Mark A. Turco MD

Mark A. Turco, an experienced scientific and business development executive with industry expertise, has joined the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Center for Innovation (PCI) as Chief Innovation and Corporate Outreach Officer. A Penn graduate and Philadelphia native who practiced interventional cardiology before joining the industry, Dr. Turco will be a resource for the University of Pennsylvania innovators leading PCI’s outreach and relationship-building efforts with external partners as part of the University’s efforts to expand commercialization opportunities regionally, nationally and globally.

Most recently, Dr. Turco served as the vice president and chief medical officer of the Aortic, Peripheral, Vascular, and endoVenous franchises of Medtronic Inc. In this role, he provided strategies to inform complex decisions that encompassed patient needs, clinical trial design, regulatory considerations, and evolving healthcare systems and value-based models—both domestically and internationally. He also evaluated opportunities for growth and investment through medical, business, payer, provider, and regulator lenses.

Dr. Turco received his medical degree and internal medicine training at George Washington University in Washington, DC, and performed his cardiology training at Temple University Hospital and at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia. He practiced as an interventional cardiologist in the Washington, DC area for 11 years, serving as director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at Washington Adventist Hospital and maintaining an active patient care practice. As a practicing cardiologist, Dr. Turco also played a role in the development of several medical devices currently being utilized in the field of vascular medicine.