Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> September 29, 2003
KSHITIJ MOHAN, Chief Executive Officer of International Remote Imaging
Systems, Inc., joined the company in January 2003. He most recently was
Chief Regulatory and Technology Strategist for King and Spalding, a
national full-service law firm. From 2000 to 2001, Dr. Mohan was Senior
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Boston Scientific
Corporation, based in Natick, Massachussetts. In 1988 he joined Baxter
International, based in Deerfield, Illinois, and rose to the position of
Corporate Vice President, Research and Technical Services. From 1983 to
1988 he held key positions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
where he was Director, Office of Science and Technology, and Director,
Office of Device Evaluation, as well as acting Deputy Director of the
Center of Devices and Radiological Health, responsible for all medical
device evaluations and approvals. He also held other major positions
with the FDA. Dr. Mohan served as Science Examiner, Basic Research and
R&D Programs with the White House Office of Management and Budget from
1979 to 1983. He received a PhD in Physics from Georgetown University in
Washington, an MS in Physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder,
and a BSc First Class Honors (Physics) from Patna University in India. Profile
Remote Imaging Systems been around and how did it get started?
Dr. Mohan: We were founded in 1980. We went public in
