Kevin Buckman, MD - CEO, Director
Dr. Kevin Buckman MD FAAIM, MACOEM, DAAUCM, MRO completed his Medical School training at USC where he also trained in Internal Medicine. Dr. Buckman first started cancer and autoimmune research in 1976 under Dr. Edmund Dubois, Chair of the Rheumatology Department at USC School of Medicine and also the world authority on Systemic and Discoid Lupus. He is the author of the definitive text on Lupus.
After Dr. Buckman’s research of over 2 years in 1980 with an evaluation of over 500 patients with autoimmune diseases, he discovered a link of cancer and autoimmune diseases through the evaluation of pathology slides, biopsies, autopsies, clinical, genetic evaluations, and lab data. His cancer and autoimmune research has branched out to the field of Intracellular Medicine for the last 30 years.
He has served as CEO for Lifeline BioTechnologies, Inc. for early Breast Cancer Detection and he successfully advanced the medical technologies for the company as well as presenting at international presentations. He has numerous Medical Publications. He was the first US Physician to be accepted into the European Group for Breast Cancer Screening after his research in this field was accepted for publication and presentation at their international conference in Cyprus.
During the last twenty eight years he has worked internationally to advance a number of medical technologies with a focus on early detection of disease, infectious disease recognition and treatment, work in the field preventive medicine, and non-harmful new methods of medical treatment.
He has served as Medical Director in various hospitals and institutions for over 18 years and has 30 years of clinical experience. He has served as a member of the Executive Committee for six years at St. Dominic’s Hospital in Manteca, California. He has written many patents for new medical and environmental technologies. From 1986 to 1997 there were more than 50 Physicians on his roster under his Directorship at various institutions and hospitals. He also served as Medical Director for Dameron Hospital EMS Liaison from 2002 to 2003. He became Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and a Fellow of the American Board of Emergency Medicine in 1990, a Diplomat of the American Association of Urgent Care Medicine and Board Certified in 2007.
He has received numerous Certifications and Specialty Training in the field of Medicine. He is a Fellow in the American Association of Integrated Medicine, and a Board Certified Medical Review Officer. His other Specialties include: Internal Medicine, Forensic Medicine, Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. He has over 30 years of hospital experience and has served on over 15 hospital committees and as Medical Director at Multiple Institutions.
Dr. Buckman has presented research, published articles and books in the field of medicine, and given lectures at numerous hospitals and at International Medical Conferences, held a Symposium on Bioterrorism, and has traveled in 68 countries.
At age 42 his mother died of an Autoimmune Disease called Lupus and not long after that Dr. Buckman began his research in the field of cancer and immune diseases concerned about people's health and environmental eco-imbalances during the last 30 years and the link to cancer.
Dr. Buckman has become an expert in Environmental Health Medicine, and has written a book about the effects we are now facing due to Pollution and about the health of the planet itself, especially its link to cancer and autoimmune disease.
Jeff Black - President, Director
Mr. Black has over 27 years in high-tech and is a 14-year veteran of Digital Equipment Corp (now Hewlett Packard) where he grew the business from nothing to over a billion dollar business in less than 13 months.
While at Digital/AltaVista his development team created one of the first search engines on the internet. He was also the founder of IMI, iAtlas, Resorts.com and Hotels.com, which were all successfully merged or sold to some of the early internet travel enterprises. He was also the founder of TalkPlus which was one of the first voice over IP technology platforms for internet based telephony.
Mr. Black has completed studies in Business and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Programming, and holds multiple issued and pending patents.
Steven H. Lund - Executive Vice President, Director
Mr. Lund has over 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, and business development. He has been COO for several healthcare companies including Resilient and YTC, where he raised capital, built a team, recruited new customers and hired a world class CEO. From there he was VP of Sales for LignUp, where he raised capital, built the company from zero customers to 25 Service Providers who used the LignUp Communications Platform to roll out VoIP services in the US and South America. He built strategic alliances with IBM and Motorola from the ground up, and he successfully served in a number of sales and business development positions and raised capital with Interactive Media Solutions, Sybersay Communications, Cisco Systems, Apple Computer, and Hewlett Packard.
