John B. Simpson, Ph.D.
[Criteria for Distinguished Alumni Award Nominations]
[List of Distinguished Alumni Award Winners]
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John Simpson is internationally recognized as a pioneer, innovator, and authority on interventional cardiology. His invention of the over the wire balloon angioplasty catheter led to the founding of Advanced Cardiovascular Systems (ACS) in 1978. In 1984, Dr. Simpson invented the concept of directional atherectomy (the removal of atheroma from the coronary artery) and founded Devices for Vascular Intervention (DVI). ACS and DVI are now divisions of Guidant, Inc. Dr. Simpson is the founder of Sawtooth Labs, Inc. and Avinger Inc. Both companies are technology development companies where products will be developed primarily for the medical field and include software, hardware, and interventional cardiovascular medical devices. Prior to Sawtooth Labs and Avinger, Dr. Simpson is the founder of Perclose (now, an Abbott Laboratories company) and Lumend, Inc. (currently, a Johnson & Johnson Company). |
In addition, he is the founder of FoxHollow Technologies (recently merged with ev3, Inc.) and serves as Vice Chairman of the Board and Chief Scientist with ev3, Inc. He also serves as Professor of Clinical Medicine at Stanford University and a Staff Cardiologist at Sequoia Hospital (Redwood City, California). He completed his undergraduate education at Ohio State University and received his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Biomedical Science at the University of Texas. He is a graduate of the Duke University Medical School and completed his fellowship in interventional cardiology at Stanford University. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the American College of Physicians. Congratulations to Dr. Simpson on his award as The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston Distinguished Alumnus, 2009-2010. |
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GSBS Distinguished Alumni Award Winners
1981 Robert E. Marc
1975/Ph.D./Neuroscience/Harry Sperling
Professor
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah School of Medicine
Moran Eye Center, Salt Lake City, UT 84132
801-585-6500
robert.marc@hsc.utah.edu
1996 Larry H. Thompson
1969/Ph.D./Radiation Biology/Herman Suit
Team Leader, DNA Repair Team
Biology and Biotechnology Research Program
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551-0808
925-455-9473
thompson14@llnl.gov
1997 Aravinda Chakravarti
1979/Ph.D./Human and Molecular Genetics/Masatoshi Nei
Professor and Director (Nathans-McKusick Institute of Genetic Medicine)
Institute of Genetic Medicine
600 N. Wolfe Street, 2-109 Jefferson Street Building
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287
410-502-7525
aravinda@jhmi.edu
1998 Hugo A. Barrera-Saldana
1982/Ph.D./Molecular Biology/Grady Saunders
Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry
University of Nuevo Leon-Monterrey
P.O. Box 3-4125
C.P. 64000 Monterrey N.L. Mexico
52-8-329-4173
hbarrera@uanl.mx
2000 Michael E. McClure
1970/Ph.D./Biochemistry/L.S. Hnilica
Chief, Organs and Systems Toxicology
Extramural Research
NIEHS, NIH
P.O. Box 12233, MD EC-23
Research Triangle Park, NC
301-496-6515
mcclure@niehs.nih.gov
2001 Deborah Anderson
1976/Ph.D./Immunology/Bar Levy
Director/Associate Professor
Director, Fearing Research Laboratory
Harvard Medical School, Obstetrics and Gynecology
75 Francis Street, Thorn Building 217
Boston, MA 02115
617-278-0069
djanderson@bics.bwh.harvard.edu
2002 Larry Deaven
1969/Ph.D./Cell Biology/T. Elton Stubblefield
Life Sciences Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545
505-667-3912
ldeaven@lanl.gov
2003 Eugene W. Gerner
1974/Ph.D./Biopysics/Ronald Humphrey
Professor
Arizona Cancer Center
University of Arizona Health Science Center
1515 N. Campbell Street
Tucson, AZ 85724
520-626-2197
egerner@azcc.arizona.edu
2004 Ronald S. Duman
1984/Ph.D./Pharmacology/Sam Enna
Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology
Director, Abraham Ribicoff Research Facilities
Yale University School of Medicine
34 Park Street
New Haven, CT 06508
ronald.duman@yale.edu
2005 Bhudatt Paliwal
1973/Ph.D./Medical Physics/Peter Almond
Professor of Medical Physics and Human Oncology
University of Wisconsin
716 Langdon Street
Madison, WI 53706
paliwal@humonc.wisc.edu
2006 John J. Kopchick
1980/Ph.D./Virology/Ralph Arlinghaus
Milton and Lawrence H. Goll
Eminent Scholar Professorship in
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Ohio University
Edison Biotechnology Institute
Athens, Ohio 45701-2979
kopchick@ohio.edu
2007 Suzanne A. W. Fuqua
1982/Ph.D./Virology/Robert Naso
Professor of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Breast Center
Departments of Medicine and Molecular & Cellulcar Biology
Houston, Texas 77030
713-798-1671
sfuqua@bcm.tmc.edu
2008 Danny R. Welch
1984/Ph.D./Tumor Biology/Garth Nicolson
The Leonard H. Robinson Professor of Pathology
Professor of Cell Biology and Pharmacology/Toxicology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama
205-934-2956
danwelch@uab.edu
2009 John B. Simpson
1971/Ph.D./Reproductive Biology/John Hampton
Founder of Sawtooth Labs, Inc. and Avinger Inc.
Founder of Perclose (now an Abbott Laboratories company)
Founder of LuMend, Inc. (currently a Johnson & Johnson company)
Founder of Fox Hollow Technologies (recently merged with ev3, Inc.)
Vice Chairman of the Board and Chief Scientist ev3, Inc.
Professor of Clinical Medicine at Stanford University
Consulting Cardiologist, Sequoia Hospital,
Redwood City, California
650-216-7400
johnsimpson@foxhollowtech.com
Criteria for Distinguished Alumni Award Nominations
Eligibility
To be eligible for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award a candidate must be a GSBS Alumnus or Alumna and must NOT be a member of the Alumni Association Steering Committee at the time of the decision.
Criteria
Distinguished Alumni will be chosen on the basis of strength in several areas such as:
- National recognition
- Leadership in field
- Grant support
- Publication Record
- Patents
- Serving the community and the GSBS
- Clinical responsibilities
