People
April King, MSN, CRNA
Co-Founder, President and CEO, Director
April King, MSN, CRNA, Co-Founder, Director, President and CEO, received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from San Diego State University and her Master of Science in Nursing from University of Southern California, with academic distinction cum laude. She has delivered anesthesia for over 10 years at Kaiser Permanente Hospital, San Diego, the Balboa Navy Hospital, San Diego, various private oral and plastic surgery offices, and as a volunteer with the San Diego Interface group. She has also educated and trained student CRNAs at Kaiser and in the military. This has given her first-hand experience with the risks and difficulties of providing safe anesthesia care in patients who are breathing on their own under light anesthesia, and the challenge of teaching health care providers how to maintain a patent airway in sedated patients. This experience provided the impetus for the invention and development of the JED™.
William Mazzei, MD
CMO, Director
William Mazzei, MD, Director and CMO, is Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Vice Chairman for Technology Development at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center. He received his SB in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and his MD from the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. After completing his anesthesia residency and fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, he became Clinical Director of Anesthesiology at UCSD and focused his research and educational efforts in the areas of OR Management, Product Development, and Patient Safety. He is the inventor of the ProneView, a device used to protect the face of patients placed in the prone position for surgery, and the NuScope, a video-larygoscope. As Medical Director of Dupaco, Inc, he completed development of the ProneView and assisted in the marketing and sales of the device, now used in over 2000 hospitals in the US and over 200 hospitals in Europe, Japan, and Latin America. He is the first to conduct surface pressure measurements about the face in anesthetized patients, and co-founded the Association of Anesthesia Clinical Directors in 1987. Dr. Mazzei is internationally recognized as an expert in OR Management and medical device development.
Warren G. Young, Ph.D.
COO/CFO, Director
Dr. Young has more than twenty years of neuroscience imaging hardware, software development experience. He is currently the CEO of 3D Vision Systems, Inc in San Diego, CA, producing the first digital 3D stereoscopic surgery workstation and developing retinal imaging software for screening, diagnostic and therapeutic applications. He joined 3D Vision Systems in 2006 as the CTO and took over the executive position in 2007. Dr. Young is also co-founder of Neurome, Inc., a platform based drug discovery biotech company in La Jolla, CA with programs focused on neurodegenerative disorders. Dr. Young developed all of the imaging technology used in the discovery programs at Neurome. From 1999 to 2002, he served as the CTO and from 2002 to 2006, he served as the President and COO. Prior to those posts, Dr. Young was at The Scripps Research Institute as a faculty member in the Neuropharmacology Department and as the Director of Neuropharmacology Computing. In addition to more than 104 publications, Dr. Young is the immediate past Managing Editor of Brain Research and served on the NIMH SBIR and STTR scientific review committee. Dr. Young sits on the Board of Rewire Therapies, Inc., a neurodegenerative disease company. Dr. Young is also co-founder of No-Q Systems Pty Ltd, an early stage company developing innovative medical office software for clinical practice. Dr. Young holds a PhD in Neurosciences from UCSD.