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Senior Product Development Director, Ph.D.
Medtronic, Inc.
Currently is a Senior Product Development Director in the Structural Heart Disease Business at Medtronic and a Bakken Fellow. He is responsible for Research and Development for current and future heart valve repair and replacement products. His previous roles at Medtronic include Senior Program Director for Transcatheter Valves, Technology Director for Therapy Deliver in Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management, and technology management and design engineering positions in Tachyarrhythmia Lead Development. Prior to his tenure at Medtronic, he worked as a Design Engineer at Ford Motor Company in Crash Safety and Advanced Vehicle Systems Engineering. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in both Biological Sciences and Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University. He received his Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota where he serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor. His doctoral research was centered on the use of isolated working hearts in the design of medical devices (Visible Heart®: www.visibleheart.com).
In addition to medical device design and cardiac physiology, his research interests include the study of hibernation physiology in wild black bear populations. He is active in supporting the development of Minnesota and the U.S. as centers of excellence in medical devices and biotechnology, including trade trips with Governor Ventura and Pawlenty to China and Governor Pawlenty to Canada. He is also on the Board of Directors of the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota, has 47 U.S. patents, and numerous publications in the field of Biomedical Engineering.
