# Ann Fyfe

> Ann Fyfe is an American healthcare executive, consultant, and early healthcare-marketing practitioner who helped conceive the nonprofit medtech incubator now known as Fogarty Innovation. After senior strategy and business-development roles at Bay Area hospitals, including Stanford Hospital, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, and El Camino Hospital, she became the incubator's founding chief executive and built partnerships connecting entrepreneurs with clinicians, regulators, industry leaders, mentors, and clinical research infrastructure.

- **Role:** Founder, Ann Fyfe Consulting
- **Organizations:** Ann Fyfe Consulting, Fogarty Institute for Innovation, El Camino Hospital, Stanford Hospital, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, California Hospice Network, Mission Hospice & Home Care, American Marketing Association, Academy of Health Care Marketing and Planning, Northern California Healthcare Marketing Association, Women Health Care Executives, Ferolyn Fund Advisory Council
- **From:** Iowa, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.A., Journalism, University of Colorado
- **Known for:** Co-proposed the nonprofit medtech incubator that became Fogarty Innovation., Served as the Fogarty Institute for Innovation's founding chief executive and led it for five years., Helped place an early-stage medtech incubator inside a working community-hospital environment.

## Career timeline

- **1978** — Moved from owning a Colorado advertising agency into hospital marketing in San Francisco, becoming part of healthcare marketing's early professional cohort.
- **2002** — Participated in a published retrospective interview on 25 years of healthcare marketing in Marketing Health Services.
- **2007** — As El Camino Hospital's vice president of business development, led its strategic-planning process and, with foundation leader Jon Freidenberg, proposed a nonprofit medtech incubator on the hospital campus.
- **2007** — Received the Santa Clara County YWCA Tribute to Women in Industry Award.
- **2009** — Served as El Camino Hospital's vice president of business development during its acquisition and reopening of the Los Gatos hospital campus.
- **2010** — Served as executive vice president of the Fogarty Institute as its first resident company, HeartFlow, advanced into clinical validation.
- **2011** — As Fogarty's president and CEO, helped establish the Taft Center for Clinical Research after a $4 million philanthropic gift.
- **2013** — Joined Thomas Fogarty and Frederick St Goar for an industry discussion about medical-device innovation and the incubator model.
- **2015** — Led Fogarty during a first-of-its-kind educational pilot with FDA reviewers and a partnership with Ethicon supporting medtech education and mentorship.
- **2016** — Completed five years leading the institute; Fogarty announced Andrew Cleeland as her successor.
- **2019** — Served as board chair of the newly formed California Hospice Network.
- **2021** — Was listed on the board of directors of Mission Hospice & Home Care.
- **2025** — Fogarty Innovation's institutional history credited Fyfe and Jon Freidenberg with proposing the incubator and identified Fyfe as its launch CEO.

## Achievements

- Co-proposed the nonprofit medtech incubator that became Fogarty Innovation.
- Served as the Fogarty Institute for Innovation's founding chief executive and led it for five years.
- Helped place an early-stage medtech incubator inside a working community-hospital environment.
- Led Fogarty during its 2015 educational pilot with reviewers from the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
- Led Fogarty into a 2015 partnership with Ethicon for educational support and mentorship of resident innovators.
- Helped establish the Taft Center for Clinical Research following a $4 million gift to El Camino Hospital.
- Received the Santa Clara County YWCA Tribute to Women in Industry Award in 2007.
- Helped the American Marketing Association form a healthcare section and founded the Northern California Healthcare Marketing Association.

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Fogarty Innovation published a history of its El Camino Health partnership that credited Fyfe and Jon Freidenberg with proposing the nonprofit incubator in 2007.
- **2021-06** — Mission Hospice & Home Care listed Fyfe among its board members in its spring 2021 newsletter.
- **2019-07** — Fyfe was named board chair of the newly formed California Hospice Network.

## Links

- Website: https://fogartyinnovation.org
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annfyfe

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