We are currently working with the Max Planck Institute in Kettlenburg, Germany on combining our AP MALDI instrument to their GCMS ‘MORE’ that is part of the Rosetta Cometary Mission presently in flight. The ‘MORE-AP MALDI’ instrument will be a fully integrated instrument that shares resources and will further enable the direct detection of intact organic compounds in a variety of mineralogies and solid samples including ‘ices’ and ‘sediments’ without further sample preparation.  The instrument will also investigate atmospheric samples to determine the current state of the Martian atmosphere. This instrument has recently been selected as part of the European Space Agencies ExoMars Rover Mission slated to launch in 2011.  The purpose of this mission is to search for extinct and extant life on Mars. Initial funding from NASA of ~35 million is expected to begin “brass boarding” and flight qualification of the instrument (to be submitted in June 2006).

Harry Brown
Cataracts are one of the world’s major health challenges.  It is estimated that 30 million men, women, and children are blind from cataracts, a clouding, or opacity of the crystalline lens of the eye.  WHO predicts the number of cataract blind will double in the next 14 years.

The tragedy is that sight-restoring surgery; a safe, predictable, life enhancing 20-minute operation under local anesthesia is not available to the millions of blind in developing countries around the world.  This is truly a humanitarian emergency of gigantic proportions.

During residency training from 1967 to 1970 at the Jules Stein Eye Institute Dr. Harry S. Brown became interested in international ophthalmology.  He wanted to work with colleagues in different countries around the world.  He wanted to experience, first hand, the difficulties and challenges faced by ophthalmologists in foreign countries.

Upon complication of ophthalmology training Dr. Brown embarked on a journey around the world for a year with his wife, four children, and his mother.

He was offered a position at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Assigned to the 100 bed St. John Eye Hospital serving the native population from countries in southern Africa was an unprecedented educational experience.

Twice Dr. Brown was invited as the eye surgeon to join a group of volunteer surgical specialists to fly to Mbabane, Swaziland.  The country of eight million had only 67 physicians, but no surgical specialists.

He participated in a program of the South African Council for the Blind in the Bantu areas to identify and operate on cataract blind patients.

From South Africa, the family traveled to a remote village in the North Gujarat state of India.  There Dr. Brown worked with an Indian ophthalmologist.  In 22 working days, they examined over 2000 patients, all of whom had devastating eye disease and performed 67 operations.

The next month Dr. Brown was the visiting volunteer specialist with the Care Medico program in Kabul, Afghanistan.  Work was at the NOOR Eye Hospital established by three missionary eye doctors.

The first Saturday of every month at Moorefield’s Eye Hospital in London if there were human eyes available from accident victims, the resident ophthalmologists called a Lion Club member to take the white Styrofoam box with the red label marked “FRAGILE-HUMAN EYES” to Heathrow International Airport to catch the midnight jet to Afghanistan.  The jet refueled in Tehran and proceeded to Kabul arriving at noon. 

After attending church on Sunday morning one doctor drove the Kabul International Airport 30 minutes from the city.  The other two doctors went to the eye hospital where a line of patients was waiting corneal transplants.

The doctor at the airport stood on the balcony of the air terminal with binoculars.  As the plane pulled on to the tarmac if eye were on board the copilot held the white box at the cockpit window.  A phone call was made to the hospital that eyes were available.  Immediately two patients were prepped, draped, and blocked with anesthetic.  The first Sunday Dr. Brown assisted with three corneal Transplants.

Reflecting upon the cooperation of an eye hospital in a Christian country, the work of an international service club, the cooperation of a national airline to bring human corneal tissue to help poor patients in a Muslim country demonstrated how agencies, individuals, and industries could work together on a humanitarian project.

After eight months of intensive clinical and surgical work, the next four months were spent in 8 or 10 countries.  Here Dr. Brown toured schools for the blind, visited local ophthalmologists and university eye centers before returning to the United States.  He entered private ophthalmology practice in Santa Barbara, CA February 1971.

The year abroad provided Dr. Brown with an idea in broad-brush strokes about ophthalmology and surgery in a number of countries around the world.

An opportunity to use that knowledge came a year later with an invitation to fly into northern Mexico with a flying doctors organization.  The first Friday of every month, a group met in Navajo, Mexico.  On Saturday, they flew to four or five airstrips in the Sierra Padre Mountains of northern Mexico where there were small villages but no medical personnel or facilities.

