Advisors

Dr. Ronald A. Sherman | Medical and Scientific Director

Dr. Ronald A. Sherman brings over 30 years of expertise in biotherapy, with a pioneering focus on maggot therapy for wound care. He earned a BS in Entomology from UC Riverside, an MD from UCLA, and completed his Internal Medicine Residency at UC Davis in 1987. He then obtained a Master’s in Clinical Tropical Medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and completed an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at UC Irvine in 1991, during which he began his clinical research on wound care and maggot therapy.

Dr. Sherman has held faculty and clinical appointments at UC Irvine and the Veterans Acairs Medical Center. In 2004, he was instrumental in securing FDA marketing clearance for medical-grade maggots and later co-founded Monarch Labs to support their production and distribution. He currently serves as Director of the non-profit BioTherapeutics Education & Research Foundation, which is dedicated to advancing patient care, education, and research in maggot therapy, leech therapy, and other biotherapeutic modalities.