A fourth-generation University of Utah graduate and industry pioneer in the development of microtools used in brain surgery will be the new executive director of the Center for Medical Innovation (CMI) at U of U Health.
从4月1日开始，马克. 保罗, currently president of the neurovascular division at Stryker Neurovascular based in Fremont, 加州, 谁会执掌CMI. 在他36年的职业生涯中, he has led organizations focused on technologies and market development for less invasive treatments of neurovascular conditions, 包括出血性和缺血性中风, 外围栓塞, 以及腹主动脉瘤.
“研究 that leads to innovation that leads to commercialization is a key priority,迈克尔·古德说, M.D., 犹他健康大学的首席执行官, executive dean of the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah, 和A. 洛里斯·贝兹健康科学高级副总裁. “在马克·保罗的领导下, we anticipate that the Center for Medical Innovation will become a university and national leader in these activities and initiatives. Mark brings decades of significant accomplishments and achievement in the medical products industry, 国内和国际.”
医学创新中心支持学生, 教师, and staff efforts to develop the next generation of medical devices and find solutions to some of the world’s biggest health care problems. 结合业务, 工程, 法律, and medical experts both on campus and in local industry, the center has produced hundreds of new medical devices and digital health care solutions.
保罗打算保持这种势头.
“We’re in the golden age of medical device innovation where we can build and design things that we only dreamed of 30 years ago,保罗说. “大发娱乐需要的一切——工程学院, 商学院, 法学院, and the leaders on campus––are in place to make this happen. It’s just one of those great moments where everything is coming together, 我想成为其中的一员.”
保罗, whose great-grandfather was in the first class of U of U students in 1850, graduated from the U in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in English. He originally intended to study 法律 but soon found himself immersed in sales training at Procter & 赌博.
卖了四年肥皂之后, 尿布, 和其他纸制品, 亚利桑那州, 和爱达荷州, he began working as a sales representative for Boston Scientific, 一家生产医疗设备的生物技术公司. 随着时间的推移, 他从客户——放射科医生那里吸取知识, 心脏病专家, and vascular surgeons––that would spark his interest in developing new types of surgical tools.
In 2007, 他加入了史赛克神经血管公司, which is now the largest neurosurgical 业务 in the world and a global leader in the production of microwires, microcatheters, and micro-stents for the treatment of strokes and other neurological disorders.
“I am thrilled about Mark’s new position as Executive Director of the Center for Medical Innovation, and equally excited that his role includes a 教师 appointment at the Eccles School,雷切尔·海斯说。, Ph.D.大卫·埃克尔斯商学院（David Eccles School of 业务）院长. “Mark has been a longtime friend and supporter of the 业务 school, and now he will be a critical part of our mission to deliver an innovative and forward-thinking educational experience. I know our students will gain so much from his vast industry expertise and personal insight.”
保罗在CMI的职责包括：
- Promoting the development and commercialization of new technologies in the medical field, 包括医疗设备和工艺工程.
- Actively participating in the planning for the new James LeVoy Sorenson Innovation and Discovery Center building.
- Facilitating high-impact device development by pairing 教师 into collaborative, 跨学科团队.
- Linking Health Sciences 教师 with appropriate individuals from the Colleges of Engineering, 业务, 和法律.
保罗 will also arrange seminars and courses in the Schools of Medicine and 业务 and the Colleges of Engineering 和法律, as part of an overall curriculum meant to promote the collaborations needed to create successful medical devices. He plans to teach several 业务 and 工程 courses himself.
这是理查德·布朗博士的愿景.D.工程学院院长，拥抱.
“Faculty in the John and Marcia Price College of Engineering are delighted that 马克保罗 is joining the University of Utah to lead medical device commercialization efforts,布朗说. “His industry experience manufacturing a device invented by a U of U 工程 教师 member has given him the expertise needed to bring together medicine, 工程, 业务, and 法律 to improve health care and quality of life for all of us.”
另外, 保罗 will support innovation at the U by leading the medical device accelerator within the PIVOT Center. The medical device accelerator is expected to launch in April.
凭借他的行业专业知识, 保罗 will chart the development path of medical devices and identify optimal startup or licensing opportunities for advanced assets to increase the translation of research into commercially useful output.
“The opportunity to have someone with Mark’s experience in an academic setting is truly unique and ushers in a new era of medical device innovation at the U,Keith Marmer说, 该大学的首席创新 & 经济交流主任.
保罗 lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, Jana (nursing, class of 1987). 他们四个孩子中的两个, 乔什和莎拉, have graduated from the U; Jacob graduates this year, and Alexander returns to the U this fall after serving a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints mission in Oklahoma City.