Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> July 12, 2012
Bernard A. Hausen has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Cardica, Inc., since December 2000. Dr. Hausen cofounded the company in October 1997 and has served as a Director and Chief Medical Officer since inception. He received a medical degree from Hannover Medical School in Germany in 1988 and was trained there as a General and Cardiothoracic Surgeon. Upon completion of his training, he received a Ph.D. in medical physiology in 1999. From 1996 to 2000, he was employed as a Senior Research Scientist in the laboratory for transplantation immunology of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University. Until Dr. Hausen became a full-time employee of Cardica in October 2000, he remained responsible for all surgery-related research in that laboratory. Profile
Dr. Hausen: Yes. Cardica was founded in 1997 as a medical device company with our
