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Dr. Mark
Knudson to be Honored as WSU Department of VCAPP’s Distinguished
Graduate Alumnus
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Washington State University’s Department of
Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology and Physiology (VCAPP)
will join in the university’s 100 years of graduate education April 16
by honoring its first Distinguished Graduate Alumnus, Dr. Mark
Knudson.
Knudson, class of 1974, will be honored during a public reception
immediately following his address, “Innovation at the Boundaries:
Clinical Needs in Search of Solution,” noon, in Wegner Hall G-1.
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Knudson, who lives in St. Paul, Minnesota,
received his Ph.D. in Physiology from the WSU College of Veterinary
Medicine. Upon graduation, he was awarded a National Institutes of
Health Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship at WSU and was a
post-doctoral fellow and faculty member at the University of
Washington School of Medicine from 1975 to 1979.
Currently, Dr. Knudson is Chair and Chief
Executive Officer of Venturi Group, LLC, a venture capital-backed
medical device incubator. He also serves as President and CEO of Pi
Medical, Inc., a company that develops products for the treatment of
sleep-disordered breathing, and chair of HeartStent Corporation, a
company researching novel approaches to the treatment of coronary
artery disease.
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