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CEO Clifford on how Moximed has kept singularly focused on developing a shock absorber for the knee
Osteoarthritis isn’t a typical target for startups but Moximed isn’t developing a typical device. In this episode, CEO Anton Clifford will walk us through the biomedical process that led to the decision to build a shock absorber that can stabilized an injured knee. The route been long, winding and has led the team over some bumpy roads but Moximed is poised to deliver on its long-time promise.
At the start,co-hosts Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker chat with Associate Editor Sean Whooley about Boston Scientific’s recent analyst day, with a tight focus on why Boston Scientific sees opportunity in China when other medical devices are withdrawing.
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https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/china-exposure-medtronic-intuitive-henry-schein-align-envista-dentsply-sirona/
https://www.massdevice.com/zimvie-reports-difficult-macroenvironment-q4-miss/
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Sep 19, 2023
Intuitive's Tony Jarc discusses the next leap in surgical robotics with AI integration
In this episode of IntuitiveTalks, Tony Jarc, Sr. Director of Digital & Machine Learning at Intuitive, walks us through the evolving landscape of surgical robotics, highlighting the transformative potential of AI and machine learning in enhancing surgical procedures, providing real-time guidance to ensure the best possible patient outcomes.
Jarc also introduces Case Insights enabled by the My Intuitive hub, a digital tool designed to offer surgeons valuable post-operative feedback. But the platform's potential goes beyond the data.
Jarc also underscores the significance of collaborating with surgeons from the early stages of product development to ensure its useability and effectiveness. As surgical robotics continue to advance, Jarc's insights provide a glimpse into how technology and human expertise can work in tandem for improved surgical procedures. Listen now to learn more about how Intuitive is not just embracing the intersection of AI and surgical robotics but using it to guide future opportunities.
Thank you to TECAN, for sponsoring this episode of IntuitiveTalks. Visit tecan.com/paramit-design-to-manufacturing to hear from TECAN’s leadership team in an expert video series and to download TECAN’s Product Requirements Checklist to help you prepare for your product development.
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Sep 15, 2023
Hawkins on how Avail is changing Medtech; Turning Pain into Purpose & other MedtechVision Takeaways
This week we’ll visit with Daniel Hawkins, CEO of Avail Medsystems. Hawkins is a prolific and successful medtech entrepreneur who was an early employee at Intuitive and co-founder of Shockwave Medical. Hawkins talks about both experiences, but DeviceTalks listeners should listen carefully for his insights on how ASCs are changing medtech and how OEMs are using Avail’s telepresence system to compensate.
DeviceTalks Editorial Director Tom Salemi and Managing Editor Kayleen Brown share their takeways from the MedtechVISION conference in Menlo Park. The conference raised many themes that we’ll be exploring at DeviceTalks West on October 18-19 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
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Sep 8, 2023
Synchron’s Haggstrom delivers a taste of what he’ll be sharing on neural tech at DeviceTalks West
In this week’s episode, medical device pro Kurt Haggstrom details what led him to join high-flying neural implant company Synchron, which is one of the companies in a supposed race to create a direct link to the brain. Haggstrom will be sharing even more details at DeviceTalks West on Oct. 18-19 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. But today’s episode will give a sample of why he sees Synchron changing the world as it works to unlock “the natural highways of the brain.” We’ll also talk about the value of good engineering and marketing in medical devices. Find out more about Synchron here. https://synchron.com/
Executive editor Chris Newmarker joins us to discuss this week’s news that Philips reached a partial settlement in its class-action suit over sleep apnea machine recall. This isn’t the end of the story. To read all about the recall go here. https://www.massdevice.com/how-philips-significant-respiratory-devices-recall-unfolded/
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Sep 1, 2023
CEO Nahum explains how Quantum Surgical is positioned for robotic surgery’s next evolutionary stage
This isn’t Bertin Nahum’s first surgical robotics rodeo. The CEO of Quantum Surgical previously co-founded, led and ultimately sold surgical robotics pioneer Medtech S.A. to Zimmer Biomet. Now, he’s leading several members of that founding team as Quantum Surgical develops a next generation of surgical robot to enable easier removal of cancerous tumors. Nahum brings great insight and perspective to the topic of surgical robotics, which is why he’ll sit on a panel of surgical robotic company CEOs and provider represents to discuss what surgical robotic systems of the future may look like. Register at DeviceTalks.com.
Joining co-hosts Chris Newmarker and Tom Salemi is Danielle Kirsh, senior editor of MassDevice, to review a few of the highpoints of the current Medical Design and Outsourcing issue of the Big 100. We’ll talk about headcounts, R&D spends and CEO salaries. You can find the issue of the Big 100 here. https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/september-2023-medtech-big-100-largest-device-companies/
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Aug 30, 2023
Andrés Rosales talks Stryker's FDA wins with 1788 visualization and SPY-PHI technology
In this episode of StrykerTalks, Andrés Rosales, VP and General Manager Endoscopy, delves into Stryker's groundbreaking 1788 visualization platform and and its potential to revolutionize surgical procedures. The 1788 visualization platform, Stryker's 26th generation camera, enables surgeons to see more so they can do more by visualizing tissue perfusion and illuminating cancer cells, ultimately improving patient outcomes.
Rosales also discusses the newly 510(k) cleared SPY-PHI for lymphatic mapping within breast cancer, offering surgeons a more efficient and patient-friendly alternative to traditional radioactive markers.
The innovation continues as Rosales hints at the future of Stryker's technology, emphasizing the role of data collection and algorithm development in improving surgical procedures.
Tune in to discover how Stryker is setting new standards in surgical visualization and how Stryker is collaborating with customers to create meaningful tools that improve the patient experience.
Thank you to GlobalMed-MDI for sponsoring this episode. To learn more about how GlobalMed-MDI works with medical device companies, visit www.moldeddevices.com.
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Aug 25, 2023
CEO McCutcheon leaning on lessons from past successes, disappointments to move EBR Systems forward
In this week’s podcast, we’ll visit with John McCutcheon, president and CEO of EBR Systems, which is developing a miniature pacemaker that is powered by ultrasound and located in the left ventricle of the heart. McCutcheon shares his plans for the start-up but more on the point of this week he recalls his experience as CEO of Emphasys Medical, an interventional pulmonology start-up that received a shocking negative recommendation from an FDA panel in 2008. The no vote led to the shutdown and sale of Emphasys, but the rejection ultimately helped convince the FDA and industry to assess their relationship. Ultimately, the two sides improved relations as McCutcheon explains in the podcast. The rejection is somewhat reminiscent of the negative vote issued this week by an advisory panel for Medtronic’s Symplicity Spyral renal denervation (RDN) therapy for hypertension. McCutcheon explains how the negative impact impacted him at the time, but more important how he’s moved on to appreciate the experience.
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Aug 23, 2023
Abbott's Charan on AVEIR DR pacemaker's FDA approval and its potential to revolutionize cardiac care
In the newest episode of AbbottTalks, Vish Charan, divisional VP of product development at Abbott, takes us through the inner workings of the recently FDA-approved AVEIR™ DR Dual Chamber Leadless Pacemaker System, from its inception to its successful clinical trial and FDA approval.
Charan also dives deep into the technology, revealing the cutting-edge i2i communication technology that powers AVEIR™ pacemakers, enabling seamless communication between devices for dual chamber pacing and AV synchrony.
Finally, Charan discusses the challenges of miniaturization, the remarkable advancements in battery technology that have made the AVEIR™ pacemaker possible, and the potential for further applications in conduction system pacing.
As the field of cardiac rhythm management continues to evolve, Charan envisions a future of smaller devices, more features, and enhanced patient care. Make sure to listen in for invaluable insights into the groundbreaking AVEIR™ DR and its potential to transform the landscape of cardiac care.
Thank you to Resonant Link for sponsoring this episode of AbbottTalks. For more information about Resonant Link go to www.Resonant-Link.com.
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Aug 18, 2023
SECRET Code Inside! Hear a replay of DeviceTalks West conversation with Intuitive’s Gary Guthart
As a thank you for subscribing and listening to the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast we built a special code to help you register for the Oct. 18-19 DeviceTalks West conference at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Please give a listen! Go to DeviceTalks.com to register now!! Save $300 off the full registration price. Plus, we replay our keynote interview with Intuitive CEO Gary Guthart at last year’s DeviceTalks West event. In this conversation Guthart will provide additional details of Intuitive’s move into endoscopic robotics including the ION robot. He’ll give his assessment of the growing competition in surgical robotics and what it means for Intuitive. Finally, he shares why he thinks the term surgical robotics may have no meaning in the future.
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Aug 4, 2023
CEO Meelby Jensen on holding Ambu’s top spot in single-use scopes; Also, Why is Wall Street cranky?
A little over a year after taking over the CEO role at Ambu A/S, Britt Meelby Jensen visits the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast to draw lessons from her career that led her to lead the single-use endoscope leader last year. At the time, Meelby Jensen says Ambu was missing Wall Street expectations. In this interview, Jensen highlights the benefits of single-use endoscopes, such as improved workflow and reduced waiting times, and emphasizes Ambu's focus on sustainability. She’ll also review the company’s plan to retain its position in the white-hot single-use scope industry. But first Host Tom Salemi take a dive into earnings week with MassDevice Executive Editor Chris Newmarker and Associate Editor Sean Whooley. We won’t dig too deep into the numbers, but instead we’ll ask why Wall Street investors don’t seem too impressed with the performance of some high-flying medical device companies.
Join us at DeviceTalks West on Oct. 18-19 for some in-person discussions!
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Aug 2, 2023
Boston Scientific executives talk urology innovation, disparities in care, and commercial strategy
This special episode of Boston Scientific Talks brings you DeviceTalks Boston’s keynote conversation with Boston Scientific's executive leaders Meghan Scanlon, President of Urology; Jennifer Saunders, Sr. Manager of Medical Affairs; Ben Cutone, Global Franchise Director of Prostate Health; and Kristin LaRocca, Senior Vice President of Sales.
In the conversation, the key figures delve into the innovative strategies and technologies shaping the urology field, highlighting the LithoVue™ Elite Single-Use Digital Flexible Ureteroscope System. They explore how Boston Scientific is addressing care disparities in underrepresented communities, pioneering programs like "close the gap" in cardiology, and advancing accessibility and equality. The conversation also highlights the importance of data-driven decision-making, clinical evidence, and humble dialogue with clinicians to commercialize innovative strategies. The panelists discuss the challenges and rewards of disrupting the market, the…
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Jul 28, 2023
What Got Steve Goetz to Join Motif Neurotech? Carmel, Jones Share Details of Upcoming MedtechVISION
This week's episode features the first of what's sure to be many audio appearances by DeviceTalks Managing Editor Kayleen Brown! We’re also visited by Lisa Carmel and Stephanie Jone, co-chairs of MedtechWomen’s MedtechVISION conference, which is taking place on Sept. 12. They share how the conference's important agenda took shape. Go to MedtechWomen.org to register.
Finally, we learn about an exciting new neuromodulation start-up called Motif Neurotech which is developing a tiny, implantable sensor that could advance how TMS therapy is delivered. Steve Goetz, a veteran of Medtronic’s neuromodulation business, explained why he left the giant to join this rising company as chief technology officer.
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Jul 25, 2023
Abbott's Burton shares neuromodulation breakthroughs in diabetic peripheral neuropathy, chronic pain
In the newest episode of AbbottTalks, Allen Burton, Divisional VP and Chief Medical Officer of Neuromodulation at Abbott, shares insights into the company's innovative neuromodulation therapies.
Burton delves into Abbott's FDA-approved treatment for chronic back pain, which uses electrical stimulation to alleviate pain, improve functionality, and reduce reliance on opioids.
Burton discusses Abbott’s recent FDA approval to treat people who suffer from back pain with limited surgical options. He also expands on how the company's pioneering treatment for painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy, a condition affecting millions of Americans. This treatment uses electrical stimulation to dampen painful signals in the feet, enabling patients to regain mobility and control over their lives. Burton further introduces the Eterna SCS System, the smallest neurostimulation system in the market, which offers patients a low charging burden and indications for MRI compatibility.
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Jul 21, 2023
Elixir Medical CEO explains how new scaffold system could move vascular treatment beyond the stent
In this episode, Host Tom Salemi learns the Elixir Medical story from CEO Motasim Sirhan, who has spent most of his medtech career developing new vascular implants to prop open previously occluded blood vessels. Sirhan led developing of early version of bare metal stents while at Guidant. He’d go on to start and sell a company that developed another vascular device before pairing with Invus Group to start Elixir Medical in 2005. After a false start, the company is collecting promising clinical data for its DynamX vascular scaffolding system. We’ll learn why Sirhan sees this as an leap forward from drug-eluting stents. He also shares stories from his career about taking chances and overcoming fears. This episode is sponsored by DeviceTalks West.
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Jul 20, 2023
Boston Scientific Co-Founder John Abele talks partnerships, co-opetition and the power of curiosity
In this rare origin-story episode of Boston Scientific Talks, Boston Scientific Founder John Abele unravels the company's unique journey from its inception to becoming a global leader in the medical device industry. Abele delves into the strategic financial planning and diversified product portfolio that shielded the company during challenging times. He underscores the power of partnerships and educational initiatives in making their groundbreaking technology accessible to physicians.
Abele also highlights the company's focus on implementing new ideas and the importance of understanding the evolving needs of the medical community. He shares how Boston Scientific's mission to reduce risks, trauma, cost, and time has improved patients' quality of life and empowered physicians with the tools to revolutionize their practices.
Tune in now to hear from one of medtech's pioneers and get a rare glimpse into Boston Scientific's hiring strategy, emphasizing the value of curiosity, understanding…
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Jul 14, 2023
Asensus Surgical CEO Fernando maps out ambitious digital surgery strategy; DeviceTalks West unboxed
In this week’s episode, Anthony Fernando, President and CEO of Asensus Surgical, discusses the company's journey in the field of surgical robotics and its focus on digital surgery. He highlights the need for technology to improve outcomes, reduce costs, and increase productivity in the surgical space. Asensus offers the Senhance platform, a robotic system that incorporates machine vision and machine learning to assist surgeons. They are also developing Luna, an integrated digital surgery solution that aims to provide flexibility and collaboration in the operating room. Fernando shares his outlook on the future of surgical robotics. He also gives some advice for medical device executives who are pondering a position outside of the US. Editorial Director Tom Salemi also unpacks the agenda for DeviceTalks West, giving credit to listeners for helping him choose topic and speakers. Register for the conference at DeviceTalks.com.
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Jul 11, 2023
Intuitive's Vavoso on the rise of surgical robotics in Asia
In this episode of IntuitiveTalks, Glenn Vavoso, a U.S. Navy Veteran and SVP and General Manager APAC at Intuitive, begins by sharing how his time in the Navy led him on a winding road to medtech and, later, valuable insights into the company's strategic expansion in Asia's medical device market, including a $100 million investment.
Also, in the episode, Vavoso discusses the factors that led to Intuitive's transition from a distributor model to a direct selling model, highlighting the importance of being close to the customer and directly involved in the market. He also provides an overview of the attitude and adoption limitations towards surgical robotics in various Asian countries, focusing on Japan and Korea, and his strategy to overcome the obstacles. He further delves into the competitive landscape of surgical robotic systems in Asia, revealing that there are 11 active market-released competitive robotic systems in the region. Despite the competition, he emphasizes that there is…
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Jul 7, 2023
Boston Scientific CEO Mike Mahoney on leadership, growth, innovation, and career-changing gut checks
In this episode, Boston Scientific Chair, CEO and President Mike Mahoney discusses his journey in the medical device industry, the qualities that make a great leader, and the strategies that have fueled the company's growth.
Inspired by his grandfather, a cardiac surgeon, Mahoney initially wanted to become a doctor but ended up pursuing a career in business. Mahoney saw an opportunity at Boston Scientific when the company was struggling. Despite the risks involved, he took on the role of CEO because he believed in his skills and had a long-term vision for the company.
Through the efforts of the company's leaders, a strong supply chain team, efficient operations, and a robust innovation pipeline, Boston Scientific has managed to maintain a 14% growth rate in a challenging market environment.
Mahoney also highlights the company's focus on interventional medicine, which allows for quick procedures and same-day patient discharges, reducing the burden on hospitals. Mahoney further discus…
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Jun 30, 2023
Augmedics' Kevin Hykes lays out vision for `X-ray’ OR imaging system, shares advice for future CEOs
Kevin Hykes, CEO of Augmedics, discusses his journey in the Medtech industry and the development of their augmented reality surgical navigation system, xvision, which allows surgeons to project a image onto a headset display, eliminating the need to look away from the surgical field. The system has been shown to improve accuracy, reduce radiation, and facilitate minimally invasive approaches to spine surgery. Augmedics recently raised $82.8 million in a Series C financing round, which will be used to further develop the technology and expand their commercial footprint. Hykes also shares takeaways and lessons from his past stints as a medtech CEO, including great advice for people looking for their first opportunity. "You need to do it for the right reasons, which I think are the thrill of the chase, the fast pace, the shortened cycle times, the chance to be in the cutting edges of technology in our field."
In our newsmaker section, Associate Editor Sean Whooley joins co-hosts Tom Sale…
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Jun 23, 2023
CEO Favet explains how NeuroPace is bringing neuromodulation to people with drug-resistant epilepsy
In this episode of DeviceTalks Weekly we’ll talk with Mike Favet, CEO of NeuroPace, about how the company’s RNS technology is helping to transform the lives of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. NeuroPace, one of the pioneers in neurostimulation, has the only FDA-approved neurostim treatment for epilepsy. Favet took over as CEO four years ago from the founding CEO so we discuss his background, the changes he made at the company, and how NeuroPace is building a market for a medical device to treat a disease that typically can be managed only by pharmaceuticals.
Mike Favet will be a panelist on a keynote panel about building a neuromodulation market at DeviceTalks West on Oct. 18-19 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
Co-hosts Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker introduce a new formula for the Newmarker’s Newsmaker. Companies mentioned including Philips, Biotronik, Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, GE Healthcare, Depuy Synthes, BD, and many others.
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Jun 16, 2023
Abbott’s Adamson, Piorkowski share how tech can help heal and empower people with heart disease
In the opening episode of the DeviceTalks podcast network's newest podcast, AbbottTalks, Dr. Christopher Piorkowski, Divisional VP and Chief Medical Officer of Electrophysiology, and Dr. Philip Adamson, Divisional VP and Chief Medical Officer of Heart Failure, discuss the significant advancements in Abbott's cardiac technology and their forward-looking approach to cardiovascular care.
Piorkowski sheds light on the profound impact of technology on patient outcomes in AFib treatment and underscores the importance of enhanced risk stratification tools and personalized therapy approaches. Adamson delves into the progress of Abbott's HeartMate series, specifically the HeartMate 3, highlighting its improved performance and reduced complications compared to its predecessors. Both Abbott leaders stress the essential role of implementation science and foresee an upward trend in enhanced patient identification to administer therapies like the HeartMate 3, aiming to reach patients across the dise…
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Jun 9, 2023
Engineer-turned-exec Sutton lays out Imperative's far-reaching strategy for treating stroke patients
Ariel Sutton, general manager of Imperative Care’s stroke business, joins us to explain why she swapped her medical school dreams for the opportunity to wear steel-toed boots and a hard hat as an engineer. Sutton ultimately would marry her love of medicine with her passion for engineering and built a career helping medical device companies of many sizes to build successful programs. Now she’s leading one of the fastest growing neurovascular businesses in the industry. In her new role she’s going to help guide Imperative Care’s plans to target stroke from many different directions, including surgical robotics. Learn more about Imperative Care here. https://imperativecare.com/zoom-stroke-solution/
This week’s episode is sponsored by DeviceTalks West. Registration opens later next week. Go to DeviceTalks.com.
Co-hosts Chris Newmarker and Tom Salemi review this week’s Newmarker’s Newsmakers including iRhythm, Medtronic, Illumina, Hologic, Senseonics, and Know Labs.
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Jun 6, 2023
How Boston Scientific's acquisition of Obsidio is shaping its interventional oncology business
In this episode of Boston Scientific Talks, Peter Pattison, President, Interventional Oncology, and Liza Davis, VP of R&D, Interventional Oncology, share insights into the acquisition of Obsidio and the integration of its unique gel embolic material technology into Boston Scientific's portfolio.
The technology, described as a "conformable solid," offers a unique balance between a liquid and solid embolic, providing physicians with precise control and rapid occlusion during interventional oncology procedures. The discussion also covers the successful transition from FDA approval to commercialization, with Obsidio technology already being used in several cases. Looking ahead, Pattison and Davis discuss the potential for further applications of the technology and its integration with Boston Scientific's new coil products.
This episode is sponsored by the Medical Business Unit at TE Connectivity. For more information go to TE.com/medical.
