Team

Cliff Dwyer is the Chief Executive Officer of Linguaflex.  He has 20+ years of product development experience focused in minimally invasive implantable medical devices at Johnson and Johnson, Cordis, and C.R. Bard. He has 10 issued patents and several more submitted.  He has lead small and large teams in the areas of concept development, product design, clinically relevant testing, and product commercialization.

Ira Sanders, M.D. is founder and currently Chief Medical Officer.  Dr. Sanders is a leading authority on the anatomy of the human upper airway as well as a board certified Otolaryngologist with 20 years experience in treating sleep apnea patients.  He was a faculty member in the Department of Otolaryngology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City for 17 years.  During that time he was Principal Investigator on 5 NIH grants researching unique aspects of the human upper airway. He has published over 50 articles in medical journals and received 15 major research awards.