John Zaleski, PhD, CPHIMS is Vice President of Clinical Applications and CTO at Nuvon. A renowned leader in the biomedical informatics and health care technology industries, Dr. Zaleski brings more than 23 years of experience in researching and bringing to market devices and products to improve health care. Dr. Zaleski has a particular expertise in designing, developing, and implementing clinical and non-clinical point of care applications for hospital enterprises.

Dr. Zaleski holds four issued patents related to medical device interoperability, as well as more than 50 patent disclosures applied for and/or pending. He is the author of numerous articles on information technology and medical devices, and wrote the first book published on integrating medical device data into electronic health records.

Dr. Zaleski holds a PhD in Biomedical Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University. He is certified through the Health Information Management Systems Society (CPHIMS). He has a Quality and Regulatory Training Certificate and a Clinical Workflow Training Certification from Siemens Medical Solutions USA. He also holds Data Warehousing and Design Certification from the Data Warehousing Institute. Additionally, Dr. Zaleski is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).

Prior to joining Nuvon, Dr. Zaleski most recently served as senior director and research department head of Biomedical Informatics for Philips Research North America. In this role, he oversaw more than 20 researchers and clinicians to manage the company’s global research portfolio in biomedical informatics. He also had responsibility for a $6+ million project portfolio and departmental budget focused primarily upon acute care patient monitoring informatics, oncology informatics, imaging informatics and women’s health, and genomics and biomarkers.

Dr. Zaleski’s role at Philips Research was that of a visionary, establishing new methodologies and creating integrated laboratory and test environments to validate and address hazards associated with the use of new technologies for major product release.

Previously, at Siemens Health Services USA, where he held several titles over an eight year period, Dr. Zaleski brought medical device information technology products from concept to general commercial availability in the medical/surgical space. He also developed and managed new product lines from concept through FDA approval and market realization, including Siemens Health Services’ first Class II medical device for bedside vitals collection in medical surgical wards. Additionally, he managed the critical care product line with budgets and product sales of more than $10 million. While with Siemens, he was one of two employees named “Principal Expert” out of an organization of more than 3,000 employees, and was awarded “Innovator of the Year” three times in the seven years the program existed.

Before joining Siemens, Dr. Zaleski spent 10 years with Lockheed Martin, where he directed a team of more than 20 research and development and performance engineering personnel. As Chief Architect, he coordinated information mining and research development activities. There, Dr. Zaleski was instrumental in raising customer confidence and ensuring two major customer contract wins totaling more than $100 million.

Zaleski began a career in medical device connectivity while earning his PhD in Biomedical Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Through conducting clinical trials at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, he developed a post-operative decision support method for weaning coronary artery bypass graft patients from mechanical ventilation.

Prior to his career in health care technology, Dr. Zaleski worked as member of the technical staff for Nichols Research Corporation, as the key technical contact for airborne electro optical sensor systems.