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Jun 2, 2023
Intuitive’s Robinson shares a deeper look into the design challenges of a multi-port surgical system
In this episode of IntuitiveTalks, David Robinson, VP of Multiport Design Engineering at Intuitive, delves into the intricacies of the company's multiport system, a flagship product that has been continuously refined since its inception.
Robinson discusses the development of the surgical stapler and the surgical table, two key system components, and highlights the unique challenges faced in designing a robotic surgical stapler and ensuring the surgical table could move in sync with the robotic arms for precise operations.
The episode also explores the evolution of the multiport system and how additions like the stapler, vessel sealer, and table motion capability have significantly enhanced the system's functionality.
Finally, Robinson underscores the importance of critical feedback from surgeons in driving these improvements and shares his excitement about the future of Intuitive Surgical and the impact of their work on improving patient care. Tune into this episode for a fascinatin…
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Jun 2, 2023
FAST FIVE: Bayer is making a digital health play, startup Ezra wants to make a 15-min MRI using AI
The FDA clearance obtained by startup Ezra for its AI technology marks a significant milestone for the company. Ezra wants to reduce MRI times to 15 minutes. Hear more from Fast Five hosts Danielle Kirsh and Chris Newmarker as they outline what the technology does and its potential to streamline MRI scans.
B. Braun recently launched its DoseTrac Enterprise infusion management software for hospital systems. The technology can connect up to 40,000 different infusion pumps at once. Get the details from Newmarker about how the technology helps hospitals reach significant results and how the mobility of the system increases efficiency.
ABK Biomedical’s FDA investigational device exemption (IDE) approval for tumor-treating microspheres is a significant development in the field of interventional oncology. This milestone enables ABK Biomedical to conduct clinical trials and gather crucial data on the safety and efficacy of their microsphere technology for the treatment of tumors. Kirsh and…
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Jun 1, 2023
FAST FIVE: iRhythm’s FDA warning letter, Masimo management and activist investor trade blows
The global release of Exactech's next-generation GPS Shoulder system marks an important milestone in shoulder arthroplasty. The launch, taking place in EMEA and APAC countries, follows the first surgery in the United Arab Emirates earlier this month. Fast Five Hosts Danielle Kirsh and Chris Newmarker share details about the orthopedic device and what doctors think of the system.
With a new CE mark, Establishment Labs has completed a full transition of all currently marketed Motiva implants and tools, as well as the company’s quality management systems, to be in compliance with the new European Medical Device Regulation (MDR). Newmarker explains the devices included in the new indication and what surgeons and executives think about it.
The FDA’s breakthrough designation for CardioRenal's Tenor at-home blood potassium measuring device signifies a significant advancement in monitoring and managing blood potassium levels in patients. This innovative device enables individuals to conv…
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May 31, 2023
FAST FIVE: Titan Medical licenses out all of its IP to Intuitive, a Medtronic exec moves to Baxter
The partnership between HeartBeam and Samsung is a significant development in the field of cardiac care, as it combines HeartBeam’s expertise in cardiac services with Samsung’s global reach and technological prowess. Fast Five hosts Danielle Kirsh and Chris Newmarker have all the details of the partnership.
Concept Medical’s FDA IDE approval for the sirolimus-coated balloon MagicTouch PTA is a significant development in the treatment of superficial femoral artery disease. This approval allows for the investigation of the device’s safety and efficacy in treating this condition. Kirsh and Newmarker discuss the approval and the other indications the device has received in recent months.
Think Surgical’s FDA clearance of its handheld robotic knee surgery device, the TMINI miniature robotic system, represents a major milestone in the field of orthopedic surgery. This innovative technology assists surgeons in performing total knee surgeries with enhanced precision and control. Ne…
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May 26, 2023
How Anika Therapeutics is using M&A and R&D to evolve into a global joint preservation business
In this episode, Cheryl R. Blanchard, Ph.D., CEO of Anika Therapeutics, explains how the company is morphing from a biomaterials into a joint preservation business. In an interview with Tom Salemi, editorial director of DeviceTalks, Blanchard points to collaboration she had with biomedical greats over her career, including a formative connection with Ray Elliott, the former CEO of Zimmer. Today, through sizable M&A and internal development, Anika is building a portfolio of ortho biomaterials and new joints that gives is more shots on net. Blanchard explains how Anika’s opportunity has grown its market opportunity from $1 billion to $8 billion.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences, brings this week’s Newmarker’s Newsmakers bringing news from Neuralink, Abbott, Cala Health, Cue Health, Medtronic, and Zoll Medical.
Senior Editor Danielle Kirsh also visits to introduce DeviceTalks Weekly listeners to the new Fast Five Podcast, a daily podcast highlighting the biggest…
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May 19, 2023
Straight from DeviceTalks Boston: BD CEO Tom Polen on pandemic, M&A and successful succession plans
This episode of DeviceTalks Weekly brings you DeviceTalks Boston’s opening keynote conversation with Tom Polen, CEO, President and Chairman of Becton Dickinson. In the conversation, Polen recounts his tragic first encounter with the medical device industry, his path into medtech and the CEO’s chair, and the work BD put into helping the world survive the COVID-19 pandemic while also repositioning the company with key M&A and divestitures.
The episode was sponsored by Clari. Go to Clari.com to learn about its unique revenue management platform.
Chris Newmarker also delivers his Newmarker’s Newsmakers featuring news from Siemens Healthineers, Abbott, Intuitive, Cook Medical, Shockwave Medical, Medtronic and Johnson & Johnson.
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May 17, 2023
Boston Scientific's ESG impact is blending business with sustainability
In this compelling episode of Boston Scientific Talks, Kathryn Unger, VP of ESG, and Brad Sorenson, EVP of Global Operations, delve into Boston Scientific's transformative Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives, exploring how these principles are influencing supplier relationships, impacting product design, and exceeding customer expectations. Additionally, they discuss strategies to align business operations with ESG objectives to foster employee engagement, improve patient outcomes, and better support communities. Tune in to this episode for a comprehensive understanding of Boston Scientific's commitment to balancing quality, environmental sustainability, and social responsibility in the medical device industry.
Thank you to Canon Virginia for sponsoring this episode. To learn more about how Canon Virginia works with medical device companies, visit www.cvi.canon.com/
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May 12, 2023
DeviceTalks Boston is a Wrap – Gauging the impact of Big Pharma, AI, PE and other forces on Medtech
In our closing session of DeviceTalks Boston, Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences, and Tom Salemi, Editorial Director of DeviceTalks, sit down with two leaders in the field to break down the event and highlight some of the changes coming Medtech’s ways. Joe Mullings, CEO of the Mullings Group, and former J&J Medtech leader Peter Stebbins, now executive chairman of Nurami Medical, cover a broad range of topics on how will Big Pharma, AI, data, private equity and other external forces will impact the medical device industry. Are we going to see more roll ups from PE? Will a new threat emerge to thwart Medtech’s connected care plan. Also, what were the takeaways from the discussions of the conference. Give a listen. Thanks to everyone who made DeviceTalks Boston so special!
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May 5, 2023
Free DeviceTalks Boston samples –VCs, Spine, Robotics, Career Advice and more – no toothpick needed
Last call for DeviceTalks Boston! In this episode we'll preview our upcoming conference by talking with Paul Grand, CEO of Medtech Innovator, Rebecca Whitney, SVP at ZimView, Holly Scott and Joe Mullings at the Mullings Group. We'll have Fastball Pitches from two Medtech Innovator companies that will be presenting on May 10-11. Register at DeviceTalks.com. Use the code DTWeekly25 to save 25%
Chris Newmarker delivers his #newmarkernewsmakers featuring 3M, Zimmer Biomet, Stryker, Medtronic and Casana, maker of a now FDA-approved smart toilet seat.
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May 3, 2023
How Boston Scientific’s peripheral vascular group develops tools to keep smaller blood vessels open
In this episode of Boston Scientific Talks, Boston Scientific's Cat Jennings, President of Peripheral Vascular, and Dave Knapp, VP of R&D, discuss how they are working together to develop new products and technologies that will help patients with peripheral vascular disease, and how they are leveraging data and analytics to drive innovation. They also share their perspectives on the challenges and opportunities in the medical device industry, the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and how Boston Scientific is positioning itself for future growth.
Tune in to this episode to learn more about how the company is adapting to meet the changing needs of the healthcare industry.
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Apr 28, 2023
DTWEEKLY: Cerenovus’ Mark Dickinson on building a neurovascular portfolio; early peek at DT Boston
In this episode, Tom Salemi interviews Mark Dickinson, worldwide president at Cerenovus, the neurovascular business at Johnson & Johnson Medtech. Mark Dickinson shares his unique entry into the medical device industry, how he built his career at the global company, and what the company is doing to develop its devices to treat stroke patients. In addition, we’ll also have interviews with Paul Grand, CEO of Medtech Innovator, and Jeff Alvarez, chief strategy officer at Moon Surgical. Both will be speaking at DeviceTalks Boston on May 10-11. Go to DeviceTalks.com to register.
This episode is sponsored by the Medical Business Unit at TE Connectivity. For more information go to TE.Com/medical.
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Apr 21, 2023
DTWEEKLY – How Dassault Systèmes virtual twin platform promises real success to device developers
In this episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, we visit with Claire Biot, vice president, life sciences at Dassault Systèmes to learn about the company’s virtual twin platform. Biot explains how the company is able to establish a digital model of a product requiring testing or patients who would serve as the test subject. The key benefits include faster product development, lower costs, higher sustainability, and stronger ethics. The company’s highest profile project might the Living Heart Project, which serves as a virtual twin of the living heart allowing for faster and safer testing of cardiac devices. Dassault Systèmes is working with the FDA to develop a method for testing. We’ll also connect with Jithesh Veetil, PhD, senior program director, Digital Health & Technology, at the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC). Veetil will explain how industry can incorporate virtual twin technology into development and testing. Here is a link to the Landscape Report & Industry Survey o…
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Apr 19, 2023
Boston Scientific's Drew Bomett discusses challenges of cybersecurity protection for medical devices
How concerned should you be about cybersecurity? And as an industry, how do we reduce the risk of using medical devices and potentially exposing our patients' personal data?
In this episode, Drew Bomett, chief information security officer for Boston Scientific, discusses the importance of cybersecurity in the medical device industry and the unique challenges that come with securing medical devices, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
Additionally, Bomett walks us through the impact of COVID-19 on cybersecurity and how Boston Scientific specifically approaches managing risks and threats, protecting sensitive information, and complying with industry regulations. He also discusses the importance of collaboration between medical device companies, healthcare providers, and regulators to ensure the highest levels of security.
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Apr 14, 2023
DTWEEKLY: How FundamentalVR uses heightened haptics to advance virtual medical device training
In this week’s podcast, FundamentalVR co-founder and CEO Richard Vincent shares the opportunity and need that convinced him to cross the chasm from the tech industry to start a medtech-oriented VR company. Vincent also shares how FundamentalVR has advanced haptic technology to give training surgeons the ability to develop a true feel for surgery even when never touching a human body. FundamentalVR is working with medical device companies now but the company has plans to broaden its business. Vincent and Host Tom Salemi will continue this conversation at DeviceTalks Boston on May 10. Go to DeviceTalks.com to register.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences at Mass Device, brings back the Newmarker’s Newsmakers highlighting big news from the EPA, Shockwave, Moximed and Medtronic.
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Apr 11, 2023
STRYKERTALKS: CEO Lobo sees clearer skies, R&D, super cycles, and strong surgical robotics position
In this StrykerTalks podcast episode, CEO Kevin Lobo says he's seeing the skies are clearing a bit for the medical device industry and hospitals though challenges remain. Earnings are improving, and new product innovation is producing a super-cycle of new products. Listen now to hear Lobo's perspective on Stryker's position globally and in emerging markets, tailwinds from the COVID-19 pandemic, and innovation factors that fuel continued growth within the organization and beyond. He also shares the company's measured M&A strategy and its position in orthopedic surgical robotics. Thank you to SMC Ltd. for sponsoring this episode.
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Apr 7, 2023
DTWeekly-Enovis bets big on ortho. CEO Matt Trerotola explains why the company has a winning hand
In this week’s interview we talk with one of the newer orthopedics players on the block – Enovis, the entity formerly known as Colfax. CEO Matthew L. Trerotola walks us through the decision to move from a diversified industrial player into an orthopedics company and just how the company thinks it can compete against larger, established players in the market. Enovis is weighted heavily in extremities, putting it on a track for fast growth, but sees promising signs it can compete in large joint as well.
You’ll also hear our latest Fastball Patch from Cellular Vehicles. This episode was sponsored by DeviceTalks Boston.
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Mar 31, 2023
Hear our great discussion with Omar Khateeb about how to engineer your best possible Medtech career
We hand over the reins to all-around great Medtech guy and sales guru Omar M. Khateeb, host of the State of Medtech show on LinkedIn. Chris Newmarker, executive editor of MassDevice, brought along his latest Newmarker’s Newsmakers delivering news about iCad, Better Therapeutics, Philips, GE Healthcare, Masimo and Signifier Health. Chris, Omar and Tom Salemi, Editorial Director of DeviceTalks, share their views on the news before sharing the lessons they’ve learned over their career about how Medtech professionals can position themselves for professional success. The conversation ranges far and wide with discussion about storytelling, knowing your powers, and the threat of “silent non-competes.” We mention a code in there to get 25% off the registration for DeviceTalks Boston (It's OMAR25) on May 10-11. Don’t be shy. Register now at DeviceTalks.com
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Mar 29, 2023
How Boston Scientific and IBM Research use AI to measure pain and empower patients
In the premier episode of the new Boston Scientific Talks podcast series, we learn how Boston Scientific and IBM Research have joined together to address chronic pain - a physical, mental, and physiological condition affecting millions.
Boston Scientific's Director R&D, Discovery: Data and Design, Matt McDonald and IBM Research's Global Research Leader, Jeff Rogers shared how the partnership is helping to tailor the needs of the system to the needs of the patients, and the surprises they discovered along the way.
The partnership is giving Boston Scientific insights on the power of its stimulation devices but also a better understanding of the broader problem of pain.
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Mar 24, 2023
How Ronovo Surgical is targeting China’s MIS surgical market with modular surgical robotic system
In this episode we’ll speak with two leaders of Ronovo Surgical, a Shanghai-based surgical robotics company that’s looking to challenge Intuitive and all comers to the massive surgical market in China. CEO John Ma and CTO Ying Mao describe the benefits they see in Ronovo Surgical’s unique modular system design. The pair bring experience from Intuitive, Auris, and other medical device companies. Why does Ronovo see its Carina system as a more attractive alternative to legacy MIS systems? And how does it intend to tackle the China market and beyond?
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences, delivers his Newmarker’s Newsmakers after Host Tom Salemi bemoans the uncertain fate of his family’s Kia Rondo. Newsmakers include Silicon Valley Bank, Abbott, CVRx, AdvaMed, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic.
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Mar 22, 2023
Rosa highlights Intuitive’s past and present to bring its future strategic vision into sharper focus
In the first episode of IntuitiveTalks' newest season, Dave Rosa, who served as executive vice president and chief strategy and growth officer at the time of the interview, shares a look into the past and a glimpse into the future of Intuitive. What did Intuitive look like early on? How does Intuitive define itself today? And what direction is Intuitive heading to further embed itself into the minimally-invasive hall of fame? Rosa was named president of the company in May 2023. Thanks to Maxon Group for sponsoring this episode.
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Mar 17, 2023
Picking through the rubble of SVB’s collapse, what’s next for Medtech, VCs and startups?
A week after the SVB Wall’s fall, we talk with medical device leaders about how they managed the run on Silicon Valley Bank, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedure on the morning of the day this episode was published.
Pristine Surgical CEO Bryan Lord recounts the steps his management team took after the news broke Thursday night. He also walks us through the 10-point plan that he posted on LinkedIn, including commentary on how members of the industry can support each other. You can read his post here. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bryanlord_one-ceos-playbook-for-svb-depositors-1-activity-7040425947308650496-FsEc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Joe Mullings, CEO of the Mullings Group, says the venture capital and medtech industry need to take a long look in the mirror given their response to SVB’s cloudy financial picture. Now, the Medtech industry is facing uncertainty over the next 90 days as things sort out.
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Mar 10, 2023
Shifamed Start-Up Tioga Cardiovascular looking to redefine mitral and tricuspid valve replacement
In this podcast episode, Co-Hosts Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker review how the medtech industry is handing the current shrinking job market. They’ll review this week’s Newmarker’s Newsmakers which includes Medtronic, Biosense Webster, Johnson & Johnson and high profile clinical meetings. Tom then interviews Mike Dineen, CEO of Tioga Cardiovascular, which is pushing the limits for heart valves. Tioga emerged from the prolific Shifamed incubator. Dineen gives history on both Shifamed and Tioga.
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Mar 6, 2023
Heath shares Stryker’s three commitments to build diversity in workplace, supplier base and beyond
In this episode, Annie Heath, Stryker’s vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion, explains how an interest in sales brought her to Stryker where she held positions in operations for most of her career. Heath also shares how her personal story inspired her to pursue a role leading Stryker’s DEI effort. In addition to building a more diverse workforce, Stryker is also collaborating with suppliers, clinical societies and other partners to create an environment where everyone feels included. This episode is sponsored by AcuityMD.
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Mar 3, 2023
Is Medtech really recession proof? Recent layoffs, retrenchment may signal difficult times lie ahead
Medtech layoffs continue to mount. We’ll use this episode to begin to explore external and internal challenges. Looking externally, longtime industry watcher Henry Soch, now an executive-in-residence at Matter, shares his concerns about the current and future ability of medical device companies – both big and small – getting new technologies into hospitals. You can read Soch’s blog post here. https://healtech.blog/2022/12/28/health-care-disruptors-to-watch-in-2023/
Then, Joe Mullings, CEO of the Mullings Group, brings us inside his conversations with senior leaders of the medical device industry. In this interview, a sober Mullings reviews some of the mistakes large strategics have made. The result may be a few months of layoffs and cost-cutting. Mullings says companies could help themselves and the industry by not requiring their terminated employees to sign non-compete agreements. Mullings ends with some hopeful signs for medtech and useful tips for people looking to protect…
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Feb 24, 2023
Hear from Medtech Color’s 10 Pitch Competition finalists; Kwame Ulmer joins us for the Newsmakers
In this week’s episode, we’ll hear pitches from the 10 start-ups that have been selected as finalists for Medtech Color’s Pitch Competition.
BIOMED – Bobby Ntoya
IllumifyDx - Maria Navas-Moreno
JuneBrain – Samantha Scott
Level 42 AI – Shash Jumbe
Movement Interactive – Eric Luster
Navigate Maternity – Ariana McGee
Oben Health – Peter Njongwe
Tanzen Medical – Nilanjan Banerjee, Justin Brooks
Thermaband – Debbie Dickinson, Markea Dickinson-Frazier
Youme Healthcare – Hafeezah Muhammad
Medtech Color Executive Director Kwame Ulmer joins Host Tom Salemi and Mass Device Associate Editor Sean Whooley on this week’s Newmarkers Newsmakers. This week’s list includes Johnson & Johnson, Origami Surgical, Asensus Surgical, Medtronic, AliveCor, and Apple.
We also discuss the pitch contest, Medtech Color’s history, and an assessment of how effective the industry has been in increasing diversity of leadership in recent years.
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Feb 17, 2023
State of Medtech Layoffs – Holly Scott on what can you do to find your next great opportunity
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Holly Scott, vice president and senior partner of the Mullings Group, an executive search firm, shared her industry expertise and insights during Chris Newmarker’s Newsmakers.
We covered a lot of ground there while reviewing news from Baxter, Medtronic, Titan Medical, Apple, as well as the many companies that reported layoffs over the coming week. Related topics centered around the waning lure of Working From Home, the move from tech to medtech, and what we have to do to build your own brand.
We then examine the current layoff environment. While the situation may not be as bad as it seems on a macrolevel, every layoff brings some disruption to individual workers and families.
Expert Coach Holly Scott offers some valuable advice for those who are looking to rebound from receiving a pink slip. She's got Five Steps!
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Feb 10, 2023
Needham’s Matson, Saxon break down the Abbott-CSI and Globus-Nuvasive deals. Is more M&A on the way?
The weekend ended with a bang as Abbott and Globus Medical both announced significant deals. Abbott picked up publicly traded Cardiovascular Solutions for $890 million while Globus Medical acquired – or merged if you prefer – with publicly held spine competitor NuVasive in a deal valued more than $3 billion.
In this week’s episode, host Tom Salemi explores each deal with Wall Street Analysts Mike Matson and David Saxon from Needham. The conversation begins with the big question – Is this this start of a robust year for M&A.
