Howard Root is the recently-retired Chief Executive Officer of Vascular Solutions, Inc., a company he founded in 1997, took public in 2000, and grew into a worldwide medical device company that he sold to Teleflex for $1 billion in February 2017. Over the company’s 20 years, Howard led Vascular Solutions in inventing, developing and launching over 100 new medical devices that are used daily to improve the lives of patients suffering from cardiovascular disease. In 2014, Vascular Solutions and Howard were indicted on felony charges alleging the company’s salespeople had promoted off-label an FDA-cleared medical device that made up only 0.1% of the company’s sales and never harmed a single patient. After surviving an arduous legal process, with 121 attorneys charging $25 million in legal fees, in February 2016 the jury returned a verdict of not guilty on all charges, even though the defense didn’t call a single witness to testify in the four-week trial.
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Right to Try: Giving Patients a Fighting Chance
Minnesota Lawyers Chapter
Cardiac Arrest: Five Heart-Stopping Years as a CEO On the Feds' Hit-List
Wilmington Lawyers Chapter
Richards, Layton & Finger, PA920 North King Street
Wilmington, DE 19802
Regulatory Transparency: A Cautionary Tale
Montgomery Lawyers Chapter
Capital City Club201 Monroe St #2100
Montgomery, AL 36104
Deep Dive Episode 8 – Cardiac Arrest: A Cautionary Tale
Regulatory Transparency Project Teleforum
TeleforumEvent and Book Signing with Howard Root
Mobile Lawyers Chapter
The Pollock-Altmayer House501 Government St Suite 1
Mobile, AL 36602
Cardiac Arrest: A Cautionary Tale
Regulatory Transparency Project Teleforum
Howard Root started Vascular Solutions, a medical device company, from scratch. Fifteen years later, his...