Multivariate Systems

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Norman Paradis, MD

Norman A. Paradis M.D. is a Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth College and an emergency physician at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. His is active in biomedical research and device development. His areas of interests include cardiac arrest and shock, as well as molecular and optical biomarkers. He leads a Dept. of Defense funded collaboration developing innovative diagnostics in trauma, and is Founder/CEO of CPR Therapeutics Inc., which is developing the next generation therapy for cardiac arrest. Dr. Paradis has been Chief Medical Officer for a number of companies, including Zoll Circulation and Biosite. He edits Cardiac Arrest - The Science and Practice of Resuscitation Medicine. Dr. Paradis has been both faculty and an administrator at Dartmouth, University of Colorado, NYU, Columbia, USC and VCU. He is one of the original co-founders of Multivariate Systems, Inc and serves on the executive as Secretary.

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Vikrant Vase, PhD

Vikrant Vaze is the Stata Family Career Development Assistant Professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. He has 15 years of experience developing mathematical models and computer algorithms in operations research. He specializes in applications of optimization, game theory, machine learning and statistics to healthcare and transportation domains. He is one of the original co-founders of Multivariate Systems, Inc and serves on the executive as President.

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Jonathan Elliott, PhD

Jonathan is Assistant Professor of Surgery and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Engineeering at Dartmouth College as well as Senior Scientist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. He has over ten years experience in building and evaluating medical devices in the academic research environment. He is an expert in signal processing, computational modeling, software development and instrument design and fabrication, but his research emphasizes translational elements of biomedical engineering, with the goal of having a measurable impact on human health and well-being. He is one of the original co-founders of Multivariate Systems, Inc.

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Ryan Halter, PhD

Ryan Halter is Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. After working for a year in Eastman Kodak's Medical Imaging Division he returned to academia and received his PhD from Dartmouth in 2006 for his development of an electrical impedance tomography device for breast cancer imaging. Since joining the faculty at Dartmouth in 2006, he has focussed on developing electrical property sensing and imaging technologies for a variety of clinical applications including prostate biopsy guidance, real-time robotically integrated surgical margin assessment, traumatic brain injury monitoring, and breast imaging, with a focus on the translation of bioimpedance-based technologies to the clinic. He is one of the original co-founders of Multivariate Systems, Inc and serves on the executive as Treasurer.

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Elisha Ronzio

Elisha is an experienced project and operations leader with background in Biomedical/Med-Device Research and Contract Administration. She served as a project manager of R&D for a large, multi-institutional DoD consortium grant to develop a Class III trauma device, and is responsible for expense control, staff management, goods production and department supervision at Multivariate Systems.