Kurt Amplatz

Dr. Kurt Amplatz is a co-founder and former President of AGA Medical and, since 1995, has served as a research and development consultant to the company. From 1995 to September 1999, and again from August 2005 to April 2006, Dr. Amplatz also served as a director of the company. Dr. Amplatz retired in 1999 from the University of Minnesota after a distinguished career as the Malcolm B. Hanson Research Professor of Diagnostic Radiology. Dr. Amplatz’s many inventions during his career include the company’s first commercially available product, the AMPLATZER Septal Occluder. Dr. Amplatz received the Society of Interventional Radiology’s Gold Medal in 1996 in recognition of his contributions to the field, and he is credited with more than 700 journal articles, books and abstracts in the field of radiology.