 1999. Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment. John Wiley, NY; Pepper, I. L., C. P. Gerba and M. L. Brusseau. 2006. Environmental and Pollution Science, Second Edition. Academic Press, San Diego; Maier, R.M., I.L. Pepper and C.P. Gerba. 2008. Environmental Microbiology. Second Edition. Academic Press, NY. Gerba has over 300 peer-reviewed articles and 76 book chapters including: Gerba, C.P., M.Y. Yates, and S.R. Yates. 1991. Quantitation of factors controlling viral and microbial transport in the subsurface. In: Modeling the Environmental Fate of Microorganisms. (C. Hurst, ed.) American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC, pp. 77-88; Gerba, C.P. 1996. Risk Assessment. In: Pollution Science. I.L. Pepper, C.P. Gerba, and M.L. Brusseau, eds. pp. 345-364. John Wiley, NY; Gerba, C. P. 2004. Risk assessment and environmental regulations. In: Environmental Monitoring and Remediation, J. Artiola, I. L. Pepper and M. Brusseau, eds. pp. 377-392. Academic Press, San Diego; Gerba, C. P. and I. L. Pepper. 2004. Microbial contaminates. In: Environmental Monitoring and Remediation, J. Artiola, I. L. Pepper and M. Brusseau, eds. pp. 313-333. Academic Press, San Diego.
“Germs follow us around all day. They are opportunists,” says Gerba, who’s been on such shows as Dateline, 48 Hours, the Today Show, 20/20, and Good Morning, America. Some of the reasons why infectious disease will move up the chart include the globalization of commerce and travel, changes in drinking water and food supply production, and evolution — a genetic reassortment, as Gerba calls it. Widely known as Dr. Germ, he has become the nation’s expert on domestic and public hygiene.
President, Phoenix Biometrics, Inc. and Research Professor, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ. Witten is also the Director, Lung Injury Lab at the Arizona Airborne Particulate Research Center. He serves on the Grant Review Committee, United States Air Force (USAF) Office of Scientific Research and is a member of the Strategic Avionics Technology Working Group, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He has been an invited participant in many scientific symposia including for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Persian Gulf War Syndrome, and the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics Space Life Sciences. He led a workshop on “Air Toxics and Asthma” for the Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center, Houston, TX. Witten is a reviewer for numerous scientific journals including Environmental Toxicology & Pharmacology, Inhalation Toxicology, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Lung, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, and Environmental Science & Technology. Witten served on the editorial board of the journal of Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine. His research interests involve the study of environmental toxins and their effect on lung function and the development of cancers. He is an expert on acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Currently serves as Senior Vice President for Canyon Ranch Health Resorts. He is also President, VSF International Ltd., a Global Health Consulting Firm. He is Board Certified in Family Practice, Preventive Medicine, and Medical Management. His past leadership responsibilities include: Director of Preventive Medicine for the US Civil Administration, a US State Department function in Japan and Director of Preventive Medicine for Whitaker Corporation in Saudi Arabia. He is a Founding Trustee for the Nanjing American University, Nanjing, China. Vuturo is a Visiting Professor for the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird), Phoenix, AZ and a former Professor and Dean for Health Affairs, College of Medicine, Arizona Health Science Center. Vuturo is the co-founder of University Famili-Care, a federally qualified Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and University Home Health, an approved Home Health Care Agency. He played a leadership role in the establishment of the College of Public Health at the University of Arizona and the Nanjing American University in China. He serves on the advisory board of the International Longevity Center, New York and the Leadership Advisory Board for Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston. He has worked extensively in over 20 countries to establish health programs and family practice medical education and has had several assignments with the World Health Organization. He has served as a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Family & Community Medicine and the American Journal of Family Practice. And has published in the Journal of Occupational Medicine, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and has been an author and speaker for numerous professional health organizations.
Director, Chemical Synthesis Facility, Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ where he also is a Lecturer. Wysocki served formerly as the Chief Scientist, Pharos Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Green Valley, AZ; the Senior Chemist, Discovery Therapeutics, Inc., Richmond, VA; and the Scientist and Group Leader, Whitby Research, Inc., Richmond, VA. He held a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, Bethesda, MD. He has published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry, the Journal of Medical Chemistry, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Wysocki’s research areas include organic thin films, transmembrane proteins and various aspects of spectroscopy. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Divisions and holds several U.S. Patents in his area of research.
Is Professor of Philosophy at the City University Graduate Center and Professor of Medical Education at The Mount Sinai Medical School. He is also a member of the Federal Bar and the bar of The State of New York. He has long been associated with the development of medical ethics, applied ethics, and the ethics of science here in the U.S. and in the U.K. at Oxford, and as a long time editor of The Journal of Applied Philosophy. Formerly he served as a founder and on the Board of Directors of Quantified Signal Imaging, Inc.
