Is it any wonder when you see the CV of the CEO of Sun...

Is it any wonder when you see the CV of the CEO of Sun Biomedical?

Have a read through his capabilities and accomplishments - no wonder he didn't have time to sell the product!

Earl W. Ferguson, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.P.M.

Earl W. Ferguson, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.P.M., is a cardiologist, critical care and preventive medicine specialist. In addition to clinical cardiology practice, he is CEO of Sun BioMedical Technologies. He is also an independent consultant in telemedicine and in telecommunications and computer applications to healthcare and is on the Advisory Committee for the California Telemedicine & eHealth Center (Chair, Board of Directors 2002-4). He directed NASA's telemedicine and telecommunications applications to healthcare programs from 1993 to 1996, before leaving federal service to develop rural telemedicine applications. He was the chief architect of the Southeastern Sierra Integrated Regional Information Network (now Southern Sierra Healthnet), established to provide telemedicine and telehealth services to the rural high desert of California (12% of California; 134,000 inhabitants).

Dr. Ferguson completed an M.D. and a Ph.D. in physiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 1970, and a medicine residency, cardiology fellowship, and post-doctoral training in biochemistry at Duke University Medical Center in 1975. He is board certified in Cardiology, Internal Medicine, and Preventive Medicine (Aerospace Medicine).

Dr. Ferguson is author of numerous articles and book chapters and has lectured extensively. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (Board of Governors, 1985-88), American College of Physicians, and American College of Preventive Medicine. He is an Ashbel Smith Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Texas Medical Branch. His is listed in Consumers Research Council of America Guide to America’s Top Physicians, Who’s Who in America, Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, American Men and Women of Science, Who's Who in Science and Technology, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, The Telemedicine 200, and other publications. He has served in numerous academic and leadership positions, including Chief of Cardiology and Cardiology Training Program Director at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas; Director of Aerospace Medicine and Occupational Health, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (1993-96); Commander, USAF Medical Center Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany (1990-93); Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD (1976-96).

Dr. Ferguson is Chief of the Medical Staff, Ridgecrest Regional Hospital, and serves on its Corporate Board (Board of Directors 1998-2004). He is a retired Air Force Colonel and was a member of the Federal Senior Executive Service with NASA before moving to Ridgecrest in 1996. He is a commercial pilot with instrument and glider ratings and flies his Mooney M20K "Rocket" regularly. He is married to Sun Hye Paik, Ph.D., D. Pharm, a cell and molecular biologist who President and COO of Sun BioMedical Technologies and is directing research on early genetic responses to infectious diseases and environmental hazards, as well as development of peptide antibiotics for use as a Bacillus spore decontaminating agents, as detectors for Bacillus spores, and for potential treatment of anthrax spore inhalation and infection.