MTLF Advisory Board

MTLF Board Chairman
Hon. David Durenberger
Senior Health Policy Fellow, University of St. Thomas

MTLF Director
Ms. Susan Foote, J.D.
Director, Medical Technology Leadership Forum;
Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

Dr. Susan Alpert
Senior Vice President - Chief Quality & Regulatory Officer, Medtronic, Inc.

Mr. Chris Cerone
Vice President, Government Affairs, Zimmer Holdings, Inc

Dr. Lawrence H. Cohn
Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Harvard Medical School;
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Dr. Richard Coutts
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery & Representative - AAOS,
University of CA, San Diego

Mr. Mitchell Dann
Principal, Sapient Capital

Dr. Arthur Erdman
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota

Mr. Stephen Ferguson
Chairman of the Board, Cook Group Incorporated

Mr. Peter Gove
Retired Executive, St. Jude Medical

Ms. Phyllis Greenberger
President and CEO, Society for Women's Health Research

Dr. Kenneth H. Keller
President Emeritus, University of Minnesota

Dr. Robert Nerem
Parker H. Petit Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience

Mr. David Nexon
Senior Executive Vice President, AdvaMed

Dr. Richard Re
Vice President and Director of Research, Ochsner Clinic Foundation

Dr. Harold Urschel
Chair of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgical Research, Education & Clinical Excellence, Baylor University Medical Center