Tom Fogarty, former Stanford University Professor and cardiovascular surgeon, has founded over 33 medical device companies and has been credited with over 125 patents. It has been estimated that Dr. Fogarty’s medical devices have touched the lives of over 25 million patients worldwide.

The founding of Crux Biomedical in 2004 was another step in Fogarty’s passion to provide clinicians with improved medical treatments for potentially life threatening conditions of the human vascular system.