Mark Bates

Biography

Dr. Bates is a practicing interventional cardiologist and is considered a thought-leader in his field. He has authored over 100 book chapters and peer-review manuscripts, and he is on several editorial boards and has done thousands of cardiac and vascular procedures over the past 25 years of his career. He founded one of the first true multidiscipline vascular centers in the US that now includes, vascular surgeons, cardiologists, vascular interventional specialists, vascular medicine, preventive medicine physicians and neurointerventional radiology all working together in a patient centered model. He continues to mentor the team of vascular physicians at the CAMC Vascular Center of Excellence in Charleston as a part-time Professor of Medicine and Surgery in the West Virginia University Department of Surgery. His passion in the field of endovascular surgery has also resulted in key innovative advances, including intellectual property and patents in the arenas of embolic protection, nanotechnology, stent design, cell therapy, catheter design, guide-wire design, drug eluting balloons and local drug delivery. He has founded several medical start-up companies and has authored over 50 issued or pending US patents.

Research Interest

intellectual property and patents in the arenas of embolic protection, nanotechnology, stent design, cell therapy, catheter design, guide-wire design, drug eluting balloons and local drug delivery