Our Mission
We are on a mission to advance and improve how cardiac arrhythmias are treated. While currently approved therapies only target the cardiac tissue, we believe that we can revolutionize arrhythmia treatment and improve patient outcomes through selective cardiac neuromodulation.
Team
Steven Girouard, PhDSteven Girouard, PhD, is an experienced medical device executive and has held senior management positions at Johnson & Johnson, Guidant, and Cleveland Clinic. He is currently a board director and consultant to several medical device startups, including AtaCor, LumaVision Ltd, Prima Medical, PolyVascular, ONWARD, Attune, and SymKardia. Dr. Girouard was previously President & CEO of Securus Medical, where he led the company from proof of concept through FDA approvals and acquisition by Boston Scientific. He also served as a partner at Oakwood Medical Investors and Omega Funds. Dr. Girouard holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University and MS and PhD degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.
Imad Libbus, PhDImad Libbus, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, is responsible for SymKardia's pre-clinical and clinical research program. Prior to joining SymKardia, he was a technical leader at multiple medical technology companies: R&D Fellow at LivaNova, Senior Director at Corventis (acquired by Medtronic in 2014), and Principal Research Scientist at Guidant (acquired by Boston Scientific in 2007). Dr. Libbus holds a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and an M.S.E. and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. He is a prolific inventor, with over 280 U.S. patents.
Dwight SkinnerDwight Skinner brings more than 25 years of medical device product development to the organization with a proven track record from product inception to commercialization. He leads product development , quality assurance and operations for SymKardia. Dwight previously developed catheter and stimulation leads for cardiac arrythmias, neuromodulation, arterial disease and atrial fibrillation at Guidant (Boston Scientific), Apnex Medical and Medtronic. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and is a certified Master Black Belt in Design for Six Sigma.
Careers
We are always on the look-out for motivated and talented people to join us on our journey to bring a new therapy to patients. If you are interested in the SymKardia mission and you have relevant expertise in cardiovascular medical device development, please email us at hello@SymKardia.com.