IEEE MONTREAL KEYNOTE EVENT: INVENTORS & ENTREPRENEURS: Dr. Leonard Pinchuk - The Tools that Helped Establish Interventional Cardiology and Ophthalmology from the Perspective of an Innovator and Entrepreneur

Dr. Pinchuk’s entrepreneurial teams of chemists and engineers have been involved in the development of the fundamental tools that changed radiology and cardiology from a diagnostic discipline to the therapeutic interventional radiology and cardiology that is practiced today. They introduced the first commercially successful angioplasty balloon in the mid 1980’s. The most successful drug-eluting stent (TAXUS®) uses SIBS, a novel polymer that they patented which is used as the carrier for the drug, paclitaxel. The introduction of SIBS in medicine was an overwhelming success that overcame many years of frustration from working with polymers that were never designed to be used in the body. The success of SIBS in the cardiovascular system led to the development of the InnFocus MicroShunt®, a micro-conduit used to treat glaucoma by dropping intraocular pressure by diverting aqueous humor from the anterior chamber of the eye to a flap formed under the conjunctiva. The MicroShunt is currently changing the way advanced glaucoma is treated world-wide.

Registration is required by Friday, June 1. To register please refer to the following link: http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/172629