Terry Auren

Profile Updated: July 31, 2009
Residing In: coon rapids, MN USA
Occupation: designer
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Where has the time gone, if time would stand still for a one hour what would we do?
It’s marvelous to read the avenues of adventure class mate have taken.
1991 I went to the MPLS Entrepreneur Association and met Manny Villafana, He was starting up a new heart valve company (ATS Medical), later he hired me as his mechanical designer for 12 years. I was setting on a beach in Hawaii in 2003 and I get this call from new start up company (HLT Medical) needing a Transcatheter Percutaneous Heart Valve designer. We have implanted our first valve in a human (7/28/09) after 4 year of development. This procedure took 15 minutes to deploy the valve into the Aortic Tissue Annulus. This valve is designed similar to a Stent, passed threw the femoral artery. For fun I play softball for the Minnesota Master traveling team and try to take more vacation (Italy, Hawaii and Mexico) when available.

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