Meet Our Team

Scientific Advisory Board:

Sanjay Misra, MD, FSIR, FAHA, FACR:

Founder of PAVAJ Vascular, Dr. Misra is a Professor of Radiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He has more than two decades of experience with clinical, research, and trial design in hemodialysis, with over $10M in NIH peer-reviewed grants.

Aaron Miller, MBA:

CEO of PAVAJ Vascular, Aaron has over 25 years of commercial experience in Pharma, Med Device and BioTech Start-ups. 

Clinical Advisory Board:

Adam Berman:

CEO, Alleviant Medical; Former CEO and Co-Founder, TVA Medical (acquired by Becton, Dickenson & Co.); Mr. Berman sits on several advisory boards of medical startup device companies.

Dheeraj Rajan, MD, FRCPC, FSIR, FACR:

Dr. Rajan is a Professor of Radiology at the University of Toronto with experience in GLP and first in human work. He has experience with four medical company device exits, including TVA, and is a member of several advisory boards of medical device companies.

Mahmood K. Razavi, MD, MS, FSIR, FSVM:

Dr. Razavi is the co-founder of four medical device companies with a total exit valuation of over $600M, including Trivascular and Neuravi, and has served on the board of directors and the scientific and strategic advisory boards of over 40 device and biotechnology companies.

Elazer R. Edelman, MD, PHD,

Dr. Edelman is Professor in Medical Engineering and Science at MIT, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a cardiac intensive care unit cardiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). His research interests meld his medical and scientific training leveraging pathophysiologic insight to improve clinical decision-making, materials:tissue biology and device design. More than 380 students and fellows have passed through Edelman’s laboratory publishing over 900 scientific articles and 90 patents that have been the basis of many companies and clinical products.

Denise Rivkees, PHD,

Denise is a pharmacist and pharmaceutical scientist with extensive experience in dosage form design, process development, and manufacturing with focus on dispersed drug delivery systems and experience in sterile products.