Executive Editor Chris Newmarker also delivers his Newmarker’s Newsmakers. Abbott, CSI, Globus, and NuVasive top the list along with GE Healthcare’s acquisition of Caption Health. Other medtech companies making the vaunted list include 3M, Dexcom, Ethicon, and Inspire Medical.
This episode is sponsored by DeviceTalks Boston. Go to DeviceTalks.com to find out more information about our upcoming in-person conference.
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Feb 3, 2023
CEO Simhambhatla details how Setpoint Medical is poised to fulfill promise of bioelectronic medicine
Murthy Simhambhatla launched his medtech career during the epic race to develop groundbreaking drug-eluting stent technologies as a new approach to battling cardiovascular disease. Over two decades later, following a career that took him across the globe and clinical specialities, Simhambhatla finds himself involved in another exciting push to bring new technologies to bear on prevalent medical problems. Simhambhatla leads Setpoint Medical, a trail blazer in the neurostimulation space that’s tapping the vagus nerve as way to battle inflammation. In this discussion, we’ll cover Simhambhatla’s career and how Setpoint is positioned for the future following a significant capital raise.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences at MassDevice shares his Newmarker’s Newsmakers including Avonics, Invacare, Philips, Johnson & Johnson, 3M, Stryker, Edwards, Hologic, BD, Edwards, and Boston Scientific.
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Jan 27, 2023
Stryker’s Robert Cohen sees a new day dawning for surgical robotics, surgeons, data and digital tech
Robert Cohen has his eyes on the future of orthopedic surgery, but he brings a wealth of knowledge about its past as well. In this interview, Cohen reviews his long history in orthopedic surgery, dating back to his studies in college. Over his career, Cohen has had a role in materials, 3D-printing, and began working with MAKO Surgical several years before its acquisition by Stryker in 2013. Now Cohen leads the team that will guide Stryker’s digital strategy in the future. Cohen, who chairs the board of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, wraps up the discussion sharing his thoughts about the future of engineering education. This episode is sponsored by Viant. Go to ViantMedical.com to learn more.
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Jan 20, 2023
Hear about Dexcom's evolving mission statement and Medtronic's Cranial and Spinal Technologies plans
In this week’s episode, CEO Kevin Sayer takes a few minutes to share Dexcom’s vision for the future OUTSIDE of diabetes. What does this mean for people with diabetes and others who could benefit from the powerful Dexcom G7? We also bring in a very popular interview from our MedtronicTalks podcast series – Skip Kiil, president of cranial and spinal technologies, shares some very wise career advice that helped him accelerate his career. He also talks with Tom Salemi about his move to Medtronic and how the company is ramping up to dominate the spinal and cranial spaces. His interview is sponsored by Allied Motion Technologies.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences at MassDevice shares his Newmarker’s Newsmakers including Dexcom, Medtronic, Masimo, Philips, Abbott and Shockwave.
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Jan 13, 2023
Can Pristine Surgical’s single-use scopes, subscription model disrupt the rigid endoscope market?
Pristine Surgical CEO Bryan Lord spent his career advising and investing in medical device companies, so he didn’t immediately see how a “conspicuous outsider” like himself would be the right person to serve as CEO of start-up Pristine Surgical. But he immediately recognized the satisfaction in leading the company’s work to create first-of-its-kind 4K single-use surgical arthroscope designed for arthroscopic procedures. After securing 510(k) notification from the FDA, Pristine Surgical is ready to compete in the rigid endoscope market serving orthopedics and general surgery. Lord explains how Pristine can lower costs and improve efficiencies with the new tech and sales model. He also explains how Pristine expects to compete in the much larger flexible endoscope market.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of MassDevice, returns with his Newmarker’s Newsmakers featuring Verily, Medtronic, Sterigenics, CardiacSense, Masimo, and Philips.
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Jan 6, 2023
CEO Tom Polen explains how Dx, robotics, digital tech and relentless M&A are driving BD's growth
Becton Dickinson’s CEO Tom Polen lays out the company’s plan for growth that’s building off a stunning sequence of acquisitions over the past two years that has the company loaded with tech – including digital and robotics tools – to drive its future growth. Polen also shares his tragic introduction to medtech and shares how that experiences influences every decision he makes. Tom Polen will be the opening keynote speaker at DeviceTalks Boston on May 10.
In this episode we introduce a new feature – the DeviceTalks Weekly Fastball! This is our own version of a pitch contest where we let medical device start-ups throw their best pitch to potential partners and investors. To contact this week's pitcher - Dialysis-X you can email the founder Oluwagbebemi D. Oyeniyi at ooyeniyi@dialysisx.com.
We have our first Newmarker’s Newsmakers of the year delivered by a mysterious guest co-host. Companies making the list include Zimmer Biomet, Baxter, GE Healthcare, Volta Medical, Card…
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Dec 23, 2022
We Bid Adieu to 2022 – What were the biggest Medical Device newsmakers of the year?
In this episode, your diligent team of DeviceTalkers - Executive Editor Chris Newmarker, Pharma Editor Brian Buntz, Managing Editor Jim Hammerand, Senior Editor Danielle Kirsh, Associate Editor Sean Whooley and DeviceTalks Editorial Director Tom Salemi – assembled to review our Top 10 events, trends and newsmakers.
We’ve got some highs – robots, diabetes – and some lows – Supply Chain, CPAP machines – and a whole lot of interesting things right in between. All an all, we’re bullish on what’s to come in 2023! And we only mentioned Covid-19 once.
Companies mention include Abbott, Abiomed, Ambu, Becton Dickinson, Boston Scientific, CMR Surgical, Dexcom, Endiatx, embecta, Intuitive, Johnson & Johnson Medtech, Medtronic, Neuralink, Philips, Senseonics, Stryker, Synchron, Vicarious Surgical, Zimmer Biomet, ZimVie, and many more.
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Dec 16, 2022
How ReCor Medical is building a strong clinical case for renal denervation; let your voice be heard
In this episode, we’ll speak with ReCor Medical’s CEO Andy Weiss and Helen Reeve-Stoffer, PHD, the company’s vice president of clinical affairs. The pair joined the renal denervation company in 2013, before disappointing results of a Medtronic-trial temporarily cratered the entire space. But now through careful clinical testing ReCor Medical is climbing out of that hole and demonstrating the technology could be an effective tool against serious hypertension. To hear the interview we conducted with Andy Weiss in 2021, go here.
Executive Editor Chris Newmarker and Tom Salemi, editorial director of DeviceTalks, begin making plans for next week’s end-of-year coverage. If you want to contribute your insights go here and record your own message for the podcast. https://www.massdevice.com/devicetalks-weekly-whats-your-top-story-of-2022/
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Dec 15, 2022
Pierce talks innovation, Vocera, ASCs and why nurses hug Stryker’s Neptune waste management system
In this interview, Andy Pierce, group president of MedSurg and Neurotechnology, details how the company strives to create products that nurses and hospital staff find essential to everyday patient care. The kind of attention to detail that can drive a nurse to hug a Neptune waste management system. “This is what we live for at Stryker,” Pierce says. Pierce has spent his entire career at Stryker and offers advice to others who want to do the same. In this interview, Pierce discusses Vocera, ambulatory surgery centers, and other forces changing the healthcare industry. Thank you to Resonetics for sponsoring
To listen to our 2021 DeviceTalks Weekly interview with Pierce go here. https://www.devicetalks.com/lobo-and-pierce-talk-wright-cool-tech-robotics-and-the-not-so-secret-plans-to-keep-stryker-growing/
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Dec 9, 2022
Celine Martin discusses atrial fibrillation, neurovascular and where J&J Medtech may be going next
In this episode, Celine Martin, company group chairman, Cardiovascular & Specialty Solutions Group, offers insights from her career at Johnson & Johnson. What are the four variables you need to consider to thrive in a global company. Martin also shares insights on cardiac ablation, neurovascular, and where the company is headed following the acquisition of Abiomed.
Paul Grand, CEO of Medtech Innovator, joins as a co-host offering insights on Chris Newmarker’s Newsmakers – Moon Surgical, Butterfly Network, Medtronic, Avail Medsystems, Dexcom, and Fresenius Medical. Grand shares a personal connection to one of the companies.
Grand, Newmarker and Tom Salemi also share their thoughts on the retirement of Mike Mussallem, CEO of Edwards Lifesciences.
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Dec 2, 2022
Expand your diabetes awareness with Bigfoot Biomedical’s Clemente and Medtronic’s Sugerman
Unfortunately, we missed Diabetes Awareness Month by a few days, but we get great insights on this dreaded disease from two players in the space. Krista Sugerman, vice president, global marketing & communications at Medtronic’s diabetes business, shares how diabetes has impacted people close to her and why the company is keeping focused on how a diabetes diagnosis can take over someone’s life. We also touch base with newcomer Bigfoot Biomedical. Matt Clemente, Senior Vice President of Product, Development & Delivery at Bigfoot Biomedical, shares his familial connection with diabetes and how he’s dedicated his career to helping people manage the disease.
Chris Newmarker also delivers his Newsmakers – Elon Musk, GE Healthcare, Boston Scientific, Apollo Endosurgery, Tital Medical, CMR Surgical, and Johnson & Johnson Medtech.
Go here to hear the interview with CMR CEO Per Vegard Nerseth https://www.devicetalks.com/hear-from-the-ceos-of-two-surgical-robotics-companies-that-togethe…
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Nov 28, 2022
Stryker's Robinson looks to help spine division reach even higher peaks after acquisitions
In this episode of StrykerTalks, Robbie Robinson, president of Stryker’s Spine division, touts the strength of a business build out with sizable acquisitions in recent years, including K2M. Does Robinson see any gaps in Stryker’s offerings? Where can other Stryker businesses help Stryker Spine reach new heights in the coming years? Thanks to Tegra Medical for sponsoring this episode.
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Nov 25, 2022
Intuitive CEO Guthart shares views on ION ablation, rising competition and robotic surgery’s future
This episode of IntuitiveTalks is taken from the keynote interview Intuitive CEO Gary Guthart gave at DeviceTalks West. In this conversation Guthart will provide additional details of Intuitive’s move into endoscopic robotics including the ION robot. He'll give his assessment of the growing competition in surgical robotics and what it means for Intuitive. Finally, he shares why he thinks the term surgical robotics may have no meaning in the future. This episode is sponsored by Optikos.
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Nov 18, 2022
Akili looks, sounds and walks like a medical device company but is it? A chat with COO Matt Franklin
In this episode, we talk with medtech vet Matt Franklin who left the industry. – sort of – to help lead Akili, developer of EndeavoRx, the first prescription treatment delivered through a video game. The game treats kids with ADHD, but the company has bigger plans. Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences, returns with his newsmakers including CMR Surgical, Affera, Medtronic, Blackrock Neurotech, Cardinal Health, and Stryker. To hear the rest of our interview with CMR CEO Per Vergard Nerseth go here. https://www.devicetalks.com/hear-from-the-ceos-of-two-surgical-robotics-companies-that-together-just-raised-over-1-billion/
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Nov 14, 2022
Kate Stewart shares takes on leadership, Stryker’s Women’s Network, and critical ENT opportunities
In this episode, Kate Stewart, vice president and general manager of ENT, explains how her first introduction into medical devices came as a patient. Stewart’s Stryker career began in her native Australia but quickly went global. She now leads the ENT business in Minneapolis. Stewart identifies the key leadership quality she’s come to appreciate, pinpoints four critical areas in her specialty, and explains the importance of the Stryker Women’s Network. This episode is sponsored by Boston Micro Fabrication.
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Nov 11, 2022
CEO Keith Grossman details how `Pain Company’ Nevro is grabbing a big piece of a competitive market
In this episode, we’ll talk with Keith Grossman, who brought his long, successful track record as a medtech CEO to what he sees as a truly disruptive neurostimulation company. We’ll talk with Grossman about his decision to join medtech even though unlike some of his counterparts he enjoyed organic chemistry (aka, the Medtech career creator) in college. Over his career, Grossman helped create new medical device marks by leading companies such as Thoratec and Conceptus toward sizable acquisitions. At Nevro, Grossman says he’s overseeing the company’s transformation into a pain company, one that’s managed to grab 20% of a competitive market very quickly. Thanks to Pulse Technologies for sponsoring this episode.
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Nov 4, 2022
LivaNova taps the “miracle nerve” to combat epilepsy; How hospital workforce shortages hit Medtech
In this podcast we’ll talk with Chris Hartman, president, epilepsy, LivaNova, about how the company is developing new tools to use the vagus nerve to limit the impact of epilepsy.
We’ll also hear from one of our DeviceTalks West Panels about how workforce shortages are impacting medical device development.
The panelists are Nilesh Patel, M.D. Vice President, Medical Affairs, Neuromodulation, Boston Scientific; Farzad Azimpour, M.D. Senior Vice President, Strategic Innovation, Edwards Lifesciences; and Nick West, M.D. Chief Medical Officer, Divisional Vice President, Medical Affairs, Vascular, Abbott.
Executive Editor Chris Newmarker deliveres his Newmarker’s Newsmakers – highlighting news from Butterfly Networks, Dentsply Sirona, Stryker, Titan Medical, Johnson & Johnson and Biomed.
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Oct 28, 2022
Can Phiex help fix Medtech’s growing sterilization problem? Our highlights from DeviceTalks West
In this week’s episode, we’ll visit with CL Tian, co-founder and CEO of Phiex Technologies, Medtech Innovator’s 2022 Grand Prize winner chosen by attendees at this week’s AdvaMed conference in Boston. Tian details the pending problems facing the medtech industry due to concerns about current sterilization practices and shares how Phiex could help alleviate the problem. At the start of the episode, co-hosts Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker are joined by Associated Editor Sean Whooley and Pharma Editor Brian Buntz to revisit the high points of last week’s DeviceTalks West conference in Santa Clara. Thanks to all of our speakers, sponsors and attendees! To read the report mentioned in the podcast go here. https://www.bcg.com/publications/2022/us-ahead-in-medtech-regulation
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Oct 18, 2022
A very special Newmarker's Newsmakers episode with Paul Grand of Medtech Innovator
Just a short visit today. Paul Grand of the Medtech Innovator introduces us the five finalists of his start-up program. They’ll compete for the top spot at AdvaMed’s meeting next week. in Boston. Remember to join us at DeviceTalks West THIS week. Register at DeviceTalks.com.
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Oct 18, 2022
Human factors design’s Rieger explains how Intuitive is working to make its systems more … intuitive
In this episode we’ll talk with Kathryn Rieger, PhD, senior director, human factors and user research at Intuitive, about how the surgical robotics leader is working with surgeons to understand how to make its surgical systems easier to use or, for lack of a better word, intuitive. Where should buttons go. What does the blue blinking light mean? And should surgical robotics systems follow a similar template to make it easier for surgeons to master different systems. Thanks to Elsner Engineering Works for sponsoring this episode.
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Oct 14, 2022
Hear what you will see at next week’s DeviceTalks West
Editorial Director Tom Salemi provides a sneak peek (listen?) into next week’s DeviceTalks West conference which will be held Oct. 19-20 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Tom will run through some of the highlights of the agenda which can be viewed at west.devicetalks.com. We also include snippets of past interviews of two keynotes – Gary Guthart, CEO of Intuitive, and Leslie Trigg, CEO of Outset Medical – from past interviews with DeviceTalks. You can find both interviews on DeviceTalks.com. If you’re interested in attending connect with Tom Salemi on LinkedIn.
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Oct 7, 2022
ZimVie spine chief lays out future plans; Olympus America’s respiratory VP talks scopes, lung cancer
In this episode, we’ll first hear from Swarna Alcorn, business unit vice president, Olympus America, about that company’s long held – and growing -position in respiratory tools. We’ll weight the value between reusable and single-use bronchoscopes as well as the dire need for more awareness of lung cancer. Then we’ll connect with Rebecca Whitney, global spine president at ZimVie, the recent spinout of Zimmer Biomet. Whitney recounts why she joined the spinout and where ZimVie is making progress with payers. This episode was sponsored by DeviceTalks West.
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Sep 30, 2022
How hospitals are forming closer ties with surgical robotics companies like Zimmer Biomet, Vicarious
In this week’s episode, we’ll talk with leaders from Zimmer Biomet and Vicarious Surgical about the new partners they’ve entered into with national hospital companies in a bid to further their digital and robotics surgery offerings. Guests include Robert Kraal, Vice President and General Manager, Connected Health at Zimmer Biomet, and Adam Sachs, co-founder and CEO of Vicarious Surgical. You’ll get great background on both companies. One note: Tom Salemi interviewed Sachs during a DeviceTalks Tuesday Webinar. So if you’d rather watch the interview go to DeviceTalks.com where you can find the discussion – complete with video and PowerPoint presentation – available for free.
Thanks to Cirtronics for sponsoring!
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences, also returns with his Newmarker’s Newsmakers – Stryker, Smith + Nephew, Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, and Philips.
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Sep 23, 2022
Here are seven things Medtech VCs and start-up executives are thinking/worrying/excited about today
This episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly podcast features a panel discussion I led at Medmarc’s Annual Broker meeting. There are enormous insights on how investors and start-up executives see the opportunities and challenging facing the sector today. Below, you can see time stamps for each of the major topics we covered. We suggest sitting back and listening to the entire podcast – long, but not crazy long – but refer to the time stamps if you’d like to go back and listen again.
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Here is the panel
Ali Behbahani, MD, General Partner, NEA
Ryan Drant, Founder, Managing Partner, Questa Capital
Justin Klein, MD, JD, Vensana Capital
Martha Shadan, Medtech CEO, Board Member
Here are the topics
3:30 - Intros
8:20 - Concerns about inflation
23:20 – Optimistic or pessimistic about the future
29:20 – Regulatory/Reimbursement
43:00 – Connected Health
51:00 – Opportunities and risks of AI
58:30 – Finding a workforce
1:04:30 – Where have all t…
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Sep 16, 2022
What Boston Scientific’s evolving supply chain strategy means for partners, productivity and M&A
The medical device industry obviously isn’t immune to the challenges posed by a shaky supply chain. But OEM leaders like Boston Scientific need to work doubly hard to ensure they have the supplies needed to provide devices for patient care. In this episode, we’ll talk with Brad Sorenson, executive vice president, Global Operations, and Paudie O’Connor, senior vice president of supply chain, to learn how Boston Scientific has managed the crisis. Topics we cover include supplier relationships, the value (and risk) of redundancies, how to reducing shipping costs and other critical topics. Supply chain executives at OEMs and smaller vendors will value from the conversation. Thanks to Paxxus for sponsoring this episode.
Chris Newmarker also returns to share his Newmarkers Newsmakers – Edwards Lifesciences, Verily, Johnson & Johnson, Smith+ Nephew, and MassDevice’s Big 100!
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Sep 15, 2022
We fixed the glitch! Check your player for new podcast episodes!
Not sure why but last week's podcasts didn't immediately find their way to some podcast players. They are there now, so enjoy! And thanks for listening.
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Sep 9, 2022
How Cleerly and HeartFlow are hunting a massive, but still elusive killer – heart disease
Nearly 700,000 people die from heart disease, that’s one out of every five deaths, a startling number that could be curtailed with better predictive tools. In this episode, we’ll talk with two medical device companies employing new analytical tools to get a clearer picture of heart health. We’ll first connect with Campbell Rogers, MD, executive vice president and chief medical officer of HeartFlow, who will explain how the company’s HeartFlow FFRCT Analysis tool can bring new data to bear. Then, we’ll connect with James Min, MD, co-founder and CEO of Cleerly, a start-up employing artificial intelligence and other tools that he says will help dispel the mystery of this elusive killer.
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Sep 7, 2022
ESG Lead Buckley explains how Stryker keeps commitments, reduces its footprint, and embraces change
In this episode, Eileen Buckley, vice president, corporate responsibility, unpacks how Stryker is following its environmental, social and governance strategies to encourage its employees, suppliers and even customers to meet increased demands for greater healthcare access and a smaller environmental impact. In a time where employees look to work with companies that carry a broader social mission, Buckley says Stryker sees real business benefits by answering the call issued by societal stakeholders as well as its shareholders. This episode is sponsored by Dassault Systemes.
