Dr. Stephen R. Ash is co-founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Director, Research and Development of HemoCleanse since its inception and holds the same positions with Ash Access Technology, Inc., a HemoCleanse spin-off.
Since 1975 he has been a practicing physician in Internal Medicine and Nephrology at Clarian-Arnett Health, Lafayette, Indiana. Credited with implementing dialysis in the community, he is Director of Dialysis at Wellbound, Inc. of Lafayette. He is also an adjunct Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, and a Clinical Associate Professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Dr. Ash is the author of over 30 U.S. patents, over 100 publications and 15 text book chapters in the areas of hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, vascular access devices, extracorporeal medical devices, computerized medical charting, and sorbent chemicals. He is Past-President of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) and a Founding Member of the American Society for Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN). |