Dr. Brian Courtney

CEO

Toronto ON CANADA

CONAVI

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Dr. Brian Courtney is an interventional cardiologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario. His academic background includes Computer Engineering (BASc 1997) at the University of Waterloo, followed by a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE 2000) at Stanford University. He completed his MD training (Stanford) in 2004, his internal medicine and cardiology residencies at the University of Toronto and his interventional cardiology fellowship at Sunnybrook HSC. Brian is a co-inventor on over 15 issued US patents related to medical technologies and he was a co-founder of two prior start-up companies. His research at Sunnybrook Research Institute focuses on the development of innovative medical devices and related technologies.

Areas of Expertise

Medical Devices

Biomedical Engineering

Clinical Research

Commercialization

Healthcare

Medical Imaging

R&D

Digital Imaging

Medicine

Cardiology

Education

Stanford University School of Medicine

M.D.

Medicine

2004

Stanford University

M.S.E.E.

Electrical Engineering

2000

University of Waterloo

B.A.Sc.

Computer Engineering

1997

Affiliations

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre : Interventional Cardiologist and Clinician Scientist

Media Appearances

Conavi Medical scores FDA approval for catheter-based Foresight ICE ultrasound system

HealthCareBusiness online

2016-01-15

"Our goal is to provide physicians, hospitals and industry partners with new opportunities to guide the increasing number of minimally invasive procedures available for a broad range of conditions," Brian Courtney, president and CEO of Conavi Medical, told HCB News. "The imaging needs for each type of procedure vary considerably."...

Conavi Medical (formerly Colibri Technologies) announces FDA 510k clearance for its first product, the Foresight ICE System for Intracardiac Echocardiography

PR Newswire online

2016-01-14

"FDA clearance of the Foresight ICE System represents a major milestone for Conavi's team and our customers in the US healthcare system," says Brian Courtney, CEO of Conavi Medical Inc. "We look forward to working with physicians in the United States by providing them with new visualization tools to support existing and emerging minimally invasive procedures for patients with a broad range of cardiac conditions. The Foresight ICE system represents Conavi's lead product in its commercialization pipeline. The advanced technology in this system provides us with a remarkable platform from which we will be able to expand in the future to help physicians, healthcare systems and industry partners better address a large number of clinical needs."...

Articles

Innovations in imaging for chronic total occlusions: a glimpse into the future of angiography's blind-spot

European Heart Journal

2008

Chronic total occlusions (CTOs) are a subset of lesions that present a considerable burden to cardiovascular patients. There exists a strong clinical desire to improve non-surgical options for CTO revascularization. While several techniques, devices, and guide ...

Comparison of vascular response to zotarolimus-eluting stent versus sirolimus-eluting stent: intravascular ultrasound results from ENDEAVOR III

American Heart Journal

2008

The purpose of this study was to investigate the vascular response of zotarolimus-eluting stent (ZES) and sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) using serial intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)...

Assessment of coronary plaque collagen with polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT)

International Journal of Cardiology

2006

Current evidence indicates that most plaques classified as vulnerable or ruptured plaque do not lead to unstable angina or myocardial infarction. Improved methods are needed to risk stratify plaques to identify those which lead to most acute coronary ...

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