Tom M. Krummel

Tom is one of those unique individuals who has seen and experienced medical innovation from every front, including stints as an academic, surgeon, writer, mentor and administrator. A long-time friend of Dr. Fogarty’s, he joined the board of directors of Fogarty Innovation in 2014 and soon was appointed chairman.

In addition to Fogarty, his service is vast: He has been co-director of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign since 2002, holds the Emile Holman Professorship and serves as chair emeritus of the department of surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine, and is the Susan B. Ford Surgeon-in-Chief Emeritus at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

Through this distinguished career, he is proudest of the patients he was privileged to care for, whom he believes embody the pediatric surgeon’s credo of “saving lifetimes.” He is also grateful for his 300 + trainees and mentees, whom he considers a “force multiplier” for future generations of progress.

In fact, that’s what he finds to be most rewarding about his work with the Fogarty Institute—the next generation which will yield additional “Tom Fogartys,” who will continue to invent the future of better care.

As a pediatric surgeon, Tom has been a pioneer in innovation and advancing healthcare. Among his career highlights were his role as an early adopter of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in the treatment of neonatal cardiopulmonary collapse, as well as driving the application of information technology in simulation-based surgical training and surgical robotics.

An involved and influential consultant to the medical device industry, Tom serves on multiple scientific advisory boards and boards of directors, and has received two Smithsonian Information Technology Innovators awards for his work.