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James LeVoy Sorenson is a renowned American entrepreneur who invented and produced many ingenious medical devices that are standard equipment in health care today. His innovations revolutionized critical health care practice and helped spawn today’s thriving biotechnology industry, including enterprises such as Abbott Critical Care Systems and Becton-Dickinson Vascular Access. Known foremost for developing sophisticated catheter systems used to enable computerized heart monitoring, his other inventions include the first disposable paper surgical mask and the first blood recycling system for trauma and surgical procedures. With more than 40 medical patents, it is likely that a medical innovation by Sorenson is at work in every operating room and intensive care unit in the United States. Today Sorenson is transforming the way family history research is done with the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, a non-profit scientific organization that is building the world’s largest correlated genetic genealogy database. | 