Experience

• Before joining Stoel Rives, Mark worked in the healthcare industry as a clinician and a developer of disposable and implantable medical devices for large and small medical device companies. His experience includes customer needs assessment, ideation, product design and engineering, manufacturing, global regulatory, pre-clinical trials, clinical trials, clinical support, commercialization and IP management. This experience gives him a unique perspective of intellectual property matters, particularly those related to healthcare, medical devices and technology development.

Honors & Activities

Professional Activities

• 31 United States Patents – Medical Devices

Civic Activities

• Project Perfect World Foundation; 2005-present; Board member/Team leader – Annual humanitarian medical missions to Ecuador – pediatric orthopedic surgery

Insights & Presentations

• “The efficacy and durability of the Venous Window Needle Guide implanted on uncannulatable arteriovenous fistulas, (co-authors: Galt, S., Crawford, M., Blebea, J., Ladenheim, E., Browne, B.), J. Vasc. Surg., 2016
• “VWING Vascular Needle Guide, a Novel Method to Access Non-transposed Branchiobasilic Arteriovenous Fistulas” (co-authors: Galt, S., Crawford, M.), J. Vasc. Surg., June 2016
• “Use of an implantable needle guide to access difficult or impossible to cannulate arteriovenous fistulae using the buttonhole technique” (co-authors: Hill, A.A., Vasudevan, T., Young, N.P., Crawford, M., Blatter, D.D., Marsh, E., Perry, T., Smith, D., Phillips, C.), J. Vasc. Access, 2013
• Presenter (with Galt, S.), “The VWING Vascular Needle Guide, a Novel Method to Access Non-transposed Branchiobasilic Arteriovenous Fistulas,” Vascular Annual Meeting, National Harbor, MD, June 2016
• Presenter (with Young, N., Galt, S.), “Guided cannulation: A novel AVF access technique,” Annual Dialysis Conference, Seattle, WA, Feb. - March, 2016