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Harry R. Jacobson M.D.

Chairman of the Board, CeloNova Biosciences, Inc.

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Dr. Harry R. Jacobson, M.D., is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Epiphany Health Ventures LLC. Dr. Jacobson is a Co-Founder, Managing Director, Partner, and Principal at TriStar Technology Ventures. He is the Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Cardiovascular Care Affiliates, Inc. He is Investment Professional at Healthcare Investment Group. Dr. Jacobson co-founded Informatics Corporation of America, Inc. and served as a Senior Advisor. He co-founded Contact Software ... International Inc., Ambulatory Services of America, Inc, Renal Care Group, CeloNova Biosciences, Inc., Cardiovascular Care Group, Quality Healthcare International, and digiChart. Dr. Jacobson also founded or co-founded eight successful healthcare companies. He served as the President at Vanderbilt Health Services, Inc. He was a Vice Chancellor Emeritus at Vanderbilt University. He served as Vice Chancellor at Vanderbilt University until June 1, 2009. He served as Director of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). During Dr. Jacobson’s 11+ year tenure, VUMC revenues grew from $750 million to $2.5 billion, its Federally-funded (NIH) research program moved from 24th to the top 10 in the country, it opened over $1 billion of newly constructed facilities, it was recognized as a “most-wired” hospital as well as a U. S. News and World Report honor-roll hospital, and, most recently, as a Fortune 100 top place to work. Dr. Jacobson has been a successful investor and entrepreneur having founded or co-founded ten companies. In addition, in his role at VUMC he participated in the oversight of technology transfer operations which resulted in the creation of over 30 companies. Dr. Jacobson served as Chief Executive Officer of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University. He joined the Vanderbilt Medical School faculty in 1985 as a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Nephrology and in 1997 became Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs. In 1978, after two years of active duty in the United States Army as the Chief of Nephrology at the United States Army Surgical Research Center of Brooke Army Medical Center, he joined the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, where he served till 1985. He has been both a formal and informal Advisor to several venture and private equity funds. He serves as the Chairman of CeloNova Biosciences, Inc, Informatics Corporation of America, Inc. He serves as Chairman of Cardiovascular Care Group, Inc at Louisiana Medical Center and Heart Hospital, LLC and MedCare Investment Funds. Dr. Jacobson serves as the Chairman of IMED. He has been the Chairman of digiChart, Inc since November 14, 2012. He serves on the Board of Ingram Industries, Inc, and SpecialtyCare Inc., as well as on the boards of several other healthcare companies. He has been a Director of Bionumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc. since August 2009. He serves as Director at Specialty Care Services Group, LLC. He has been a Director of MedSolutions Inc. since February 14, 2011. He serves as Director of Device Innovation Group and Diabetes Care Group. He serves as a Director of Seno Medical Instruments, Inc. He serves as an Executive Director at Citizengine, Inc. He currently serves on the boards of 13 other healthcare companies. Dr. Jacobson has been a Director of Healthgate Data Corp. since October 2003. Dr. Jacobson serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Harpeth Capital, LLC and Challenger Equity Partners. Dr. Jacobson serves as a Member of Advisory Board of Iroquois Capital Group, Inc. He serves as Member of Advisory Board at Challenger Capital Group, Ltd., Southlake Equity Group and Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. He was the Chairman of Renal Care Group from 1995 to 1997. He was the Chairman of EBM Solutions Inc. since 1999. He served as Chairman of the Board at Seges Capital Management. He served as a Director of Kinetic Concepts Inc, from June 2003 to November 4, 2011 and Merck and Kinetic Concepts from December 18, 2007 to May 22, 2012. He was a Director of Renal Care Group since 1995. Dr. Jacobson served as a Member of Advisory Board of Clayton Associates LLC. He was Chairman of the Middle Tennessee Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He served on the Board of the Nashville Health Care Council, which he chaired in 2005 and 2006. In 2002, he was named the Ernst and Young Southeast Entrepreneur of the Year and was recently ranked No. 35 on Modern Physician’s ranking of the 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives in Healthcare. He has published over 100 research articles, reviews, and book chapters and Co-edited the book The Principles and Practice of Nephrology. He is Board- certified in both Internal Medicine and Nephrology. Dr. Jacobson received an M.D. degree from the University of Illinois’ Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine in 1972, completed an internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and specialty training in Nephrology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas. Dr. Jacobson received a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois.

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