Tom Shoup:
CLASS OF 1971
Washington High SchoolClass of 1971
Washington, PA
Washington & Jefferson CollegeClass of 1975
Washington, PA
Seventh Ward SchoolClass of 1966
Washington, PA
Tom's Story
Life
After HS graduation, college at W&J and then graduate school in St. Louis. Ph.D. in physics in 1981 then went work at Hewlett-Packard in California. Moved to Massachusetts in '84 to work in HP's medical business. Moved back to California in '95 to work in HP's internet business. Joined new HP medical division in '97, spun out of HP as part of Agilent Technologies in '99. Agilent's medical business sold to Philips Electronics in Nov '00 and sale completed in August, 2001. Decided to start my own healthcare service business to monitor patients at home who have congestive heart failure, to keep them out of the hospital. MDs wouldn''t refer patients because Medicare didn't cover this so closed the business in 2004 and joined Siemens Ultrasound as VP of R&D to finish the design of the 3D real-time cardiac system. As Sie...Expand for more
mens downsized I moved on to Advanced Medical Optics in 2006 as VP of R&D for their LASIK eye surgery equipment business, which tanked in 2008 when the recession hit since it is a consumer business. Spent the next 3 years as Principal Scientist at Pelikan Technologies developing a glucose meter which incorporated the meter, a painless lancing device, and a cassette of test strips all in one device. We were successful technically but by 2010 none of the big guys (J&J, Abbott, etc.) wanted to buy us so the business closed. Spent the next 10 years as Foxburg LLC consulting with new medical device companies teaching them how to be a medical device company given the approach to engineering required in such a business. Retired in 2019.to make wine, bake artisan bread, and volunteer with World Central Kitchen among other charities.
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