Board of Directors
Jane H. Hsiao, PhD, MBA was elected Chairman of the Board for NIMS on November 3, 2008. Dr. Hsiao has been a NIMS shareholder since August 2005, and her diverse regulatory, marketing and business experience in the healthcare industry provides the leadership NIMS requires as it completes the transition from a research and development company into a medical and fitness device company.
- Dr. Hsiao has served since May 2007 as Vice-Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of OPKO Health, Inc. (AMEX:OPKO), a specialty healthcare company. Dr. Hsiao also serves as Chairman of the Board of medical device developer SafeStitch Medical, Inc. (OTCBB:SFES), a position she has held since September 2007, and as a director of Modigene, Inc. (OTCBB:MODG), a developmental stage biopharmaceutical company and Neovasc, Inc. (TSXV:NVC), which develops and markets vascular devices. Dr. Hsiao previously served as the Vice Chairman-Technical Affairs and Chief Technical Officer of IVAX Corporation ("IVAX") from 1995 until IVAX was acquired in January 2006 by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ:TEVA). Dr. Hsiao also served as Chairman, CEO and President of IVX Animal Health, IVAX's veterinary products subsidiary, from 1998 until 2006, and as IVAX's Chief Regulatory Officer from 1992 to 1995.
- Marvin A. Sackner, MD, Honorary MD (University of Zurich) is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems, Inc. Dr. Sackner also co-founded the predecessor to the Company in 1978 known as Respitrace Corporation and was the Chairman of the Board from 1981 until October 1989. From 1974 until October 1991, Dr. Sackner was the Director of Medical Services at Mount Sinai Medical Center of Greater Miami. Dr. Sackner was the President of the American Thoracic Society from 1979 to 1980. Dr. Sackner was the Chairman of the Pulmonary Disease Subspecialty Examining Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine from 1977 to 1980. He is currently Voluntary Professor of Medicine at Mt Sinai at the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami. Dr Sackner holds 33 U.S. patents, has published 223 scientific papers and authored four books. Dr. Sackner was elected to the Board of Directors of Continucare Corporation in 2010.
- Rao Uppaluri, PhD was appointed to the board on November 3, 2008. Dr. Uppaluri has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of OPKO since May 2007 and was a director from February 9, 2007 through March 27, 2007. Dr. Uppaluri currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Ideation Acquisition Corp. (AMEX:IDI.U), a special purpose acquisition company formed for the purpose of acquiring businesses in digital media; Kidville, Inc., an operator of upscale learning and play facilities for children, (OTCBB:KVIL); Cardo Medical, Inc., a producer and distributor of orthopedic and spinal medical devices (OTCBB:CKST) and Winston Laboratories, Inc., a developmental pharmaceutical company focused on pain management (OTCBB:GTRY). Dr. Uppaluri previously served as the Vice President, Strategic Planning and Treasurer of IVAX from 1997 until December 2006. Before joining IVAX, from 1987 to August 1996, Dr. Uppaluri was Senior Vice President, Senior Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer with Intercontinental Bank, a publicly traded commercial bank in Florida.
- Steven D. Rubin was appointed to the board on November 3, 2008. Mr. Rubin has served as OPKO's Executive Vice President — Administration since May 2007. Mr. Rubin currently serves on the Boards of Directors of OPKO; SafeStitch Medical, Inc.; Ideation Acquisition Corp.; Modigene, Inc.; Kidville, Inc.; Neovasc, Inc.; Cardo Medical, Inc.; and Dreams, Inc. (AMEX:DRJ), a vertically integrated sports licensing and products company. Mr. Rubin previously served as the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of IVAX from August 2001 until September 2006. Prior to joining IVAX, Mr. Rubin was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary with privately-held Telergy, Inc., a provider of business telecommunications and diverse optical network solutions, from early 2000 to August 2001. In addition, he was corporate and securities attorney with the Miami law firm of Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson from 1986 to 2000, where he was a shareholder of the firm since 1991 and a director since 1998.
- Taffy Gould was elected a Director of the Company in December 2000. From 1977 to December 2000, she was the President of Housing Engineers of Florida, Inc., a Florida real estate management company. In December 2000, she founded and is a managing member of GlobalTechnologyAgents.com, a Florida limited liability company which advises technology companies and end-users in the business, academic and medical spheres worldwide. She is founder and Chairperson on the Board of Directors at Oceania University of Medicine, an internet medical school formed as a partnership with the country of Samoa.
- Morton Robinson, MD was elected a Director of the Company in November 1989. From 1987 until December 2004, Dr. Robinson served as Director and Chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach. Dr. Robinson has served as Chairman Emeritus of that department since January 2005.
