Lydia Garcia was in for a tough start. Before she was born, her parents, Noemi and Ellis Garcia, learned she had transposition of the great arteries (TGA), a serious congenital heart defect in which oxygen-rich blood is sent back to the lungs while oxygen-poor blood...
Momentum continues to build for Raydiant Oximetry Inc., a Fogarty Innovation graduate that is redefining maternal and fetal care during childbirth. Founded by pediatric anesthesiologist Dr. Neil P. Ray, Raydiant is delivering promising outcomes with Lumerah, the...
El Camino Health and Tom Fogarty, MD, share a history of visionary innovation in advancing patient care. In 1971, El Camino Health became the first hospital in the U.S. to adopt a modern electronic health record system, drawn by its potential to enhance efficiency and...
In December of 2021, Italia DeLeon was nearing the end of her second trimester. She and her husband David, who had known each other since they were 13, were looking forward to the arrival of their second son. They planned to name him Diego. Italia and David are...
Many ventures at Fogarty Innovation start with a defining “lightbulb moment,” and PQ Bypass, among the initial companies to emerge from Fogarty Innovation, shares a parallel journey. Following its acquisition by Endologix, a key player in vascular disease treatment,...
At Fogarty, we often hear of our graduates publishing in influential journals. Today we are proud to announce that Surbhi Sarna, founder and former CEO of nVision, a Fogarty graduate, is releasing a book this spring. “Without a Doubt: How to Go from Underrated to...
Medtech success stories are always inspiring and there is nothing better than hearing one from a Fogarty alumni company. Joe Eibl, CEO of Flosonics, visited FI earlier this month to give a Lunch & Learn educational talk describing his company’s journey from...
Fogarty graduate EchoPixel helped revolutionize heart surgery with its True3D, a turnkey surgical planning software that creates a hologram of the heart for study before an incision is ever made. With FDA 510(k) clearance, True3D has already been implemented by more...
PQ Bypass, one of the first Fogarty Innovation startups, was recently acquired by Endologix LLC, a leader in the treatment of vascular disease. The addition of the PQ Bypass technology portfolio, which targets the treatment of complex superficial femoral artery (SFA)...
Thanks to its recent acquisition by Merck on behalf of its planned spinoff of Organon, Alydia Health, a Fogarty Innovation graduate, is one step closer to its goal of eradicating postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), the leading global cause of maternal death. The deal is...