Program in Technology Commercialization Lectures

Wednesday November 16
3:30pm to 5:20pm, Room HSB T639
Gail Naughton
presents
    Commercialization in the Space of Tissue Engineering

Friday November 18
3:30pm to 5:20pm, Room HSB T639
Tony Avellino
presents
Hospitals, HMOs, and Reimbursement

In addition to being the Dean of the College of Business Administration at San Diego State University since August 2002, Dr. Gail Naughton founded Histogen, Inc. in 2007, and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board for the Company. She has spent more than 15 years extensively researching the tissue engineering process, holds more than 90 U.S. and foreign patents and has been extensively published in the field.

Tony Avellino is the director of UW Medicine Neurosciences Institute and a UW professor of neurological surgery and professor of orthopedics and sports medicine.  He is an attending neurosurgeon at Harborview Medical Center, UW medical Center and Seattle Children's.  In addition to a medical degree from Columbia University, Dr. Avellino completed the certificate program in medical management in the Department of Health Services at the UW School of Medicine, and in 2008 he received his master's of business administration degree from The George Washington University School of Business.