Biographies

Vera Pardee

Vera Pardee has served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Digirad Corporation, a medical device company that manufactures and sells solid-state medical imaging products and services, since 2003. From 2000 to 2002, Ms. Pardee served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Nanogen, Inc., a biotechnology company developing molecular diagnostic tests for the clinical research market. From 1988 to 2001, she was in private practice as a partner and associate at Seltzer Caplan Vitek McMahon and from 1983 to 1987 as an associate at O'Melveny & Myers, LLP. Ms. Pardee received her J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law

Digirad has been in business since 1985 designing, developing and manufacturing solid-state radiation detectors. Initially the company was focused on developing radiation detectors for defense, space, and commercial applications. Examples included hand held radiation detectors for examining the number and location of nuclear warheads in missiles and radiation detectors for deep space astronomy. In 1994, the company changed its direction and has focused on designing, developing, and manufacturing solid-state gamma cameras for nuclear medicine since that time.

Our proprietary, solid-state imaging technology is based on a novel, patented, semiconductor detector technology. Throughout the twentieth century, many products, including radios, computers and televisions replaced vacuum tube technology with solid-state technology, which led to dramatic improvements in energy efficiency, size, reliability, user friendliness, and cost effectiveness. We intend to revolutionize nuclear medicine the same way in which solid-state technology has revolutionized these other industries.