Amr Salahieh

Amr Salahieh is a seasoned medical device entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the medical device industry. Amr is the founder of Shifamed LLC, a Silicon Valley based medical device incubator founded in 2009, from which Apama Medical, Maya Medical and Kalila Medical were formed. Prior to Shifamed, Amr co-founded Sadra Medical, a percutaneous aortic valve replacement company, raising $33 million in financing and leading the company to its first in-human milestone. Sadra Medical was sold to Boston Scientific for $450 million in January of 2011. Previously, as VP of R&D at Boston Scientific, Amr brought the FilterWire EX to the US market. He also played an active role in building EPI and in its acquisition by Boston Scientific. Amr has extensive R&D management experience stemming from his engineering consulting firm, Sobek Medical LLC which he sold to EPI, and from his work at CardioThoracic Systems and Guidant. Amr has also served as board member and advisor to a number of medical device companies including Atheromed Inc., SquareOne Inc., and TriReme Medical, Inc. Amr is inventor/co-inventor of 37 US issued patents and 78 pending patent applications. He holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.