Academic Partners and Advisors

our expert network

Independent clinical expertise supporting early-stage Development programs for Novel Medical Devices

Clinical Accelerator collaborates with a network of leading academics and internationally recognized Key Opinion Leaders across Europe and the United States. These distinguished experts provide strategic insight, operator training, procedural support, and clinical feasibility guidance for complex First-in-Human and Early Human Feasibility studies with novel medical devices.

Horst Sievert

MD

Director and Founder of CVC Frankfurt, St. Katharinen Hospital Frankfurt, Germany Specialist in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Angiology, and Intensive Care

Marat Fudim

MD

Associate Professor and heart failure cardiologist at the Duke University Medical Center. Medical Director for the Heart Failure Research Unit, and Heart Failure Remote Monitoring

Ulrich Schäfer

MD, Prof

Section Head for Innovative Interventional Cardiology at the Herz- und Gefäßzentrum (Heart & Vascular Center), Bad Bevensen, Germany

Christopher Meduri

MD

Structural and Interventional Cardiologist at Stern Cardiovascular Foundation and Chief Medical Officer for Anteris Technologies (NASDAQ: AVR)

Howard Levin

MD

CEO & CMO of Deerfield Catalyst, a premier medtechincubator. President & CSO of CorideaLLC, a technology incubator and consulting firm.

Thomas Waggoner

MD

Director Structural Heart Program & Director Cardiovascular Research at Tucson Medical Center

Liviu Klein

MD, Prof

Professor of Clinical Medicine University of California San Francisco

Thomas Modine

MD, PhD, MBA

Professor of cardiovascular surgery at CHU de Bordeaux and professor at ANZHEN hospital in Beijing, China

Klaus Witte

MD

Cardiologist at the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine

Nadira Hamid

MD

Cardiologist & Director of Echocardiography Core Laboratory at Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation

Vinayak Bapat

MD

Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Allina Health Minneapolis

Gagan Singh

MD

Director of Structural Heart Program & Professor at US Davis Health

Regulatory Advisors

Lauren S. Baker

PhD

Founder of Insight Medical Consulting. Founder of Boston Biomedical Associates, a boutique consulting and clinical research organization, sold to Avania B.V.