As EVP of Sales and Marketing for Sybersay, Mr. Lund successfully launched a new product line of wireless devices, raised capital and later licensed the technology to a large retail distributor. At Cisco, his team managed proposals of $200M or greater, to major telecommunications and enterprise accounts. In this role, he led the coordination of proposals with partners for VOIP, optical, wireless, broadband, and networking infrastructure solutions, as well as the implementation of an online system for automating the RFP/sales proposal process.
Mr. Lund began his career leading large projects at Evans & Sutherland, including the implementation of a training/simulation project for NASA and American Airlines, sold to large enterprise/strategic accounts for Apple Computer and managed OEM/VAR alliances at Hewlett Packard.
Mr. Lund was awarded his Masters in Architecture Degree from the University of Utah with an emphasis in computer graphics/computer aided design, and he earned his B.S. in Business Management/Marketing from Brigham Young University. He has served on advisory boards for eight technology companies.
He is currently a Founder of the Brigham Young University Center for Entrepreneurship and is a regular lecturer at the Marriott School of Business at BYU. He is also on the advisory board to Thanksgiving Point, a hands-on learning and educational complex in Utah.
James C. Stanley - Director
Mr. Stanley is one of the two principals of VII Inc. (www.viiinc.com), a strategic planning, systems engineering and investment capital firm specializing in government and business initiatives. VII’s clients include major government agencies and corporations in the United States and around the world. At VII, Mr. Stanley serves as an Executive Vice President and a Director.
Mr. Stanley’s leads VII’s investment capital and financial consulting business that includes: consulting for several of the world’s largest investment capital and asset management firms, corporate strategic and business planning, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and reverse mergers, leveraged buy-outs, and development of major real estate and industrial projects in the $100+ million range. Domestic projects include a major land-fill project, a large fractional ownership project and several major real estate efforts. International projects include a major private placement in Europe, and establishing a technology park and a private investment bank in several oil-rich Arab countries.
Mr. Stanley is involved in VII’s systems engineering efforts which entail alternative energy technologies (bio-diesel and gas-to-liquid), an experimental light aircraft project and a biometrics company that is moving from the research and development stage into production. This biometrics company, Sequiam Corporation (www.sequiam.com, stock symbol: SQUM) is strategically partnered with VII, which is also major stockholder. Mr. Stanley is one of three members of Sequiam’s Board of Directors. This year, Sequiam is launching several product lines with Black & Decker (US), Fujitsu (Japan) and Henyue Manufacturing (Guangzhou, China).
Mr. Stanley is on the Board of Directors and the Vice Chairman of the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy (www.ICRD.org), dedicated to peacemaking via a network of religious leaders and diplomats. ICRD’s concurrent projects are dedicated to reconciliation in turbulent areas including Iran, Pakistan, Kashmir and the Sudan. He is on the Board of Directors of Liberty Counsel (www.LC.org), a nonprofit litigation, education and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of human life and the traditional family. Mr. Stanley also serves on the Executive Committee of Impact XXI (www.impactxxi.com). Impact XXI is a movement of leaders and influencers throughout the world working together to help make a lasting impact on the major issues of the 21st century.
Mr. Stanley is the Chief Executive Officer and co-owner of Quasar International LLC, an international investment firm. Quasar International is a 50/50% joint venture partner with Quasar Group, Inc. (www.QuasarGroup.com) and VII Inc. From 2000 to joining VII Inc., Mr. Stanley was, and remains, one of the three principals in the Quasar Group. The Quasar Group is an international holding and investment company. Quasar focuses on financing and developing proprietary technologies through either investment in early and growth stage businesses, or the creation and establishment of new business operations. Quasar targets its activities in healthcare related technologies with primary emphasis on the manufacture of medical devices and radiopharmaceuticals. In addition, Quasar invests in information technology companies that have a strong synergy to the healthcare industry and Quasar’s portfolio.
