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Manny Villafaña was born in 1940 in New York to Puerto Rican immigrants and attended Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx.〔(A Boy’s Story )〕 He began his career in 1964 at medical-device exporter Picker International. In 1967, he was hired away from Picker by Medtronic to become their first international sales administrator.〔(2010 Induction into the Minnesota Science and Technology Hall of Fame )〕 == Business == In 1971 he launched Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. (CPI); a CRM company that revolutionized the pacemaker industry by introducing a long life lithium iodine pacemaker, a technology still utilized by a majority of the market. CPI was ultimately acquired by Eli Lilly & Company, which spun it out as Guidant, which in turn was recently acquired by Boston Scientific, Inc.〔(TCB People )〕 In 1976, he founded St. Jude Medical where his team engineered the first bileaflet mechanical heart valve, which reduced the frequency of blood clots in patients. It still dominates the mechanical valve replacement market .〔(St. Jude’s Medical Heart Valve is Still the Market Standard )〕〔(TCB People )〕 In 1982, Villafana founded GV Medical, which developed a device to open blood vessels open.〔(Manuel Villafaña Executive Profile )〕 In 1987, he founded Helix BioCore, which eventually transformed into ATS Medical, a company that developed a bi-leaflet valve which uses an open-pivot design to reduce clots and improve blood flow.〔(Meanwhile, in Money-apolis )〕 Then in 2000, he launched CABG Medical to pursue the creation of an artificial graft for coronary bypass surgery. The company closed in 2006.〔(Manny Villafaña The ‘Cardiac Kahuna' )〕 In 2007, he launched Kips Bay Medical, a medical device company that focuses on proprietary external saphenous vein support technology for use in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. .〔(Manny Villafaña’s Lucky Number 7 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Manny Villafana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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