Harvard Clinical Research Institute CEO and leadership

Bob Loeb MBA is a Chief Financial Officer at Harvard Clinical Research Institute and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has worked as Director of Lodging and Resort Operations Revenue Accounting at Copper Mountain, Business Manager at Atrius Health, and Fiscal Director at Harbor Health Services Inc. Bob studied at Bentley University and Syracuse University Martin J. Whitman School of Management.

Dr. Rick Kuntz is Senior Vice President, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of Medtronic and serves as a member of the Company’s Executive Committee. In this role, Kuntz oversees the company’s medical affairs, health policy and reimbursement, clinical research activities, and corporate technology.

Kuntz joined Medtronic in October 2005, as Senior Vice President and President of Medtronic Neuromodulation, which encompasses the company’s products and therapies used in the treatment of chronic pain, movement disorders, spasticity, overactive bladder and urinary retention, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and gastroparesis. In this role he was responsible for the research, development, operations and product sales and marketing for each of these therapeutic areas worldwide.

Kuntz brings to Medtronic a broad background and expertise in many different areas of healthcare. Prior to Medtronic he was the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute (HCRI), a university-based contract research organization which coordinates National Institutes of Health (NIH) and industry clinical trials with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Kuntz has directed over 100 multicenter clinical trials and has authored more than 250 original publications. His major interests are traditional and alternative clinical trial design and biostatistics.

Kuntz also served as Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Clinical Biometrics, and an interventional cardiologist in the division of cardiovascular diseases at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. Kuntz has served as a member of the Board of Governors of PCORI (Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute) since it was established in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act.

Kuntz graduated from Miami University, and received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He completed his residency and chief residency in internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, and then completed fellowships in cardiovascular diseases and interventional cardiology at the Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Kuntz received his Master’s of science in biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Chief Operating Officer at Baim Institute for Clinical Research. Director, Cardiovascular Imaging Core Laboratory. Cardiovascular Division. Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Kathleen Warner PhD CPM is a Partner Director Consulting Services Life Sciences at CGI; Vice President, Consulting Services at RCM TECHNOLOGIES INC.; and VP Information Technology, CIO at Harvard Clinical Research Institute and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts. She has worked as VP Project and Program Management Practice at USDM Life Sciences; Vice President, Strategic Business Development at Taratec; and Sr. Principal Consultant at RCM TECHNOLOGIES INC.. Kathleen works or has worked as LabAnswer BU Senior Manager at LabAnswer. She studied at Capella University between 2002 and 2005 and Lesley University between 1986 and 1988.

Dr. Rick Kuntz is Senior Vice President, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of Medtronic and serves as a member of the Company’s Executive Committee. In this role, Kuntz oversees the company’s medical affairs, health policy and reimbursement, clinical research activities, and corporate technology.

Kuntz joined Medtronic in October 2005, as Senior Vice President and President of Medtronic Neuromodulation, which encompasses the company’s products and therapies used in the treatment of chronic pain, movement disorders, spasticity, overactive bladder and urinary retention, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and gastroparesis. In this role he was responsible for the research, development, operations and product sales and marketing for each of these therapeutic areas worldwide.

Kuntz brings to Medtronic a broad background and expertise in many different areas of healthcare. Prior to Medtronic he was the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute (HCRI), a university-based contract research organization which coordinates National Institutes of Health (NIH) and industry clinical trials with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Kuntz has directed over 100 multicenter clinical trials and has authored more than 250 original publications. His major interests are traditional and alternative clinical trial design and biostatistics.

Kuntz also served as Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Clinical Biometrics, and an interventional cardiologist in the division of cardiovascular diseases at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. Kuntz has served as a member of the Board of Governors of PCORI (Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute) since it was established in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act.

Kuntz graduated from Miami University, and received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He completed his residency and chief residency in internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, and then completed fellowships in cardiovascular diseases and interventional cardiology at the Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Kuntz received his Master’s of science in biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health.