Joe is an interventional cardiac electrophysiologist, medical technology expert, an experienced CEO, investor, and board member with a distinguished 25+ year career in healthcare, spanning applied research, clinical practice, medical technology innovation, national and international thought leadership, large and small company leadership, and healthcare policy.
Joe was trained as a clinician scientist in Boston, with research training at MIT and Harvard, and clinical training at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
His doctoral dissertation spawned a new field of scientific inquiry into mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias as well as a new company that progressed to its own IPO.
After additional subspecialty training in cardiology and interventional cardiac electrophysiology, Joe joined the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis in both Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, excelling in both clinical practice as well as new technology creation.
Joe joined the Medical Advisory Board of Guidant Corporation in St. Paul and was subsequently recruited to be its Chief Medical Officer. Joe personally drove the US CMS positive national coverage decision for Guidant’s defibrillator therapy, driving clinical adoption of life-saving technology and associated market value growth.
Following the Guidant Corp sale to Boston Scientific, Joe accepted a position at J&J, ultimately responsible for its Emerging Technologies organization within the Corporate Office of Science and Technology. In this role and as medical liaison to J&J’s Development Corporation, Joe identified and championed the investment and acquisition of new technologies / businesses for J&J. in Joe’s most recent roles, he has worked closely with Gary West, an entrepreneurial billionaire philanthropist in San Diego, in his efforts to drive efficiency into the US healthcare system. Joe has served as Chief Medical and Science Officer for the West Health Institute, Manager of the West Health Investment Fund, Board Member of the West Health Incubator, President of the West Health Policy Center, and leadership of two digital health / virtual healthcare companies (President and CEO of Reflexion Health, Inc, and Board Chair and interim CEO of The Learning Corp, Inc). Following the successful sale of these two digital health companies, Joe joined BD as its Chief Scientific Officer, where he works across the many separate business units to identify, develop, and scale transformational medical technology solutions.
Joe holds degrees from Johns Hopkins (B.E.S.), MIT (S.M. in Electrical Engineering; Ph.D. from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology) and Harvard Medical School (M.D.). Joe has dozens of publications and 11 patents in the field of medical technology. He is an advisor to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (where he also holds an adjunct faculty appointment) the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and he serves as an advisor/board member to a number of early-stage med-tech companies.
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