The VuStik Mission
Our mission at VuStik is simple. We aim to reduce the number of needle stick attempts and improve patient satisfaction with use of the VuStik 3S System. 

VuStik is dedicated to improving clinical practice by overcoming barriers in nursing IV access training and improving the approach to peripheral IV access procedures.

Executive Management

Cameron Lewis
President & Chief Operating Officer
(cameron@vustik.com)
Mr. Lewis has more than 25 years of experience in large corporate as well as successful entrepreneurial business ventures, including some of the best known medical and high-technology companies of the past decade: Netscape, McAfee.com, Medscape, PatientKeeper, and Actuality Systems.  He has been CEO, SVP Product, Business Development, Worldwide Marketing and Operations.  In his diverse roles he has brought products to market in Medical Information Technology, Visualization Technology, Internet Security and Electronic Commerce.  

Steven Drucker
VP Engineering
(steven@vustik.com) 

Mr. Drucker has more than 30 years of system design and management experience and over 10 years of experience developing medical devices, in both engineering and management capacities. His credits include multiple patents in electro-optics and small medical devices as well as designing and implementing processes to move companies into compliance with regulatory environments such as those required by ISO 9000 and the FDA.

He has served as Director of Software Development at Instill Corp, Project Director at MDL Information Systems, Director of Instrumentation at TheraSense (a medical device startup), Director of New Product Development at Vital Insite (a medical device startup), and Director of the Medical Products division at Andros. Under his leadership, Andros became a key supplier of medical equipment to HP and Siemens, and the FreeStyle blood glucose meter went from an undocumented prototype into production. He has won awards for his technical contributions at Instill and Vital Insite.

Mr. Drucker has a BSEE degree from M.I.T.

Toni Harris, M.D.
Chief Science Officer
(toni@vustik.com)
Dr. Toni Harris is a graduate of the University of Arizona and Stanford Medical School. She is a board certified Obstetrician-Gynecologist and is fellowship trained in Urogynecology. Dr. Harris is a physician-scientist who is published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Science and Nature. She has previously worked with several medical startup companies as a principle investigator for ASI, as Chief Science Officer for FemiNova, and as an Advisory Board member and clinical investigator for Genyx.

LTC Melvyn Harris, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer & Co-founder
(mel@vustik.com) 
Dr. Harris is currently on faculty at Loma Linda University Medical Center, division of Emergency Medicine.  He has over 25 years of experience in Emergency Medicine and served as the Head of the Emergency Department for the 352nd Combat Support Hospital, Oakland Army Base, Oakland, CA from 1997 to 2003, while serving in the Army Reserve Medical Corp.

Karissa Anderson
Marketing Director
(karissa@vustik.com)
Ms. Anderson has held management positions with several national retail chains where she developed marketing strategy and programming. She received a B.A. from UCLA in Communications Studies and Business Administration.

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Board of Directors

Ernie Bodai, MD
Dr. Bodai is the Director, Breast Surgical Services at Kaiser Permanente. He is a practicing surgical oncologist and CEO of curebreastcancer.org. Dr. Bodai is the creative mastermind of the Breast Cancer Research Postage Stamp – in 66 counties. To date, the stamp has raised over $100 million for breast cancer research. He has authored over 250 medical articles and has published 5 books, 4 of which focus on cancer. He serves as a board member or medical director of several companies including Sontek Medical, B&B Medical, Liv International, and Nutracea, an international leader in the development of neutriceuticals.

Karen Rose
Ms. Rose was Group Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of The Clorox Company from December 1997 until her retirement in October 2003. Prior to that, Ms. Rose held various management positions including Director of Finance, Household Products Company and Vice President and Treasurer since joining Clorox in 1978. Ms. Rose currently serves on the Board of Directors of Bare Escentuals, Inc. and Maidenform, Inc. both public companies. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of The Magic Theatre in San Francisco and a member of the Board of Visitors of the Pathways to Learnings Project of the University of Wisconsin. Ms. Rose received a B.A. in History from the University of Wisconsin and an M.B.A. in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

Toni Harris, M.D. , Chief Science Officer
(see bio above)

Cameron Lewis, CEO
(see bio above)

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Advisory Board

Dr. Saul Schaefer
Dr. Schaefer is the Head of Cardiology for the Veterans Administration Hospital System of Northern California. He is widely published in the field of cardiology and received his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering.  He has agreed to become the Chairman of our Medical Advisory Board.

Dennis Carter
Mr. Carter is a Clinical Manager with 17 years of paramedic experience at American Medical Response (the largest private ambulance provider in the US).

Dr. Bernard Dannenberg
Dr. Dannenberg is the Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Lucille Packard Children's Hospital and at Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA.

Bonnie Davis, R.N.
Ms. Davis brings 40 years of nursing experience in the civilian arena as well as 14 years in the Army Nursing Corps, U.S. Army Reserve. She is presently Pediatric Charge RN at Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Sacramento, CA.

Lynn Hoeltke, M.T. (A.S.C.P.), P.B.T., D.L.M
Mr. Hoeltke has been involved in clinical laboratory science and education for over 30 years. He holds an M.B.A. from Butler University and received a B.S. in Microbiology from Purdue University. He has authored several books in the field of Phlebotomy, including 3 text books, and is considered by his peers to be a thought-leader in this field.

Gigi Rodriguez, RN
Mrs. Rodriguez is a Pediatric Emergency Department Nurse with more than twenty years of emergency room experience between two level 1 trauma centers. She is also a Nursing Skills Instructor for the Health Careers Resource Center at Mt. San Antonio Community College.

Ronald S. Dickson
Mr. Dickson is Vice President of Government and Corporate Accounts for SonoSite Inc., and has over 24 years of sales experience in the ultrasound-imaging field.

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