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Clay Nolan Is Turning a Paramedic's Friction Into One Coordinated Machine
A paramedic saw skilled responders lose precious attention to airway work. More than a decade later, Clay Nolan is still engineering a simpler answer - and learning how long a clear idea can take to become a clinical system.
Peter Martin
Peter Martin is the co-founder, President and CEO of Siesta Medical, a Los Gatos medical device company building minimally invasive treatments for obstructive sleep apnea that need no masks and no machines. Since 2009 he has guided the company from an idea to FDA-cleared products - the Encore System, the Revolution Suture Passer and the AIRLIFT hyoid suspension procedure - that reposition the airway with two small implants and a stitch. A Duke and Stanford trained mechanical engineer, he spent 15-plus years in medical device operations before turning Siesta into one of the most-cited names in surgical sleep apnea care.