Retired Army Physician Dean Calcagni Joins Foster-Miller as Medical Director
17 June 2005 09:05
Foster-Miller, Inc., announced today that Dr. Dean E. Calcagni has joined the senior staff as Director of Medical and Life Sciences Applications. Dr. Calcagni recently retired after 26 years as a U.S. Army physician.
Over the past several years, Foster-Miller has greatly expanded its medical and life sciences business area. It now serves a broad client base of leading commercial customers as well as the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense. Dr. Calcagni will lead the further expansion of this business area, particularly in light of the many new, groundbreaking technologies now available to Foster-Miller through its parent company, QinetiQ. Dr. Calcagni will also bring his extensive medical R&D experience to the direct management of key product developments.
“Dr. Calcagni’s addition to our staff underscores Foster-Miller’s major commitment to further development of its strong medical business,” said Foster-Miller President and CEO Dr. William Ribich. “He brings an experience and reputation in the medical development field that will be instrumental in our continued growth.”
Dr. Calcagni was the Deputy Director of the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) which is part of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC). TATRC is a unique medical informatics organization that is involved in all aspects of research, development, and evaluation of new medical advanced technology for the betterment of medical care for soldiers and all DOD beneficiaries.
As a board certified anesthesiologist, Dr. Calcagni maintained a clinical practice part time at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and was an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He has served as a reviewer for the American Medical Informatics Association and on the Source Evaluation Board for National Institute of Standards and Technology for their Advanced Technology Program Competition in Healthcare Informatics Infrastructure.
Prior to that, Dr. Calcagni was Director of the Combat Casualty Research Program at USAMRMC and Chief of the Anesthesia and Operative Service, 5th General Hospital, Bad Canstatt, Germany.
Dr. Calcagni is a Distinguished Military Graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Biology and received his M.D. from the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in anesthesiology at the Letterman Army Medical Center and a Critical Care research fellowship at the Stanford University Medical Center.
Foster-Miller, Inc., is an engineering, development and manufacturing company located in suburban Boston, MA, with additional offices in Albany, NY and Washington, DC. It became an independent, wholly owned subsidiary of QinetiQ Inc., in November, 2004. The firm was founded almost 50 years ago by three graduates of MIT who believed there was a need for a company that could solve clients’ difficult technical problems through first-class analysis and design.
The company maintains a staff of more than 300 mechanical, electrical, thermal, chemical, nuclear, aerospace, software and materials engineers as well as metallurgists, physicists, mathematicians, chemists, biologists and support staff working in the areas of robotics, advanced materials, aerospace, homeland security, power systems, biotechnology, medical and life sciences, and transportation.
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