Directors Mr. Pablo Garcia Co-Director & Chief Technical Officer Dr. Sanjeev Dutta Co-Director & Chief Medical Officer Advisory Board Dr. Ross Jaffe Managing Director, Versant Ventures Mr. Tad Simons Principal, Health & Wellness Practice, IDEO Dr. Paul Yock Co-Chair, Stanford University School of Medicine, Bioengineering Dr. Tom Krummel Emile Holman Prof. of Surgery & Chairman of Dept. of Surgery at Stanford, Director Surgical Innovation Program Mr. Stephen Thao Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP Dr. Michael Patton Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Patton Surgical Dr. Stefan Kraemer Formerly of Endogastric Solutions

We are an experienced, passionate team operating in the heart of Silicon Valley, equipped with the clinical, technical, and business backgrounds that enable us to make a positive difference in pediatric device development.

SRI International is an established leader in technology innovation with a tradition of bringing important medical innovations to market — from surgical robotics to ultrasound imaging — through a systematic commercialization process. The Stanford University School of Medicine is a recognized leader in clinical care, research, and innovation, with special emphasis on pediatric medical care through the Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital. The MISTRAL consortium fosters innovation by allowing clinicians and engineers to work together on important clinical problems with a focus on hands-on development. Since its inception, the initiative has expanded beyond surgery to address areas such as gastrointestinal endoscopy, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and information technology.

MISTRAL Pediatric is led by co-directors Sanjeev Dutta, MD, of the Stanford School of Medicine, and Pablo Garcia of SRI International. The consortium Advisory Board consists of clinicians, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders with extensive experience in medical device development.

Pablo Garcia, MISTRAL Co-Director and Chief Technical Officer. Mr. Garcia is a principal engineer at SRI International, leading research in medical robotics and medical systems at SRI's Medical Automation and Robotics Laboratory. He has directed numerous telemedicine and robotic surgery projects applications, including the development of a microsurgery robot and research into a robotic laser tissue-welding platform for ophthalmic surgery. Recently, he developed a telementoring platform for surgical procedures that was deployed with U.S. forces in Iraq.

Mr. Garcia was the principal investigator for the Trauma Pod project, a $12M project funded by the U.S. Department of Defense that focused on enabling better diagnostics and medical care in the battlefield. He has also led various complex biomedical device developments such as an apheresis machine and micro-dispensing of fluids for high-throughput screening. His research interests include medical devices, surgical robots, and minimally invasive tools.

Mr. Garcia holds an MS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and a BS in mechanical engineering from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid, Spain. He holds six U.S. patents and has several patents pending related to medical technologies.

Dr. Sanjeev Dutta, MD, MISTRAL Co-Director and Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Dutta is assistant professor of surgery and pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine and an attending surgeon at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. He is board-certified in both general and pediatric surgery. Dr. Dutta completed medical school at the University of Calgary, followed by a general surgery residency at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, a fellowship in laparoendoscopic surgery at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and a fellowship in pediatric surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. He also holds an MA in education from the University of Illinois.

Dr. Dutta is a nationally recognized leader in minimal access surgery and emerging surgical technologies, having pioneered a number of surgical procedures and defining the area of stealth surgery, a “scarless” approach to pediatric operations. He is the first surgeon to describe single-incision laparoscopic surgery for complex abdominal operations in children, and the first to describe a transaxillary subcutaneous endoscopic approach for removal of benign neck lesions to avoid neck scarring. Dr. Dutta recently received the prestigious Harman Faculty Fellows Grant, a career development award given to promising young faculty by the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.