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Sep 2, 2022
DTW - How Medtronic CDS is bringing the power of data to bear in the fight against chronic diseases
In this episode, two senior leaders from Medtronic’s Cardiovascular Diagnostics & Services group share the group’s vision of “turning data into the right therapy.” Sanjiv Arora, vice president of business development and strategy, and Leo Rapallini, vice president of research & development, explain how trail-blazing technologies like the LINQ family of ICMs are a great tool in measuring infrequent – but important - cardiac events. But the company sees an opportunity to employ these tiny implantable data-collection devices to provide data that might enable doctors to predict problems before they come, both in cardiac care and other areas as part of a broader disease management strategy. This episode was sponsored by Isometric. To listen to the earlier episode featuring Julie Brewer, president, Cardiovascular Diagnostics and Services go here. https://news.medtronic.com/medtronictalks-podcast-julie-brewer
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Aug 26, 2022
How Momentis Surgical and EndoQuest Robotics are extending surgical robotics reach into the body
In this episode, two newer players to the surgical robotics space explain how they’re planning to grab their appropriate slice of the growing market. First, we’ll talk with Kurt Azarbarzin, CEO of EndoQuest Robotics, which is developing the world’s first endoluminal robotic surgical system that can access the body through the mouth or anus. In our second interview, Dvir Cohen, CEO of Momentis Surgical, shares the benefit of the Anovo System, which is indicated for use in robotic-assisted transvaginal benign surgical procedures.
Chris Newmarker brings his Newmarkers Newsmakers including news from Abbott, Teleflex, Medtronic as well as special reports on neural implants and surgical robotics. You can find them both on MassDevice.com. But here’s the link to the surgical robotics article.
https://www.massdevice.com/16-surgical-robotics-companies-you-need-to-know/
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Aug 23, 2022
How Stryker built its trauma and extremities business through innovation and acquisition
In this episode, Mike Panos, president of the trauma and extremities division, explains how Stryker built a powerhouse in their shoulder and foot and ankle businesses through internal development and the acquisition of Wright Medical. The purchase brought Stryker a new line of products and a virtual planning tool called Blueprint. We also explore the trauma business, including where Stryker sees opportunities for innovation and growth.
This episode is sponsored by Tecomet.
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Aug 19, 2022
DTW - What’s the state of the Medtech job market? We go to the pros to hear things you need to know
In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, we collect three very different perspectives on what it takes to find jobs/employees in this current labor market. First, we connect with Joe McClung, president of Floodgate Medical, an executive search firm focused on the medical device industry, for an overview of the current market and some tips for job seekers. (Floodgate also sponsored this episode.) Next, Emma Plouffe, vice president of people and culture at Vicarious Surgical, tells us some of the tools she’s using to find talent for the fast-growing surgical robotics company. Then, we end the episode connecting with Elizabeth Steele, vice president of Microspec Corp., a contract manufacturing business that’s making a bold move to find and retain new employees.
Of course, Chris Newmarker, executive editor of MassDevice, brings his Newmarkers Newsmakers – BD, GE Healthcare, AliveCor and Philips Respironics.
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Aug 12, 2022
DTW – Medtronic’s Mauri brings years of patient care to top clinical, regulatory, scientific post
In this replay of our most recent MedtronicTalks episode, Dr. Laura Mauri shares the career path that started with an early interest in medicine brought, at least partly, by her mother’s cancer diagnosis. Mauri directed that interest in caring for patients – and an innate ability to keep cool under pressure – to become an interventional cardiologist, a career that led her to appreciate the benefits of new technologies. This interest in new devices drew her to join Medtronic in 2018. This year, she was named senior vice president and chief scientific, medical and regulatory officer. We’ll talk with her about the “good surprises’ she encountered at Medtronic as well as the impact that the pandemic’s fallout will have on clinical trials and clinical workflow going forward. This episode is sponsored by Medmarc insurance Group.
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Aug 5, 2022
DTW Medtronic's Greg Smith lays out supply chain strategies
In this replay of the popular MedtronicTalks podcast episode, Greg Smith brought decades of supply chain experience with him when he joined Medtronic last year during the throes of pandemic-induced pressures on supply chain. Over that time, Smith has been working with company leaders and outside suppliers to mitigate the challenges being wrought by the string of global crises. In this episode, we’ll learn how Medtronic is working to build a stronger supply chain that will allow it to build an inventory capable of keeping critical medical devices flowing to customers.
This podcast is sponsored by Donatelle.
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Jul 29, 2022
Ethicon’s Tom O’Brien explains the design – and critical need for - its new surgical stapler
In this episode, Tom O’Brien, Ethicon’s worldwide president of endomechanical, gives a detailed lesson on the design of its Echelon 3000 surgical stapler, from recognizing the huge problem of surgical complications and identifying how to build a stapler that’s more suited to ALL surgeons. The Echelon 3000 is designed with 39% greater jaw aperture and a 27% greater articulation span, as well as software that provides real-time haptic and audible device feedback to help enable surgeons to make critical adjustments during procedures.
Executive Editor Life Sciences Chris Newmarker conducts that interview and brings his Newmarker’s Newsmakers hitting upon news from Stryker, Pear Therapeutics, Dexcom and 3M. We also talk about the world’s largest orthopedics companies (find the list here https://www.massdevice.com/10-largest-orthopedic-device-companies-in-the-world-2022/) and the current spate of disappointing earnings reports from medical device companies
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Jul 22, 2022
DTW – Camille Chang Gilmore shares Boston Scientific’s successful approach to hitting many DEI goals
In this episode, Camille Chang Gilmore, vice president, human resources and global chief diversity officer, explains why she accepted Boston Scientific CEO Mike Mahoney’s offer to help lead the company’s diversity and inclusion efforts. This company’s work led to the creation of multiple programs promoting equity and combatting racism, earning Boston Scientific multiple awards and recognition from outside the company. She also shares as personal memory that speaks to the success she’s seen.
This episode is brought to you by KNF.
In this week’s Newmarker’s Newsmakers, Executive Editor Chris Newmarker brings a bounty of big news items from Synchron, Amazon, Intuitive, J&J and iRhythm.
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Jul 8, 2022
Intuitive’s Conta details how the da Vinci SP (single-port) system could build a larger US Market
In this episode of IntuitiveTalks, Jonathan Conta, vice president of product management, shares Intuitive’s vision for its da Vinci SP system, a single-port system. Rather than using four arms outside the body that require multiple ports, da Vinci SP can create triangulation inside the body. Intuitive has secured broad approval for the system in Korea, but broader US approval has been coming slowly. The company is working with surgeon customers and internal engineering teams to find the right fit for da Vinci SP. The episode is sponsored by Biomerics.
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Jul 1, 2022
Boston Scientific CEO Mike Mahoney on building a corporate culture that drives high growth results
In this episode, Boston Scientific CEO Michael Mahoney makes his DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast debut. In this jam-packed interview, Mahoney walks us through the cultural changes Boston Scientific has made since he joined the company a decade ago. He explains how restructuring has helped to identify leaders rather than managers. How Boston Scientific encourages people to take risks. Where does Boston Scientific see growth in markets and technologies. (We ask if Boston needs a surgical robotics platform.) Mahoney also explains how Boston Scientific knows when to let an opportunity go. We talk about experiences from his own career that others can take us lessons. Mahoney also explains what co-founder Pete Nicholas, who passed away recently, meant to the company, and what Boston Scientific will look like in five years. How will Boston Scientific move forward if the economy weakens.
This episode is sponsored by PSN Labs.
Executive editor Chris Newmarker brings his #NewmarkersNewsmakers – C…
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Jun 24, 2022
How innovative design, commercial strategy is building Cala Trio’s bioelectronic medicine market
In this week’s episode, Cala Health CEO Renee Ryan joins us in the Newmarker’s Newsmaker’s booth to share her insights on the news of the week including an interesting meeting with Mike Mahoney before he become CEO of Boston Scientific.
Ryan also shares details on the growing success of the Cala Trio, a device worn on the wrist to help control essential tremors. We dive deep into Cala’s story, talking with Deanna Harshbarger, vice president, product, and Doug Biehn, chief commercial officer.
This episode is sponsored by AcuityMD.
Executive Editor Chris Newmarker returns with his Newmarker’s Newsmakers – GE Healthcare, Boston Scientific, Ekso Bionic, Medtronic and Abbott.
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Jun 17, 2022
Can Moon Surgical fill critical role in the OR? Analyst Matson’s take on J&J, Medtronic and more
In this episode, Michael Matson, analyst at Needham, explains his thoughts behind a possible J&J acquisition of Boston Scientific. He also explains why he downgraded Medtronic and his take on supply chain issues. The rest of the episode will focus on Moon Surgical, which recently closed on a $31 million Series A to build a new robot that could lend critical assistance to surgeons. We speak with CEO Ann Osdoit about the company’s plans as well as investor and advisor Steve Oesterle, formerly of Medtronic. Oesterle also gives his assessment of the broader medical device-technology convergence including some fascinating forecasts for Verily. This episode is sponsored by KNF. Also hear more information about our upcoming DeviceTalks Tuesdays session and DeviceTalks West in-person meeting.
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Jun 10, 2022
DTW - Fly into to the Data Zone! -A peak into Stryker’s playbook; What Oracle may do with Cerner
This week listeners will get to hear how Stryker is incorporating Vocera, Gauss and other tech into its DRE strategy. We’ll get a visit from fellow podcaster Keith Figlioli of LRV Health to talk about Oracle’s acquisition of Cerner. And Chris “WorkLord” Newmarker brings a star-studded Newmarker’s Newsmakers feature Smith & Nephew, GE Healthcare, Ethicon, Medtronic, and Moon Surgical. Thank you to Flexan for sponsoring this episode! Go to Flexan.com.
Newmarker’s Newsmakers
5. Smith & Nephew makes historic move? https://www.massdevice.com/smithnephew-moving-out-of-hull-uk/
4.GE Healthcare keeps making news! https://www.massdevice.com/ge-healthcare-workload-management-software-radiologists/
3. Have you seen Ethicon's stapler? https://www.massdevice.com/ethicon-launches-next-gen-surgical-stapler/
2. Medtronic adds more Neuromed Knowhow https://www.massdevice.com/medtronic-announces-new-chief-medical-officer-for-neuromodulation-unit/
1. Moon launches robotic surgery bid https…
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Jun 3, 2022
Deep look into Medtech Mergers, Investor frustration; Bonus: Medtronic moves against health inequity
In this episode, we’ll take a deeper look into our Newmarker’s Newsmakers with Andrew Jay, general partner at the Borna Health Fund, a hedge fund that invests in medical technology companies. We’ll take about Stryker’s recent regulatory success; Quidel’s game-changing acquisition; Medtronic’s dialysis deal with DaVita and shareholder votes against executive pay at Masimo. We’ll also take a deeper look into the swirling speculation that Johnson & Johnson could look to buy Boston Scientific. In the second half of the show, we’ll run our latest MedtronicTalks podcast episode that highlighted the work the company and industry is doing to identify and combat healthcare inequity. Finally, we’ll also hear some helpful advice on cybersecurity.
#5. https://www.massdevice.com/strykers-spine-guidance-software-fda-clearance/
#4 https://www.massdevice.com/quidel-ortho-clinical-diagnostics-combine/
#3 https://www.massdevice.com/medtronic-davita-kidney-device-company/
#2 https:/…
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Jun 2, 2022
Why Stryker’s Mark Paul believes we’re entering into “Golden Era” of neurovascular tech and tools
Parenthood changes everyone, but Mark Paul’s life took a drastically different turn the moment his oldest child was born. Paul discovered he had a passion for the OR and patient treatment, a realization that convinced him to switch careers to the medical device industry. Today, Paul leads Stryker’s neurovascular business which, he says, contains the origins of the stroke treatment industry. In this interview, Paul reviews the strength and strategies of the “micro plumbers” who are helping people who are at risk of suffering a stroke or are trying to find their way back. This episode is sponsored by Resonetics.
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May 27, 2022
Quick message - No DTW podcast, but plenty else to listen to over this weekend and next week.
Message from co-host Tom Salemi, editorial director of DeviceTalks. Check out MedtronicTalks and StrykerTalks at DeviceTalks.com. You can also subscribe to MedtronicTalks on any podcast player.
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May 20, 2022
DeviceTalks Boston Post-Game – Editors’ Top Moments, Insulet’s Eric Benjamin on future of Omnipod 5
In this episode the MassDevice editorial team will break down all the action at DeviceTalks Boston. You’ll also hear from keynote speaker Eric Benjamin, executive vice president of innovation, strategy and digital products, at the company. To read MassDevice’s coverage of DeviceTalks Boston go here. https://www.massdevice.com/tag/devicetalks-boston/
Thank you to our sponsor DeepDyve. To try out DeepDyve go to
https://get.deepdyve.com/devicetalks/
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May 13, 2022
Our Pre-Post-DeviceTalks Boston episode, also MedtronicTalks replay with Gastro CMO Austin Chiang
First, a quick recap of DeviceTalks Boston. Then, a MedtronicTalks Podcast Replay, in which Austin L. Chiang, MD, explains why he brought his sizable social media following to Medtronic, where he serves as chief medical officer of the Gastrointestinal business. Chiang says his decision is directly tied to his excitement about Medtronic’s growing suite of GI products including the AI-powered GI Genius and the swallowable PillCam. Chiang explains why he chose to couple the company’s broad platform with his own social media presence to reach more patients who may need treatment of gastrointestinal care. He also gives advice to other physicians who may want to amplify their own voices through social media.
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May 6, 2022
DTW- What’s coming up at DeviceTalks Boston? A DTW contest! Also, can Fictiv fix the supply chain?
DeviceTalks Boston is here! Win a free registration.
In this week’s episode, we’ll give you a little taste of what you’ll see at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center on May 10-11. Friend and colleague Steve Crowe, editorial director of the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum, will share what attendees will see at that meeting, which is co-located with DeviceTalks Boston.
Then, we’ll talk with Peter Stebbins about his Opening Keynote Interview with medtech veteran Peter Doyle, who is now dean of Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
We’ll also get a final update from Paul Grand, CEO of Medtech Innovator, about the 22 mid-stage medical device companies that will be presenting at DeviceTalks Boston. A selected few will then compete at Medtech Innovator’s Pitch Contest on May 11.
And to demonstrate we’re not just selling you on an event, we talk with Dave Evans, co-founder and CEO of Fictiv, a technology company that has raised nearly…
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Apr 29, 2022
DTW – How Baylis fits into Boston Scientific’s EP portfolio; also putting Medtech’s story to music
In this episode, Nick Spadea-Anello, Boston Scientific’s global president of electrophysiology, will explain how the $1.7 billion paid for Baylis Medical will help expand the Boston's extensive EP portfolio. We also talk about the message he likes to impart upon employees of recently acquired companies, sharing some lessons he learned when Boston Scientific acquired his then-employer, Guidant.
We also welcome Brian Johnson, president of MassMedic, the top medical device association in New England, into the booth as our co-host.
Johnson, of course, brings his insider perspective to Newmarker’s Newsmakers, but he also shares how everyone needs to do a better job of sharing medtech’s stories. He should know. Johnson is the co-founder of MassDevice and DeviceTalks! So we got an origin story as well.
Executive editor Chris Newmarker brought a powerful newsmaker list including an interesting take on a recent collaboration between Medtronic and GE Healthcare. Other newsmakers include…
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Apr 22, 2022
DTW - Hear how Shockwave and LimFlow are taking the fight to peripheral vascular diseases
In this episode, we’ll talk to two of the more innovative companies in the peripheral vascular space – Shockwave Medical and LimFlow – about how they’re helping to treat people who previously had few or zero options.
This episode is brought to you by Confluent Medical.
LimFlow CEO Dan Rose walked us through his decision to build his Medtech career in Europe. He also talked about LimFlow’s unique approach to using veins as a route to deliver blood to limbs rather than return blood to the heart.
Our second interview is with Doug Godshall, CEO and President of Shockwave Medical. Godshall admittedly came to medtech later in his career, but he’s taken on some of its most serious and intractable problems, first as CEO of HeartWare and now Shockwave Medical.
You can learn more about Shockwave here
https://shockwavemedical.com/about/our-story/
and LimFlow here.
https://limflow.com/
We’ll also have Chris Newmarker delivering his Newmarker’s Newsmakers including news from…
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Apr 15, 2022
DTW -Vapotherm was going to have trouble meeting surging COVID-19 demands, then Viant stepped in
In this week’s episode, we interview Joe Army, CEO of Vapotherm, and Alton Shader, CEO of Viant. First. We’ll follow Army’s heartful move into Medtech, which includes his current role as CEO of Vapotherm, maker of the high flow nasal cannula that proved to be a highly effective tool to treat patients hospitalized with COVID-19. We’ll later learn that Vapotherm’s ability to supply hospitals with this life-saving technology was in doubt due to labor shortages. But Shader details how the contract manufacturer stepped in to immediately help with Vapotherm’s dilemma. The interview is a taste of the discussion Vapotherm and Viant will lead at DeviceTalks Boston on May 10. Go to devicetalks.com to register.
We also bring in former Johnson & Johnson executive Peter Stebbins to tell us about his upcoming interview with Frank Doyle III, dean of Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Doyle will be our keynote interview subject on the morning of May 10…
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Apr 12, 2022
STRYKERTALKS - Acute Care’s Mathieson explains how Vocera fits into Stryker’s goal to help nurses
In this episode of StrykerTalks, Jessica Mathieson, vice president and general manager of the Acute Care, recounts her unusual path into the medical device industry, giving advice to others interested in making the transition. The conversation then delves into an unassuming – but critical – piece of medical equipment – the hospital bed where most patient-healthcare interaction takes place. Later in the interview, Mathieson will talk about Stryker’s work to provide new technologies that help healthcare workers handle their increasing stress loads; technologies that incorporate technology from the recently acquired Vocera. Also, how is Stryker sharing risk with hospitals to increase patient safety?
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Apr 8, 2022
DTW - Think you know what Penumbra may look like in five years? CEO Elsesser’s vision might surprise
In this episode, Penumbra CEO Adam Elsesser shares why he left a successful law career to become CEO of a medical device startup. After selling that company to Boston Scientific, Elsesser and his co-founders started Penumbra, which has steadily built businesses in stroke and vascular businesses. But Penumbra’s biggest business may be an immersive VR technology system that’s able to improve mental health.
This episode is sponsored by TE Connectivity.
Executive Editor Chris Newmarker brings his top stories of the week. This episode’s Newmarker’s Newsmakers including Ascensia, Senseonics, GE Healthcare, Olympus, DJO, Abbott. We also highlight the biggest news of the quarter coming, including an acquisition by Medtronic.
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Apr 1, 2022
DTW - Endiatx embarks on fantastic voyage in microrobotics; Embecta CEO intros new diabetes player
In this episode, we’ll assemble the news team to bring you stories big, small and in the middle. Associate Editor Sean Whooley delivers HUGE results. He interviews CEO Dev Kurdikar and CFO Jake Elguicze, leaders of the newly spun out Embecta, the one-time business of Becton Dickinson that’s now an immediate player in the diabetes space. Later on, Jim Hammerand, managing editor of Medical Design & Outsourcing magazine, interviews Torrey Smith, the CEO and Co-founder of Endiatx, a small company developing microrobots that could someday replace the work of an endoscope. In between we’ll hear the Newmarker’s Newsmakers from Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences. This week’s top stories including new from Philips, Biobeat, Staar Surgical, BD, Embecta and Owens Minor.
Find the articles here:
https://www.massdevice.com/government-warns-on-cybersecurity-issues-with-philips-e-alert-mri-monitoring-system/
https://www.massdevice.com/fda-clears-biobeats-remote-vital-sign-mo…
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Mar 29, 2022
IntuitiveTalks – How a new venture group keeps Intuitive’s eyes focused forward on the future
In this episode of IntuitiveTalks, we take our first look at Intuitive’s Future Forward program, a three-piece initiative to better understand how the company fits best into an evolving healthcare landscale. Our guests are Julian Nikolchev, an experienced medical device entrepreneur and investor who now serves as SVP, Development and Strategy at the Intuitive. Nikolchev led the creation of Intuitive Ventures, a $100 million corporate venture capital program led by our second guest, Oliver Keown, MD, a physician turned investor who is leading the creation of an intriguing portfolio of digital and medical device companies that will help inform Intuitive’s future. You can see Intuitive’s full team and portfolio here. https://ventures.intuitive.com/
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Mar 25, 2022
DTWEEKLY - CEO Lebed explains how Ukraine-based CRO is keeping trials running during invasion
In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, we speak with Yuriy Lebed, the CEO of Pharmaxi LLC, a CRO based in Kyiv, Urkaine, that works with pharmaceutical and medical device companies across the globe. In an interview from Lviv, Lebed says he was as shocked as many that Russia would invade its neighbor. The attack forced him to relocate with his family to Lviv, in the western part of the country. From there, he’s been able to lead the CRO as it keeps many clinical trials running. He calls the country’s regulators are “heroes” for vowing to process approvals while the capital city is bombed. He also says Pharmaxi is already planning for the future, which includes expanding operations into Poland and working within EU countries. You can find a way to donate to relief efforts for Ukraine here. https://www.forbes.com/advisor/personal-finance/donate-relief-to-ukraine
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Mar 18, 2022
DTWEEKLY! Why J&J and Medtech keep looking to the Cloud to power digital surgery and other platforms
In this episode, we talk to two principals of Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s push to bring higher powered tech into its digital surgery strategy.
