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In his fourth year, as he was learning surgical procedures, he designed a medical device that cooled the blood prior to cardiac surgery that won first place in the AMA\u2019s Medical Student Research Competition.[3][4]  He graduated in 1961. He works as a Neuro-Otologist in Woodside, California.Academic career[edit]Perkins moved to San Francisco in 1962 and one year later entered a surgical residency at Stanford University.[3] In 1968 he started his own practice adjacent to the Stanford campus.[5] This   ultimately became the California Ear Institute at Stanford.[6] Perkins\u2019 long tenure at Stanford was also celebrated with the dedication of the Rodney Perkins Microsurgery Laboratory in 2008.[7]Business activities[edit]Perkins\u2019 research and career as an entrepreneur has mainly focused on the field of otology. He is the founder of the California Ear Institute at Stanford and a founder or cofounder of Soundhawk, Collagen Corporation,[8]Laserscope,[9] ReSound, Novacept, Pulmonx,[10]Sound ID,[11] EarLens,[12] and DFine Inc.[13][14] Three of these companies have been taken public.[15][16][17]Perkins is the founder of three public companies: Collagen Corporation (collagen-based implant materials),[3] Laserscope (surgical lasers),[9] and ReSound Corporation (high tech signal processing hearing devices).[17] He is also the founder and Chairman of Novacept (women’s health), sold to Cytyc Corporation,[18] Sound ID (hearing science),[19] Pulmonx (interventional pulmonology and emphysema treatment),[20] and was Chairman of Surgrx (electrosurgical instrumentation), which was sold to Ethicon Endo-Surgery,[21] a division of Johnson & Johnson,[22] in 2008.Currently, Perkins is founder, Director and CMO of Earlens Corporation, which is developing what it hopes will be a new method of sound transduction for hearing improvement.[23] Perkins is co-founder and Chairman of Procept,[24] a company developing a biorobotic minimally invasive solution for benign prostatic hypertrophy.[25]Recognition[edit]Perkins received the  Lifetime Achievement Award from Medical Futures,[2] a British organization that fosters innovation in medicine. He also received the Distinguished Medical Alumnus Award from Indiana University and was inducted into the Evansville Hall of Fame.[26]References[edit]^ “Rodney Perkins , MD”. Stanford. Retrieved 12 December 2013.^ a b “Professor Rodney Perkins Winner of a Medical Futures Lifetime Achievement Award”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ a b c Fields, Helen. “Biodesign series features innovations from Perkins”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ “Three Indiana University Alumni to Receive Honors During Busy Reunion Weekend”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ “CEI History”.^ “Dinner & Interview \u2013 Medical Insights” (PDF). Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ “Microsurgery lab opens, named for Rodney Perkins”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ Fields, Helen. “Biodesign series features innovations from Perkins”. Retrieved 12 December 2013.^ a b “Laserscope History”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ “Pulmonx Raises $32 Million for Launch of Emphysema Products”. Bloomberg News. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ “About Sound ID”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ “Board of Directors”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ “Executive Profile Rodney Perkins M.D.” Archived from the original on January 10, 2014. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ “Earlens Board of Directors”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ “Collagen Corp Acquires Interest in Cohesion Corp”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ “Laserscope History”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ a b “ReSound Corporation Completes Offering of 2,500,000 Shares of Common Stock at $8.50 Per Share”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ “Cytyc to acquire Novacept for $325M”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ “Board of Directors”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ “Ethicon Endo-Surgery To Acquire SurgRx”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ “homepage”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ “Ethicon homepage”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ Perkins, R (1996). “Earlens tympanic contact transducer: a new method of sound transduction to the human ear”. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 114 (6): 720\u20138. doi:10.1016\/s0194-5998(96)70092-x. PMID\u00a08643293.^ “World First Surgery Robot Debuts at Tauranga Hospital”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ Dickison, Michael (Jan 25, 2013). “Silicon Valley surgery robot debuts in NZ”. The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 16 December 2013.^ Erbacher, Megan. “EVSC inducts group into Hall of Fame”. Retrieved 16 December 2013.  "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/rodney-perkins-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Rodney Perkins – Wikipedia"}}]}]