Our Team

Where Speed, Efficiency, & Accuracy Align

Our team includes experts in science, engineering, business, and medicine, with specific experience in medical device development, clinical research, supply chain logistics, and many other critical fields. Ongoing partnerships with outside consultancies have allowed us to build a strong infrastructure of regulatory compliance, quality management, and usability research.

Executive Team

Nelson Patterson
President & CEO

Nelson is an experienced medical device development and launch executive whose past work includes roles at P&G, SonoSite, Baxter, Exokinetics, Aerogen, and HealthySole.

Barry Lutz, PhD
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer

Robert Atkinson
Co-Founder & Chief of Innovation & Technology

Robert worked at Microsoft for more than 20 years starting in the late ‘80s and has been issued over 60 patents. He is currently a PhD candidate in Bioengineering at the University of Washington under Prof. Barry Lutz.

Minh Duong
Co-Founder & Chief Engineer

Prior to his work in launching Anavasi Diagnostics, Minh co-founded and has served as the engineering team lead at Simplexity Product Development, contributing to the development of products for over 30 companies in various industries.

Michael Blaivas, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer

Michael is a practicing emergency department physician with over 230 peer reviewed publications. He has experience in business, regulatory/compliance, product development, clinical trial design and innovation.

Guy Ellis
Chief Operating Officer

Guy Ellis is an experienced operations executive who has worked in diverse areas such as a healthcare non-profit (Global Health Labs), and investment firm targeting new inventions (Intellectual Ventures Management), and a major IT powerhouse (Cisco).

Scott Hales
Chief Financial Officer

Scott will help form strategic partnerships and raise needed capital as Anavasi moves to the commercialization phase of the AscencioDx platform launch following EUA clearance.