Mark A. Turco, an experienced scientific and business development executive with industry expertise, who joined the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Center for Innovation (PCI) as Chief Innovation and Corporate Outreach Officer in January 2017. A Penn graduate and Philadelphia native, Dr. Turco is a resource for the University of Pennsylvania innovators leading University and PCI outreach and relationship-building efforts with external partners as part of the University’s efforts to expand innovation and comertialization opportunities regionally, nationally and globally. He is responsible for helping to successfully translate into external commercial partnerships Penn based technologies and inventions.

Most recently, Dr. Turco served as the Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of the Aortic, Peripheral, Vascular, and endoVenous franchises of Medtronic Inc. In this role, he provided strategy to inform complex decisions that encompass patient needs, clinical trial design, regulatory considerations, and evolving healthcare systems and value-based models—both domestically and internationally. He also evaluated opportunities for growth and investment through medical, business, payers, providers, and regulators lenses.

Dr. Turco practiced as an interventional cardiologist in the Washington, D.C. region and is well published in the field.