Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation

Chairman of the Board

Nassib Chamoun is Vice President of Technology, Research and Clinical Development of Covidien. Chamoun joined Covidien from Aspect Medical Systems, a market leader in brain monitoring technology, where he was President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. As founder of Aspect Medical Systems, he led efforts to develop and introduce Aspect's premier product the Bispectral Index™ (BIS™) technology, the first clinically proven direct measure of the effects of anesthetics on the brain. Today this technology is extensively validated in thousands of published articles and abstracts and is in routine clinical use on millions of patients across the globe.

Chamoun earned a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University and a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Boston University and conducted his graduate research in cardiac electrophysiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Chamoun was a teaching and visiting fellow in cardiovascular physiology at Harvard University from 1984 to 1987.