A UV lamp artificially creates UV light so it can be put to various uses, such as sterilizing and purifying. UV lamps come in many different sizes and shapes, allowing them to be used for various purposes, such as detecting counterfeit money, inspecting artwork, or by a ticket agent checking your re-entry stamp at a concert.
Inside, there is an inert gas mixed with mercury. When the lamp is plugged in, electricity reacts with the mercury, and the lamp produces UV light. The type of UV light emitted depends on the pressure inside the lamp.
The coils on the HVAC equipment in your home — such as an air conditioner or air purifier — are prone to the buildup of harmful bacteria and mold. This makes it uncomfortable for family members with respiratory problems, and it can aggravate allergies or asthma and also cause sickness. It is important to install the UV lamp where it will do your unit the most good.
John and his wife Judy have three daughters and a son and reside in Zeeland, MI. My education and training in Dermatology led me to the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Harvard, where my research into the power of light opened a new approach to disease prevention and treatment. UV Angel not only represents the best in technology aimed at the use of light in this setting but also supports clinical and bench research with a team of highly trained and respected clinicians and scientists whose goals align with mine.
I am excited to be working with UV Angel and to participate as a member of the Clinical Advisory Board that helps to drive the science, and I look forward to helping them develop new technologies to combat disease. Tom brings more than three decades of strategic business development and leadership experience to the technology, and health and life sciences industries.
With a focus on defining strategy and driving revenue in emerging markets, Tom has a passion for integrating health needs with cutting-edge product solutions. By working closely with customers, he finds innovative ways to empower teams to develop products that improve outcomes in multiple markets. Before his role at UV Angel, Tom founded Byrne Advisory Group, where his team provided sales, engineering, and product development expertise to a range of clients.
He then advanced his responsibilities, first as a Regional Sales Manager for Stryker Corporation, then as a Vice President for a closely held medical products company in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A graduate of Northwood University DeVos School of Business, Tom sits on Advisory Boards for a range of early-stage companies, and actively supports a host of community and educational initiatives.
He and his wife, Paula, have three children and live in Grand Haven, Michigan. A pioneer in electronic design and structured innovation, Dave oversees the platform of the UV Angel ecosystem and intellectual property portfolio. Recognized around the globe, eCoupled is a foundational technology implemented in the Qi global wireless power standard. In addition to eCoupled, Dave was responsible for the technical supervision and development of several Fulton Innovation technologies.
Dave joined Amway in , where he pioneered the use of intelligent inductive coupling in the eSpring Water Purifier. On the market for eight years, more than 1.
Baarman holds over US patents, foreign patents, and has patent applications pending. Bret offers over 30 years of executive leadership experience building and growing successful, strategically focused businesses. Bret coordinated all operational aspects for the West Michigan firm, including investment performance, bank relationships, finance, and risk management. With Fulton Innovation as one of the founding members of the Wireless Power Consortium, Bret served as co-chairman of the steering committee responsible for developing the Qi standard, the globally recognized standard for wireless power.
Entrepreneurially minded, Bret has owned and operated companies around the world in industries ranging from component and advanced manufacturing systems to energy and real estate. He has also held senior-level positions in sales, marketing, operations, and finance with both public and privately held companies.
Bret is a graduate of Carroll University where he majored in Business and Finance. He and his wife, Rebecca, have two sons and make their home in West Michigan. A sought-after health industry speaker and author, Dr. A certified indoor air quality manager and certified in infection control with a focus on the relationship of opportunistic environmental pathogens, Dr. Lee brings more than three decades of experience to her role at UV Angel.
Lee has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications as well as three American Hospital Association-published books. In her spare time, Dr. Lee enjoys spending time with her three grandchildren and rooting on her Houston Texans. With experience leading onshore and offshore development teams, Paul is recognized for his ability to understand user needs and integrate them, quickly and effectively, into groundbreaking technologies.
He has worked with numerous national and international companies spanning the healthcare, life sciences, retail, and consumer goods industries. In his role, he worked on projects ranging from AI-enhanced healthcare prediction systems to education analytics to large-scale enterprise applications. He began his career with Cisco Systems in Sales and Product Strategy, where he focused on technologies that would enable greater sales team performance.
Based in Washington, DC, he enjoys volunteering, travel, and skiing in his free time. Ted has 25 years of experience in leadership roles in Information Technology. This innovative service received a grant from the Pine Rest Foundation in recognition of its public-service value.
Dave has greatly impacted all levels of organizations by leading teams through significant cultural and core-competency technology changes, resulting in record growth. This damage can be beneficial, for instance, in disinfecting surfaces, but it can also be harmful, particularly to skin and eyes, which are most adversely affected by higher-energy UVB and UVC radiation.
Most of the natural UV light people encounter comes from the sun. However, only about 10 percent of sunlight is UV, and only about one-third of this penetrates the atmosphere to reach the ground, according to the National Toxicology Program NTP. No measurable UVC from solar radiation reaches the Earth's surface, because ozone, molecular oxygen and water vapor in the upper atmosphere completely absorb the shortest UV wavelengths.
A suntan is a reaction to exposure to harmful UVB rays. Essentially, a suntan results from the body's natural defense mechanism kicking in. This consists of a pigment called melanin, which is produced by cells in the skin called melanocytes.
Melanin absorbs UV light and dissipates it as heat. When the body senses sun damage, it sends melanin into surrounding cells and tries to protect them from sustaining more damage.
The pigment causes the skin to darken. However, continued exposure to UV radiation can overwhelm the body's defenses. When this happens, a toxic reaction occurs, resulting in sunburn. UV rays can damage the DNA in the body's cells. The body senses this destruction and floods the area with blood to help with the healing process. Painful inflammation occurs as well. Usually within half a day of overindulging in the sun, the characteristic red-lobster look of a sunburn begins to make itself known, and felt.
Sometimes the cells with DNA mutated by the sun's rays turn into problem cells that don't die but keep proliferating as cancers. The result is skin cancer, the most common form of cancer in the United States.
People who get sunburned repeatedly are at much higher risk. The risk for the deadliest form of skin cancer , called melanoma , doubles for someone who has received five or more sunburns, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation.
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