Alan Horsager
| Headline: | Scientist |
| Website: | http://www.horsager.com |
| Location: | Los Angeles |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | entrepreneur, gene therapy, los angeles, neuroscience, vision |
| Schools: | University of Southern California, University of Washington - Seattle |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | USC/Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. |
| Position: | Ph.D. Candidate/Scientific Consultant |
| Time period: | August 2004 - Present |
| Description: | Serving as an academic consultant on the scientific and clinical evaluation of blind human patients implanted with retinal prostheses.
• Developing a retinal prosthesis to supply functional vision to patients whom have lost sight through retinal degeneration (retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration) • Investigating the relationship between spatiotemporal electrical stimulation input patterns and visual perception through psychophysical methods • Mathematical modeling of mechanisms involved in visual perception during electrical stimulation of the human retina |
| Employer: | California Clinical Trials Medical Group |
| Position: | Clinical Research Coordinator |
| Time period: | January 2003 - August 2004 |
| Description: | Planning, executing and assuring quality of assigned clinical trials in the Phase II-IV Department including psychiatry, internal medicine and neuroscience indications.
• Supervising all protocol procedures, chart preparation and completion of case report forms, medical and psychiatric histories, ECGs and laboratory tests • Clinical assessments including psychometric and neurological testing. Ratings include MMSE, ADAS-COG, PANSS, CDSS and CGIS |
| Employer: | VivoMetrics, Inc. |
| Position: | Clinical Project Manager/Research Coordinator |
| Time period: | January 2001 - December 2003 |
| Description: | Served as the project manager for the implementation of our technology into pharmaceutical clinical trials. Additionally, worked as the research coordinator for clinical development of the product.
• Managed multiple projects involving Phase I and Phase IV clinical trials with major pharmaceutical companies • Managed internal team to provide successful delivery of equipment and supplies to multiple clinical sites while scheduling and managing project within MS Project • Worked directly with sponsor company to determine data deliverables, scheduling and clinical site training plan • Trained sites to implement use of our equipment within the study design • Coordinated research projects, statistical analysis of data, abstract writing and creating protocols for various projects • Worked with software department developing algorithms for detection of various respiratory disorders including sleep apnea and cough • Analyzed data for various disorders including sleep apnea, anxiety and depression, narcolepsy, COPD and Cystic Fibrosis and conducted statistical analysis on data |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Southern California |
| Time period: | 2008 |
| Degree: | Neuroscience, PhD |
| University: | University of Washington - Seattle |
| Time period: | 1997 |
| Degree: | Psychology, BA |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | De Balthasari, C., Patel, S., Roy, A., Freda, R., Greewald, S.H., Horsager, A., Mahadevappa, M., Yanai, D., McMahon, M.J., Humayun, M.S., Greenberg, R.J., Weiland, J.D., Fine, I. “Factors affecting perceptual thresholds in retinal prostheses”. Inv. Vis. Ophth. Sci. (2008). Jun;49(6):2303-14.
Horsager, A., Greenwald, S.H., Weiland, J.D., Humayun, M.S., Greenberg, R.J., McMahon, M.J., Boynton, G.M., Fine, I. “Predicting visual sensitivity in retinal prosthesis patients”. (In review). |
| Patents: | 1. “Visual prosthesis fitting”. U.S. application # 20070255343
2. “Fitting a neural prosthesis using electrode impedance and height”. U.S. application # 20070191911 3. “Apparatus and Method for Electrical Stimulation of the Human retina”. U.S. application # 20080045856 4. “Saliency-Based Apparatus and Methods for Visual Prosthesis”. S/N 60/905,643 |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | 2005 – Member of Society for Neuroscience
2005 – Member of Optical Society of America 2005 – Member Vision Sciences Society 2006 – Member Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2006 Organizer for Research Symposium, USC 2006 Organizer for NIH Grant Writing Seminar, USC |
| Awards: | 2004 – present Second Sight Medical Products Research Grant
2005 – 2006 Professional Development Award, USC 2007 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) travel grant 2008 TATRC Medical Innovation Award ($36,000) |
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