WING TECH - Key Persons

Dr. Pietzsch is Co-Founder of Wing Tech Inc., and serves as the company's President and Chief Executive Officer since 2004. His work at Wing Tech focuses on health-economic evaluation, early-stage technology assessment, and strategic decision-support. A primary emphasis is on the early evaluation of the value proposition of new technologies to provide quantitative input into the selection of the most promising technology concepts and their targeted development. This includes model-based assessment of the clinical and health-economic benefit of new diagnostics and therapies from the patient, healthcare system, and provider perspective. Dr. Pietzsch is an Adjunct Professor in Stanford University's Department of Management Science Engineering. He also serves as Director, Health Economics and Value, of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, a globally leading medical technology innovation program. In this role, he directs Stanford Biodesign's position and teaching on health economics and value, and coaches the Biodesign Innovation Fellows in this area. Jan Pietzsch's academic training is in management science and engineering, with emphasis on biomedical engineering and decision and risk analysis. He received degrees from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur, 2000) and from Stanford University (MS, Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research, 1998; Ph.D. Management Science and Engineering, 2004). During his doctoral research, he spent time as a research fellow at the FDA's Office of Device Evaluation, where he investigated the use of Bayesian methods in early-stage assessment of new medical devices.

M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell

Job Titles:

Chief
Member of the Board of Directors
Scientific Advisor
Director and Chief Scientific Advisor

Dr. Marie-Elisabeth Paté-Cornell is the Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor and Founding Chair (2000-2011) of the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Her specialty is engineering risk analysis with application to complex systems (space, medical, offshore oil platforms, etc.). Her earlier research has focused on the optimization of warning systems and the explicit inclusion of human and organizational factors in the analysis of systems' failure risks. Her recent work is on the use of game theory in risk analysis with applications that have included counter-terrorism, nuclear counter-proliferation problems and cyber security. She is the author of more than one hundred publications, and the co-editor of a book on Perspectives on Complex Global Problems (2016). She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, of the French Académie des Technologies and of several boards including Draper Laboratory, InQtel, the Board of Advisors of the Naval Postgraduate School and the Advisory Committee of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Paté-Cornell was a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from December 2001 to 2008 and the of the board of the Aerospace Corporation (2004-2013). She holds a BS in Mathematics and Physics, Marseille (France), an Engineering degree (Applied Math/CS) from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (France), an MS in Operations Research and a PhD in Engineering-Economic Systems, both from Stanford University.

Susan B. Ford

Job Titles:

Surgeon - in - Chief, Lucile Packard Children 's Hospital

Thomas M. Krummel

Job Titles:

Member of the Board of Directors
Director and Chief Medical Advisor
Emile Holman Professor and Chair
Emile Holman Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine / Co - Director, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign

Dr. Krummel is the Emile Holman Professor and Chair Emeritus of the Department of Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Co-Director of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. Dr. Krummel's research interests are in fetal healing, cellular and biochemical mechanisms, and surgical innovation. Over the last two decades, he has also been a pioneer in the application of information technology to enhance the quality and safety of surgical education and reduce its staggering cost. In collaboration with computer scientists, engineers and industry he has participated in the development of several surgical trainers and has begun the systematic study of their use and efficacy in surgical education. For this work he received a 1999 Smithsonian Information Technology Innovators Award. Dr. Krummel is a member of a number of professional societies including the American College of Surgeons, the American Pediatric Surgical Association, the Society for Clinical Surgery, and the American Surgical Association. In 1997 he was named a Director of the American Board of Surgery. He has served in leadership positions in many surgical organizations, and has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards. Dr. Krummel has lectured throughout the world and is author or co-author of over a hundred publications and/or book chapters. Dr. Krummel completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin with a medical degree at the Medical College of Wisconsin. His surgical residency was at the Medical College of Virginia with a Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh followed by a Research Fellowship both at MCV and UCSF. Following five years on the faculty at MCV he was named Professor of Surgery and Chief of Pediatric Surgery at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine and Surgeon-in-Chief at the Children's Hospital. Before moving to Stanford in 1998, he was named in 1994 John A. and Marian T. Waldhausen Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at University Hospitals.