Antonios Michalos
Antonios (Tony) Michalos is the Executive Associate Director of the Health Care Engineering Systems Center and the primary liaison between the Grainger College of Engineering and the Jump ARCHES endowment. He is also an adjunct professor in Biological Physics at the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and a clinical assistant professor at the Department of Medicine-Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.
Dr. Michalos holds a doctorate in medicine from the University of Catania School of Medicine and Surgery in Catania, Italy, and an MS in Physiology from the Department of Physiology and Biophysics of the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Prior to joining HCESC, he was the Deputy Director of Strategic Healthcare IT Advanced Research Projects on Security (SHARPS), Deputy Director of the Health Information Technology Center (HITC), and the Acting Associate Director of the Information Trust Institute (ITI), at the University of Illinois.
Dr. Michalos is the former Director of Medical Research at ISS Inc., a world leader in biomedical instrumentation research and development and in translation and commercialization of biomedical optical technologies. He was the Principal Investigator of a Phase III Clinical trial, which was supported through a NIH/NINDS, and a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant aiming to advance near-infrared technology and the translation and commercialization of developed instrumentation in sleep medicine and in cardiovascular and brain vascular diagnostics.
He is also a former senior research scientist of the Laboratory of Fluorescence Dynamics (LFD) in the Department of Physics, an adjunct senior research scientist in Mechanical Science and Engineering, and a visiting scientist at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology of the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. He is also is a former research scientist and research instructor at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Michalos is experienced in biomedical R&D, and has extensive training and involvement in conducting, supervising, and managing multi-institutional interdisciplinary research. He has been the administrative and scientific liaison for many applications of emerging technologies in clinical research settings.