Enhancing the Medical Products Innovation Pipeline: Challenges, Strategies and Implications

Frederick Schoen, MD, PhD

Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital

Frederick J. Schoen, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology (HST) at Harvard Medical School, and Executive Vice-Chairman of the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). His research focuses on native and substitute heart valves. In institutional roles, he promotes multidisciplinary innovation using technology, provides mentoring and career development leadership for translational research, and teaches Pathology, Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering and Medical Device Development. He serves on the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center SAB, and many academic and governmental advisory, grant review and editorial committees, and consults with several medical device companies.