Peter J. Fitzgerald , MD, PhD

Professor
Medicine (Cardiology)
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Dr. Fitzgerald is Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine; Professor (by courtesy), Electrical Engineering; Director, Center for Cardiovascular Technology and Innovation and Director, Core Cardiovascular Analysis Laboratory (CCAL) His laboratory includes 17 postdoctoral fellows and graduate engineering students focusing on state-of-the-art technologies in Cardiovascular Medicine. Dr. Fitzgerald has led or participated in over 150 clinical trials and published over 450 manuscripts/chapters. In addition, he heads the Stanford/Asia MedTech innovation program. He has been principle/founder of eighteen medical device companies in the San Francisco Bay Area; twelve of these start-ups have transitioned to large medical device companies. Dr. Fitzgerald serves on several boards of directors and has advised dozens of medical device startups as well as multinational healthcare companies in the design and development of new diagnostic and therapeutic devices in the cardiovascular arena.

He received his MD and PhD from Dartmouth Medical School. He did his medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at UCSF.