Dr. Janos Szenohradszky, Senior Advisor

Prof. Szenohradszky is an Associate Professor of Research at the Department of Anesthesiology at the Keck School of Medicine (KSoM) at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. He is engaged in clinical research involving medical students, anesthesiology residents, research assistants, associates and faculty members. He prepares the students and residents for their annual meetings: Medical Student Research Forum & Poster Day at the KSoM of USC, and Western Anesthesia Residents Conference (WARC). He serves as a scientific judge on a regular basis at those meetings. Dr. Szenohradszki attended the Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Medical University of Szeged, Hungary (1957-1963), where he received his M.D. degree. He completed the surgery and anesthesiology residency training in 1964-1967, and in 1968-1972, respectively. He is a board certified surgeon (1967) and anesthesiologist (1972). He was a former interim chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive therapy at the above university (1986-1989). He was Senior House Officer at Killingback Hospital and Regional Center, and Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Leeds, Great Britain (1970-71). He was Visiting Research Fellow in Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York in 1982. Dr. Szenohradszki received his Ph.D. at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1989 on Sympatholytic Treatment of Paralytic Ileus.

By invitation, he was Visiting, then Assistant Clinical Professor at the Department of Anesthesiology at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) 1990 March – 1996 November. Since 1996 December he has been working at USC and at Los Angeles County+University of Southern California (LAC+USC) Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. During his research career, he was engaged mainly in Phase II and Phase III clinical-pharmacology studies of new, investigational drugs in humans. He has contributed in developing new non-depolarizing neuromuscular relaxant drugs both in Hungary and in the United States (Vecuronium, Pipecuronium, Atracurium and Rocuronium). These drugs are used during surgical general anesthesia and intensive therapy in operating rooms and in intensive care units. He has contributed in writing 46 original papers in peer reviewed scientific journals and 72 abstracts. Dr. Szenohradszki has presented 142 lectures at national and international conferences, and has written four book chapters. He organized and actively participated in the Hungarian national and international annual anesthesiology congresses four times (Budapest, Balatonfured, Szeged, Debrecen), involving world-known experts from the Department of Anesthesiology of USC, Los Angeles. He initiated the Difficult Airway Symposia in Hungary and organized the hands-on, one-on-one, ultrasound guided central venous cannulation workshops with portable devices in many stations simultaneously. He actively participated in organizing the Society for Complex Acute Illness (SCAI) international meeting in Budapest, 2013 (the first SCAI meeting in Hungary). He is a head of a lovely three  member family. His hobbies include: photography, soccer, classical music (play piano and organ) and traveling.

Tibor Farkas, Advisory Board Member

Over forty three years of rocket propulsion and Auxiliary Power Unit Subsystem (APUS) engineering experience, covering all phases from concept to production, flight test and operations support.

Subsystem Manager on the Space Shuttle Orbiter APUS with technical lead of a nationwide group of analysis, design, development and testing engineers. For several years acted as the Single Point of Contact to Boeing and NASA Management for all APUS related issues, including ground and flight performance monitoring, failure investigation, problem resolution and improvement redesign.  He initiated proposal activity for the new technology Electric APU (EAPUS), a major improvement program, at that time one of the top potential improvements on NASA’s list for the Orbiter.

Spent many years as a Propulsion System Development Engineer on the Command and Service Modules for the Apollo moon-landing program and followed the flight program through its completion.

He served as a design engineer on the hydrazine propulsion system for the Minuteman III long range Ballistic Missile.

Spent many months at rocket and space vehicle test and launch sites, supporting Apollo, Minuteman, and Space Shuttle Flights. Holds patents for Fluid Leakage Detector for Vacuum Applications; for the Shuttle Orbiter´s APU replacement with a Contingency Hydraulic APU (CHPU), and the Advanced Multipurpose Ballistic Blanket for space and commercial applications.

Post retirement, consulted on a commercial satellite hydrazine reaction control system thruster failure at a commercial space satellite manufacturer.

Recipient of the prestigious Astronaut Snoopy Award, and many other performance awards on the aforementioned Programs.

Holds a BS in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Northrop Institute of Technology. Completed all course requirements for MSMBA at California State University at Long Beach. Published technical papers, as well as a family history book in Hungary.