Dr. Brown wrote the board stating if they wanted an eye program that an attack on surgically correctable blindness would be the most productive thing for an eye surgeon to do.  They agreed and Dr. Brown flew with the group every month for the nest two years.  He soon recognized that an ophthalmic surgical nurse was essential to organize cataract surgery clinics.  Soon nurses and ophthalmologists volunteered to participate in the monthly clinics. 

A “surgical system” was developed using portable operating microscopes, multiple instrument sets, and pre sterilized standardized surgical packs containing consumable supplies for surgery and post op packs.

Dr. Brown realized that the eye group needed its own organization.  Contact with SCORE, Service Corps of Retired Executives, resulted in consultation with Mr. William H. Crockett, retired President of Carnation Milk of Canada, and Vice President of the US firm. 

Bill Crockett was so taken with the idea of the surgical eye team that he agreed to be the volunteer administrator and help form the new organization.

Surgical ye Expeditions (SEE) International was chartered as a non-profit, 501-C-3 humanitarian organization of practicing ophthalmic surgeons from around the world.  Now over 600 eye surgeons from 99 countries are members of SEE International.

At the invitation of eye surgeons in second and third world countries, with the approval of health and civic authorities, SEE International World Head quarters in Santa Barbara, California recruits, organizes, and deploys surgical eye team’s worldwide.

Members of visiting eye teams travel at their own expense to foreign countries.  The host country provides in country transportation, food, and lodging for the few days the team is in the country.

All the consumable supplies for a pre agreed number of surgeries are donated by SEE International.  Microscopes, multiple instrument sets, and lasers are provided as needed to augment what is needed locally.  Multiple operating tables are set up so a number of surgeons can operate simultaneously.  Local doctors screen the patients for cataracts and take care of patients post operatively.

Over 783 million dollars of medical services and supplies have been donated from 1991 to 2005.  70 to 100 clinical and support packets are shipped a year to support clinics in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Pan Pacific countries.

Over 300,000 sight restoring surgeries have been performed by SEE International volunteer surgeons and over one million patients screened for eye problems.

SEE International was founded to mobilize the reservoir of practicing ophthalmic surgeons world wide to help reduce the number of cataract blind.

Dr. Brown graduated from the University of Missouri.  He served as a line officer in the U. S. Navy before attending medical school at George Washington University in Washington DC.  He interned at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Camp Pendleton, CA.  After five years in general and family practice, he attended the Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA.

James T. Caldwell
James Caldwell has been at the forefront of the Organizational Development and Transformation profession since teaching Political development, International Politics and History in Texas and New York. He taught the rise and fall of civilizations  and co-edited a book called Aisles of Time that traced the development through history of political, economic religious and legal systems. He is fluent in Chinese and worked in China for several years before serving as Assistant Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford. He founded Pacific Rim Connections to develop and market multilingual software and prepress solutions. He was the first Editor of the Unicode Standard for multilingual electronic communications in the 1990s, where he practiced the art of alliance building to solve seemingly intractable problems among engineers who did not all see their problems in the same way. His work with renewable energy and environmental systems dates from a course he taught on The Politics of Energy and the Environment back in the 1970s.

Jim currently serves as President of E3 Regenesis Solutions, developing integrated systems to manage waste,energy and sustainable growth. Projects are underway in several parts of California and around the US. As a Managing Member of Open Systems Control, he is developing a clean tech innovation park inChina where innovators in sustainable living and working will collaborate for People, Planet and Prosperity. He serves with several non-profits, including The 1990 Institute, where he is a member of the team organizing a California-China Clean Energy Collaboration Conference in 2008, in cooperation with Green Valley. He also serves on Sustainovation, the California Biomass Collaborative, Acterra, The Software Development Forum, The Asian American Multi-technology Association, Bay Localize,  Energy Voyager and others.

Mark Fruin
Mark Fruin is Professor of Business and Global Strategy in the Lucas Graduate School of Business at San Jose State University.  Currently, he is researching two topic areas: the emergence of high-performance organizational practices, especially energy efficiency and low carbon emission capabilities, in different industry and national environments, including China, Japan, and the United States; functional and performance differences in various sorts of interfirm network configurations and organizations.

Mark has B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University.  He has taught and carried out research at ten universities and in five countries while authoring three books, editing or co-editing three more, and publishing four dozen articles and book chapters.  The books include Remade in America (Oxford University Press, 1999), Networks, Markets, and the Pacific Rim (Oxford University Press, 1998), Knowledge Works (Oxford University Press, 1997), and The Japanese Enterprise System (Oxford University Press, 1992).  He is also working on a new book, Global Toyota (expected completion in 2010).

