Claritas Announces Addition of Perenlei Enkhbaatar, M.D., Ph.D., FAHA to the Company’s Board of Directors - Seite 2

Dr. Enkhbaatar currently serves as the Charles Robert Allen Professor and the Director of the Translational Intensive Care Unit in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Texas Galveston Medical Branch.

Following his medical training at the University of Saint Petersburg in Russia, Dr. Enkhbaatar served as a Senior Lieutenant physician in the Mongolian Army. He went on to receive his Ph.D. at Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in Japan. He then undertook his post-doctoral training in the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, under the mentorship of the late Professor Daniel Traber, the foremost authority over the last fifty years on the pathophysiology of acute lung injury. Upon Dr. Traber’s death, Dr. Enkhbaatar assumed the leadership of the research unit in Galveston and has further expanded its research prominence in the development of effective therapeutic approaches with special emphasis on tissue regeneration and stem cell biology.

For the past 25 years, Dr. Enkhbaatar has played a leading role in the elucidation of basic mechanisms of disease in acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome secondary to pneumonia, sepsis, toxic gas inhalation, and thermal injury associated with smoke inhalation. He has been at the forefront of pioneering therapeutic approaches to counter reactive oxidative and nitrosative stress. In recognition of these advances in the medical science of acute lung injury, Dr. Enkhbaatar has been awarded numerous federal grants, including funding from the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, the Department of Defense, Shriners of North America, and the Office of Naval Research. His research advances have been presented at international conferences and in the publication of more than three hundred abstracts, one hundred and fifty-four original manuscripts in leading peer-reviewed journals, and twelve book chapters.

In recognition of his contributions to the field of cytokine storm induced acute lung injury, Dr. Enkhbaatar has been selected to serve on the Editorial Boards of leading journals in the fields of trauma and acute lung injury, including Critical Care Medicine, Shock, and Burn & Trauma, and has been invited to join numerous professional societies, including the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American Burn Association, the Shock Society, the American Thoracic Society, the American Physiological Society, the American Heart Association, the Surgical Infection Society, and the Royal Society of Medicine.