David Fischell

Dr. David Fischell is an inventor and serial entrepreneur who has co-founded 14biomedical device companies in the last 25 years, including 5 active companies: Angel Medical Systems, eNeura, Inc (Chairman), NeuroPace, Inc., Svelte Medical Systems, and Ablative Solutions (Director). After earning his Cornell Ph.D. in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, David joined Bell Laboratories in 1979 where, for 11 years, he performed and directed a wide range of research and development projects including leading an internal venture and the design and development of an integrated platform in the AT&T network for AT&T's first-ever enhanced voice service, Infoworx TM. He left Bell Labs in 1991 to work full time on medical devices. He currently has 176 issued U.S. and has published numerous papers in the fields of telecommunications, cardiology, and radiation dosimetry.

Dr. Fischell has received numerous awards and recognitions including his 1990 award for his design of the architecture of the AT&T network platform for enhanced voice services and election as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He was elected to the Cornell University Board of Trustees in 2008 and the Weill Cornell Medicine Board of Overseers in 2016. He holds an appointment as an adjunct professor, is chairman of the Advisory Council, and was instrumental in the founding in 2004 of Cornell's Meing School of Biomedical Engineering.