To better your understanding of non-clinical career options and/or facilitate your physician career change, today we introduce you to Thomas J. Fogarty, MD. Dr. Fogarty is an internationally recognized cardiovascular surgeon, inventor, entrepreneur, and vintner. He has founded or co-founded over 30 companies in the medical device or services field and is president of Fogarty Engineering, the laboratory from which many of his start-up products and companies originate.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Fogarty received his undergraduate education at Xavier University and his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati. He completed his residency at the University of Oregon and later served as Medical Staff President at Stanford Medial Center from 1970-1979. He directed the Cardiovascular Surgery Program at Sequoia Hospital, Redwood City, and then returned to the Stanford University School of Medicine in July 1993 as Professor of Surgery.
In the past 40 years he has been named on over 100 surgical instrumentation patents, including the Fogarty balloon embolectomy catheter and the widely used Aneurx Stent Graft that replaces open abdominal aortic aneurism surgery. He has acquired over 63 surgical instrumentation patents over the past 40 years including an entire line of vascular clips and clamps.
Dr. Fogarty holds countless awards and honors – most notably, he is the recipient of Jacobson Innovation Award of the American College of Surgeons, the Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention and Innovation and an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Dr. Fogarty has also created and contributed to a wide spectrum of innovations in business and technology, serving as founder/co-founder and/or Chairman/Board Member of over 33 business and research companies. His interests range from surgical technology and instrumentation, imaging systems, vascular intervention devices to venture capitalism, engineering and the wine industry.
