Mark D. Carlson

Biography

Mark Carlson is Division Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Abbott. In this capacity, Dr. Carlson leads a medical affairs organization that serves medical device divisions of Abbott Medical. Dr. Carlson joined Abbot in January, 2017 when the company acquired St. Jude Medical. St. Jude Medical. He joined St. Jude Medical in November 2006, serving as Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Research and Clinical Affairs, in the St. Jude Medical Implantable Electronic Systems Division until September, 2013 and as Vice President, Global Clinical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer until Abbott acquired the company. Dr. Carlson received his M.D. from the University of Kansas, a Masters degree in public policy from Duke University, and a B.S. from Kansas State University. He trained in internal medicine at University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University and in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University. He joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve University in 1988 and remains on faculty as adjunct professor of medicine. His research on arrhythmias and neural control has resulted in over 150 publications. As a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow on Senator Orrin Hatch’s Senate Judiciary Committee, Dr. Carlson worked on the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act and the Cord Blood Stem Cell Act. Thereafter, he returned to Case as associate vice president, government relations. Dr. Carlson served on the FDA’s Devices Dispute Resolution Panel, the NCDR ICD registry steering committee, and chaired the HRS Health Policy Committee, the ACC Electrophysiology Committee, the HRS/FDA Policy Conference on Device Performance, and the HRS task force on device performance policies and guidelines and the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee. He is a member of the board of directors of the Medical Device Innovation Consortium. Dr. Carlson is a member of the board and past President of the West Los Angeles County Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at Kansas State University.

Research Interest

Health care