Peter Fitzgerald , MD

Associate Professor

Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Dr. Peter Fitzgerald is the Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Technology and Director of the Cardiovascular Core Analysis Laboratory (CCAL) at Stanford University Medical School. He is an Interventional Cardiologist and has a PhD in Engineering. He is Professor in both the Departments of Medicine and Engineering at Stanford. Presently, Dr. Fitzgerald?s laboratory includes 14 postdoctoral fellows and graduate engineering students focusing on state-of-the-art technologies in Cardiovascular Medicine. He has led or participated in over 95 clinical trials, published over 300 manuscripts/chapters, and lectures worldwide. Peter has been principle/founder of eleven medical device companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has transitioned eight of these start-ups to large medical device companies. He serves on several boards of directors, advised dozens of medical device startups as well as multinational healthcare companies in the design and development of new diagnostic and therapeutic devices in the cardiovascular arena. In 2001, Peter co-founded LVP Capital, a venture firm, focused on medical device and biotechnology start-ups in San Francisco.