In separate interviews, Johnson & Johnson Group CIO and Global VP of Medical Devices Larry Jones and Office of Digital Innovation Leader Peter Schulam (who also serves as global head of medical affairs, clinical affairs and pre-clinical research for Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Cos.) explain how the company is moving toward the future.
In our Newmarker’s Newsmakers segment, Jim Hammerand, managing editor of Medical Design and Outsourcing, tells us about his ongoing Cloud series. We first heard from Jones and Schulam in an MDO article. Link below.
Jim also joins Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences, and Tom Salemi, Editorial Director of DeviceTalks, in discussing medtech’s news of the week including news from robotic pill maker EndiaTx, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, DexCom and GE Healthcare and AliveCor.
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Mar 14, 2022
WELCOME TO STRYKERTALKS! Spencer Stiles on Wright, MAKO, and how tech fits into the future
In this debut episode of the StrykerTalks Podcast series, Spencer Stiles, group president of orthopaedics and spine business at the medical device giant, reveals the mixture of art and science that went into successfully integrating Wright Medical into Stryker’s industry leading orthopedic business. What does Wright’s portfolio and personnel bring to the table? We’ll also talk about MAKO’s future. How will robotic surgery fit into healthcare delivery more broadly, and what does new complementary tech make possible.
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Mar 11, 2022
Medtronic’s Saba on how equity, inclusion lifts an organization; Tell your MedTech Innovator Story!
In this week’s podcast, we’ll speak with Sally Saba, MD, Medtronic’s chief inclusion and diversity officer, about the company’s work to create a more welcoming – and better performing – workplace.
Paul Grand, CEO of MedTech Innovator, returns to take part in Executive Editor’s Chris Newmarker’s Newsmaker session. We talk about hour industry’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ryan Egeland, MD, joining Big Sky Innovator, the top-performing companies of 2021, the collapse of another SPAC deal, and an eye-opening approval.
https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/how-medtech-and-pharma-are-responding-to-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/
https://www.massdevice.com/former-cardiovascular-systems-chief-medical-officer-joins-big-sky-biomedical-incubator/
https://www.massdevice.com/these-10-medtech-companies-stocks-performed-best-in-2021/
https://www.massdevice.com/memic-innovative-surgerys-spac-deal-is-off/
https://www.massdevice.com/alcon-launches-clareon-intra…
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Mar 4, 2022
With the spin out over, CEO Jamali says ZimVie is ready to roll
In this week’s episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Vafa Jamali, CEO of the newest medical device company ZimVie, speaks with Chris Newmarker, executive editor at MassDevice, about the companys’ plans post-spinout from Zimmer Biomet. Jamali explains where the company sees opportunities to compete in the spinal space.
In addition to the interview, we talk about the medical device industry’s support of Ukraine, as it’s being invaded by Russia. If you want to support Ukrainians during this attack you can find some charities here.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/personal-finance/donate-relief-to-ukraine/
In our Newmarker’s Newsmaker’s segment we hit about news from Siemens Healthineers, Roche, Philips, Varian, Heartflow, and Butterfly Networks.
If you want to see the agenda for DeviceTalks Boston go here. https://boston.devicetalks.com/
If you want to register for my webinar discussing our plans for our in-person DeviceTalks Boston meeting go here. https://gateway.on24…
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Feb 25, 2022
Philips' Heather Hudnut Page lays out the plan to build its image-guided therapy business
In this episode, we’ll speak with Heather Hudnut Page, vice president and general manager of peripheral vascular at Philips about the company’s ongoing efforts to build an image-guided therapy program. Hudnut Page will walk us through the four sizable acquisitions Philips has made to build out its pipeline.
We first visited Philips two years ago when we spoke with Chris Landon, Senior Vice President and Business Leader for Image-guided therapy devices. Chris Landon returns to the podcast to share his thoughts on this week’s Newsmarker’s Newsmakers.
This week, Executive Editor Chris Newmarker highlighted the news from Baxter, Shockwave, Smith & Nephew, Medtronic, and Abbott.
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You can listen to Chris Landon's interview here. https://www.devicetalks.com/philips-imaged-guided-leader-landon-shares-global-giants-plans-for-minimally-invasive-devices/
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Feb 18, 2022
Which of these finalist founders will be the winner of Medtech Color’s Pitch Competition!?
Welcome to the first ever DeviceTalks Weekly Pitchcast!
This week Kwame Ulmer, executive director of Medtech Color, sits in on the Newsmaker segment and delivers details on the upcoming Medtech Color Pitch Contest.
Then, you can hear from the contests finalists themselves -
AllergenIQ, bTECH LLC, Candlelit Therapy, Dialysis-X, Diatech Diabetes, Free From Marketplace, SealCath, Sunny and TAB Diagnostics.
You can watch the pitch competition on March 8 by registering at MedtechColor.org.
Chris Newmarker's Newsmakers includes Philips, Boston Scientific, Bayliss, Johnson & Johnson, DePuy Synthes and Masimo.
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Feb 11, 2022
Diabetes Overview – Checking on promising tools from Dexcom, Bigfoot Biomedical and Senseonics
This week we’ll focus on a few of the exciting companies in the diabetes space.
Associate Editor Sean Whooley first tracks down Dexcom CEO Kevin Sayer, who discusses the company’s next-generation G7 continuous glucose monitor, which is awaiting FDA approval.
Then, Sean speaks with Bigfoot Biomedical CEO Jeffrey Brewer to learn more about what he calls “a transformational attempt” to simplify CGMs with an all-in-one platform with a smart insulin pen cap.
Finally, Sean interviews Senseonics CMO Dr. Francine Kaufman about
the company’s Eversense 180-day CGM, which just received FDA approval.
Chris Newmarker brings his Newsmakers of the week including Amazon, Thermo Fisher, HeartFlow, Abbott, Cooper Company and Cook Medical.
This episode was sponsored by Accumold.
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Feb 4, 2022
Distalmotion CEO Michael Friedrich sees huge opportunity for Dexter, a smaller laparoscopic robot
In this episode we’ll interview Michael Friedrich, CEO of Distalmotion, creator of Dexter, a robotic system used for laparoscopic procedures. Friedrich details how Dexter is positioned to build a market in an area untapped by other surgical robotic systems. The company recently closed on a $90 million Series E led by Revival Healthcare and 415 Capital. (For a related podcast listen to our most recent episode of Intuitive Talks on your DeviceTalks Weekly Library.)
Executive editor Chris Newsmaker delivers his Newsmaker’s Newsmakers – Boston Scientific, Medtronic, BD, Hologic and Senseonics. Find out how these companies are tied to the upcoming DeviceTalks Boston meeting and listen for the discount code.
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Jan 28, 2022
BD’s Dave Hickey and Brooke Story on the diagnostics boom; Paul Grand brings Medtech Innovator news
We drill down on diagnostics – including COVID-19 testing – with Dave Hickey, newly promoted executive vice president and president of the life sciences segment of BD and Brooke Story, who took over his post as worldwide president of integrated diagnostic solutions. How did BD handle the crushing demand for at-home tests and where is diagnostics headed in the future.
Paul Grand, CEO of Medtech Innovator, sits in with Chris Newmarker and Tom Salemi on this week’s Newmarker’s Newsmakers. He also delivers some important deadlines for medical device startups.
This week's Newsmakers include Medtronic, Edwards Lifesciences, Distal Motion, Respironics and ZimVie.
Find out more about Medtech Innovator at MedtechInnovator.org. Register for DeviceTalks at devicetalks.com. Use the discount code mentioned in this episode!
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Jan 27, 2022
How Intuitive’s ION could clear a pathway into the lung for better biopsies and treatments
In this episode, we learn about Intuitive’s OTHER ground-breaking robot, the ION endoluminal system. This episode is sponsored by Maxon Group.
ION allows for robot-assisted bronchoscopic procedures such as biopsies in the hardest to reach areas of the lung. The FDA cleared the ION system in 2019.
We speak with Charlie Dean, vice president and general manager of the endoluminal business unit at Intuitive, an engineer who has spent his career working to make smaller, more effective minimally invasive tools.
We also talk with Oliver Wagner, MD, vice president and medical officer of the endoluminal division. Wagner explains how his long-time pursuit of NOTES led him to join Intuitive. He also sees a future where ION can serve as a platform for many other devices.
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Jan 21, 2022
Outset Medical’s Leslie Trigg explains how home-based dialysis can restore patients’ “sense of self”
In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, Outset Medical’s Leslie Trigg recounts the career detour that led her to a successful career in medical devices.
Drawing on past experiences, the CEO explains why she chose to lead Outset’s mission to create a dialysis system that restore the freedom lost to the demand of traditional in-clinic dialysis. Outset’s “enterprise system” for dialysis now allows patients to treat themselves at home when and where they want. Can Outset serve as a model for other “hospital at home” approaches.
Chris Newmarker delivers another stellar Newmarker’s Newsmakers featuring news from the Big 100, Edwards Life Sciences, Inspire Medical, Dexcom, Medtronic, Neurometrix, Augmedics and Acutus Medical.
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Jan 14, 2022
VELYS, INHANCE and other reasons why DePuy Synthes sees Ortho opportunities; 2021’s top DTW episodes
In this episode, two senior orthopedics executives at DePuy Synthes walk us through the company’s growing portfolio.
First, Rajit Kamal, worldwide president, sports medicine and shoulder reconstruction, lays out the opportunity for the growing shoulder market and explains what the INHANCE Shoulder System offers to surgeons. He also details what it will take for ortho companies to grow the shoulder market.
Later, Andrew Ekdahl, Worldwide President, Joint Reconstruction, updates us on the company’s VELYS surgical robotic system. He explains how new digital and robotic tech will change the orthopedics industry.
Instead of Newmarker’s Newsmakers, this week host Tom Salemi will review the most listened to DeviceTalks Weekly Episodes of 2021. We’ll also announce upcoming news in in-person conferences, digital meetings and podcasts – including a NEW podcast powered by DeviceTalks.
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Jan 7, 2022
Hear how Olympus plans to become an even bigger player in the medical device industry
Happy New Year!
In this first episode of 2022, we’ll learn a lot about Olympus Corp.’s plans to expand into the medtech industry. The global behemoth has been doubling down on the industry in recent years.
COO Nacho Abia and Gabriela Kaynor, global division head of therapeutic solutions in the Americas, will lay out the plans to build into other parts of the medtech industry.
Chris Newmarker is back with his Newmarker’s Newsmakers! Chris will bring news from Boston Scientific, GE Healthcare, Titan Medical, Relievant Medsystems, Medtronic, Memic Innovative Surgery, and Stryker.
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Dec 17, 2021
Exploring HeartMate, CardioMEMS and the rest of Abbott’s toolbox to help heart failure patients
In this episode, we’ll dive deep into the Heart Failure business at Abbott. First we’ll connect with Philip Adamson, MD, chief medical officer of the group. Dr. Adamson uses an explanation of CardioMEMS to give a vivid portrait of how patients live with heart failure. Technology, he says, makes turns those patients into their own health care workers.
This podcast is sponsored by KNF.
Then, we’ll talk with Kevin Bourque, vice president of research and development, and Robert Kormos, division VP, global affairs of heart failure, about the advances of Heartmate 3. Both also detail how Abbott is working to help children suffering from the condition.
Dr. Kormos also shares the most gratifying part of his job.
The entire editorial staff joins the podcast to share their personal top stories of 2021. News includes mentions from Vicarious Surgical, ResMed, Philips, Pfizer, BioNTech, Abbott, Dexcom and Insulet.
Happy New Year!!! We'll see you in 2022.
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Dec 10, 2021
Recor, Medtronic share the state of Renal Denervation. Can Alva Health reduce the danger of strokes?
In this episode we’ll explore potentially life-saving treatments for hypertension and stroke.
First, we’ll talk with Sandra Saldana, CEO of the start-up Alva Health, which is developing a wearable system that can detect strokes. Alva Health won the 2021 Global Competition of the Medtech Innovator program.
Then we’ll explore renal denervation, the exciting but vexing method of lowering hypertension by ablating nerves in the kidney.
We’ll talk to the leaders in this space including Andy Weiss, CEO of Recor Medical, a division of Otsuka Holdings, that’s developing the Paradise Renal Denervation system.
Weiss, a medtech veteran, shares his long-term views, one why he still sees Renal Denervation as a game-changer.
Then, we’ll run an excerpt of the MedtronicTalks podcast interview with Jason Weidman, senior vice president and president of the coronary and renal denervation business at Medtronic.
Weidman details Medtronic’s latest regulatory hiccups but, like Weiss, expla…
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Dec 6, 2021
How Intuitive’s surgical robots collect the data that can help improve surgical performance
In this episode, we learn about the data collecting during surgical robotic systems. Chief Digital Officer Brian Miller and Tony Jarc, Director, Research and Data Science , detail the importance of data being collected by Intuitive’s surgical robotic systems and how the company uses the data to help guide surgeons in the future.
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Dec 3, 2021
Lobo and Pierce talk Wright, cool tech, robotics and the not-so-secret plans to keep Stryker growing
In this episode, we’ll do a deep dive with Stryker Corp., which recently hosted an in-person analyst day.
In our first interview Andy Pierce, group president of MedSurg and Neurotechnology, will update us on his group’s wide-ranging portfolio, including an artificial intelligence-enabled tool to save the lives of patients at risk of dying of post-partem hemorrhaging.
Kevin Lobo, chair and CEO, visits next to update on the company’s plans to keep building on its market leader status. We’ll talk about the Wright Medical integration, what makes a good acquisition, and how the rise of surgical robotics is helping Stryker build out its MAKO product.
In between all this, co-costs Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker review this week’s Newmarker’s Newsmakers including items from GE Healthcare, Best Buy, the FDA, DePuy Synthes and Boston Scientific.
We also talk about pie.
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Nov 24, 2021
Thank you. Thank you and thannnnk you.
Just a short message from Tom and Chris, two grateful guys who don't like pumpkin sausage.
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Nov 19, 2021
DT Weekly Roadshow: Five critical changes the Medtech industry has experienced over past two years
This week’s discussion begins on the stage in Las Vegas where Tom Salemi interviewed Kwame Ulmer of Ulmer Ventures and Medtech Color at Medmarc’s annual broker meeting.
This episode is sponsored by Medmarc.
The conversation hit upon five areas that have changed over the past two years due to the pandemic or critical concerns over equity and fairness.
In this podcast, Ulmer speaks to the slow progress being made in medtech in diversifying the workforce. But he also offers signs of hope and introduced Medtech Color.
Ulmer will also speak to improvements made at the FDA, where he started his medtech career. He also provides an update on a comprehensive survey of the FDA being conducted by the biomed program at UCLA.
We’ll also hear post-conference interviews with Jennifer Fried, CEO of Explorer Surgical, who will share how that company successfully pivoted during the pandemic.
Mark Leahey, CEO of MDMA, will update on the MCIT ruling that would deliver surer reimbursement for m…
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Nov 12, 2021
TAVR-Talks Part II! Where does Abbott see opportunity? How does Medtronic view competition?
In this week’s episode, we follow up on our first episode focused on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR). This time we speak with one of the market leaders, Medtronic, about their broad structural heart portfolio. Nina Goodheart, president of Structural Heart, walks us through each valve and explains why Medtronic is sponsoring a clinical trial pitting its aortic valve against a rival’s. We also hear from the new competitor on the block, Abbott, which recently earned FDA approval for its valve. Santosh Prabhu, PhD, introduces the new entry and explains why this work is so important to him personally.
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Nov 5, 2021
IntuitiveTalks – How Curet and Duncan make the surgical robot case to surgeons and hospitals
In the second episode of IntuitiveTalks, two senior executives explain how the company gets surgeons and hospitals to understand the benefits of the Da Vinci system.
EVP Dr. Myriam Curet, who describes herself as a late adopter of technology, shares why she opted to join Intuitive as CMO early on after trying the Da Vinci robot.
Similarly, SVP Gillian Duncan, who heads physician training and development, says her early experience with the robotic system convince her to leave her academic career to join the robotics pioneer.
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Oct 29, 2021
NuVasive CEO Chris Barry positioning spinal pioneer for growth by embracing new digital technologies
This week we’ll hear from Chris Barry, CEO of NuVasive. Barry joined NuVasive at a critical period in 2018. Now, the company is building out its portfolio of surgical tools, adding a digital surgery platform, planning its own move into robotics and finally making training much easier for its surgeons through new facilities, both real and virtual.
Danielle Kirsh, senior editor, and Jim Hammerand, deliver the highlights from this month’s Medical Design and Outsourcing Magazine, our Women in Medtech issue. Danielle reveals some disheartening news about jobs and research dollars going to women while Jim shares hopeful details from some of the profiles.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor, identifies this week’s Newmarker’s Newsmakers – Avail Medsystems, Integra Lifesciences, GE, Medtronic and NuVasive.
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Oct 22, 2021
Surgical Robotics & Beyond - Hugo Scores CE Mark; Is Zimmer Biomet morphing into a tech company?
The surgical robots are back in this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast. First we’ll speak with Megan Rosengarten, president of robotics at Medtronic, about what the CE Mark for the Hugo surgical robot system means for current and future applications.
Then, we speak with Ivan Tornos, COO of Zimmer Biomet, about that company’s broad technology offerings include ZBEdge, PersonaIQ Knee Implant, and other digital data collectors. Tornos says Zimmer Biomet intends to be the boldest company in the medtech industry.
Chris Newmarker is back to deliver this week’s Newmarker’s Newsmakers – Intuitive Surgical, Xenter, Moderna, Medtronic, and Johnson & Johnson.
Associate Editor Sean Whooley joins in on the fun.
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Oct 15, 2021
Boston Scientific and Zenflow are bringing critical new tools to help urologists treat patients
The urology specialty faces a critical moment, with 10 urologists ready to retire for every new urologist entering the field. That puts the onus on medical device companies to develop faster, safer and more efficacious ways to break down kidney stones, shrink enlarged prostates and handle other critical treatments. In this week’s episode, we’ll speak with Meghan Scanlon, SVP and president, Urology and Pelvic Health at Boston Scientific about that company’s growing pipeline bolstered by the acquisition of Lumenis.
This episode was sponsored by KNF Neuberger.
We’ll also connect with the leaders of Zenflow – CEO Nick Damiano and President Susan Stimson – about the start-up’s minimally invasive treatment for urinary obstruction caused by enlarged prostate, or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).
Finally, we have all-hands (or most hands) on deck for this episodes Newmarker's Newsmakers. Jim Hammerand, managing editor of Medical Design and Outsourcing, talks about Koya Medi…
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Oct 8, 2021
CEO Gary Guthart explains how Intuitive grew into the dominant force in surgical robotics
In this first episode of the new IntuitiveTalks Podcast, we’ll start right at the beginning. CEO Gary S. Guthart recalls how a court side basketball conversation led to his introduction to the early form of a surgical robot and convinced him to join. He also shares his expectations for the surging surgical robotics field, including how the company will view emerging competition.
This episode is sponsored by Tegra Medical.
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Oct 8, 2021
We interrupt this DeviceTalks Weekly podcast with breaking news about a new podcast!
Co-hosts Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker announce the newest member of the DeviceTalks Podcast family - IntuitiveTalks!
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Oct 1, 2021
Stereotaxis, Levita Magnetics make attractive cases for magnet-powered surgical robot systems
Get it? Attractive? Magnets. Yeh, we’ll, we’re tired from putting this monster podcast episode together but it’s so, so good.
You’ll hear from David Fischel, CEO of Stereotaxis, a 30-plus year old medtech that’s going through a quiet but deliberate reboot. Fischel says he took the company over because Stereotaxis’ magnetic robotic surgery system makes interventional surgery safer, an assertion supported by Daniel Cooper, MD, associate professor at Washington University School of Medicine. Stereotaxis appears to be on the cusp of something big.
Then, Alberto Rodriguez-Navarro, MD, tells us why he sold everything to move from his native Chile to move to Silicon Valley and start Levitra Magnetics. The company is anticipating FDA approval for its own robotic system that could help hospitals overcome staffing shortages during laparoscopic procedures.
We’ll also hear our sponsor Futek explain how its miniaturized sensors are advancing robotic surgery.
Chris Newmarker, execu…
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Sep 24, 2021
Visit the Osso VR ortho OR with CEO Barad; DePuy’s Peters sees growth in shoulder, spine, sports med
This episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast draws from two realities
First, Russell Powers, worldwide president, shoulder reconstruction, sports medicine, and spine at DePuy Synthes details how the company’s new Inhance Shoulder system will help the company grab market share in the increasingly competitive space.
