OUR TEAM
Our team is comprised of the top leaders in the Sleep Industry. With our national and international collaborators, SHUSH™ leverages Real-Time Sleep and our SaaS solution to advance sleep research, awareness, management, and help improve health and wellness with a scientifically-validated and sleep-centric focus.
-MEET OUR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LEADERS-
Luis Pichard, MHS, PhD
Co-Founder
As an experienced principal investigator, project manager, innovator, and entrepreneur, Dr. Pichard has a successful track record of overseeing projects in academia, the military, and the private sector. He has a background in Neurophysiology, Environmental Health Physiology and Toxicology, and holds over two decades of active research in the field of sleep science. With his passion for big data and innovation, he has teamed-up with the top leaders in their fields; dedicated researchers, entrepreneurs, and professionals with a variety of expertise to launch SHUSH Performance Technologies, Inc. Dr. Pichard
holds both his Masters and P.h.D in Neurophysiology from
the Johns Hopkins University. He has won two National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine Fellowships for Sleep and Performance.
Michael Schreiber
Co-Founder and CTO
Through methodical, analytical, and objective analysis of data, Michael provides invaluable vision to help solve technological problems and provides insight into efficiency based group dynamics. After successfully launching his first startup, Model Analytics LLC, Michael was recruited for a Senior Software Engineering position at CyberPoint International. To date, Michael has worked with the intelligence communities, used web and mobile technologies to deploy end-user solutions, and helped transform disparate data into a conglomerate of useful data tools producing significant positive financial impact to clients and world markets. Michael obtained his degrees in Information Science and Technology and Meteorology from Penn State University in 2005.
Alan R. Schwartz, MD
Alan Schwartz, MD, is a retired Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and directed the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center, the Sleep Medicine Fellowship Training Program and the Center for Interdisciplinary Sleep Research and Education for many years. Dr. Schwartz graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, and fellowship in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He has investigated mechanisms of sleep disordered breathing with a special emphasis on novel approaches to the diagnosis and management of this disorder. He is an author of approximately 160 articles and three patents, and is an established investigator with a long track record in NIH and industry sponsored research studies. He has helped to foster the careers of numerous trainees through the years, while exploring the mechanisms and impact of sleep disordered breathing across a broad range of clinical and societal outcomes. Dr. Schwartz is currently focused on applying low- and high-tech solutions to sleep and breathing disorders to patients and populations in both the developed and developing world.
Eric Prager
Senior Advisor
Eric has over 12 years of Business Development and Strategy experience in the Medical Device Industry with Boston Scientific. He was promoted to their East Zone Solutions & Partnerships, Structural Heart, Interventional Cardiology role. In this newly created role, his focus is their suite of Solutions & Partnerships including: Ask Angie, Wellframe, IRCoder, ControlRad, HealthReveal, and Siemens Healthineers. Within Boston Scientific he won the President Club award, Top Sales Growth award, Top Sales Revenue award, and ranked first in the U.S. for new product launches in Interventional Cardiology. Prior to Boston Scientific, Eric represented spine sales at Depuy Spine (Johnson & Johnson) where he won 2 President Clubs, and #1 in the US Sales awards. Eric is a graduate of the George Washington University with a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology, and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Appalachian State University.
Daneil Perérz Chada, MD
Dr. Daniel Pérez Chada graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires in 1975. He was resident and chief of residents in the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. From 1980 to 1982 he was a research fellow at the Nuffield Department of Anesthetics, University of Oxford. Subsequently, he was appointed Honorary Senior Registrar at the Nuffield Department of Anesthetics. After returning to Argentina, he was appointed to the Hospital de Clínicas, University Hospital of the University of Buenos Aires, and after at María Ferrer Hospital, Ministry of Health. In 1991, the British Council granted him to return temporarily to Oxford. Since 1996, he devoted most of his interest to the field of breathing disorders during sleep, with special interest in the impact of fatigue and excessive daytime sleepiness as a cause of traffic accidents. Dr. Chada has participated and conducted large epidemiological surveys to assess the impact of sleepiness in traffic accidents as well as the influence of sleep habits in adolescent’s academic performance. He received grants from the United Nations Development Program, the Ministry of Health (Argentina) and the National Research Agency. He is currently Head of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine at the Austral University Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences of the Austral University in Buenos Aires.