Serial incubator. Dr. Makower is also a serial entrepreneur. Of his many companies, a standout is Aclarent, which transformed treatment for allergies by applying balloon angioplasty technology in place of more invasive, and more expensive, surgical procedures. The process is now called "balloon sinuplasty." We list Dr. Makower for his incubating role in healthcare innovation. He founded the medical device incubator, ExploraMed, in 1995, and co-founded Stanford Biodesign with Paul Yock, where he is a consulting faculty member -- he calls himself a "real world mentor." Dr Makower is also an investing partner at New Enterprise Associates. He previously founded TransVascular, (Medtronic), EndoMatrix (C.R. Bard) and until 1995, managed Pfizer’s strategic innovation group, which he founded. Dr. Makower has more than over four dozen patents on medical devices in the fields of Cardiology, ENT, Orthopedics, General Surgery, Drug Delivery and Urology. He is a Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School. In addition to his medical degree (NYU), he holds a mechanical engineering degree from MIT, and an MBA from Columbia University.