Later, we meet Dr. Justin Barad, CEO of OssoVR, on his own turf, conducting an interview in OssoVR’s virtual reality training platform. In the interview, Dr. Barad demonstrates why virtual reality training help alleviate the growing demands on surgeons while also improving performance.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences, identifies this week’s Newmarker’s Newsmakers including Abbott, Medtronic, and Vicarious Surgical. Senior editor Danielle Kirsh also shares her insights on the ongoing Theranos trial, including damaging testimony from General James Mattis.
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Sep 17, 2021
How ResMed, Inspire Medical Woke Up Demand for Innovative Apnea Devices & Data
Zoll Medical’s acquisition of Itamar Medical is just latest sign of the opportunity diagnosing and treating sleep apnea presents to medical device companies, especially following the CPAP machine recall issued by Philips Respironics earlier this summer.
This week, we’ll talk with two of the leaders in this increasingly competitive market.
First, we’ll reconnect with Tim Herbert, CEO of Inspire Medical Systems, to learn how that neurostimulation company is working to serve patients seeking an alternative to CPAP machines.
This is our second visit with Tim Herbert. You can find his earlier interview on DeviceTalks.com.
Then we welcome Michael “Mick” Farrell, CEO of ResMed, the leading provider of CPAP machines. Farrell explains why the apnea market is growing and what this means for the future of ResMed, which has grown into other respiratory businesses.
Chris Newmarker returns! The executive editor of life sciences at MassDevice presents his Newmarker’s Newsmakers inclu…
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Sep 10, 2021
The Complete History of the Sapien TAVR – from PVT’s Emerging Idea to Edwards Lifesciences' Success
Edward Lifesciences’ acquisition of Percutaneous Valve Technologies helped mark the birth of one of medtech’s great game-changers – the development of the transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
In this week’s episode, Stanton Rowe, the former CEO of PVT, will walk us through the early days of TAVR, including the enormous doubt the start-up faced as it developed the technology. He also explained how Edwards came to acquire the start-up, which had strong interest from Medtronic, Boston Scientific, and others.
Rowe, who is now CEO of the NXT Biomedical incubator, also offers some provocative thoughts on the origins of medtech innovation (and explains why he misses medical device conferences.)
Larry Wood, corporate vice president at Edwards Lifesciences, will explain why Edwards opted to pursue PVT rather than continue to develop its own TAVR technology.
He also explains why the clinical trial testing of the valve now known as Sapien was so difficult and how he rewrote the com…
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Aug 27, 2021
How single-use endoscopes are taking root and are changing healthcare - Ambu, Boston Scientific
This week, DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast examines the single-use endoscope market.
We’ll hear from market leaders Ambu and Boston Scientific in a replay of interviews we conducted in September 2020. Guests include Ambu’s CEO Juan Jose Gonzalez and Stephen Block as well Boston Scientific’s Endoscopy executives Dr. Brian Dunkin, chief medical officer, and Unit President David Pierce.
You’re also invited to participate in a discussion led by TE Connectivity on Tuesday’s DeviceTalks Tuesday.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences at MassDevice, presents this week’s top Newmarker’s Newsmakers – Abbott, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, Johnston & Johnson, Auris and Amazon.
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Aug 20, 2021
Hear how pulse field ablation programs may revolutionize cardiac ablation treatment
New therapeutic approaches require fresh perspectives, and few perspectives were as fresh as Dr. Steven Mickelsen, the developer of a potentially paradigm shifting cardiac ablation treatment – pulse field ablation.
Dr. Mickelsen, a high school dropout turned musician, fell deep enough in love with electrophysiology to go back to school, obtain a medical degree, and put his inclination to tinker to work in developing a new type of ablation.
In this podcast we’ll walk down the path that led Dr. Mickelsen to create Farapulse, the early pioneer in this form of energy that now belongs to Boston Scientific. Dr. Mickelsen left the company a few years ago but he’s resumed his work helping Acutus Medical bring their technology to the market. He serves as that company’s chief translational science officer.
In our second talk, we connect with Dr. Kenneth Stein, senior vice president and CMO of Boston Scientific’s cardiac rhythm management business.
Dr. Stein allows us to pick up whe…
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Aug 13, 2021
How Abbott and Cordis are working to change the interventional vascular business
Let's get interventional. This week, we talk with leaders from Abbott and Cordis about their plans to advance of medtech's stablest business. Duke Rohlen, executive chair, will explain to co-host Tom Salemi why he led the purchase of Cordis from Cardinal. Meanwhile, Dr. Nick West, CMO and DVP of vascular at Abbott, updates Associated Editor Sean Whooley on the Xience pipeline.
This week's Newmarker's Newsmakers brings the big news from Abbott, Heartflow, Intersect ENT, Intuitive, Medtronic, Philips, and Resmed.
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Aug 6, 2021
Why Koya CEO Doraiswamy is tackling lymphedema; Follow Todd Brinton’s unlikely path to Edwards
This week’s episode focuses on the entrepreneurs. We open up with an interview with Andy Doraiswamy, founder and CEO of Koya Medical, a company he founded to help find a therapy for his ailing father. Then we revisit with Dr. Todd Brinton, chief scientific officer and corporate vice president at Edwards. This interview initially ran in May 2020 but we’re playing it again to amplify the unusual path that entrepreneurs take to find success.
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Jul 30, 2021
What's next in Diabetes? CeQur moving toward manufacturing, Medtronic readying for the long haul
This week's episode focuses on new hope for people with diabetes. Brad Paddock, CEO of CeQur, explains how its "wearable pen" can deliver insulin in a better way while Sean Salmon, head of Medtronic's diabetes business, reviews that company's growing portfolio. He also gives insights on its intriguing partnership with the private equity group, Blackstone.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences, drops a weighty Newmarker's Newmakers featuring stories from Hillrom, Baxter, NeuroMetrix, Philips, Medtronic and BD.
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Jul 23, 2021
Hear why Merck KGaA and INBRAIN Neurolectronics see such great promise in Bioelectronic medicine
The bioelectronics industry is poised to take off so we visited with Carolina Aguilar, CEO/Co-founder, INBRAIN Neuroelectronics about the field's potential.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences at MassDevice, delivers his Newmarker's Newsmakers highlighting news from Dexcom, NeuroMetrix, Nevro, Ancora and the Galien foundation.
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Jul 16, 2021
Hear from the CEOs of two surgical robotics companies that together just raised over $1 billion
Vicarious Surgical and CMR Surgical recently combined to raise over $1 billion from public and private investors. Big money clearly as found surgical robotics. Now what?
We connect with Per Vegard Nerseth, the new CEO of CMR. Nerseth comes to CMR from the robotics industry, so he brings deep industry understanding of what it will take to get CMR to the next level. The company closed on $600 million for a Series D, which is likely the largest private medtech investment in history.
Later, we reconnect with Adam Sachs, co-founder and CEO of Vicarious
Surgical. Sachs walks us through the process of merging with a SPAC (not for the faint-hearted.) With over $400 million in hand, Vicarious is bringing in senior talent and moving to a legacy filled new HQ to prepare for its next stage.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences at MassDevice, brings his Newmarker's Newsmakers highlighting news from Stryker, Heartflow, Hillrom, BardyDx, TransMedics and Imperative Care.
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Jul 9, 2021
Leerink sees surge in home dialysis; Vensana, LRV detail deal in CardioDx start-up Cleerly Health
This week we’ll focus on investor insights.
First, we’ll talk with Danielle Antalffy, managing director at SVB Leerink. Antalffy covers most of the major medtechs but we’ll focus on a new report she issues on sugaring home-based dialysis business.
What does this mean for Outset specifically? More broadly, do other medtechs need to build out their at-home/connectivity function?
Also, what does NeuroPace’s success mean for other medtech companies.
In a follow up to our interview with Dr. James Min, CEO of Cleerly Health, we talk with two venture investors in the early heart attack risk detection company.
Justin Klein, MD, of Vensana Capital walks us through the steps he took before leading the company’s recent $43 million Series B round.
Tripp Peake of LRV Health explains why the company interests his venture firm’s limited partner base.
This is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to better understand the venture capital due diligence process.
Chris Newmarker, executive…
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Jun 25, 2021
Why Minnetronix made its own medical device. How Cleerly raised $43m to upend Cardiovascular Dx
In this week's DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Minnetronix CEO Jeremy Maniak explains how the CMO is using internal know how to develop medical devices that can be sold by outside partners. We also hear from Dr. James Min of Cleerly Health about that company's start and the process that went into raising $43 million.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences at MassDevice, is back to deliver his NewmarkersNewsmakers including news from Costa Rica, Vicarious Surgical, Ethicon, Medtronic and ResMed.
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Jun 18, 2021
How Arboretum Venture' Walker learned early in her medtech career to not take "No" as an answer
Nicole J. Walker, managing partner, Arboretum Ventures, tells a unique medtech story that begins with her sick grandfather and follows up with her refusal to remove her foot from the door at Advanced Cardiovascular Systems. She says she learned early on that she may not always have all the answers when making a decision but she would have the instincts and mettle to push through. This combination moved through jobs at Guidant, Abbott, Baird and now Arboretum Ventures where she sees an enormous opportunity finding medical device companies.
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Jun 11, 2021
Medtronic’s Martha Reviews Year One as CEO: Culture, HeartWare and Giving Meaning to Market Share
A year ago, Geoff Martha took over as CEO of medtech's large single company. With the sector in lockdown, the company still undertook a massive reorganization and moved to adopt a new "Medtronic Mindset" that would favor the bold.
In this interview, Martha reviews Year 1, sharing some positive outcomes and disappointments.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences, delivers his Newmarkers Newsmakers featuring items from Abbott, Amazon, CVRx, Medtronic, and migraines.
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Jun 4, 2021
Can S+N's Aria open up ASC ortho market? Wall Street’s take on Coyle’s departure, Medtronic’s HVAD
In this week’s podcast, Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences, speaks with Laura Rector, Smith + Nephew’s vice president of ambulatory surgery centers and digital health, about the company’s ARIA care management platform.
The system uses 3D imaging, artificial intelligence and other tools to help patients recover more quickly from large joint replacement surgery. What’s next for the ortho leader?
Meanwhile, Kaila Krum, managing director of Truist Securities, delivers insights on two major stories of the week – the decision by Mike Coyle to leave the CEO post at iRhythm and Medtronic’s decision to pull its Heartware HVAD off the shelves.
Those two stories topped this week’s Newmarker’s Newsmakers, which also include items featuring Abbott, Abiomed and the FDA.
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May 28, 2021
Makower making medtech innovation bigger, stronger; Medtronic’s Ha speaking up for AAPI colleagues
This week we’ll explore innovation and social equity.
First, we’ll hear a portion of an interview with Martha Ha, chief privacy officer and chief counsel of corporate governance, and Jon de Csepel, CMO, vice president, medical affairs of the Americas. The pair will explain how the company is reaching out to employees of Asia and Pacific Island and helping them to understand how to better work within the corporate culture. The entire interview can be heard in the latest MedtronicTalks Podcast
Josh Makower, MD, is our closing keynote guest. Makower quite possibly invented modern day medtech innovation. In this interview, Makower shares his earliest inventions – kind of mind-blowing – and how his early work at Pfizer helped him create the innovation process used today by biodesign programs across the world, including Stanford Biodesign where Dr. Makower will take over as director this fall. This interview is essential for any individual or organization that wants to innovate.…
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May 21, 2021
How Atricure built a big business in Afib; A deep look into Abbott's new coronary imaging platform
This week, the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcasts delivers some learning.
First, Dr. Nick West, CMO & divisional VP of global medical affairs at Abbott’s vascular business, discusses the European launch of the company's new coronary imaging platform. Dr. West explains how the AI-powered platform works and the benefits it offers for decision-making during coronary stenting procedures. He also delves into the AI-based technology behind the platform and the direction both imaging and medtech as a whole are heading with AI.
Then, Mike Carrel, CEO and president of AtriCure, explains how the company became a force focusing on the atrial fibrillation (Afib) and left atrial appendage (LAA) markets. Carrel walks listeners through the company’s efforts to expand its reach into the connected pain management market. But then he makes a strong case building out its Afib pipeline which includes the EPi-Sense System, which in April received FDA approval to treat patients diagnosed with long-standing…
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May 14, 2021
Getting to the heart of Boston Scientific’s peripheral business; How Hologic sees trials changing
Jeff Mirviss, executive vice president of Boston Scientific’s peripheral business, explains why the specialty’s name doesn’t really reflect the importance of arteries, veins and other “highways” that his business group is addressing. Mirviss explains where the peripheral business is headed, and why Boston Scientific is uniquely positioned to address the business.
He also shares lessons learned over his 20-plus years at Boston Scientific including the challenges presented by the Guidant acquisition and the new spirit infused by CEO Michael Mahoney.
We also speak with Eric Kolodziej, corporate vice president and global head quality and regulatory affairs at Hologic, about how clinical trial management is changing. What role will real world evidence play going forward, and how will Hologic and others follow up on the record number of EUA’s issued over the past year by the FDA.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences at Mass Device, delivers his Newmarker’s New…
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May 7, 2021
First Mazor, next Hugo - Hear Medtronic's plans to compete in surgical robotics
In this episode, two of the executives leading Medtronic’s push into robotics surgery update listeners on the progress and potential of Medtronic's MAZOR X Stealth and Hugo RAS system platforms.
Megan Rosengarten, president of surgical robotics, says HUGO is poised to deliver surgeons newfound capabilities and options. The company hopes to begin selling the system later this year after filing for a CE Mark in Europe and an IDE with the US Food and Drug Administration.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences at MassDevice, delivers this week’s Newmarker’s Newsmakers including reports from Neuroelectrics, Medtronic, and Apple. Danielle Kirsh, senior editor, also updates listeners on her recent report on four catheter-based devices to watch for this year.
Also, an update from our underground medtech analyst – Barry the Groundhog.
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Apr 30, 2021
Can Proximie bring safer surgery to the wider world? How is Getinge answering call for ventilators?
Can Proximie bring safer surgery to the wider world? How is Getinge answering call for ventilators?
In this week’s podcast senior executives from Getinge and Proximie – two very different sized companies – explain how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated their business.
In the opening keynote conversation, Eric Honroth, president, Getinge North America, explained how the company more than doubled its production of ventilators in 2020. He also discusses recent FDA clearances for two lines of critical devices.
In our closing keynote, Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram, CEO and founder of Proximie, says the start-up reached its 2023-24 projected size in just a few months as hospitals and medical device companies sought the ability to collect surgeons to the outside world.
Dr. Hachach-Haram, a reconstructive surgeon, gives a detailed account of how a growing shortage of surgeons convinced her to start a technology company.
She also shares how the technology ultimately restored the life of so…
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Apr 23, 2021
CEO Mike Coyle sets a strong beat for iRhythm’s future; Introducing new member of podcast family
In this podcast, iRhythm CEO Mike Coyle discusses his decision to join the digital health leader in January.
Coyle’s had to hit the ground running as iRhythm manages some challenging decisions from regional Medicare payors but he also sees great opportunity for the company’s ZIO platform across the healthcare spectrum.
In this conversation, Coyle discusses
• How he came to join the Medtech industry.
• The potential for its ZIO cardiac monitoring technology
• How the company is dealing with a disappointing reimbursement
• How the company will pursue the large asymptomatic market
• What’s expected to come from the company’s partnership with Verily
We also introduce the newest member of our DeviceTalks Podcast family. Catch an excerpt of the first episode in this week’s podcast. Subscribe to hear future episodes.
Caffeine-fueled Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences at Mass Device, takes a break from earnings week to roll out a powerful #newmarkersjne…
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Apr 16, 2021
How Zimmer Biomet is competing in ortho’s data race; Do medical devices carry physics-based biases?
This week, Liane Teplitsky, vice president and general manager of worldwide robotics at Zimmer Biomet, shares her excitement for the burgeoning data business emerging in orthopedics.
Teplitsky, an engineer who built her medtech career in the cardiac R&D and sales at St. Jude and Abbott, walks us through the interconnected offerings of Zimmer’s ZBEdge suite of digital and robotics technologies.
We also speak with Achuta Kadambi, assistant professor to the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, about a column he contributed to Science suggesting physics may be causing medical devices to perform at varying levels in people of different races.
Kadambi explains his own work in the field and suggests how medical device developers may want to move forward in the future.
Go here to read the MDO article on this topic and find the link to the Science column. https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/ucla-prof-racial-bias-in-medical-devices-based-in-physics/
Chris Newmarker of MassDevice re…
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Apr 9, 2021
Herrera on how military lessons led to Medtech career; Ulmer ready to redo landmark FDA survey
In this week’s podcast, Derek Herrera explains how a serious battle injury he received while leading Marines in Afghanistan led him to build a career in medtech. Herrera has founded two companies – Spinal Singularity and Habit Camera – to create devices that can improve and save the lives of people who need help the most. Herrera also explains how his military training is serving him so well in medtech and how the medical device industry would benefit from including more veterans in its workforce.
We’ll also hear from Kwame Ulmer, principal at Ulmer Ventures and a lecturer at UCLA Anderson’s School of Management, about an effort his helping to lead to update the landmark study compiled by Josh Makower in 2010. The study blasted a regulatory process that it called “unpredictable, inefficient and expensive.”
Its finding led to introspection and changes, according to Ulmer who served at the FDA at the time. Now Ulmer is working with UCLA leaders to update the study. He’…
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Apr 2, 2021
Earnhardt shares how Abbott shifted gears to counter pandemic; Grail still looks to upend oncology
This week, we’ll talk with Lisa Earnhardt, executive vice president, medical devices at Abbott about how the life sciences giant pivoted during the pandemic. Earnhardt shares what programs were given greater priority when the impact of the lockdown became clear and why the company performed so well in one of its key businesses.
We also explore this week’s news that the FTC will oppose Illumina’s acquisition of Grail.
First, we talk with Dr. Christopher Keir, vice president of medical affairs at Grail, about the great potential of the company’s diagnostic technologies. The interview was recorded last month prior to the FTC’s decision.
Then we talk to Vijay Kumar, senior managing director at Evercore ISI, about why the FTC is making a strong case to block the deal.
And, of course, Chris Newmarker, executive editor of Mass Device, delivers this week’s Newmarker’s Newsmakers including news from Illumina, Grail, Corindus, Zimmer Biomet, BD, Medtronic and Abbott.
Finally, don…
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Mar 26, 2021
CEO MacMillan on how COVID-19 strengthened Hologic; Startup CEO Jones wins with pitch to help kids
Hologic CEO Steve MacMillan says last March he didn’t appreciate how COVID-19 would change the world forever. But the diagnostics company quickly rose to the challenge, creating one of the surer supplies of diagnostic tools to chart the pandemic's severity.
In this DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, MacMillan shares how Hologic pivoted to meet the calls for help from political leaders in the US and around the world.
He also shares what’s next for the company which has shed its aesthetics business in favor of a tighter new course, a course that includes the creation of an innovative information index that will yield new data on women’s health.
While Hologic rose to the challenge during the pandemic, GuardianLane is ready to help children who are coping with grief, including the loss of loved ones to COVID-19 and other diseases.
CEO Kristina Jones shares the story that won the first pitch contest held by Medtech Color, an organization founded to help people of color thrive in the medi…
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Mar 19, 2021
J&J’s McEvoy talks vaccines, digital surgery, and the power of innovation; Stryker’s Murray sees 3D
HAPPY BIG 5-0!!
This week’s is our 50th DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, and we’re going to celebrate!
Ashley McEvoy, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Chairman, Medical Devices, Johnson & Johnson, makes her DeviceTalks Weekly debut.
In this update, McEvoy delivers great insights on several areas of interest including:
• COVID-19’s impact on J&J in the past, and what changes may remain in the future.
• J&J’s far-ranging digital surgery portfolio could bolster many of its specialties.
• How the company uses its innovation network to accelerate development
• Why she’s bullish on the future of eye care.
• How the company will prepare for future challenges.
We also talk with Naomi Murray, Director of Advanced Operations-Additive Technology at Stryker about her almost predestined path to join the orthopedics leader.
She’ll be leading the March 23 discussion on Additive Manufacturing at DeviceTalks Tuesday. Register at DeviceTalks.com.
Colleague Lisa Eitel, executiv…
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Mar 12, 2021
CEO Shacey Petrovic shares how Insulet is convincing people with diabetes to swap shots for `Pods
Shacey Petrovic, CEO and president of Insulet, explains how the company is giving people with diabetes new tools to manage their disease, a never-ending task that can require HUNDREDS of decisions per day.
In this interview, Petrovic explains why research wasn't for her; why she decided to leave her first CEO job to join Insulet; and how the company is building the a glucose-delivery device that could convince people with diabetes to give up the certainty of the shot.
