Description

Class Summary

This presentation will explore the original discovery of a medical device to hold an artery open for blood flow: a stent. Learn the path the stent took from an idea to one of the most important medical devices in the past 30 years.

About the Instructor

Marvin Woodall has over 50 years of experience in creating medical devices for heart disease. Most of his career was with Johnson and Johnson, and
toward the end he was the president of Johnson and Johnson Interventional Systems, which was responsible for developing the first balloon expandable stent. This led to the development of numerous analogues including stent grafts for aortic aneurysms and TAVR, a minimally invasive way to repair a faulty aortic valve.