Neal Eigler, M.D. ’78, has been named CEO of V-Wave, an early-stage medical device company located in Israel that makes innovative, implantable devices for treating patients with heart failure. Eigler trained in systems engineering at UCLA, then attended Yale School of Medicine, and completed a cardiovascular fellowship at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. He served as co-director of cardiac intervention at Cedars for more than two decades, and was professor of medicine at UCLA. He holds 41 U.S. patents on medical devices. He was a co-founder and/or medical director of progressive angioplasty at Conor MedSystems, where he co-invented its multi-drug delivery stent platform with programmable elution kinetics. In 2000, Eigler founded Savacor, a developer of an implantable left atrial pressure sensing system that was linked to a real-time patient self-management system for treating heart failure.