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Topics: Health-Health Care and TreatmentCompetency and Skills-Experience and ExpertiseInnovation-Technological InnovationScience-Science-Based BusinessIn 2002, when Scott Huennekens (MBA ’91) became president and CEO of San Diego–based Volcano Corp., a medical-devices company, he was its eleventh employee. Now the company has more than 1,000 workers and expects revenues of about $280 million this year.
“The company was founded basically to prevent heart attacks,” Huennekens told the San Diego Union-Tribune (January 25, 2010). To that end, Volcano makes systems to detect and treat artery blockages; the technology allows physicians to get inside blood vessels to view obstruction-causing plaques, as opposed to the external, X-ray sort of image provided by an angiogram. Furthermore, explained Huennekens, “We’re now developing innovative technologies to eliminate bypass surgery,” with procedures such as the use of ultrasound inside clogged arteries replacing more invasive treatments.
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