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Ross Tsugita
Founder
Mr. Tsugita has over 20 years experience designing and
developing new medical devices for the interventional and
surgical markets. He has spent the last 10+ years building
a successful consulting business, ENDO Consulting,
working with venture back companies and multi-national
medical device corporations on projects ranging new
product design to supporting existing commercial
products.
In addition to consulting, Mr. Tsugita held management
positions at pre-IPO companies, IMETR-X, Inc. and
EMBOL-X , Inc. His responsibilities involved managing
product development teams that successfully designed
and developed novel therapeutic and diagnostic devices
from concept to clinicals. One notable project included
distal protection systems for percutaneous interventional
procedures. The project and intellectual property rights
were acquired by Boston Scientific Corporation in June
2000.
Previous to these experiences, Mr. Tsugita spent nearly
two years in Operations at Target Therapeutics working
with Manufacturing and R&D on product transfers and
manufacturing line support. He moved to Target
Therapeutics from Research and Development at Abbott
Laboratories (Hospital Product Division) where he
developed a proprietary polymeric coating systems for
Continuous Cardiac Output pulmonary artery catheters. Mr.
Tsugita has broad background in R&D and Operations
working at small and large companies. His list
accomplishment also included over 30 issued US patents
and 4 published scientific peer review papers.
Selection of patents:
7,362,875 Balloon-expandable hearing device fitting system and
self-expanding hearing device
7,235,061 Guided filter with support wire and methods of use
6,939,313 Device for sensing parameters of a hollow body organ
6.676,682 Percutaneous catheter and guidewire having filter and medical
device deployment
6,371,969 Distal Protection Device and Method
6,231,544 Cardioplegia balloon occluder
6,168,579 Filter system and method of use
6,080,183 Sutureless vessel plug and method of use
6,042,598 Method of protecting a patient from embolization during cardiac
surgery
6,027,520 Percutaneous catheter and guidewire having filter and medical
device deployment
5,412,035 Pressure-sensitive adhesives
Ross Tsugita
Founder
Mr. Tsugita has over 20 years experience designing and
developing new medical devices for the interventional and
surgical markets. He has spent the last 10+ years building
a successful consulting business, ENDO Consulting,
working with venture back companies and multi-national
medical device corporations on projects ranging new
product design to supporting existing commercial
products.
In addition to consulting, Mr. Tsugita held management
positions at pre-IPO companies, IMETR-X, Inc. and
EMBOL-X , Inc. His responsibilities involved managing
product development teams that successfully designed
and developed novel therapeutic and diagnostic devices
from concept to clinicals. One notable project included
distal protection systems for percutaneous interventional
procedures. The project and intellectual property rights
were acquired by Boston Scientific Corporation in June
2000.
Previous to these experiences, Mr. Tsugita spent nearly
two years in Operations at Target Therapeutics working
with Manufacturing and R&D on product transfers and
manufacturing line support. He moved to Target
Therapeutics from Research and Development at Abbott
Laboratories (Hospital Product Division) where he
developed a proprietary polymeric coating systems for
Continuous Cardiac Output pulmonary artery catheters. Mr.
Tsugita has broad background in R&D and Operations
working at small and large companies. His list
accomplishment also included over 30 issued US patents
and 4 published scientific peer review papers.
Selection of patents:
7,362,875 Balloon-expandable hearing device fitting system and
self-expanding hearing device
7,235,061 Guided filter with support wire and methods of use
6,939,313 Device for sensing parameters of a hollow body organ
6.676,682 Percutaneous catheter and guidewire having filter and medical
device deployment
6,371,969 Distal Protection Device and Method
6,231,544 Cardioplegia balloon occluder
6,168,579 Filter system and method of use
6,080,183 Sutureless vessel plug and method of use
6,042,598 Method of protecting a patient from embolization during cardiac
surgery
6,027,520 Percutaneous catheter and guidewire having filter and medical
device deployment
5,412,035 Pressure-sensitive adhesives
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