New seats underscore organization’s commitment to bioscience firms and venture capital/investors

BioMed SA, the non-profit organization charged with promoting San Antonio's healthcare and bioscience industry, has re-elected officers for 2010 and expanded its Executive Committee to 19 members by adding an additional seat for bioscience firms and a new seat for venture capital/investors.

The two new seats will be held respectively by Dr. Ze’ev Shaked, CEO of Evestra, Inc., and by Dr. Paul Castella, managing general partner of Incyte Venture Partners.  Other newly elected Executive Committee members in 2010 are Graham Reeve, president and CEO of the Baptist Health System, and Dr. Todd Fruchterman, KCI senior vice president of research and development, chief technology officer and chief medical officer. 

These four new members join returning Executive Committee members Henry Cisneros, Dr. Steven Davis, Dr. Brian Herman, Dr. Robert Gracy, Dr. Louis Agnese, Dr. Bruce Leslie, Kevin Moriarty, Kenneth Trevett, Elaine Mendoza, Milton Lee, and Col. Mary Ann McAfee, along with ex officio members Mayor Julian Castro, Judge Nelson Wolff, Richard Perez, and John Wisniewski.  (Please see below for a complete list of these individuals and the sectors they represent.)

Re-elected as officers for 2010 are Henry Cisneros, Chair; Dr. Brian Herman, Vice Chair; and Richard Perez, Secretary/Treasurer.

ABOUT BIOMED SA
BioMed SA is a non-profit, membership-based organization, supported in part by Bexar County and the City of San Antonio.  Its mission is to organize and promote San Antonio’s healthcare and biosciences assets to accelerate growth of the sector and enhance San Antonio’s reputation as a City of Science and Health. The city’s healthcare and bioscience industry has added approximately 23,000 net new jobs over the past decade, significantly fueling San Antonio’s growth and employing one out of every seven members of the city’s workforce. As America’s seventh largest city, San Antonio is a community that embraces science and medicine. Its vibrant health care and bioscience industry, a dominant force in the city’s economy with an annual economic impact exceeding $16 billion, combines unique assets and a diversity of resources with a collaborative spirit that is making a global impact on science and health.

From the BioMed SA Website: www.biomedsa.org/leadership

2010 BioMed SA Officers
-Henry Cisneros, Chair   Executive Chairman, City View (Community at Large)
-Dr. Brian Herman, Vice Chair  Vice President for Research, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio (Health Science Centers)
-Richard Perez, Secretary/Treasurer  President, Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce (Ex officio with vote)

BioMed SA Executive Committee

-Dr. Louis Agnese, President, University of the Incarnate Word (Private Universities & Colleges)
-Dr. Paul Castella, Managing General Partner, Incyte Venture Partners (Venture Capital/Investors)
-Dr. Steven A. Davis, Dermatology & Laser Center of San Antonio (Physicians and Physician Groups)
-Dr. Todd Fruchterman, Senior VP of Research and Development, Chief -Technology Officer and Chief Medical Officer, Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (Bioscience Firms)
-Dr. Robert Gracy, Vice President of Research, University of Texas at San Antonio (Public Universities & Colleges)
-Milton Lee, CEO, CPS Energy (Community At Large)
-Dr. Bruce Leslie, Chancellor, Alamo Colleges (Community Colleges)
-Col. Mary Ann McAfee, Deputy Commander for Clinical Services, Brooke Army Medical Center (US Military Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations)
-Elaine Mendoza, President & CEO, Conceptual MindWorks, Inc. (Any Category other than Military)
-Kevin Moriarty, President and CEO, Methodist Healthcare Ministries (Associations & Foundations)
-Graham Reeve, President & CEO, Baptist Health System (Hospitals and Specialty Providers)
-Dr. Ze’ev Shaked, President & CEO, Evestra, Inc. (Bioscience Firms)
-Kenneth Trevett, President, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (Research Organizations)
-Mayor Julian Castro, City of San Antonio (Ex officio with vote)
-Judge Nelson Wolff, Bexar County (Ex officio with vote)
-John Wisniewski, CEO & Executive Director, Bexar County Medical Society (Ex-officio with vote)