Ross Tonkens

Ross Tonkens, M.D. ’74, has been appointed head of the American Heart Association’s (AHA’s) new Science and Technology Accelerator division. He is charged with identifying and vetting potentially “game-changing” scientific innovations aligned with AHA’s core mission—to foster healthier lives free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke—that are insufficiently developed to attract private equity funding, and with accelerating their translation into products that improve real-world cardiovascular outcomes.