From 1994 to 2000, Mr. Stanley was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and founder of Concord Communications, Inc. In association with the leading telecommunications company at that time, Concord developed a system to collect funds for state and federal government agencies via the Internet and telephone networks using “800” and “900” numbers. Twenty five percent (25%) of all Florida’s driver’s licenses were renewed through Concord’s systems continuing today.
From 1985 to 1994, Mr. Stanley founded, owned and operated a real estate development company, called J.C. Stanley & Associates Inc., employing up to 425 people. J.C. Stanley & Associates developed properties form Key Largo, Florida to Seattle, Washington, specializing in high rise condominiums, office buildings, shopping centers and hotels, including the Hilton in Breckenridge, Colorado. Today, he still maintains his licenses as a General Contractor and a Mechanical Contractor which are very helpful for his real estate development and financing initiatives at VII Inc.
From 1979 to 1985, Mr. Stanley acquired Stanley, Barber, Southard & Brown Inc., an advertising agency in New York City. Clients included Citicorp, Hilton International, Holland American Lines, and Chrysler Corporation. From 1977 to 1979, Mr. Stanley was President and Chairman of Balmar Corporation, a public company manufacturing electrical harnesses for aircraft and rotorcraft. He arranged the acquisition of the company to Pratt & Whitney Corp.
In 1976 to 1977, Mr. Stanley was hired as a consultant for McKenzie & Associates. Balmar was the primary client. From 1970 to 1976, Mr. Stanley owned Stanley, Brown & Associates Inc., a NASD (National Association of Securities Dealers) Broker Dealer company that was eventually acquired Bache & Company. After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1966, he worked for AT&T until 1970. His Bachelor of Science degree at UVA was in Industrial Engineering.
Mr. Stanley married his high school sweetheart, Ms. Bonnie Malone. Together, they raised four successful children now a doctor, TV producer, lawyer and marketing director.
Richard S. Dick, Ph.D. - Director
Distinguishing Qualifications:
* Dr. Dick is the Founder of You Take Control, Inc, YTC provides the most advanced, secure electronic consent management platform available today, enabling the ultimate secure consumer empowerment solution.
* Dr. Dick has a unique blend of education and experience that have brought him international recognition for advancing electronic health record technologies(EHR, EMR, PHR) from multiple standpoints: as a visionary, a designer/architect, and as an industry spokesperson (long list of international speaking engagements).
* Worked seven years writing Assembler code as a developer of Operating Systems (IBM and Sperry Univac).
* Dr. Dick’s Ph.D. is in Medical Biophysics and Computing (under Homer R. Warner, MD, Ph.D.) from a world-class Medical / Health Informatics M.D./PhD program at LDS Hospital, flagship of Intermountain Health Care (IHC).
* Dr. Dick directed the landmark IOM Study that launched our present EHR-era and co-authored the often-quoted seminal work: The Computer-based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Healthcare (1991, 1997).
* According to Dr. Clayton M. Christensen, prominent author on disruptive technologies and professor at the Harvard Business School, Dr. Dick is “one of our most disruptive innovators.”
* Led and developed some of the most successful strategic plans for the largest and most prominent healthcare IT companies (e.g. GE Healthcare - based on actual execution).
* Veteran of both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine (IOM). Dr. Dick also has a Masters of Library and Information Science. He led major research initiatives at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and supervised MEDLINE.
* Conceived, designed, and led development of what is arguably the largest pharmaceutical databases in the U.S. (5yrs. Rx data on >230M+ Americans, updated & current every 24 hours – see front-page Wash. Post 4 Aug 2008).
* Conceived, designed and built the largest realtime, master person indexes (MPI) in the U.S. (>100M people in just one of these MPIs).
* Conceived, designed, and deployed key technologies that are revolutionizing the life, P&C, and health insurance industries by transforming underwriting processes (taking underwriting from 90 days to 10 minutes).
* Holder of several patents as well as patents that are currently pending.
* “Serial entrepreneur” who has been successful in: 1) getting support for innovative, even disruptive ideas; 2) their successful launch into the marketplace; and 3) some of those companies generate >$100M in annual revenues.
