Ross Jaffe is a venture capitalist who focuses on early-stage investing in medical technology. Ross is a Managing Director of Versant Ventures, a firm he co-founded in 1999 after spending nine years at Brentwood Venture Capital where, as a general partner, he led investments in medical devices, drug delivery, and healthcare information systems companies. During his twenty five years in venture capital, Ross has served on the boards of a number of successful life science companies, including Acclarent, St Francis Medical Technologies, Ablation Frontiers, Insulet, Therasense, and Novacept. He currently serves on the boards of Alter-G, Cerephex, Intersection Medical, Minerva Surgical, and Sympara. Active in the health care venture capital community, Ross serves as a Director of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and as a Director of the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC), where he is the Board Champion for the Patient Centered Benefit-Risk Project. He chairs the Board of Overseers of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. Ross is trained as an internal medicine physician, having attended medical school at Johns Hopkins and completing his residency training at the University of California, San Francisco, where he remained a part-time physician until 1995. He also holds an MBA from Stanford.

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