ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- -
Bharti Shah, Chief Executive
Officer
CTIS, Inc., Rockville, MD based
Health Informatics company, today announced the promotion of Ms.
Bharti Shah to Chief Executive
Officer. She will have the primary responsibility of overseeing
CTIS' business operations and development for growth opportunities
and initiatives. She will continue providing leadership,
coordination and day-to-day management for business operations and
direct the back-office overseeing the Accounting department,
employee well-being along with the HR team.
Mrs. Bharti Shah has more than 20
years of professional experience in the field of education, having
served as vice president, director, and teacher at Montessori
Children's House of Loudoun (MCHL). Although she has retired from
teaching, she continues her philanthropic journey and believes it
is important to give back to those in need globally and locally.
Mrs. Shah has been committed to corporate citizenship through
support of the healthcare needs of local and global communities,
facilitating services in the areas of children's health and
education. She is actively involved in sponsoring more than 50
schools in India, providing
management, strategy planning, and informatics support to the Ekal
Vidyalaya Foundation. With the Arogya Foundation, she has worked to
develop a pilot project that involves the use of handheld devices
for the advancement of rural health. Mrs. Shah has been involved
with many global health projects including the International Spirit
of Healing, the Art of Living Foundation, Health Related
Information Dissemination Amongst Youth (HRIDAY) & Student
Health Action Network (SHAN), International Network for Cancer
Treatment and Research (INCTR), International Spirit of Life
Foundation, and the Sri Sri University. Mrs. Shah has a bachelor's
degree in commerce and economics from Mumbai University and has a Montessori teacher
training and certification from the Institute for Advanced
Montessori Studies' Barrie
School.
- Dr. Teresa S. Sligh, MD -
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Teresa S. Sligh, MD, joins
CTIS, Inc. as the Executive Vice President and Chief Medical
Officer. She has served for 15 years as the founder and president
of Translational Research Group, Inc., a special populations CRO
and all-phase research center in Los
Angeles conducting studies in internal medicine,
endocrinology, infectious disease, chronic pain, gastrointestinal,
respiratory, allergy and dermatology.
Dr. Sligh is returning to CTIS, Inc. where she previously served
as the Chief Medical/Strategy Officer as an architect for CTRM,
TrialBridge and other strategies.
Dr. Sligh is board eligible in Internal Medicine Research Path,
having trained in Internal Medicine at Presbyterian Hospital of
Dallas, Texas, and received her
M.D. degree from Texas A&M College of Medicine. She completed
graduate work in protease enzymology and received her Bachelor of
Science degree in biochemistry from the University of New Mexico.
Initially as a biochemist, Dr. Sligh conducted basic research in
metabolism, molecular and cellular biology. She subsequently worked
as a medicinal biochemist in the analysis, characterization,
manufacturing and quality of pharmaceuticals. Later she
transitioned into clinical research serving as a drug development
lead, CRA, IRB member, regulatory, quality and subject matter
expert. In the past 20 years, Dr. Sligh has served as principal
investigator on more than 450 clinical trials of biologics,
pharmaceuticals, apheresis, cell therapies, devices, implantables,
digital technologies (ingestible, wearable and handheld), real
world, nutraceuticals and multidisciplinary therapies.
During her recent 10 year service as a board member for a
publicly-held corporation, Dr. Sligh's vision leadership resulted
in the re-focusing and transformation of a blood bank company into
a niche supplier in the bioresearch space providing cGMP compliant
cell collections for emerging markets in cell therapy. This
internal startup was grown from $0
revenue in 2011 to $20.2M revenue in
2017 with no debt or dilution yielding a 2017 gross profit of
53%.
Dr. Sligh dedicates her efforts to evangelizing and improving
clinical research as well as to providing free medical care to
underserved populations.
- Mr. Bill Yarnoff, Executive Vice
President of Growth
Mr. Bill Yarnoff, joins CTIS,
Inc. as the Executive Vice President of Growth. Mr. Yarnoff, is a
veteran of the technology marketplace, having held executive
positions with numerous solution providers to the federal
government. He has held leadership roles in direct sales, sales
support, strategic partnership and alliance development,
go-to-market strategy formulation, project and portfolio
management, corporate branding, training, and related initiatives.
Most recently, Bill led the formation and launch of the ACEL360
accelerator for Federal Government contractors. Prior to that, he
launched the Meridian International Institute, the
revenue-generating arm of the Meridian Global Leadership Institute.
At Meridian, Bill oversaw the development of a multi-module
professional development program. He was also responsible for
creating pipelines of high-value prospects, negotiating strategic
agreements with partners, developing a professional faculty, and
formulating an e-learning strategy. Bill holds an undergraduate
degree from the College of William and
Mary; he also attended the Professional Studies Program at
the University of Virginia.
SOURCE CTIS, Inc.