Vice President, R&D, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Jim Hughes became Vice President of Research and Development for the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) in December 2001. UMB’s nationally prominent schools of dentistry, law, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and social work make it one of the top ten public academic healthcare centers in the country. Mr. Hughes’ office is responsible for expanding and administering sponsored research and technology commercialization at UMB. He is also leading UMB’s efforts to develop the UMB Bio Park, an ten-acre, one million square-foot research park that will employ over 2500 people. Prior to joining UMB, Mr. Hughes worked for the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED) for six years, most recently as director of Technology and International Business. He led DBED’s efforts to recruit foreign-based businesses and technology-driven businesses to locate facilities in Maryland. Mr. Hughes has an MBA from the Columbia Business School and a BA from Davidson College.
One big East Coast pharmaceutical firm abandoned work on a hepatitis C drug this week, while another shuttered a young company that had cost it $720 million to acquire. But new ideas continue to burst forth, and investors pitched in $20 million for another hopeful startup.
The Connecticut company that figured out how to make a recombinant flu vaccine is now trying to invent a marketing strategy for it. And in New Jersey, one of the biggest sources of marketing data for drug companies snapped up a startup that helps organize all that information.
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Director, Center of Connected Health, Adventist Healthcare
Arumani Manisundaram is founding Director for the Center for Connected Health at Adventist HealthCare, based in Rockville, Maryland. Manisundaram’s strategic vision has led the development of Adventist HealthCare’s HIE, an IT advancement that securely connects both hospital and office-based care environments, and the organization’s Ambulatory Care EHR Support Program (ACES), which has propelled the adoption of EHR systems by more than 300 community medical providers in Maryland. He was previously a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton as Program Manager for the National Cancer Institute’s caGRID (cancer grid). He currently serves on the MSO Advisory Board and Telehealth Advisory Group for the Maryland HealthCare Commission.
