Tom Duerig

In his role as Chief Technology Officer, Tom drives Confluent Medical Technologies to continually seek and improve technologies that enable the creation of innovative medical devices. Tom founded NDC in 1991, served as the company’s CEO through its acquisition by Johnson & Johnson in 1997, and resumed that role after the company’s spinout from Johnson & Johnson in 2008. While at Johnson & Johnson, Tom was instrumental in the development of the SMART stent line of products, the TrapEase filter, and several other products within the company’s Cordis division. Prior to NDC and Johnson & Johnson, Tom held technical roles within Brown, Boveri & Cie, and Raychem Corporation. Tom co-founded the Society of Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies (SMST), and has authored more than one hundred patents and publications in the field of shape memory alloys. Tom received his BS in Physics from Lehigh University and his MS, ME, and PhD in Materials Science from Carnegie Mellon University.