Quadrant Biosciences Inc. is a collaborative effort led by company founder and CEO Richard Uhlig. Our management team has been carefully balanced to facilitate the ongoing development, testing and distribution of our products, and includes expertise in engineering, FDA regulatory compliance, production, marketing and sales. Our advisory board comprises highly regarded medical experts and data scientists.
Executive team

Richard Uhlig

Rita Romano

Kayla Wagner

Benjamin Perry

Richard Bongo

Bryan Greene

Nick Gianadda

Wakaba Tessier
Throughout her career, Wakaba has focused on regulatory compliance and privacy issues facing healthcare providers. Prior to joining Quadrant Biosciences, Wakaba was a Partner at Husch Blackwell LLP, an AmLaw 100 law firm. While there, Wakaba focused her practice on state and federal health privacy law, federal fraud and abuse issues related to the Stark Law, the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute, and complex issues facing pharmacies and laboratories. She also led various business development initiatives and Associate recruiting activities on behalf of Husch Blackwell. Wakaba obtained her B.A. from Wellesley College and her J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.

Ira Fedder, MD

Rita Tarolli Marble

Andrew Brindle

Thomas Frazier II PhD
Dr. Frazier is a licensed clinical psychologist who received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 2004. He joined Cleveland Clinic in 2006 and from 2013-2017 was the director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Autism. In 2017, he was hired as the Chief Science Officer at Autism Speaks, overseeing all science and service programs before joining John Carroll University in January 2020 as a Professor of Psychology. Over the last decade, Dr. Frazier has maintained an active clinical practice and research programs focused on the evaluation and treatment of autism, ADHD, and related conditions. He has published more than 120 scientific papers and has ongoing collaborations across the US and internationally.

Kortney West, MD
Dr. West is a board-certified pediatrician. Prior to joining Quadrant, she worked for a pediatric clinic in Gonzales, LA, opened a concierge pediatric medical practice serving the greater Baton Rouge Area, and practiced at Reading Pediatrics. After noting the sizable gaps in mental healthcare for youth in the US, Dr West later founded Clear Water Health, which focuses on management of behavioral and mental health disorders. She has long been an advocate for early autism diagnosis and intervention - she received training to utilize STAT MD while in residency and continued to offer autism diagnostic appointments at each of the aforementioned practices. Additionally, she served on the board of The Emerge Center, an autism center located in Baton Rouge where she was vice-chairwoman. Dr. West received her undergraduate degree with Honors from Louisiana State University, her medical degree from LSU Medical School in Shreveport, and completed her pediatric residency at the University of Texas -Southwest in Dallas.

Funda Suer, PhD, FACMG, DABMGG
Dr. Suer has an extensive background in genetics and genomics. Prior to joining Quadrant, she served as the Senior Director of Reproductive and Diagnostic Genomics, Division Head of Diagnostic testing at SEMA4 Inc, and Clinical laboratory Director at Mount Sinai Genomics Sciences. Dr. Suer received her PhD in Medical Genetics at Gulhane Medical Academy in Turkey and completed her postdoctoral residency/fellowship training program in clinical molecular genetics at the National Institute of Health Genomic Research Institute (NIHGRI). Additionally, she is a diplomate of the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ABMGG), a fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), is certified by the NYS DOH as a clinical director in molecular genetic testing and a member of the American Association of Molecular Pathology (AMP).
She has overseen multiple commercial laboratories as Senior Clinical Laboratory Director and corporate brand transformations, as well as academic laboratories including Quest Diagnostics, Athena Diagnostics Laboratories, Mount Sinai Genomics Testing Laboratories.
Dr. Suer previously established genetics training programs as training laboratory site director at Quest Diagnostics, and served as a program director of the ABMGG Laboratory Genetics Training Program at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, and served as Associate Professor at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences.

David Levitskiy
David brings a biomedical engineering background to the Quadrant Biosciences research and development team. His career began in the Syracuse Biomaterials Institute developing smart-materials for wound healing applications. Since then, David has worked on projects focused on algorithm development for motion detection, as well as applying machine learning to epigenetic technologies. He has developed predictive algorithms using high-throughput sequencing data for use in the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders. David received his Bachelor of Science and Master’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Syracuse University.

Karen Canestare

Charles Marra

Stacy Masterson

Allison Frazier
Allison is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with more than 12 years of experience in direct behavior therapy, clinical supervision, private and public school consultation, and elementary school administration. Before joining Quadrant, Allison worked at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Autism as director of their outreach therapy services. She was assistant principal at Julie Billiart School where she founded and directed their nationally award-winning camp. In addition, Allison has held adjunct professor positions at John Carroll University, Ursuline College, and Lakeland Community College. Currently, she serves on the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities. Allison received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Masters of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, from Cleveland State University. She did her post-graduate studies in Applied Behavior Analysis at the Florida Institute of Technology.

Dana Dean
Dana brings over 16 years of experience as an Emmy Award-winning television journalist. She began her career as a news reporter in upstate New York where she shot, wrote, and edited her own news stories for News 10 Now (now Spectrum News) in Potsdam and Binghamton. More recently, Dana worked at KSDK, the NBC affiliate in St. Louis, where she hosted the popular lifestyle television show, “Show Me St. Louis.” She also worked as a news anchor and reporter, covering breaking news and stories on the local and national levels. Dana received her degree in Journalism from Boston University.

Erica Ash
Throughout her career, Erica has focused on healthcare. Prior to law school, Erica worked in the pharmaceutical industry directly with providers. As an attorney, she concentrated on regulatory compliance and billing issues facing healthcare providers. While working at Husch Blackwell LLP, an AmLaw 100 law firm, Erica focused her practice on state and federal health privacy law, federal fraud and abuse issues related to the Stark Law, the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute, and complex issues facing hospitals and laboratories. She was also a part of various firm leadership activities, including associate recruiting and associate business development. Erica obtained her J.D. from the University of Kansas.
Medical and Scientific Collaborators

Evdokia Anagnostou, MD

Diana L. Robins, PHD

David Beversdorf, MD

Kristin Sohl, MD FAAP

Frank Middleton, PhD

Daniel L. Coury, MD

Steven Hicks, MD, PhD
Board of Directors

Ira Fedder, MD

Andrew Rock

Mary Ann Tyszko

Richard Uhlig

Peter Cohen

James Croke
