Pioneers of the Medical Device Industry in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Kurt Amplatz

Titles: Pioneers of the Medical Device Industry in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Kurt Amplatz (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Kurt Amplatz was born in Austria. He studied in Switzerland and France. He obtained his medical degree and then finished his training in the United States. He developed many medical devices and started two medical device companies, Kamca and AGA. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Education; early training as a doctor; how he came to Minnesota and why he studied hearts; experiences as instructor in radiology; developing medical devices for neuroradiology, uroradiology, and cardiac radiology; starting Kamca and then AGA (Amplatz Gougeon Afremor); patents; main product of AGA, the septal occluder; papers he has coauthored; future of small device companies; early beginnings of Medtronic; new products being developed; personal connection with pacemakers.

Dates

• 10/23/2000 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Jeffrey, Kirk
• interviewee: Amplatz, Kurt

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 87
• Accession Number: AV2001.104.2

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Pioneers of the Medical Device Industry in Minnesota Oral History Project' <OH 87>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 14 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:00:33 running time

Subjects

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