In this episode, we also hear from Dr. Niki Panich, a practicing physician who is now CEO of a company that can help hospitals and health care facilities process their N95 masks on site. Dr. Panich will be a speaker on this Monday's DeviceTalks Clubhouse series.
Finally, Chris Newmarker delivers the big news of the week involving Baxter, Adaptive Biotechnologies, Boston Scientific, Abbott, and AdvaMed.
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Mar 5, 2021
Arrigato Mr. Surgical Roboto – Ferré, Usen and Fernando steer Medtech toward digital surgery
In the longest DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast ever created, the leaders of three digital surgery companies – two with robotic components – explain where their systems will fit into Medtech future.
Anthony Fernando, the CEO of newly names Asensus (formerly Transenterix) maps out the company’s future in delivering a better solution for laproscopic procedure.
Todd Usen – a veteran of big Medtech companies – explains why he swapped P&Ls for just the L’s of a start-up Active Surgical, which is building a surgical mapping tool that could help surgeons avoid deadly errors.
Finally, Maurice Ferre,’ founder of orthopedic pioneer MAKO Surgical, says Memix is positioned to grab the opportunity being missed by larger medtech companies building their own robotic systems. He also walks us through the dinner where Stryker CEO Kevin Lobo made an offer that MAKO did not refuse.
MassDevice Honcho Chris Newmarker delivers his Newmarker’s Newsmakers featuring stories from Medtronic, Hillro…
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Feb 26, 2021
Geoff Martha updates Medtronic’s new course; AJAX CEO Duke Rohlen is funding innovation differently
Less than a year into his role as CEO, Geoff Martha and the Medtronic leadership has overseen a significant overhaul of medtech’s largest player.
In our closing keynote conversation, Martha says the company is clearing minor COVID-19 bump and sees open road for the company to continue to grab share from competitors.
Martha details what products are gaining the most traction while also identifying those that still have some ground to gain.
We also discuss:
- When it may bring its renal denervation project to the FDA
- Why the surgical robotic Hugo system will be worth the wait (and why development has taken more than a decade)
- Whether or not Medtronic will collaborate more with private equity firms, early-stage incubators and maybe even SPACs?
- What will the company’s acquisition strategy look like in 2021. And why.
- Why the price-cutting for drug-eluting stents may represent an opportunity for Medtronic’s more innovative products.
Opening our episode is an important inter…
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Feb 19, 2021
Tale of Two CEOs - How Tim Herbert led Inspire to an IPO; Where Rob Bodor wants to take Protolabs
Inspire Medical CEO Tim Herbert never set out to be a CEO.
Yet, he spun a promising #sleepapnea technology out of Medtronic. He then assembled a team that helps hard-to-treat apnea patients live healthier lives through better sleep.
Oh, and the electrical engineer turned startup-CEO took the medtech public in 2018.
Listen to this episode to hear how Inspire management worked with the FDA, payers and public investor to build a burgeoning neuromed giant.
We also talk to Rob Bodor, the incoming CEO at Protolabs. Bodor succeeds the highly successful Vicki Holt who built the manufacturing company into an acquisitive powerhouse. Bodor shares what's next for the company.
Co-costs Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences at MassDevice, unveils this week's Newmarker's Newsmakers featuring news from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Mainstay Medical, Theranos, Butterfly Networks and Zimmer Biomet's Newco.
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Feb 12, 2021
Dean Kamen eyeing 3D organs; Todd Pope talks clean air; Joe Mullings says Medtech’s time is now
Please lift this jam-packed episode with your legs, not your back.
*We'll hear inspirational words from the legendary Dean Kamen who is shifting his life’s focus into medtech.
*Todd Pope takes the CEO seat at a new company built to tackle hospital-acquired-infections and COVID
*Joe Mullings of the Mullings Group explains why now is the best time to be in the Medtech industry.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences, delivers a murderers row of #newmarkersnewsmakers with Philips, Medtronic, iRyhthm, Canary Medical and Apollo Endosurgery.
To hear Dean Kamen's entire interview with my Design World colleague Paul Heney go here. It's free and outstanding! https://gateway.on24.com/wcc/eh/2927718/lp/2870030/engineering-robots-for-the-future
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Feb 5, 2021
Can Corza bust up Medtech’s surgical supply monopolies? Why Zimmer’s spin out is only the beginning
In this week’s episode learn how Greg Lucier, executive chairman of Corza Medical, intends to use his experience and GTCR's capital to build a surgical supply company that he says will challenge medtech's (almost) monopolies.
Corza's strategy rests upon customization, a high level of digitalization and customer service. Lucier also explains how working on the railroads led to his joining the medtech industry.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life science, interviews Rich Newitter, Managing Director, Medical Supplies and Devices, about Zimmer Biomet’s decision to spin off its dental and spinal business into a new company.
Newitter also explains how Zimmer Biomet is grabbing share in the orthopedic space and building an enviable portfolio of digital sensors and systems.
Zimmer Biomet and Corza Medical led this week’s Newmarkers Newsmakers, but we also hear news about Philips, CooperSurgical, Aegea, 3M, Abbott as well of mentions of Medtronic, Boston Scientific and others.…
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Jan 29, 2021
CEO Johnson on entrepreneurship, upcoming MedtechColor Pitch Contest; Krum handicaps medtech Q4
In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Angelique Johnson, CEO of MEMstim, shares her “accidental entrepreneur” story and how it has enabled her the help others pursuing the same dream.
Johnson, co-founder of MedtechColor, an organization seeking to further the advancement of people of color in the medical device industry, details the groups goals and invites entrepreneurs of color to apply for the group’s Pitch Contest.
The deadline is Feb. 5. Go to medtechcolor.org for more information.
Truist Security Managing Director Kaila Krum answers questions about medtech’s Q4 performance, diving deeper on Stryker and other companies.
Krum also shares details on a survey conducted by the research team that sought to answer the question – when will hospitals start seeing elective patients again.
Pharma Editor Brian Buntz returns to the podcast to tell his story of his 10 days wearing a continuous glucose monitor from Dexcom.
Buntz wrote about the experience here, but h…
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Jan 22, 2021
Where will Medtech innovation emerge in 2021? Hear from McCaney, Mejia and Morley
The pandemic has accelerated innovation in many ways but the physical pressures on entrepreneurs, innovators and engineers is very real. In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, a panel representing early-stage and tech transfer efforts explain how they're helping individuals and young companies work through the unique challenges of the time, including:
*Finding capital
*Working with corporates
*Understanding opportunities in a changing healthcare market
*Are there silver linings
Guests include
Jennifer McCaney, PhD,,co-executive director, UCLA Biodesign
Jackie Mejia, PhD, director, gBeta Medtech
Scott Morley, director, office of economic partnerships, University of Pittsburgh
This conversation is a condensed version of our Jan. 19 DeviceTalks Tuesday. Go to DeviceTalks.com to watch the entire presentation.
Co-host Chris Newmarker, executive editor of MassDevice, also shares his top 5 stories of the week, aka, NewmarkersNewsmakers. The big news belongs to DePuy, Philips,…
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Jan 15, 2021
Digging into the Digital Medtech & Surgical Worlds with Mark Toland, Scott Huennekens, and Kal Patel
This week we’ll dig deep into digital surgery, robotics and the power of THE CLOUD.
In our opening keynote conversation, Mark Toland, CEO of Medical Micro Instruments, explains why the company’s microsurgical robot has a chance to be in most hospitals. The company has CE Mark, a controlled commercial roll out and plans to knock in the FDA’s door sometime in 2022 where it will face huge competition (or, we think, potential acquirers if history holds out.) Watch the cool CNBC video here. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/28/italy-symani-surgical-robotic-system-improves-microsurgery-procedures.html
Next, we talk with Scott “Go Go Go” Huennekens, employee number 1 at the former Verb Surgical, about the state of digital medtech. Huennekens, who previously led and sold Volcano Corp., explains why you can no longer have the latter without the former. Kal Patel, CEO of BrightInsight, explains why medtech must follow a different path – with equally unique challenges – to fully enjoy…
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Jan 8, 2021
Medtronic’s Kowal on remote tech’s rebirth, SVB’s Norris delivers good news for VCs, CEOs
Dr. Robert Kowal, CMO of Medtronic’s cardiac rhythm and heart failure business and vice president of medical affairs, explains how new tech, savvy patients, eager physicians and, yes, COVID-19, has fueled a renaissance for remote technology, once seen as a mature, staid business. Dr. Kowal also shares an amazing story of a patient who may owe his life to a timely conversation between his pacemaker and cellphone.
Jon Norris, managing director of healthcare at Silicon Valley Bank, delivers three big takeaways from his report on 2020 fundraising. Medtech venture capitalists and start-ups didn’t let the lockdown slow their fund-raising efforts, and their efforts were buoyed by surprising strong exiting opportunities through IPOs and M&A.
Co-hosts Chris Newmarker and Tom Salemi review the medtech industry’s response to the riot and occupation of the Capitol building. This week’s #NewmarkersNewsmakers includes news from Smith & Nephew, Stryker, and the disappearing Haven.
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Dec 18, 2020
Taking the fight to COVID-19 - BD, DHL, Novant on delivering, shipping and administering the vaccine
Happy Vaccine Week!
This week, we’ll visit with the medtech professionals who are working to get the vaccines into the right hands – and arms – of the people who need it most.
This week’s guests include
• Elizabeth Woody, Senior Vice President, Public Affairs at BD
• Claudia Roa, Vice President Life Science & Healthcare Sector, Americas Global Customer Solutions at DHL
• Eric Eskioğlu, MD, EVP & Chief Medical Officer, Novant Health
Co-hosts Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker welcome Brian Buntz, medtech pro and now pharma editor at WTWH Media, for a recap of the top 10 #newmarkersnewsmakers of 2020.
We also look ahead to 2021 offering our Big, Bold Predictions for the New Year. (And someone offers to pick up the first round of drinks at DeviceTalks Boston in October…well, sort of.)
This is the final episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast for 2020! Thanks to the tens of thousands (yep, really) people who have joined us on this audio journey.
We’ll be back in Jan…
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Dec 11, 2020
Stryker CEO Kevin Lobo shares successful strategies for managing multiple crises (aka life in 2020)
The past year of pandemic, social unrest and a divisive election - provided a crash course in crisis management for CEOs. In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Kevin Lobo, the CEO of Stryker, explains how he led his company through this difficult year.
His recipe for success is long, but it includes priorities, communication and listening.
Lobo also is serving his final year as chairman of AdvaMed. He shares how that experience gave him an even better appreciation of the medtech industry, which he says got treated unfairly at times but still came through with high grades.
Joining us for the first time as a co-host is Nancy Crotti, managing editor of Medical Design and Outsourcing. She’ll talk about the upcoming leadership issue.
Meanwhile, Sean Whooley, assistant editor of MassDevice, will share the five big news items of the week aka #NewmarkersNewsmakers. This week’s news comes from Quest, Pfizer, Boston Scientific and Medtronic.
And we'll learn which co-host had a…
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Dec 3, 2020
Medtronic CEO Martha explains the why of competing, the reorg, and the importance of institutions
In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Medtronic CEO Geoff Martha brings us on the inside of Medtronic’s ongoing reorganization. Martha explains how the new company will be structured to work with outside vendors. (Hint: more autonomy, not total autonomy.)
He also explains why the company’s push to instill more competitive juice is aligned with its overarching mission of innovation.
Martha also discussed his long path to medtech and Medtronic. How he first met Omar Ishrak and why institutions like Medtronic and other medtech companies need to step up on a social scale.
This week, Dave Franchino, president of Delve, explains how the company is adapting innovation to fit the pandemic. (And suggests if you’re not finding opportunities to innovate, you’re simply not looking hard enough.)
But there is no DeviceTalks party without Chris Newmarker, executive editor of MassDevice, who shares this episode’s Newmarker Newsmakers. Companies covered include Medtronic, Vec…
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Nov 20, 2020
Enjoy a feast of insights from Spencer Stiles(Stryker) Art Collins(Explorer) and Mark Leahey (MDMA)
DeviceTalks Weekly listeners will need some gravy to digest this Thanksgiving feast-sized podcast featuring news and insights from three stellar guests in addition to two new installments of #2minutedetalks chapters from Delve Inc. and Explorer Surgical.
This week we visit with…
Mark Leahey, president of the Medical Device Manufacturers Association, who explains where medtech might fits in this evolving political climate.
Spencer Stiles, group president of orthopaedic and spine at Stryker, who shares details on the Wright acquisition and the secret to the success of placing MAKO surgical robots in hospitals
Art Collins, senior advisor to Explorer Surgical. The former Chairman and CEO discusses leadership, Medtronic and the future for startups like Explorer.
Also co-host Chris Newmarker, executive editor of MassDevice, shares his selections for this week’s #newmarkersnewsmakers which includes news from BD, Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson.
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Nov 13, 2020
Vizient, Truist on how COVID-19 has changed healthcare’s appetite for buying medical devices
This week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast examines medtech’s readiness for the next COVID-19 surge.
Hospitals are ready, but their appetite for expensive medical devices has changed, forcing medtech companies to change how they sell or lose out entirely.
Justin Cassidy and Henry Soch of Vizient reveal why hospital executives are forced to divert funds away from new devices. They also explain how the power structure in capital purchases is shifting away from technology committees, creating a new challenge for medtech sales teams.
Kaila Krum, managing director of Truist Securities, explains how companies like Stryker, Zimmer Biomet and Globus are successfully putting units in hospitals. She confirms medtech companies are being forced to evolve the way they work with hospitals.
In the 2-minute-DeTalks, product development leader, podcast and president of Delve Dave Franchino joins us in a 2minute-detalks to explain how the company helps clients find the best solution to vexing proble…
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Nov 6, 2020
Where will Intuitive find future growth? Abbott’s Moat on how population boom will boost demand
In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, we’ll talk with Intuitive Surgical's Julian Nikolchev, senior vice president, corporate development and strategy and Oliver Keown, MD, director of Intuitive Ventures, about the new $100 million venture fund. How will the capital be invested? Where does Intuitive see the opportunity, and how does the program fit into the robotic surgical company’s broader mandate to expand the profile of its product offerings? In our opening keynote, Neal Moat, MD, chief medical officer of Abbott’s structural heart business, talks about the success of the MitraClip and the impact COVID-19 is having on patients and Abbott personnel.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of MassDevice, will roll out his Newmarker’s Newsmakers including news about Abbott, Masimo and Stryker. Sean Whooley, assistant editor, will also give an earning wrap on the show highlighting interesting reports from Inspire Medical, Hologic, Stryker and Coloplast.
DeviceTalks list…
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Oct 30, 2020
Hear from Execs Katie Szyman, Naomi Murray, Start-Up CEO Patty Post & Evercore’s Vijay Kumar
In this week’s episode of DeviceTalks Weekly the editorial team from MassDevice reviews the Medical Design & Outsourcing’s Women in Medtech issue bringing you insights through interviews with Katie Syzman, corporate VP and the GM of critical care at Edwards Lifesciences, Naomi Murray, Stryker’s director of advanced operations, and Patty Post, CEO of Startup Checkable Medical.
Szyman will share Edwards’ view of artificial intelligence. Murray will share her future vision on additive manufacturing while Post will reveal the lessons learned in her first post as startup CEO of a diagnostic company.
In our closing keynote conversation, Vijay Kumar, managing director at Evercore ISI, will explain why Exact Science’s acquisition of liquid biopsy company wasn’t exactly a surprise (though the $2 billion pricetag might have been.) He also assesses Boston Scientific’s COVID-19 comeback. What does the rise in cases mean for the company and the rest of medtech?
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Oct 23, 2020
Philips' Imaged Guided leader Landon shares global giant's plans for minimally invasive devices
In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, we visit with Chris Landon, senior vice president and business leader of image guided therapy devices at Philips about that company’s plans to build a medtech powerhouse.
In this conversation we’ll learn
-Why Landon left Medtronic
-Where Philips fits into medtech’s future
-How Philips hopes to expand
-Will Philips invest directly in start-ups?
-How did Covid-19 impact Philips?
We’ll also get Landon’s stance on pumpkin sausages. Disgusting or delicious?
We also welcome back Chris Newmarker, executive editor of Mass Device, who delivers his Newmarker's Newsmakers including news from GE Healthcare, Merit Medical, Pharma, Eurofins (Paris:ERF.PA) and DxTerity Diagnostics and the FDA
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Oct 16, 2020
Who will win medtech’s own Supreme Court fight; and can the many mini Medtronics plan work?
In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, we’ll first delve into Medtech’s own brewing Supreme Court battle. In our opening keynote address sponsored by Medical Design and Outsourcing, J. Michael Jakes, a partner at Finnegan, will tell us why the industry should be watching when the Supremes review the latest patent battle between Arthrex and Smith & Nephew.
We’ll also talk about Medtronic’s Analyst Meeting where CEO Geoff Martha and the team rolled out its decentralization plan that calls for the creation of 20 semi-independent business units. Kaila Krum, managing director at Truist Securities, returns to break down the highlight of the meetings including pipelines and partnership with The Foundry, Amazon and others.
Sean Whooley, assistant editor at Mass Device, pinch hosts for the vacationing Chris Newmarker and delivered with a rock solid #newmarkersnewsmakers that includes news from Abbott, Arthrex, Smith & Nephew, GE, and, of course, Medtronic.
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Oct 9, 2020
Smith & Nephew's Ortho President Kiil, Rhaeos CEO Somera's Big Win, and Medtronic's Legacy
In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, our opening and closing keynote interviews focus on executives at companies from very different stages.
MANUFACTURING AND SOURCING: Skip Kiil took the helm of Smith + Nephew’s global orthopedics business to transform the business. The company’s recent acquisition of Integra’s extremities will further that mission. In our closing keynote conversation, the president of orthopedics updates us on the new technologies and tools that Smith + Nephew is rolling out to help orthopedic patients.
Kiil will hit upon Smith + Nephew’s:
• CORI Robotics surgical tools
• Real Intelligence platform
• Interest in Ambulatory Surgery Centers
• Balance of OUS vs. US
• Future plans for extremities
INNOVATION AND FINANCE: Start-up Rhaeos took home this year’s Grand Prize from the Medtech Innovator Global Competition at the Virtual Medtech Conference. In our 0pening keynote, CEO Anna Lisa Somera tells us why she went “all in” on develo…
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Oct 2, 2020
Avail Medsystems, AliveCor help surgeons, patients, and sales reps battle COVID through connectivity
In a double dose of New Tools and Technology interviews, co-host Tom Salemi talks with two companies using connective technology to build out innovative service businesses.
Medtech veteran Daniel Hawkins, CEO of Avail Medsystems, creator of a procedural telemedicine system that can open up the operating room for sales reps and surgical experts. Hawkins explains how Avail will provide the equipment to hospitals for free while creating new channels for medical device companies to advise surgeons in the operating room. You can learn more about Avail’s approach on our upcoming DeviceTalks Tuesday episode on Oct. 6. https://www.devicetalks.com/devicetalks-tuesdays-agenda/
In our opening interview, Ira Bahr, COO of AliveCor, explains how the company’s AI-enabled, consumer EKG device, KardiaMobile 6L, is connecting heart patient with their physicians. The company is selling the device for patient monitoring both in home and clinical trial settings. How will tech like this open t…
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Sep 25, 2020
Can Boston Scientific Close the Gap in healthcare? Innovator Jeff Karp, MD, shares early challenges
Medtech People: In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, we’ll talk about overcoming unfairness and inequity.
In our keynote interview, Boston Scientific’s Camille Chang Gilmore, vice president, human resources, global chief diversity officer, and Michael Jaff, MD, CMO of its peripheral vascular group, reintroduce us to the company’s Close the Gap program. Launched in 2006, Close the Gap seeks to address the lack of care being delivered to underserved populations, including people of color and people earning lower incomes. The two Boston Science executives will explain why Close the Gap is more essential than ever, and what we as an industry need to do to bring equality to care. Go to knowyourhealth.com for more information.
In our first interview, Jeff Karp, MD, a prolific inventor and entrepreneur, shares his early challenges as a child when a learning difference limited his performance in school. After hearing some stern advice from teachers, Karp identified the problem…
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Sep 18, 2020
Outset CEO Leslie Trigg discusses Zoom-powered $278m IPO; Corindus COO Doug Teany sees 5G future
INNOVATION & FINANCE: Is the traditional road show dead? Leslie Trigg, CEO of Outset Medical, fresh off taking the renal care company public, says despite initially grieving her inability to meet investors in person, she agrees that Zoom meetings gave her all the insights she needed to stage a successful IPO. In fact, she says the video calls might have even engendered a deeper understanding between executives and investors. Trigg also explains how Outset came to broaden its overall mission to create an enterprise system for dialysis.
