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Colin B. McKay, Ph.D., is President and founder of Smilex. Dr. McKay leads the development and design of each interactive multimedia product at Smilex. He has 23 years experience in teaching, research and creating interactive design and database applications for biophysical image analysis, interactive simulation, behavioral-change, and technology-based training in the medical community. Colin received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland in 1973. After serving as a Physics instructor at John Curtin University in Perth, Australia, he returned to Europe where he earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Compiègne, France. Colin came to the United States in 1980. After completing postdoctoral training at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in Los Angeles, Dr. McKay was a Senior Research Scientist in the medical school of Columbia University/Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. From there Dr. McKay came to the Rice University Department of Biomedical Engineering as a Senior Research Scientist. Dr. McKay subsequently served as the multimedia project manager on a major educational museum project, funded by NASA, at the Department of Space Physics and Astronomy at Rice. The resulting multimedia exhibit, called "Space Update", was an innovative web-based multimedia program which established a model for public information dissemination that is being replicated in schools and museums nationally. It is on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and other national science museums. | 