SANI-SPORT - Key Persons


Aric Gray

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • CEO Gray Ghost Solutions
Aric is an expert in crisis management, government relations and medical contingency operations, and has conducted sensitive operations around the world for decades. He has been recognized as a leader in frontier medicine providing crucial insight to corporate entities, government institutions and non-profits. He has deployed operationally to over 50 countries. Before founding Gray Ghost, Aric spent two years at Banyan Risk Group serving as Managing Director, leading the global headquarters in Houston Texas. Prior to joining Banyan, Aric held the executive role of Director for Protective Medicine at the State Department where he was responsible for all medical components serving the Foreign Service, Consulates and Embassies worldwide. Before his time with the State Department, Aric served within the United States Army Special Forces as a Green Beret. In the Special Forces, Aric served as a counter terrorism and direct-action expert completing the Special Forces Advanced Reconnaissance, Target Analysis and Exploitation Techniques, Special Operations Sniper and Ranger schools. Aric holds a master's degree from George Washington University and a BA from Campbell University.

Doug Shearer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Head Equipment Manager Anaheim Ducks™ / ®
Doug joined the Anaheim Ducks™/® in 2007. Prior to that, Doug was the Head Equipment Manager for the Washington Capitals™/® from 1983 to 2006. Doug also served Team USA at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City as well as the 1997 World Hockey Championships in Finland. In 1999, Doug was the head Equipment Manager for the NHL® All Star game in Tampa. A past president of the Society of Professional Hockey Equipment Managers, Doug holds a Bachelor of Science degree in human and physical education.

Dr. Christopher Mason

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Dr. Christopher Mason completed his dual B.S. in Genetics and Biochemistry (2001) from University of Wisconsin-Madison, his Ph.D. in Genetics (2006) from Yale University, and then completed dual post-doctoral training in clinical genetics (2009) at Yale Medical School, and a joint post-doctoral Fellow of Genomics, Ethics, and Law at Yale Law School (2009). He is currently an Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, with appointments at the Tri-Institutional Program on Computational Biology and Medicine between Cornell, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University, the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, and the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute.

Francis "Chip" Sheehan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board

Gordon "Red" Batty

Job Titles:
  • Equipment Manager
  • Head
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Head Equipment Manager Green Bay Packers™ / ®
Gordon "Red" Batty has been the Head Equipment Manager for the Green Bay Packers™/® for the past 24 seasons. Prior to joining the Packers™/®, Red worked in the same capacity for 13 seasons with the Houston Oilers™/®. Long regarded as one of the best in the business, Red was named the National Football League "Equipment Manager of the Year" in 2002. He was a member of the Grey Cup champion Montreal Alouettes™/® in 1974 and 1977 as well as a Super Bowl champion with the Packers™/® in 1997 and 2011.

Karl J. Van Deusen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Captain, U.S. Navy ( Retired )
Karl served his country for 27-years as a Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy. Karl was a Congressional Appropriations advisor to the Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations and served as military liaison staff to Rep, C.W. Bill Young (R-FL), Chairman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. His military service included operational tours in command of a Destroyer Squadron based in Bahrain and an Arleigh Burke class destroyer home ported in Norfolk, VA. Mr. Van Deusen earned his B.A. in history from Marquette University, and also holds M.A. degrees in national security affairs and strategic studies from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA and the Naval War College, Newport, RI.

Phil Gold

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Professor of Medicine
Phil Gold is the Douglas G. Cameron Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Physiology and Oncology, at McGill University. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Medicine at McGill and Physician-in-Chief at the Montreal General Hospital. He is presently the Executive Director of the Clinical Research Centre of the McGill University Health Centre. Dr. Gold's early research led to the discovery and definition of the Carcinoembryonic Antigen (CEA), the blood test most frequently used in the diagnosis and management of patients with cancer. For this work, other studies, and his outstanding contributions as a medical educator, he has gained national and international recognition. He has been elected to numerous prestigious organizations and has been the recipient of such outstanding awards as the Gairdner Foundation Annual International Award, the Isaak Walton Killam Award in Medicine of the Canada Council, and the National Cancer Institute of Canada R.M. Taylor Medal. He has been elected to membership in the Royal Society of Canada, the Association of American Physicians, and Mastership in the American College of Physicians. His outstanding contributions to teaching have been recognized by an award as a Teacher of Distinction from his Factulty of Medicine. He has been honored by his country, his province, his city, and his university by appointment as a Companion of the Order of Canada, an Officer of l'Ordre National du Québec, a member of the Academy of Great Montrealers; and as the recipient of the Gold Medal of the McGill University Graduate Society, respectively. He has been the Sir Arthur Sims Traveling Professor to the British Commonwealth.