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Howard Richard Lieberman
Howard Richard Lieberman has three decades of experience as an innovator in audio, computing, and education. He founded the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute to develop and apply a conscious innovation model internationally, in order to turn Vision into Value.

Mr. Lieberman has founded five companies: Interactive Visual Analysis Languages (INTERVAL), Integrated Acoustics, Escatech Media Inc., Dorado and Asonda Corp. Mr. Lieberman has invented and brought to market new technologies at Bose Corporation, Apple Computer and the companies he founded, including hardware and adaptive content software architectures.

He has developed measurement systems at Bose, JBL, Boston Acoustics, and Apple Computer, contributed to standards committees and consulted to Tektronix, 3Com, Amdal, Cienna, Sun, Kurzweil, Ensoniq, JBL, Walmart, Harman Intl., Bose, Apple, Boston Acoustics, and Fishman Transducers and ASA, AES, IEEE member.

Prior to founding SVII, Howard was the Dean of External Affairs and Distinguished Lecturer of Innovation Management and Aesthetic Engineering for Cogswell Polytechnical College, a 120 year old technical institution in Silicon Valley.

Mr. Lieberman has also worked in Intellectual Property and been a member of the Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Association (SVIPLA), the Intellectual Property Society (IPS), the Licensing Executives Society (LES), and has recently chaired a Summit on the Globalization of Technology and chaired the SCI3 Foundation Board. Howard Lieberman holds a BS in Physics from the City University of New York, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island and has Post Graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Acoustics & Image Processing.

Paul Masson
Paul Masson founded the consulting network Strategic Alliances Resources Network,(StarNet, LLC) in the mid-1990’s with the objective of building innovation alliances that bridge government, industry, small technology firms and financing sources. StarNet operates as the hub of a small network of professionals that design alliances that generate both cost savings and improved deployment of technology into the global market place. Paul Masson created the methods and a track record for this emerging field in the 1980’s while a project manager at three Silicon Valley startup companies, and the financing firm Babcock & Brown. He expanded the method in the early 1990’s while Director of Technology Commercialization for American Technology Initiative (AmTech), a small non-profit in Silicon Valley under contract to the DOD and NASA. While at AmTech, Paul designed the integration of government labs into corporate technology development with customized legal agreements, financial structures and project management systems that led to the launch of technology partnerships in software, food projects, medical instrumentation, aeronautics, high performance computing, and defense technology commercialization. StarNet’s current innovation alliance focus is in energy efficiency, aviation, and information technology security. Paul Masson’s previous professional experience includes line and project management positions at two consulting firms (SRI International and Cap-Gemini), three startup companies (artificial intelligence, food products, securitized export-finance notes) and international government & corporate finance at Wells Fargo Bank. Paul currently is working with the National Council of Public/Private Partnerships (NCPPP) to launch a national forum focusing on public/private innovation alliances.

John Perlin
John Perlin has written two major solar energy books. Mr. Perlin’s first book, A Golden Thread: 2500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology (with Ken Butti) describes the major advances in using solar heat since the time the ancient Greeks began designing cities and building houses to take advantage of the sun’s energy. MIT’s Technology Review described A Golden Thread as “a feast for the most critical historian’s mind and eye.”  Library Journal The Los Angeles Times stated, “Handsomely illustrated and lucidly written, “A Golden Thread” is a rich mine of information.”

Gary Wnek
A native of Amsterdam, NY, Gary Wnek received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1977 and a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1980.  He has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT and the Department of Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and was Founding Chair of the Chemical Engineering Department at Virginia Commonwealth University.  In 2004, he joined Case Western Reserve University as Professor of Chemical Engineering, the Joseph F. Toot, Jr., Professor of Engineering, and Co-Director of The Institute for Management and Engineering (TiME).  In January of 2006 he became Faculty Director of TiME and, in July of 2006, Chair of the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case.  Gary’s research interests include polymers in medicine (tissue engineering scaffolds, drug delivery; electrostatic polymer processing of nanofibers and nanoparticles), microfluidic devices, polymers in fuel cells and batteries, and innovation management. He has published over 120 papers, co-edited 5 books, and holds 18 U.S. patents.  He is the co-founder of three companies in the areas of polymer membrane technology, fuel cells, and polymer hydrogels and nanofibers for wound repair and drug delivery. He received the 2007 John W. Hyatt Award (benefit to society) from the Society of Plastics Engineers for his work on polymer nano- and microfibers for regenerative medicine and related biomedical applications.  --Website: http://polymers.case.edu/people/faculty/wnek.htm