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2004 Achievement Award Recipient
Thomas J. Fogarty, MD

Consummate Inventor. Archetypal Physician-Entrepreneur. Endovascular Architect. Master Educator. Problem Solver Extraordinaire.

In 2004, New Cardiovascular Horizons was honored to present the 4th annual Achievement Award to Thomas J. Fogarty, MD. The ideas, innovations and inventions of Dr. Tom Fogarty are legendary. They have changed the landscape of medicine and revolutionized cardiovascular care. In 2000, Lemelson-MIT prize, one of the world's most prestigious awards for invention and innovation. Yet, Dr. Fogarty says his most treasured rewards come from "solving a problem that has an impact on an individual patient's life."

From a teenage scrub tech to the "Inventors' Hall of Fame," from the autoclave to a signature Fogarty clamp, from a surgical glove to a balloon catheter, from his garage to Edwards and Medtronic and dozens of other successful companies, from a clutch to the Hancock valve, from the bench top to the Three Arch Partners, from a stubborn medical student entrepreneur to Wall Street, from the OR to the Cath/Endo Lab, from Simpson and Starr to an award-winning Gewurztraminer, from the surgical knife to the first endoluminal therapy, from AAA to the FDA for EVAT, from a balloon and catheter to the AneuRx and aSpire, from Baccus TRELLIS to the NCVH 2004 doubloon, from the NIH to a near sommelier, from a Vascular Architect to an architect of two generations of surgeons and scientists, from Vine Street to Xavier to Oregon to Stanford to PCT to London and to every continent, from hundreds of patents to millions of patients. For more than four decades, Dr. Thomas J. Fogarty has changed and still continues to change the face of cardiovascular care.