Christopher Zarins
{{Short description|American physician}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Christopher Zarins
| image =
| native_name = Kristaps (Kristofers) Zariņš
| native_name_lang = lv
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|12|2}}
| birth_place = Tukums, Latvia
| citizenship = United States, Latvia
| alma_mater = BA, Lehigh University (1964)
MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1968)
| occupation = Surgeon, researcher, professor, entrepreneur
| years_active = 1969-present
| known_for = HeartFlow
| children = 3
}}
Christopher K. Zarins (born on {{Date|2 December 1943|12|2}} in Tukums, Latvia) is an American-Latvian surgeon and professor emeritus who specializes in vascular biology and pathology.{{Cite web |date=2008-07-24 |title=The Zarins Lab - Stanford University School of Medicine |url=http://zarinslab.stanford.edu/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724192332/http://zarinslab.stanford.edu/ |archive-date=2008-07-24 |access-date=2022-11-02 }}
Family background and education
Zarins was born during the Second World War in 1943 in the family of Tukums Lutheran pastor Rihards Zariņš (1913–2006) and English teacher Maria Zarinš. In October 1944 he fled to Sweden with his parents and in November 1946 he moved to the United States.{{Cite web |title=Patron of the Month. Donations from Zariņš family have contributed to development of UL history studies |url=https://www.lu.lv/en/about-us/ul-media/news/single/t/48197/ |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=www.lu.lv |date=22 January 2019 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Antra, Bertrams and Kristaps Zariņš |url=https://www.fonds.lv/en/proud-of/patrons/silver-donor-charter/antra-bertrams-and-kristaps-zarins/ |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=www.fonds.lv}}
In 1960, he graduated from the Brooklyn Technical High School in New York, in 1964 he graduated from Lehigh University with B.A. in biology. In 1968, he received his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
From 1968 to 1973 he worked at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, from 1974 to 1979 at the US Navy Medical Center in San Diego. From 1976 to 1993 he taught at the University of Chicago, was a vascular surgeon at the Medical Center, in 1982 he became a professor. In 1993, he moved to California where he began working as a vascular surgeon at Stanford University Medical Center.
Scientific work
Zarins is an author or co-author of more than 15 books and more than 350 scientific articles in the fields of vascular biomechanics and pathobiology of atherosclerosis, carotid stenosis, aortic aneurysms and endovascular therapy.{{Cite web |title=CAP Profile |url=https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/christopher-zarins |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=Stanford University |language=}}{{Cite web |title=Christopher K. Zarins' Profile {{!}} Stanford Profiles |url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/christopher-zarins?tab=publications |website=Stanford University}}
= HeartFlow =
In 2007, Zarins together with biomedical engineer Charles Anthony Taylor founded HeartFlow, Inc., a medical technology company based in Redwood City, California, that developed non-invasive, real-time virtual modeling tool for coronary artery disease (CAD) intervention using estimation of fractional flow reserve (FFR).{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Birgit |date=2021-01-28 |title=Fogarty Innovation's First Company, HeartFlow, Continues to Break Ground |url=https://www.fogartyinnovation.org/fogarty-innovations-first-company-heartflow-continues-to-break-ground/ |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=Fogarty Innovation |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=Aug 9, 2018 |title=How this founder went from academia to a $1.5 billion valuation |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/08/09/heartflow-founder-academia-billion-valuation.html |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=San Francisco Business Times}}{{Cite web |title=Christopher K. Zarins, M.D. COF-1901 - AIMBE |url=https://aimbe.org/college-of-fellows/cof-1901/ |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Charles Anthony Taylor |url=https://research.tue.nl/en/persons/charles-anthony-taylor |access-date=2022-11-03 |website=Eindhoven University of Technology research portal |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [https://profiles.stanford.edu/christopher-zarins Christopher Zarins - Stanford Profiles]
- [https://www.heartflow.com/ HeartFlow website]
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Category:American people of Latvian descent
Category:Brooklyn Technical High School alumni
Category:Lehigh University alumni
Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni
Category:Stanford University School of Medicine faculty
Category:21st-century American businesspeople
Category:American technology company founders