Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> January 25, 2011
Dr. Marvin A. Sackner, M.D., has served as a Director of Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems, Inc., since he was first elected as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Director in November 1989. He served as Chairman of the Board from November 1989 until October 2008. He served as CEO from 1989 until 2002 and from December 2007 to the present. Dr. Sackner co-founded Respitrace Corporation, a predecessor to the company, in 1977, and he was the Chairman of its Board from 1981 until October 1989. From 1974 until October 1991, Dr. Sackner was the Director of Medical Services at Mount Sinai in Miami Beach, Fla. From 1973-1996, he served as Professor of Medicine, University of Miami at Mount Sinai. Since 2004, he has been Voluntary Professor of Medicine, Leonard Miller Medical School of University of Miami. From 1979 to 1980, Dr. Sackner was the President of the American Thoracic Society. Dr. Sackner was the Chairman of the Pulmonary Disease Subspecialty Examining Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine from 1977 to 1980. In 2007 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree for "outstanding work in the entire field of pulmonology and sleep disorders," by the University of Zurich (Switzerland). Dr. Sackner holds 33 United States patents and has written 223 scientific papers and four books. Dr. Sackner also serves as a Director of Continucare Corporation, a publicly traded provider of outpatient health care services. Profile
TWST: Please start with a brief overview of the history and evolution of Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems, NIMS.
Dr. Sackner: We started as a diagnostic company in 1978 in the field of noninvasive
