As a teenager, he began cleaning surgical equipment at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati. There, Fogarty found a mentor — vascular surgeon John J. Cranley, MD — and developed a passion for ...

Named in honor of Thomas J. Fogarty, MD—a pioneering cardiovascular surgeon and icon in medical device innovation—the Fogarty Prize is made possible through a foundational grant from the Linda and ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Therapies that have transformed the treatment of cancer, atrial fibrillation, and life-threatening birth defects have been named finalists for the inaugural ...

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Cincinnati native Dr. Thomas J. Fogarty died Dec. 28 at age 91. Fogarty, a prolific inventor and surgeon, created the balloon catheter, which pioneered minimally invasive surgery, when he was a ...

"The first ones were very crude, they were made by me," said Thomas J. Fogarty, M.D. It's been nearly half a century, since a tiny balloon catheter helped change the direction of vascular medicine, ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Allan Zingeler, Raju Viswanathan, PhD, and Michael Mahoney of Boston Scientific have been awarded the inaugural Thomas J. Fogarty Prize (Fogarty Prize) for the ...

About Thomas J. Fogarty, MD Tom Fogarty dedicated his career to improving medicine. His balloon embolectomy catheter, invented when he was still in medical school, revolutionized vascular surgery and ...

Allan Zingeler, Raju Viswanathan, PhD, and Michael Mahoney of Boston Scientific have been awarded the inaugural Thomas J. Fogarty Prize (Fogarty Prize) for the FARAPULSE(TM) PFA Platform. The award, ...