Paul G. Yock, Recipient of the 2024 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford Medical School
Curator: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN
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Paul G. Yock, Stanford University
For innovations in interventional cardiology. Paul Yock’s visionary work understanding the human heart is applied around the world today to improve patient care and save countless lives. His creation of the Biodesign approach to training future leaders of biotechnology and health care ensures his insights and experience will benefit generations to come.
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National Medal of Technology and Innovation (NMTI)
Recipients of the 2024 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, administered by President Joe Biden and Laureates of the National Medal of Science, administered by NSF
Paul Yock – The Martha Meier Weiland Professor in the School of Medicine and Professor of Bioengineering, Cardiovascular Medicine, and (by courtesy) of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Paul Yock is the Martha Meier Weiland Professor of Medicine and founding co-chair of Stanford’s Department of Bioengineering, with courtesy appointments in the Graduate School of Business and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also founder and director of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign.
After completing his undergraduate and graduate studies at Amherst College and Oxford, respectively, Paul received his MD from Harvard Medical School followed by internship and residency training at the University of California, San Francisco and a fellowship in cardiology at Stanford. He began his faculty career as an interventional cardiologist at UCSF and then moved to Stanford in 1994.
Paul has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications, chapters and editorials, two textbooks, and over 50 US patents. He is internationally known for his work in inventing, developing, and testing new devices, including the Rapid Exchange™ stenting and balloon angioplasty system, which is now the primary system in use worldwide. He also invented the fundamental approach to intravascular ultrasound imaging and founded Cardiovascular Imaging Systems (CVIS), later acquired by Boston Scientific. Recent awards include the Transcatheter Therapeutics (TCT) Career Achievement Award, the American College of Cardiology Distinguished Scientist Award, and the National Academy of Engineering’s 2018 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education.
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Yock began his faculty career as an interventional cardiologist at UC San Francisco and then moved to Stanford in 1994. Yock is known for his work in inventing, developing and testing new devices, including the
- Rapid Exchange angioplasty and stenting system, which is the primary approach used worldwide. Yock also authored the fundamental patents for
- intravascular ultrasound imaging, conducted the initial clinical trials and
- established the Stanford Center for Research in Cardiovascular Interventions as a core laboratory for analysis of intravascular ultrasound clinical studies. He also
- invented the Smart Needle and
- is a co-inventor of the strain-reduction patch for wound healing.
- Yock was founding Co-Chair of the Department of Bioengineering and continues research related to new device technologies.
- Yock also was the founding director of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign – dedicated to advanced training in medical technology innovation.
List of Patents on Cardiovascular Imaging and Therapies, 1997 – 2007
List of Patents on Skin and Wound Treatment and Therapies, 2008 – 2012
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