* Conceived, designed, and now proving the value of the Composite Clinical Data Dictionary, or C2D2. C2D2 is the missing link for achieving the fundamental but elusive goal of true semantic interoperability—in any field, not just healthcare. Ph.D. mathematicians who have scrutinized it have stated: “this is very generalized; there’s nothing “healthcare-specific about it.”
* Conceived and architected some of the most innovative designs for healthcare data-warehousing applications.
* Served as Functional Co-Chair for the Object Management Group's (OMG) Healthcare Domain Task Force.
* Appointed to a three-year term on to the Markle Foundation’s “Connecting for Health” Personal Health Technology Council.
* Currently serving on the editorial boards of several healthcare IT publications.
* Recipient of the 2006 Award for excellence, outstanding achievement, and special recognition in Applied Medical Informatics presented by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) – Extremely rare to have a non-M.D. (Ph.D.) receive this award.
* Differentiators: significant innovator with far-reaching impact; develops innovative solutions to some of the most challenging and perplexing problems—and then gathers support for (“selling/launching”) those innovations.
The following is a statement from the literature concerning the world-wide impact of the IOM’s Reports, for which Dr. Dick served as both Study Director and Senior Staff Officer at the National Academy of Sciences:
“… In the late 1980s, a conference at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) led to an IOM report dealing with electronic health records. This report, The Computer-based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care, was released in 1991. It explored three key aspects: uses and users, technology, and policy and implementation. To meet the emerging needs of health care, a total rethinking of the medical record was needed. Simply recasting the old record into a computer-based format would not get the job done. The term computer-based patient record (CPR) was used to describe this new type of record. Twelve functions for CPRs were described, and this list has remained both timely and comprehensive. The future record should provide a number of necessary functions, and the center of the action should be the patient and not ‘medicine.’” The goal was to improve relevant communications and then keep an equally relevant record of the communications. The key was not the technology but how the technology could be utilized to reinvent healthcare. The report led directly to the creation of the Computer-based Patient Record Institute, and it became one of the IOM’s most widely-circulated publications. It pointed out the importance of unique identifiers and other standards. It emphasized the need for decision support and a concern about how the systems would create and maintain confidentiality and security. Such was the interest in the report that it was reissued in 1997 with progress reports on U.S. and European efforts.
“As the IOM CPR Report increased visibility of electronic health records worldwide, two reactions occurred. Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand developed national strategies to make electronic health records a core feature of their healthcare systems. In the United States, the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration advanced their efforts, taking advantage of the confidentiality and security regulations that had been in place inside government since the late 1970s. However, only a few major private sector organizations, such as the Kaiser Health System, picked up the challenge of implementing large-scale electronic health records. At the national level in the United States, it was apparent that without confidentiality and security protections, CPRs would not move into widespread use. There was also growing concern over administrative costs, and information technology (IT) was seen as a way to simplify administrative procedures. Policy debates were overwhelmingly focused on privacy legislation rather than sponsoring CPRs equipped with robust confidentiality and security systems. However, sensible national privacy legislation for electronic health systems was not passed despite bipartisan support early in the process. Provisions were placed in the HIPAA legislation to cover a number of exigencies in case that specific enabling legislation was not passed. Examples include unique identifiers for providers, payers, and patients, as well as desired components for electronic health records. Court challenges have allowed virtually all dimensions identified in the HIPAA legislation, short of personal identifiers, to move forward. Although there is debate as to whether these provisions are adequate or excessive for the security and confidentiality of electronic health information, or whether the patient identifiers should have also been established, these standards did help promote the HICT agenda.”
Ben Buckman, BA - Executive Assistant to the Board of Directors
Mr. Buckman plays a key role in day-to-day operations for the Foundation. At the University of California, Santa Barbara he held numerous jobs including in fund raising and financial development for the University, teaching Spanish, working with the Environmental Affairs Board, cultivating the University's biomass project, and collaborating with other University Youth Leaders on sustainable practices.
He is fluent in Spanish, conversational in French and is learning Chinese. His Bachelor's Degree in Global Studies with an emphasis in Socio-Economics and Politics assists the Foundation in providing information about its activities. He has been a member of Bioneers for several years, and has attended other international events and exhibitions.