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There's a song in Vyshnnavi's heart, one that plays to the beat of an algorithm. It's one that's driven her — with her colleagues — to make the FreeStyle Libre family of continuous glucose monitors as good as they can be, with improvements as in the works. She feels that pride "every time a friend lets me know how helpful our products have been in their journey with diabetes."��Get to know Vyshnnavi.

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Michael Fonseca, Ph.D., may not have all the answers. But it’s a safe bet he’ll keep searching until he solves the problem. And he’ll have more settled tomorrow. Such is the nature of an engineer who values ingenuity, curiosity and hard work in equal parts. He's put all of that to good use in his life and in his life's work, including his work on CardioMEMS. Get to know Michael.

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In Iris Welch's estimation, "life is good. Seriously, life is good" right now. But it wasn't always that way. In 2010, Iris was diagnosed with breast cancer. While her chemotherapy helped her beat the disease, it also damaged her heart. Because of her cancer, she wasn't eligible for a transplant. Her cardiologist was determined to find a solution that would give Iris her life back: the CardioMEMS HF System.��Get to know Iris.

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From his jazz roots, Daran DeShazo understands the value of improvisation. What might seem like a mistake in the strictest sense of rigid musical structure is, in jazz, more often the opening of a door to a new world of possibility that everyone can step into. For DeShazo, he takes the same approach to his work as an electrical engineer designing Neuromodulation products. Simply, DeShazo says, “It’s really just a question about how we learn from them and continually improve and move forward.” Jazz, man. Get to know Daran.

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If you ask Darryn Wright, he’ll say he considers himself “lucky.” Good friends. Rewarding job. Great family. Though it wasn’t always good luck. A progressive Young Onset Parkinson’s disease diagnosis at 44 threatened to take away his ability to turn wood, spend quality time with his wife and simply pick up his grandkids. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) with our Infinity DBS System (and, according to Darryn, a little bit of luck) helped him regain control over his health. Get to know Darryn.

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Matthew Fishler knows well — and what's real — when the ones you love suffer from heart events. He knows that real loss. And from that hurt has come the curiosity necessary to develop technologies that can save lives and others from the pain his family has felt. It's what's driven him from an early age to now: The development of our��, the first of its kind device that keeps hearts in their rhythms without the leads found in traditional pacemakers. Fishler has always had the will. With the Aveir system, he found the way. It's the stuff of TV dramas … except it’s all very real, thanks to Fishler.��Get to know Matthew.

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Chelsey Cornwall has lived a charmed life in and around Reno. But like any game of chance — the next flip of a card — and those vagaries of life can mean the unlikeliest of risks change the hand you're holding. For Cornwall and her identical twin Emily, that meant a congenital condition that impacts only about����out of very 5,000 people: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. It's a mouthful. But thanks to her Aveir, she has big plans ahead, including planning a wedding. Odds are, if it goes like her life so far, it might not turn out exactly as planned but it will be magnificent nonetheless.��Get to know Chelsey.

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Zuleyma is raising her children following the untimely passing of her husband to cancer. And she's doing it while fighting her own health issues from life-limiting heart failure. At 38, she's a single mother who doesn't want to leave her kids without a parent. But her heart is weak. And while new hearts are scarce, it’s more complicated for Zuleyma: "I wasn't able to receive a heart transplant because I have high antibodies. The doctors didn't want my body to reject it." That's where her HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) — commonly called a heart pump — comes in. "She's a fighter," said Claudia, her friend from high school. "She is fighting for her kids and showing everybody around her that you cannot just give up."��Get to know Zuleyma.