Primary Job Title Founder Primary Organization 
Bluegrass Vascular Technologies
Location San Antonio, Texas, United States Regions Southern US Gender Male
Dr. John Gurley is a visionary leader in the medical field who has devoted his career to saving and improving lives. Dr. Gurley developed a busy interventional cardiology practice within the University of Kentucky’s The Gill Heart Institute and has a reputation for successfully overcoming clinical challenges and for giving patients years of life
when their prognosis was otherwise very dim.
Over the years, Dr. Gurley has been awarded special recognition as a “Health Hero” for his volunteer healthcare involvement in the community. His commitment to improving healthcare is so much a part of his identity that he founded a company, Therix Medical, specifically focused on leveraging the innovation within the University of Kentucky to create new life-saving medical products/techniques.
Dr. Gurley attended the Ohio State University College of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at N.E. Ohio University and his fellowship in cardiology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Dr. Gurley is an elected board member to the American Heart Association and has been an invited speaker for numerous national and international scientific meetings.
