Rodney Perkins

Rodney Perkins (born 1936), a physician and entrepreneur, is Professor of Surgery at the Stanford School of Medicine.[1]

Biography

Born in 1936, Perkins grew up in Evansville, Indiana.[2] He attended Indiana University, initially enrolling as a dental student, but changed in his first year to pre-med, and then continued his studies at Indiana University School of Medicine. In his fourth year, as he was learning surgical procedures, he designed a medical device that cooled the blood prior to cardiac surgery that won first place in the AMA’s Medical Student Research Competition.[3][4] He graduated in 1961.

Academic career

Perkins moved to San Francisco in 1962 and one year later entered a surgical residency at Stanford University.[3] In 1968 he started his own practice adjacent to the Stanford campus.[5] This ultimately became the California Ear Institute at Stanford.[6] Perkins’ long tenure at Stanford was also celebrated with the dedication of the Rodney Perkins Microsurgery Laboratory in 2008.[7]

Business activities

Perkins’ research and career as an entrepreneur has mainly focused on the field of otology. He is the founder of the California Ear Institute at Stanford and a founder or cofounder of Soundhawk, Collagen Corporation,[8] Laserscope,[9] ReSound, Novacept, Pulmonx,[10] Sound ID,[11] EarLens,[12] and DFine Inc.[13][14] Three of these companies have been taken public.[15][16][17]


Perkins is the founder of three public companies: Collagen Corporation (collagen-based implant materials),[3] Laserscope (surgical lasers),[9] and ReSound Corporation (high tech signal processing hearing devices).[17] He is also the founder and Chairman of Novacept (women's health), sold to Cytyc Corporation,[18] Sound ID (hearing science),[19] Pulmonx (interventional pulmonology and emphysema treatment),[20] and was Chairman of Surgrx (electrosurgical instrumentation), which was sold to Ethicon Endo-Surgery,[21] a division of Johnson & Johnson,[22] in 2008.

Currently, Perkins is founder, Chairman and CMO of Earlens Corporation, which is developing what it hopes will be a new method of sound transduction for hearing improvement.[23] Perkins is co-founder and Chairman of Procept,[24] a company developing a biorobotic minimally invasive solution for benign prostatic hypertrophy.[25]

Recognition

Perkins received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Medical Futures,[2] a British organization that fosters innovation in medicine. He also received the Distinguished Medical Alumnus Award from Indiana University and was inducted into the Evansville Hall of Fame.[26]

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References
  1. "Rodney Perkins , MD". Stanford. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
  2. "Professor Rodney Perkins Winner of a Medical Futures Lifetime Achievement Award". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  3. Fields, Helen. "Biodesign series features innovations from Perkins". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  4. "Three Indiana University Alumni to Receive Honors During Busy Reunion Weekend". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  5. "CEI History".
  6. "Dinner & Interview – Medical Insights" (PDF). Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  7. "Microsurgery lab opens, named for Rodney Perkins". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  8. Fields, Helen. "Biodesign series features innovations from Perkins". Retrieved 12 December 2013.
  9. "Laserscope History". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  10. "Pulmonx Raises $32 Million for Launch of Emphysema Products". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  11. "About Sound ID". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  12. "Board of Directors". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  13. "Executive Profile Rodney Perkins M.D." Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  14. "Earlens Board of Directors". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  15. "Collagen Corp Acquires Interest in Cohesion Corp". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  16. "Laserscope History". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  17. "ReSound Corporation Completes Offering of 2,500,000 Shares of Common Stock at $8.50 Per Share". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  18. "Cytyc to acquire Novacept for $325M". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  19. "Board of Directors". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  20. "Ethicon Endo-Surgery To Acquire SurgRx". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  21. "homepage". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  22. "Ethicon homepage". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  23. Perkins, R. "Earlens tympanic contact transducer: a new method of sound transduction to the human ear". Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 114: 720–8. doi:10.1016/s0194-5998(96)70092-x. PMID 8643293.
  24. "World First Surgery Robot Debuts at Tauranga Hospital". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  25. Dickison, Michael (Jan 25, 2013). "Silicon Valley surgery robot debuts in NZ". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  26. Erbacher, Megan. "EVSC inducts group into Hall of Fame". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
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