Paul Yock is the Martha Meier Weiland Professor of Medicine, Emeritus at Stanford University, and founding co-chair of the Department of Bioengineering. He was also the founding Director of Stanford Biodesign, which is now the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign.
A cardiologist by training, Dr Yock is internationally known for his work in inventing, developing, and testing new devices, including the Rapid Exchange TM coronary stenting and balloon angioplasty system, which is now the primary system in use worldwide. He also invented the fundamental approach to intravascular ultrasound and was a leader in developing the field of intravascular imaging. In his academic career he authored over 300 scientific papers, 2 books and over 50 issued U.S. patents. Under his guidance, trainees from Stanford Biodesign founded 56 companies with technologies that have reached millions of patients.
