HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2006--MicroMed Cardiovascular, Inc. (OTCBB:MMCV - News) is pleased to announce that Professor Erwin P. Bauer, MD and Mr. Clifford zur Nieden have joined the company’s board of directors. Prof. Bauer is a member of the board of directors of BB Medtech, a publicly traded Swiss investment company, since 2003. Prof. Bauer has also been a director of Vascular Innovation, Inc., a private Ohio-based endovascular devices company, since 2004. In 2005, Prof. Bauer served as a consultant cardiac surgeon at the Special Hospital for Cardiovascular Surgery Fillip II in Skopje, Macedonia. From 1993 to 2004, he served as senior staff surgeon at the Kerckhoff-Clinic Foundation in Bad Nauheim Germany. Prof. Bauer holds a medical degree from the University of Zurich.
