Advisory Group Member: Holger Claus

Dr. Holger Claus is newly retired, having served as Vice President of Technology at Ushio America Inc. Throughout his career he has developed and produced various kinds of light sources, like fluorescent lamps, various UV lamps, halogen and IR lamps, short arc Xenon, laser driven Xenon, super high pressure Mercury lamps, LED and laser products, and excimer lamps. He has extensive knowledge and experience of application related questions of these lamps including drivers, measurements, light modeling and regulatory questions. For many years he has been leading technical and regulatory efforts to introduce 222nm lamps into the scientific community and the market. 

He frequently speaks at various international conferences about specific aspects of Far UVC technology and is invited as a member of expert panels. He is an active member of IUVA and IES and is a member of various GUV task forces and standard committees. 

Advisory Group Member: Dick Zoutman

Dr. Dick Zoutman is Emeritus Professor, in the Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine at Queen's University. Dr. Zoutman is the Past Inaugural Chief of Staff at the Scarborough Health Network in Toronto and Past Chief of Staff at Quinte Health in South Eastern Ontario.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, certified as a specialist in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Medical Microbiology. He is also the Past Professor and Chair of Infectious Diseases and of Medical Microbiology at the Kingston Health Sciences Center and Queen’s University. Dr. Zoutman retired from clinical practice in January 2024 after over 40 years of clinical academic practice.

The primary focus of his academic work has been on the use of Quality Improvement Science in advancing healthcare quality and infectious diseases.

Dr. Zoutman has worked and studied internationally across multiple countries, including in Kenya, Kosovo, Guyana, Japan, and India. Dr. Zoutman has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization on infectious disease prevention and control.

During the 2003 pandemic of SARS1, Dr. Zoutman chaired the Ontario SARS Scientific Advisory Committee responsible for advising the Ontario Government on the management of the pandemic.

In the aftermath of SARS1 Dr. Zoutman was appointed as the founding Co-Chair of the Ontario Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee (PIDAC) that established province-wide best practices in Infectious Diseases prevention.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic Dr. Zoutman has been a vocal advocate, commentator, and public educator for comprehensive protections to prevent spread, promote vaccination, and combat long-Covid & post-COVID conditions.

Dr. Zoutman has had extensive medical-legal experience appearing before different levels of courts, tribunals, and formal hearings on a wide variety of matters including class actions concerning COVID-19 as an expert.

Dr. Zoutman was appointed as a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Democracy and has a Black Belt in Lean and Six Sigma for Healthcare. He is a Canadian Certified Physician Executive and a Chartered Director with the Conference Board of Canada and the De Groote School of Business. He shares his expertise by serving on the boards of many different health care and community organizations.

Advisory Group Member: Diane de Camps Meschino

Diane de Camps Meschino, MD, is a psychiatrist, artist, and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto with an academic focus on justice-based healthcare leadership and system transformation. She has founded/cofounded several academic programs addressing underserved populations: reproductive mental health, women’s pelvic pain, discourses on women’s bodies and social justice, and mental health of caregiving parents of severely chronically ill children. Her past scholarship also includes developing a university health leadership training program and an international Learning Health System, both to advance Change Leadership. Her current leadership and research foci are to implement resilient, engaged, and sustainable planetary healthcare wherever it is delivered. She also serves on several national and international leadership and health committees: Leadership Advisor to the Canadian Coalition of Green Health Care, Advisor to the Green Technology Education Centre, Affiliate of the World Health Leadership Network, and steering committee advisor for the International Campaign on Indoor Air Quality.

Advisory Group Member:

Dr. Malgorzata Gasperowicz, PhD

Developmental Biologist

Dr. Malgorzata (Gosia) Gasperowicz is a developmental biologist with a background in biophysics, currently living in Calgary, Alberta.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Dr. Gasperowicz has been analyzing the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 spread, correctly predicting policies' outcomes, communicating this scientific understanding via social and traditional media, and advocating for improved pandemic-response policies.

She is a member of COVIDisAirborne.org, Canadian Aerosol Transmission Coalition, Protect Our Province Alberta (PoPAB), and was a member of the former Strategic COVID-19 Pandemic Committee of the Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association (EZMSA). She serves on the editorial board of The John Snow Project.