January 10, 2007

Medicine, Business and Entrepreneurship: Lecture at Kalamazoo College

KALAMAZOO, MI—Tim Fischell, M.D., director of cardiac research at the Borgess Heart Center for Excellence, will give an interdisciplinary lecture on the intersection of medicine, business, and entrepreneurship at 4 p.m., Thursday, January 18, in 103 Dewing Hall, Kalamazoo College. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call 269.337.7000.

Fischell is a prolific inventor of medical devices, with 60 patents granted and pending. He is a professor of medicine at Michigan Statue University. Fischell has pioneered the world’s first radioisotope stent, and is co-inventor of the Johnson & Johnson BX Velocity stent. He is a frequent international lecturer and author of more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, 20 book chapters, and 80 abstracts. He is a graduate of Cornell University.

A Fellowship in Learning: At Home in the World, Kalamazoo College is a national liberal arts college and the creator and home of the Kalamazoo Plan. By emphasizing scholarship, civic engagement, and foreign study, Kalamazoo College cultivates a fellowship in learning among students, faculty, and a community of scholars throughout the world. Its students shape elements of the Kalamazoo Plan—rigorous academics, career internships, study abroad, service-learning, and a senior individualized project—into an educational experience that provides insight into the meaning of the kind of citizenship that is at home in the world.