Avi Roop , BSME

Fellow

Stanford Biodesign Program
Stanford, California

Cottrell Fellow, 2008-09
Kauffman Fellow, 2009-10
Avi Roop holds a Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He has twelve years of medical device industry experience across ten technology initiatives and four commercially available medical devices. As a global marketing manager at St. Jude Medical he was involved with trans-catheter aortic valve, carotid stent, vascular closure and vascular access products. Prior to marketing, Avi was a program manager at St. Jude Medical leading the design and development of an irrigated cardiac ablation catheter and a suture based vascular closure device. As an engineer at St. Jude Medical, Vascular Science and Boston Scientific - Scimed, he designed products for percutaneous bypass surgery, interventional electrophysiology and vascular closure. He currently holds six US patents, two international patents and sixteen published US patent applications