Dr. Thomas P. Stewart was the VP for Clinical Affairs at the Stryker Corporation's Medical Division for approximately two years after the sale of Gaymar Industries to Stryker in 2010.

He was the President & CCO of Gaymar Industries from 2000-2010. Gaymar was a Global Medical Device Company, joining in '81 to oversee its Clinical Research; promoted to Dir Med Res, VP S & Mkt, VP Ops, VP NPD, Pres & COO.
Undergraduate degree: Daemen University, a doctorate from SUNY/ Buffalo, is an alumnus of its School of Med/Applied Sciences. Following graduate studies, he was awarded an NIH postdoc fellowship, then joined Gaymar Industries, Inc. to oversee clinical studies, educational offerings, and new product development.
In 1987, he founded the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel; in 2003, he received the Panel's first "Thomas Stewart Award," given annually to individuals who demonstrate leadership in public policy related to pressure injury care and patient advocacy.

Essential Business expertise includes Strategic Planning, New Product Development, Commercialization, Intellectual Property, Clinical Affairs, RA/QA, New Business Development, Marketing & Sales, Negotiating, Contracting, and Operations.

He is a Senior Associate Clinical Professor at Daemen University and an adjunct Asst. Prof. at SUNY/Buffalo has authored over 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and a book chapter. He is an Ed. Board member and past Dept Editor for the Journal WOUNDS. He is a Life Time Achievement Awardee from the World Union of Wound Healing Societies.

He was a past member of the Board of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, Chair of its Life Science Industry Council, Chair of the Board of Insyte Consulting(2013-2016), and past member of the Dean's Advisory Council for the School of Engineering at SUNY at Buffalo; appointee by NY State's Governor to the Board of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute(2009-16); Immediate Past Chair, Daemen University Board of Trustees(2016-2019)

Over 25 years of expertise in pressure ulcer pathophysiology, wound healing, support surface design and measurement, thermal physiology, and nosocomial lesions acquired by patients during operating room and hospital stays; expert witness in medical malpractice cases nationwide—co-inventor on 7 patents for the therapeutic control of patient temperature and compression therapy.

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