Company Profile
Feather Sensors is a medical instrumentation company with interests in pulmonary medicine.
The company was started through the joint research interests of Robert Coifman, M.D. and Charles E. Forbes, Ph.D.
Dr. Coifman is a graduate of the Engineering Physics program at Cornell (1960), a board certified practicing allergist and an expert on the use of pulmonary function testing and monitoring to improve control of asthma. He has three patent applications pending in this field. In addition to his full time allergy practice Dr. Coifman has research interests in topics ranging from immunotherapy for poison ivy to speech recognition error reduction for dictation into electronic medical records.
Dr. Forbes is a recognized scientist with numerous publications,
patents, and presentations. He
obtained his Ph.D. at MIT in 1971 in the field of Inorganic Chemistry.
He has spent the majority of his life working at major R&D
centers. He was awarded two
NSF SBIR research grants in 1998 and 1999 while working at
This joint research effort from Dr. Forbes and Dr. Coifman has resulted in a novel inexpensive prototype based on thin film technology. The prototype accurately tracks the spirometry curve when tested in series with an expensive calibrated competitor spirometer.