Joshua Makower
Academic Appointments
- Consulting Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Key Documents
Contact Information
- Academic Offices
Personal Information Email Tel (650) 472-3160Alternate Contact Maria Marshall Executive Administration Email Tel Work +16504720302
Professional Overview
Administrative Appointments
- Chairman & CEO, ExploraMed, Inc. (1995 - present)
- Venture Partner, NEA (2003 - present)
- Chairman of the Board, Acclarent, Inc. (2004 - present)
- Chairman of the Board, Moximed, Inc. (2007 - present)
- Chairman of the Board, Vibrynt, Inc. (2006 - present)
- Chairman of the Board, NeoTract, Inc. (2005 - present)
Honors and Awards
- M.I.T. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, M.I.T. (1995)
Professional Education
| S.B.: | M.I.T., Mechanical Engineering (1985) |
| MBA: | Columbia University, Business (1993) |
| M.D.: | NYU School of Medicine, Medicine (1989) |
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Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Dr. Makower serves as a Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School and is a consultant and real world mentor of Stanfords Biodesign Program, and Co-Founder of the Biodesign Innovation Program at Stanford.
Dr. Makower is also the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ExploraMed, a medical device incubator based on the west coast and is also a Venture Partner with New Enterprise Associates.
Prior to this, he was Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of TransVascular, Inc. a company focused on the development of a completely catheter-based coronary bypass technology, which was acquired by Medtronic, Inc. in 2003, and Founder and Chairman of EndoMatrix, Inc., a company focused on the development of a novel therapy for incontinence and GI Reflux, which was acquired by C.R. Bard in 1997.
Up until 1995, Dr. Makower was Founder and Manager of Pfizers Strategic Innovation Group, a group chartered to create new medical device technologies and businesses for Pfizers medical devices businesses.
Dr. Makower holds over four dozen patents for various medical devices in the fields of Cardiology, ENT, Orthopedics, General Surgery, Drug Delivery and Urology. Dr. Makower holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from Columbia University, a Doctor of Medicine degree from the New York University School of Medicine, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Makower also serves as Chairman of the Board for Acclarent, Inc., NeoTract, Inc., Vibrynt, Inc., Moximed, Inc, and on the Board of Directors for Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc. - a venture backed private company developing innovative spinal therapies.
Publications
- Inventing our future: training the next generation of surgeon innovators. Semin Pediatr Surg. 2006; (4): 309-18
- Principles of Innovation Interventional Cardiology. 2006
- Percutaneous transvenous cellular cardiomyoplasty. A novel nonsurgical approach for myocardial cell transplantation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2003; (11): 1964-71
- New Approaches and Conduits: In Situ Venous Arterialization and Coronary Artery Bypass. Curr Interv Cardiol Rep. 1999; (2): 127-137
- The Characterization of the Dexterous Hand Master Index Finger in Flexion and Extension The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation. 1990: 61
- The Validity Assessment of the Dexterous Hand Master: A Linkage System for the Measurement of Joints in the Hand The Annals of Biomedical Engineering and Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology. 1990
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