Susan Peterson, PhD

Susan Peterson is Vice President of Research and Development (R&D) at Shockwave Medical, which she joined in 2021 and is now part of Johnson & Johnson Medtech.  She has helped to bring multiple intravascular lithotripsy products from concept to commercialization, and leads a broad group also encompassing the Reducer stent portfolio.  Prior to Shockwave, Susan worked for Medtronic Vascular from 2004 in multiple R&D roles, developing minimally invasive devices from drug-eluting stents and aortic stent grafts to drug-coated balloons and arteriovenous fistula creation, and was named as a Technical Fellow.  She also completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, collaborating between the medical school and department of engineering, and has 10 granted US patents.

Susan has a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Cambridge, where she attended as a Marshall Scholar, and a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University, where she was an Academic All-American playing varsity women’s soccer and basketball.  She currently stays busy outside of work through activities with her three children.