Welcome to Sterile Solutions International, Inc.

Therese Stewart has been in the medical dental field for over 40 years. She has worked as an educator, consultant, coach, clinician, speaker and author.

Therese has held the title of Oral Care Study Manager at Hilltop Research where she help run several large dental studies, she has been a state trainer for Dexis Digital x-rays. She was an educator and speaker for Doxa, Inc. A Swiss company who manufactures dental implant cement. Since 1996 she has been an adjunct faculty Associate Professor at Palm Beach State College where she has taught both didactic and clinical courses. Therese has been a managing partner for Office and Practice Solutions, and owner of Perfect Blend (Consulting) and OneOnOne (Healthcare Connectors). She has mentored, coached, and consults many dental offices. Therese currently is a professional Educator on behalf of Waterpik, is a National Dental Board Examiner and member of several dental organizations. Therese is a Certified Registered Dental Hygienist, earned a Bachelor’s in Business Management with a Minor in Enterpreneurship, and her Masters in Organizational Leadership and Management. Therese has held leadership positions in her local, state and national professional organizations.

Ralph Sias is an experienced “hands on” technical manager with demonstrated skills in program management of medical device development, systems integration, infection control, wound management, minimally invasive surgery, electronic design, plastics processing, sterilization, electrochemistry and plasma physics. He has over 30 years experience in the medical device industry and has created two companies based upon technology he developed and patented. He has served as a Technical Advisor for the International Divisions of Baxter Healthcare, as VP R&D of two different Baxter strategic business units, as President of Tactyl Technologies, as Director of R&D of L-3 Communications Advanced Technologies Group, and has consulted for numerous medical device manufacturers.

During his time at AHS/Baxter he managed construction and validation of medical device manufacturing lines worldwide. In his role as VP R&D he managed the developed of products for the Nursing Products Division (NPD), Medical / Surgical Division, Respiratory Therapy Group (Airlife), and the Controlled Environments / Alternate Sites Strategic Business Unit. Mr. Sias also performed analysis of strategic acquisitions of respiratory therapy and Foley catheter companies for Baxter. As president of Tactyl Technologies he prepared and executed a plan for divestiture of the company as per instructions from the Board of Directors. In preparation for the divestiture Mr. Sias modified manufacturing and overhead (to lower cost) and expanded distribution resulting in a significant increase in EBIT and increasing the value of the company. The company was sold to SafeSkin at a premium for the Tactyl shareholders.

Mr. Sias founded a new company, Advanced Barrier Technologies (ABT), to establish a maquiladora (Mexican) manufacturing plant to process cleanroom gloves for major glove manufacturers. While maintaining the processing business, Mr. Sias developed a proprietary technology for grafting hydrogel to the inside of powder-free surgeon’s gloves. Based upon the proprietary technology Mr. Sias sold the company to a division of TotalFinaElf (a major international oil company) for a significant premium. Mr. Sias also founded Intecon Systems, a company based on his patented technology that achieves high level disinfection using a hydrogen peroxide aerosol and ionized gas. After the terrorist attacks on September 11, he licensed the technology to the Titan Corporation (now L-3 Communications) for use in military applications. Mr. Sias worked with L-3 to adapt his disinfection technology for BioChem decontamination under secret clearance by DOD.

Most recently Mr Sias has consulted for Applied Medical Resources while installing an e-beam sterilization system & radiation safety program. He has also provided guidance regarding in-house ethylene oxide sterilization and development of high voltage plasma products for minimally invasive surgery and wound management.

Mr. Sias has a BS in Physics and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Brad Buchanan has been involved in the biomedical and biopharmaceutical industries for over 50 years. His industry experience includes numerous technical development positions in medical and nuclear medicine firms before starting his own businesses, and he is known for his high level technical knowledge including manufacturability analysis, manufacturing design for new products, and new product design from concept to fabrication.
His work has included the design of Electron Beam Sterilization systems, filling, mixing, and delivery systems for biomedical and biopharmaceutical products as well as industrial manufacturing equipment for the food and electronics industries. He has been engaged in design, development and specification of flexible packaging system materials, fabrication techniques and equipment, and has extensive knowledge of the techniques used to design, fabricate and evaluate high tech plastic films and materials. Mr. Buchanan is the author of nineteen patents, with three patents pending.

Working with the nascent Baxter Biological Systems Group (a division of Baxter Healthcare), his team assisted in the design and manufacture of the first large volume flexible containers for biological liquids. Concurrently in his own business he developed and operated in-house plastic injection-molding, tube extrusion, and fitmented pouch manufacture, while also representing Yamaha Industrial Robots in Northern California and being the sole US representative of Intasept Aseptic filling equipment for medical and biopharmaceutical applications until the sale of his company to Hyclone Laboratories in 2002. Following the sale of that company, Mr. Buchanan served as Hyclone’s Principal Engineer for four years prior to starting Buchanan Consulting.

The past several years have seen Brad developing products in the areas of sterilization, medical devices, and even consumer products. His expertise is highly sought after by professionals in the field. Companies that have recently sought him out include Genentec, Thermo-Fisher Scientific, Xenon, ThinOptics, WaterGuru, Eyenovia, and Adastra. After doing some development work improving one of their products last year, Xenon Corporation retained Brad to become their West Coast Technical Support Representative.