Biographical Sketch: Dr. Richard A. Schatz is best known as the inventor of the Palmaz-Schatz stent. He attended the State University of New York at Buffalo and majored in Biology then attended Duke Medical School from 1973-1977. He completed a fellowship in Cardiology at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas and is currently the Research Director at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California. Dr. Schatz has authored over 200 articles, abstracts and book chapters and holds fifteen issued patents.
Dr. Schatz was honored as the Distinguished Alumnus and as a Lifetime Scholar of the Barton Hayes Society at Duke University, is a distinguished Fellow of the Hong Kong Cardiology Society, was awarded the Russ Prize for Bioengineering in 2019, received an Honorary Doctorate in Biology from SUNY at Buffalo in 2020 and was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors in 2021.
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