His area of research specialization involves photocatalytic properties of Titanium-based materials. He has been awarded a post-doctoral appointment at Clemson University. He served as a Research Assistant, Materials Science & Engineering Department, University of Arizona where he developed techniques for a novel nanostructured thin-film deposition process. His research findings have been published in the Journal of Materials Research, the American Journal of Physics and in the proceedings of the Materials Research Society’s Symposium on Synthesis and Metrology of Nanoscale Oxides and Thin Films.
Served until recently as Corporate Manager, Quality Assurance, Raytheon Corporation, Lexington, MA. He managed Quality functions worldwide in commercial and defense product sectors. He was involved with developing and implementing Quality Improvement programs as well as leading diverse ‘trouble shooting’ teams for operations from domestic consumer products, aircraft, missiles and complex electronic equipment. In an earlier part of his career at Raytheon, Geoffrion directed the work of a team of 95 engineers and scientists in the development, manufacture and testing of the PATRIOT missile electronics defense system. He is former Manager of Quality, ITT Corporation; an Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, US Department of Commerce; Regional Director and Board Member, American Society for Quality; and Member, Technical Committee TC 176, ISO 9000 Quality Standards and member of ANSI/ASQ Z-1 Committee on US Quality Standards. He was elected a Fellow for his contributions to Quality Education.
Concentrates her practice in general corporate and securities matters, commercial transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. She is co-chair of Seyfarth Shaw’s Corporate and Finance practice group in Chicago, and an elected member of the firm’s Administrative Committee. Saxman counsels clients – from entrepreneurial start-up enterprises to large privately-held companies – through each phase of their growth during times of economic prosperity and economic downturn. She advises on issues such as the ideal form of organization, business plans, equity and owner agreements, debt and equity financing and restructuring, dispute resolution, and exit strategies. Saxman also advises on business expansion opportunities, such as mergers and acquisitions, marketing, distribution and licensing agreements, joint ventures and spin-offs. She assists board and entrepreneurs in the business and legal aspects of negotiating transactions and enhancing business value. Saxman is a graduate of the University of Michigan (1977) and the University of Illinois College of Law (1981). She is licensed to practice law by the State of Illinois and the State of Arizona. Saxman is the Managing Editor of Illinois Corporate Practice and Forms—The Seyfarth Shaw Manual (Data Trace Publishing, 2002, 2003-2008). She also serves on the Boards of privately held corporations and non profit organizations.
Founder and CEO of the American Public Transit Exams Institute with participating transit systems in a dozen major U.S. urban areas, including Denver, Houston, Miami, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Vancouver, BC. He holds an M.S. from LaSalle and BBA from Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Certified Transit Executive Manager and has worked extensively for Public Transit agencies throughout the United States of America and Canada for the past 33 years. He has served as Chairman of the International Transit Certification Review Board.
Is the technical Director and Manager, Genomic Microarray Core Laboratory, Cancer Center, University of Colorado Denver, Colorado. Dr. Gao has degrees in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Business Administration. Dr. Gao’s considerable research experience includes his work for over 20 years in the study of “free radicals biology”. Earlier in his career, Dr. Gao served as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Webb-Waring Lung Institute at the UC Denver campus working on the genetic engineering of Superoxide Dismutase, one of the few essential enzymes to protect cells from free radical (mainly ROS) damage. Before that he worked as a Research Associate at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China. He is the author of over 40 articles published in peer-reviewed journals in his field. His graduate work was based at Nanjing University, Nanjing; Fudan University, Shanghai; and the Chinese Academy of Medical Science in Beijing, China. His business training was at University of Colorado Denver.
Since 1989, Kenneth Goodman, LEED AP, has been the President and CEO of Environmental Strategies, Inc. He is licensed in Commercial and Residential Construction and has a General Engineering Class A License. Ken’s company employs over 35 workers providing remediation and general construction services for hospitals, schools, military facilities, and commercial and residential properties. He has been a LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) accredited professional since 2007. For the past twenty years he has conducted asbestos surveys and designed, written and managed asbestos operation and maintenance programs. Mr. Goodman is knowledgeable in all aspects of construction and demolition. He understands architectural drawings and plans along with the many different building components necessary to complete either general construction or environmental remediation projects. Goodman is certified by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, the United States Green Building Council, and the U.S. EPA. He is a member of the Building Owners & Managers Association of Tucson and Pima County, AZ and of the Alliance of Construction Trades. He Chairs the Business & Industry Joint Technology & Education District (JTED) of Pima County and is currently the Vice Chair of the Small Business Commission of Pima County and Chair of the Southeast Arizona Carpenters Apprenticeship Program.