Richard Popp

Professor of Medicine (Emeritus)
Stanford University
Stanford , CA

Richard Popp, is Professor of Medicine (Emeritus) at Stanford University. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees, and performed internship and residency, at Johns Hopkins. He did further clinical and research training in Cardiology at Indiana University Medical Center and at Stanford, returning to the Stanford faculty in 1971 after military service. Dr. Popp began his career as an “invasive” cardiologist but he focused his research on developing non-invasive methods for medical diagnosis and therapy. He has authored over 270 publications and has been a pioneer in the development of ultrasound in cardiology. He worked with several companies to build their first phased array two-dimensional ultrasonic imaging instruments.

Dr. Popp was President of the American College of Cardiology, The American Society of Echocardiography and The Association of University Cardiologists. He was Chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Cardiovascular Diseases Subspecialty Board and was on the Executive Committee and the Board of Governors of the ABIM. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. Dr. Popp maintains a continuing interest in technology development for improved patient care. He has made significant contributions to the continuous improvement of ultrasonic diagnostic methods by several companies in areas including two-dimensional and three-dimensional echocardiography, Doppler ultrasound, color flow imaging, trans-esophageal and contrast echocardiography. He was one of the first to employ intravascular ultrasonic imaging. Dr. Popp was Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Stanford University School of Medicine and an early member of the Biodesign faculty. Since retirement from the full-time faculty he continues his chairmanship of the Conflict of Interest Committee at the School of Medicine. He has been a Venture Partner at Advanced Technology Ventures and an Advisor to Lightstone Ventures. He is on the Board of Directors of several private companies and heads the Medical Advisory Board of other companies.