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As of the closing, Gilbert R. Kaats, PhD became Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Dr. Kaats has a PhD in behavioral psychology and is currently the executive director of Health and Medical Research Center, an independent research entity that conducts clinical trials and provides consulting for health-enhancing products and technologies for the health care and nutritional supplement industries. Grantors for these studies have included some of the largest nutritional and dietary supplement companies in the world, at least one of which has commissioned a 10-year longitudinal trial. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Kaats has developed networking relationships with many companies and individuals that will enhance his contributions to the Company into which the Research Center is merging, with respect to the Healthcare and Nutrition Industries
Working with a team of investigators from leading universities and research organizations, the Center has conducted over 40,000 body composition (% fat) and bone density tests using the latest and most accurate scientific technologies. The Research Center’s database now contains body composition measurements from Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) on over 19,000 study participants of all ages from virtually every state in the Union, as well as from five Canadian Provinces.
In addition to his research background, Dr. Kaats served in the United States Air Force from 1954 until he retired as Lieutenant Colonel in 1974. While in the Air Force, Dr. Kaats received a B.A. in psychology, with High Honors, from the University of Maryland in 1964; an M.A. in psychology from George Washington University in 1965; and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Colorado in 1969.
During his 20-year military career, he served for five years on the Presidential Flight as a navigator on Air Force Two and subsequently as an associate professor and Director of Research at the Air Force Academy. During the Viet Nam conflict, he served as a combat crew navigator and received the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters. He completed his career on a General Officer's staff where he was responsible for the development and supervision of the Air Force’s programs for equal opportunity and treatment, race relations, rehabilitation of substance abusers, training of substance abuse counselors, and other behavior modification programs. A highly decorated officer, Dr. Kaats has, from the beginning of his Air Force career, occupied positions of leadership and management that have provided him with experiences that are relevant to both the business and scientific worlds. | 