Adams, Harkness & Hill Adds Jonathan Gertler, M.D. to Healthcare Investment Banking Team.Business Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 2001 Prime focus will be on medical devices and technology sectors Adams, Harkness & Hill, the Boston-based investment bank specializing in emerging growth companies, announced today that Jonathan P. Gertler, M.D. has been named vice president of its healthcare investment banking division. Dr. Gertler will focus specifically on the medical device/medical technology industries, working closely with the firm's research teams to expand Adams, Harkness & Hill's investment banking activities in these sectors. "Jonathan brings a unique combination of medical and venture capital experience to the firm. He has had extraordinary achievements within academic medicine and is intimately familiar with a broad range of life sciences companies, as well as the cutting-edge technologies within this quickly evolving field," said Greg Brown Greg Brown may refer to:
Dr. Gertler, 45, comes to Adams, Harkness & Hill after spending 14 years as a practicing surgeon and in clinical and basic research, and with three years of experience in venture capital investing within the medical device and technology arenas. During his academic surgical career, Dr. Gertler was Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Yale New Haven New Haven, city (1990 pop. 130,474), New Haven co., S Conn., a port of entry where the Quinnipiac and other small rivers enter Long Island Sound; inc. 1784. Firearms and ammunition, clocks and watches, tools, rubber and paper products, and textiles are among the many Hospital, and subsequently was Chief of Vascular Surgery Vascular surgery is a subspecialty of general surgery in which diseases of the vascular system, or arteries and veins, are managed, largely via surgical intervention. The vascular surgeon is trained in the diagnosis and management of diseases affecting all parts of the vascular at SUNY-HSCB in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . For the last nine years, Dr. Gertler has been a vascular surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital Health care The major teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School, widely regarded as one of the best health care centers in the world in Boston and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. . Additionally, he has also held an appointment as lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, and was Associate Director of the clinical and research vascular laboratories at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Gertler is the author or co-author of more than 100 articles, abstracts and chapters and has been a reviewer for the Journal of Vascular Surgery, the New England Journal of Medicine The New England Journal of Medicine (New Engl J Med or NEJM) is an English-language peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world. , the Journal of Critical Care Medicine and others. Dr. Gertler founded Cardiovascular Technologies, where he developed an endovascular device that he and a fellow MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology colleague invented. They sold the company's core assets last year to Embolic embolic /em·bol·ic/ (em-bol´ik) pertaining to an embolus or to embolism. em·bol·ic adj. 1. Relating to, or caused by an embolus or embolism. 2. Relating to emboly. Protection Inc., which was subsequently acquired by Boston Scientific The Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) (abbreviated BSC), is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices whose products are used in a range of interventional medical specialties, including interventional cardiology, peripheral interventions, . From 1998 until 2001, in addition to his surgical responsibilities, Dr. Gertler was a venture partner for Schroder Ventures Life Science Fund, one of the largest dedicated life sciences and healthcare private equity funds worldwide. He played a key role in at least five medical device and technology venture capital transactions. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of MedCentral, a radiology technology company based in St. Louis. "This is an extraordinary time for medical and scientific discovery even though life science businesses are under tremendous regulatory and commercial pressures," Dr. Gertler said. "The health care group at Adams, Harkness and Hill has the rare depth of strategic, financial, and medical knowledge to help its clients navigate the resultant issues. I am proud to be a part of this team. " Dr. Gertler holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Conn.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1831. There are special cooperative study programs with the California Institute of Technology and the engineering department of Columbia Univ. , an M.D. from Columbia University, and an M.B.A. in Health Policy and Management from Boston University. He trained in general surgery at Yale University and received his vascular surgical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. About Adams, Harkness & Hill Adams, Harkness & Hill is an independent, full-service investment bank focused exclusively on emerging growth companies in the technology, healthcare and consumer sectors. Backed by its world-class industry research, AH&H offers each client a complete array of investment banking, sales and trading, asset management and corporate services. Uniting its commitment to developing long-term client relationships with its long-standing access to the nation's top portfolio managers, AH&H offers the expertise of a large national investment bank with the personalized attention of a specialized institution. Headquartered in Boston, Adams, Harkness & Hill has West Coast offices in San Francisco, and European offices through Adams, Harkness & Hill Ltd. in London and Paris. More information is available at www.ahh.com. |
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