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2005 Achievement Award Recipient
John B. Simpson, MD, PhD

Visionary creator of medical devices. Persistent pioneer in interventional cardiology. Iconoclastic innovator in PVD treatment. Founder of world-class companies.

Dr. John Simpson defies all stereotypes. From West Texas to FoxHollow Drive to Silicon Valley, from Ohio State to Duke to Professorship at Stanford, from an immunology background to receiving the Andreas Grüentzig Achievement Award, from persistent student and physician to an iconoclastic innovator and inventor, from a self-professed “average student” to a PhD and MD and a TCT Lifetime Achievement Award winner, from Digitalis and Lasix to a world-renowned pioneer in interventional cardiology, from an Andreas Grüentzig encounter to the over-the-wire catheter system, from an idea in his den to the founding of ACS, from ACS to Founder of a dozen world-class medical device companies, from CTOs to Lumend, from PTCA-PTA to CVIS to VCD to Perclose, from stenting to atherectomy with DVI and now plaque excision with “The Hawk,” from Eli Lilly to Guidant to Boston Scientific to Abbott to a recent IPO, from “Dust Bowl,” to Chairman of DeNovo Ventures to Wall Street, from still just a “treating doc” to a humble, reluctant entrepreneur… A True Legend in our field.

For almost four decades, John B. Simpson, MD, PhD has changed and still continues to change the face of cardiovascular care.