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Senior Advisor

Dr. Robert Maietta is a Senior Advisor at the Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation. He received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from the University of Maine, was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. He received a doctor of medicine degree from the Tulane University School of Medicine in 1982 where he received the Merck Manual Book Award for academic achievement.

Dr. Maietta completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at Tufts New England Medical Center, a second residency in diagnostic radiology, and a fellowship in cross sectional imaging (CT/MRI/Ultrasound)in 1990. He is a diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Board of Pediatrics, and the American Board of Radiology, and a member of the Radiologic Society of North America, the American Roentgen Ray Society, and the New England Roentgen Ray Society.

Dr. Maietta was a Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology, Tufts Medical School, in the Department of Radiology at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts, teaching Tufts medical students and Lahey radiology residents. He served as the Director of Medical Student Education in Radiology at the Lahey Clinic, served on the Department of Radiology Education and Radiology Residency Selection Committees. He has lectured at the Boston University School of Medicine and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and served as a medical legal consultant for the Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions (CRICO) previously, and sat on multiple Medical Malpractice Tribunals in the state of Massachusetts.

Dr. Maietta became very interested in the HIV/AIDS pandemic, from both its medical and sociological perspectives, and served as a lecturer to high school students in the greater Boston area on the prevention of HIV/AIDS through Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts.

Dr. Maietta also became very interested in stem cell research and therapy, precipitated by a parent electing to have stem cell therapy for a chronic life-threatening illness, who had to leave the United States for access to treatment.

It is with his interests in HIV/AIDS, and the enormous potential for stem cell research and development, that Dr. Maietta comes to the Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation where significant ground has already been broken in these areas. It is Dr. Maietta's goal to help expand the Foundation and enable it to increase its remarkable efforts in the areas of stem cell research, HIV/AIDS research, and semen/prostate research.