NEW TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY: The doctor will see you now … from 3,000 miles away. Doug Teany, COO of Corindus Vascular Robotics, says the company’s Corpath interventional robotic system will save lives and money by shortening the distance between critical patients and capable care. Using the emerging 5G network, Corindus is moving toward a future where interventionalists can treat patients in different area codes, time zones and countries. The company is…
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Sep 11, 2020
Ambu, Boston Scientific in the first single-use DeviceTalks Weekly– No sterilization necessary
MANUFACTURING & SOURCING: This week, the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast explores the potential of single-use endoscopes. Co-host Tom Salemi interviews leaders from the leaders – Ambu and Boston Scientific. First, Ambu CEO Juan Jose Gonzalez and Stephen Block, president of Ambu US, introduce us to one of medtech’s fastest growing companies. Ambu is moving into the single-use market with a less expensive alternative to those offered by larger rival Boston Scientific. We’ll find how Gonzalez and Block view the opportunity. In our second interview, we dig into the EXALT offering with Boston Scientific’s CMO Brian Dunkin, MD and Dave Pierce, EVP and President MedSurg. After a slow start due to COVID-19 shutdowns, Boston Scientific is putting the pedal to the metal by leveraging its extensive reach and might. Executives from both companies share why they can't see the ceiling to the potential of this technology.
MassDevice's Executive Editor Chris Newmarker will reveal this week’s #N…
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Sep 4, 2020
Raising capital during Covid with Karen Long; Gail Daubert on CMS changes, Are linked pigs scary?
Our line up in Episode 25 of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast
INNOVATION & FINANCE – Managing Partner Karen Long says COVID-19 isn’t slowing down KCK Group, which closed on two major investments this summer. Long will be speaking on our first DeviceTalks Tuesday’s “Raising Capital in the Zoom Age.” Go to devicetalks.com.
REGULATORY & REIMBURSEMENT – Gail Daubert, founding partner at 4Front Strategies walks us through the proposed CMS rule to pay for innovative breakthrough technologies. Daubert suggests industry leaders offer their feedback on the proposed rule. For information on submitting feed back go to https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/09/01/2020-19289/medicare-program-medicare-coverage-of-innovative-technology-mcit-and-definition-of-reasonable-and
NEWMARKER’S NEWSMAKERS – Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences at MassDevice, reports on the five biggest Medtech newsmakers. Items involve Medtronic, IBM, Elon Musk, and CMS.
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Aug 28, 2020
Truist’s Kaila Krum on Medtronic’s Q1, APVC’s Juan Pablo Mas details new investment in Exo
In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Kaila Krum, managing director at Truist Securities, explains why Medtronic is talking tough about finding new growth. Can the medtech giant pull off CEO Geoff Martha’s pledge to `Go Big or Go Home.”
Juan-Pablo Mas, partner at Action Potential Venture Capital, lends insights on his group’s commitment to EXO (pronounced echo), a maker of a portable ultrasound imaging device that might have somewhat unforeseen therapeutic applications. He also shares his hopes for LatinxVC, a non-profit creating opportunities in venture capital.
Senior Editor Danielle Kirsh and Assistant Editor Sean Whooley pinch hit for Chris Newmarker. Kirsh lays out her plans for this year’s Women in Medtech issue and Whooley walks us through this week’s Top 5 stories (aka Newmarker’s Newsmakers.) Medtronic, Abbott, Boston Scientific, Pelvital, and iRhythm all make the list. But who is number 1?
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Aug 21, 2020
Can Fractyl Labs and Cala Health go where only drugs have gone before?
In this week’s episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, co-hosts Tom Salemi, editorial director of DeviceTalks, and Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences, review this week's Top 5 medtech stories, aka “Newmarker’s Newsmakers,” with news coming from CureVac, Avail Medsystems, ClearMask, Thermo Fisher and Bayer.
We also hear from two executives from Fractyl Laboratories — CEO Dr. Harith Rajagopalan and CFO Lisa Davidson — about its recent $55 million Series E round of financing and the strides they're making in developing a device to treat diabetes.
In a second interview, Cala Health CEO Renee Ryan gives us an update on the Cala Trio’s clinical success and how the start-up is working through COVID-19.
Finally, Chris and Tom hint at an upcoming event for the DTW community.
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Aug 14, 2020
Vizient on PPE, Vicarious on VR-aided robotics and let's all hope for pumpernickel
DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep. 22 – This week’s episode of DeviceTalks Weekly is brought to you by the later V, as in Vizient and Vicarious Surgical.
Bharat Sundaram, COO and president of Vizient, will share how the healthcare supplier is strengthening the supply of PPE for hospitals. He'll also reveal when the company expects to see US hospitals running at pre-Covid levels. Hint, it'll be a while.
Adam Sachs, CEO of Vicarious Surgical, tells us how the company will put a new round of capital from high-powered investors to work in developing to develop a surgical system employing robotic and virtual reality technologies. How does the start-up expect to compete with the established leaders in the robotics space?
Co-host Chris Newmarker, executive editor, life sciences, will walk us through the five biggest newsmakers on the MassDevice site. Number one may surprise you, but given the time, perhaps it shouldn’t.
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Aug 7, 2020
Ten ways medtech companies are finding their footing during the pandemic
Ten ways medtech is finding its footing during the pandemic
When COVID19 set upon the US in March, medtech executives had a month at most to tell Wall Street analysts how the pandemic had hit the industry’s largest companies. We heard about short-term hits in revenues, procedures and employee headcounts, but uncertainty clearly ruled the day.
Over the past weeks, medtech executives from several leading companies reported back to analysts with a full quarter under their belt. To be sure, no one can claim to hold a full grasp on this crisis, but a survey of the calls reveals several observations worth pointing out .
In this podcast, we’ll list our Top 10.
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Jul 31, 2020
What in the world will Thrive Earlier Detection do with $257 million?
In this week’s podcast, two executives from Thrive Earlier Detection explain how the “turbo-charged” diagnostics company intends to upend how, when and where cancer is diagnosed. Isaac Kinde, MD, PhD, co-founder and head of research and innovation, walks us through the company’s CancerSEEK test and how the company is marrying new technology with an innovative clinical approach. Meanwhile, Isaac Ro, tells host Tom Salemi how the company closed on $257 million (hint: lots of Zoom) and why he left a career on Wall Street to join this innovative start-up.
Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences at MassDevice, also counts down on the biggest newsmakers in this week’s MassDevice.
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Jul 24, 2020
Can Drawbridge, Edwards bring disruptive innovation to blood drawing, heart surgery industries?
In this week’s podcast, we talk with Holly Logue, general counsel at Drawbridge Health, about the OneDraw, an innovative new tool that might upend the collecting, storage and testing of blood. Logue, a panelist in the upcoming DeviceTalks Tuesdays sponsored by Finnegan, will explain how her past work on Capitol Hill is helping this Silicon Valley company’s plans.
Meanwhile, we speak with Daveen Chopra, corporate vice president of surgical structural heart at Edwards Lifesciences, about that company’s commitment to treating the most serious cardiac patients. The company recently won FDA approval for its Konect Resilia aortic valve conduit, a vital new tool in helping heart patients, including many requiring emergency story.
Co-costs Tom Salemi, editorial director of DeviceTalks, and Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences at MassDevice, review the five biggest news stories of the week. We'll talk about Abbott, Becton Dickinson, Boston Scientific, Edwards Lifesciences,…
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Jul 17, 2020
Is Medtech finally ready to capitalize on the promise of connectivity?
For years, medtech companies have known connectivity was good for them, but the promise of data streaming through devices didn't match the reality. COVID-19 changed that, creating an opportunity for device companies with connectivity plans in place.
In this episode, we speak with Dr. David Hayes, CMO of Biotronik, about that companies success in connecting cardiology patients. Meanwhile, Bill Betten of S3 Connected Health explains what device companies must do to prepare for medtech's next age.
We also review the week's top news involving Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott, Edwards, and Smith+Nephew
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Jul 10, 2020
CVRx Nadim Yared on COVID-19, diversity and equality; Hyalex CEO Mira Sahney shares startup details
DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep. 17 –
In this week’s episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, we follow up with Nadim Yared, CEO of CVRx, the guest of last week’s episode, to catch up on how the medtech executives is managing during the pandemic.
Yared also shares some far-reaching views on what the medtech industry needs to work toward to improve diversity in its workforce and provide equality for society.
We also visit with Mira Sahney, CEO of Hyalex Orthopaedics, one of medtech’s most interesting startups; Hyalex was identified as a notable startup in the recent report in Medical Design and Outsourcing.
In this interview, Sahney reveals Hyalex’ origins, the state of its potential cartilage replacement product, and why start-ups have a natural advantage operating in a pandemic.
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Jul 3, 2020
CVRx CEO Nadim Yared on his path from engineer to CEO to industry leader.
Nadim Yared, CEO of CVRx
This week, CVRX reported positive six-month trial results for its Barostim Neo, an FDA-approved treatment for heart failure.
The results follow years of close work between the agency and CVRx, one of the more ambitious startups in medtech. CVRx is targeting a huge clinical need with novel neuromodulation technology.
In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, CEO Nadim Yared walks us through the negotiations the company went through with the FDA to get to this point.
Yared, the prior chairman of the industry group AdvaMed, also shares the story of his career, which started early on when he secured a job at GE even before graduating college.
In this talk, Yared speaks to several issues including:
The power of confidence and the dangers of overconfidence when building a career.
-How he decided to take the job at CVRx (and why he didn’t initially want to talk about the job with a recruiter.)
-What CVRx learned from other successes and failures in renal de…
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Jun 26, 2020
Why FDA put the pedal to the metal for radar and hummingbirds. And why medtech needs Google.
DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep. 15 – Why FDA put the pedal to the metal for radar and hummingbirds. And why medtech needs Google.
In this week’s episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, co-hosts Chris Newmarker and Tom Salemi dig into the recent successes by start-ups Circadia Health and Perceptis Medical, which both saw expedited approval from the FDA due to the pandemic.
We also unveil the 20 medical device companies you need to know.
https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/20-medical-device-startups-you-need-to-know-2020/
Circadia CEO Fares Siddiqui discusses the quick approval that came for his company’s C100 system that uses radar to monitor respiratory function. Preceptis Medical CEO Steve Anderson, meanwhile, explains why the agency – and he hopes payers – want to see his company’s ear-tube implanting system on the market.
We also visit with Heidi Dohse, Sr. Program Manager at Google’s Cloud Healthcare & Life Sciences organization, who will be leading the upcoming DeviceTa…
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Jun 19, 2020
Stryker's Kevin Lobo, Dexcom's Kevin Sayer talk diversity, COVID-19; also more on Medtronic deal
This week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast episode talks with industry leaders about improving worker diversity and developing new ways to treat COVID-19 patients.
Kevin Lobo, chairman and CEO of Stryker, explains how his company – and the industry group AdvaMed – has been working to increase diversity of its workforce, particularly in senior and sales positions. Lobo is serving a two-year term as chairman of AdvaMed. In this interview, Lobo speaks specifically to how Stryker is tracking progress, where it has come up short, and how it’s working to help workers identify their own biases.
Lobo also says Stryker is poised to regain momentum after the pandemic.
Next, Kevin Sayer, executive chairman, CEO and president of Dexcom, says the company’s continuous glucose monitors are finding a home in hospitals as they help monitor the health of COVID-19 patients. Sayer says the company’s monitors have helped keep patients, especially diabetics, off ventilators and allowed them to…
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Jun 12, 2020
Cala Health CEO Renee Ryan Brings Business Building Insights to Bioelectronic Medicine Startup
DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep. 13 – Cala Health CEO Renee Ryan Brings Business Building Insights to Bioelectronic Medicine Startup
In this week’s episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, Tom Salemi, editorial director of DeviceTalks events and content, visits with Renee Ryan, the CEO of neuromodulation startup Cala Health.
Ryan came to Cala from the venerable medtech investor Johnson & Johnson Development Corp., where she made over 15 investments helping to create companies including Auris Surgical, Cala and digital surgery play Verb Surgical, J&J’s joint venture with Verily. “I really set my mind to [asking] was there a way we could create our own opportunities,” she said of her eight years as the corporate investor.
We ask Ryan about her move into medtech investing from investment banking as well as the “secret power” that helped her succeed as an investor and an executive.
We’ll also discuss the unique commercial strategy Cala is employing as it begins rolling out its Cala Tr…
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May 29, 2020
DTW's Commencement Speaker- Todd Brinton, MD, Edwards Lifesciences on building a career in medtech
In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, we attempt to deliver heartfelt and hard won advice in a sort of commencement address by Todd Brinton, MD, Corporate Vice President,
Advanced Technology and Chief Scientific Officer of Edwards Lifesciences. Dr. Brinton sits down with host Tom Salemi to share his path into Medtech. Brinton shares great advice for anyone looking for a new career or opportunity in medtech. NOTE: This conversation was recorded in March, prior to the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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May 22, 2020
Medtronic is buckling up and ready to buy
DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep. 11 – Medtronic is buckling up and ready to buy
In this week’s episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, we dip into Medtronic’s quarterly call to hear why company executives feel the medtech sector is already rebounding. The global giant also intends to start using its vast cash reserves to bolster its bottomline through M&A.
We’ll also talk with Jeff Champagne of MPR about medtech’s need for speed. He’ll be leading a discussion on this subject and more on the upcoming DeviceTalks Tuesdays.
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May 15, 2020
How do medtech investors, CEOS manage portfolio companies going forward?
DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep. 10 – How do medtech investors, CEOS manage portfolio companies going forward?
In this week’s episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, we talk with two successful starters of medtech companies about how they’re building and maintaining their medtech portfolios during this pandemic landscape.
Our guests this week are…
• Justin Klein, MD, managing partner, Vensana Capital
• Duke Rohlen, chairman, Ajax Health
Together, Klein and Rohlen have created, backed and sold medtech companies that have generated billions.
Klein, formerly of New Enterprise Associates, now co-manages his own venture firm, Vensana Capital. He previously served on the board of directors of Cartiva (acquired), ChromaCode, CV Ingenuity (acquired), EPIX Therapeutics (acquired), FIRE1, GPB Scientific, Intact Vascular, Metavention, Personal Genome Diagnostics, PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals (IPO), Relievant Medsystems, Senseonics (IPO), Topera (acquired), Ulthera (acquired), Vertiflex (acquired), Ve…
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May 8, 2020
DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep. 9 – What’s the state of the Medtech job market?
In this week’s episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, Tom Salemi speaks with two executive recruiters about what they see in the medtech market. Over the past month, we’ve seen several medtech companies – big and small – cutting jobs and reducing hours but what does this mean long-term.
In this podcast we’ll identify a few companies that are hiring, but we’ll talk in-depth with the recruiters about…
• How bad is the current market?
• What’s the likelihood for recovery?
• What skills are in greater demand?
• What can people do to strengthen their hand?
Guests are:
• David L. Vied, global sector leader, Global Sector Leader, Medical Devices and Diagnostics, Korn Ferry
• Giovanni Lauricella, vice president, medtech practice-lead, The Mullings Group
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May 1, 2020
AdvaMed‘s Scott Whitaker on pandemic readiness, Jon Norris of SVB shares Q1 VC data
DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep. 8 – AdvaMed‘s Scott Whitaker on pandemic readiness, Jon Norris of SVB shares Q1 venture capital investment data
In this week’s episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, Scott Whitaker, CEO of AdvaMed, shares concerns he had over how the federal government would work with the medtech industry during the pandemic crisis. Does he feel the medtech industry was treated fairly? How does he see the federal government and medtech industry working together in the future? He answers those questions and more.
In our second interview, Jonathan Norris, managing director of Silicon Valley Bank, shares first-quarter data for medtech venture investments. The results might surprise you.
Guests are:
• Scott Whitaker, CEO, AdvaMed
• Jonathan Norris, managing director, Silicon Valley bank
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Apr 25, 2020
DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep.7 – Edwards, Employment News, Update on Clinical Trials from Avania
In this week’s episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker stare at each other through the Zoom lens while talking about the positive news from Baxter and Conformis, the hopeful projections from Edwards, and the cautionary tone from Medtronic.
We also interview Mark McIlduff, general manager, US, at the newly named CRO, Avania on the state of clinical trials. What changes might we expect in the future? Mark brings great insights.
Guests are:
• Mark McIlduff, general manager, US, Avania
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Apr 20, 2020
DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep.6 – Hear about the Coventor, Q1 Earnings and MassDevice’s Medtech 100 Index
DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep.6 – Hear about the Coventor Ventilator, COVID-19 and Q1 Earnings and MassDevice’s Medtech 100 Index
In this week’s episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, Aaron Tucker of the Earl Bakken Medical Center shares the origin of the recently approved Coventor ventilator, which will be manufactured at-cost by Boston Scientific.
We’ll also hear Abbott CEO Robert Ford comments from the company’s Q1 analyst call as we begin to dissect how the COVID-19 pandemic will impact medtech earnings.
Finally, Danielle Kirsh, senior editor at WTWH Media, will share the origins of our new Medtech 100 Index, a powerful new tool for measuring how large medtech companies are managing in this new economy.
Guests are:
• Aaron Tucker, Lab Supervisor, University of Minnesota Earl E. Bakken Medical Device Center
• Danielle Kirsh, Senior Editor, WTWH Media
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Apr 12, 2020
DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep.5 –What impact is COVID-19 having on start-ups?
DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep.5 –What impact is COVID-19 having on start-ups?
Raising capital for start-up is never easy. Try doing it during a pandemic.
In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly, we’ll try to help entrepreneurs by talking with two guests who are committed to helping start-ups find the funding they need.
Paul Grand, founder and CEO of MedTech Innovator, explains how he’s working to keep start-ups connected to capital. His popular MedTech Innovator program is adapting to the times and creating new ways for start-ups to get in front of investors.
We’ll also talk with Shai Policker, CEO at MEDX Xcelerator, an incubator backed by Boston Scientific, Intellectual Ventures and others. Based in Israel, MEDX is moving forward and interested in investing capital in start-ups worldwide.
Co-host Chris Newmarker, executive editor, life sciences, for WTWH Media, also updates us on what articles are drawing the most interest on MassDevice and Medical Design and Outsourcing.
Don’t…
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Apr 7, 2020
DeviceTalks DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep.4 –What does Medtronic's Puritan reveal mean for medtech?
DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep.4 –What does Medtronic's Puritan reveal mean for medtech?
Medtronic’s earned plaudits and praise for sharing the design specifications for its Puritan Bennett 560 (PB560) ventilators. But will the gesture actually lead to more ventilators being manufactured?
In this episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, we’ll talk with experts who will tell us what the plans do and do not say. We’ll also get some legal insights on what strings are attached to the open source effort.
Guests are:
• D. Brian Kacedon, Partner, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
• Lee Teschler, Executive Editor, WTWH Media
• Scott Thielman, CTO, Product Creation Studio
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Mar 27, 2020
DeviceTalks Weekly ep. 3 - Making Sense of Medtech's Regulatory Alphabet Soup
In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly, we’ll examine how governmental effort, both foreign and domestic, are hitting the medtech industry.
Our guests include Tracy Eberly, CEO of Fang Consulting, a regulatory advisory group. Eberly will update listeners on what pushing back the MDR deadline could mean for medtech companies and why some companies may be less than thrilled with the decision.
In our second conversation, Joy Sturm, procurement expert and partner at the DC office of Law Firm Hogan Lovells, walks us through the powers contained within the Defense Production Act invoked last week by the Trump administration.
Sturm, who brings 20-years of governmental purchasing experience to the conversation, answer several key questions including:
What CAN and CAN’T the government do under the act?
Which federal agencies are responsible for executing the DPA?
Can companies secure capital to pay for DPA-supported efforts?
What player is missing on the field in the battle against COVID-1…
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Mar 20, 2020
DeviceTalks Weekly, Ep. 2 - Medtech goes to War
In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, hosts Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker will detail medtech’s essential role in the escalating war against COVID-19. This week’s guests are Fluidda CEO Jan De Backer and Kevin Thornal, division president of diagnostic solutions at Hologic. The executive will explain how their new FDA tools will aid against the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. We also ask them how the recently invoked Defense Production Act will impact medtech’s fight against the pandemic.
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Mar 16, 2020
DeviceTalks Weekly, Episode 1, - Raj Denhoy, Jefferies
Welcome to the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, a regular – and sometimes irregular – opportunity to visit with the editorial team at MassDevice and Medical Design and Outsourcing. This week, Chris Newmarker, Executive Editor, Life Sciences, at WTWH Media, reviews our COVID-19 coverage with Tom Salemi, Editorial Director, DeviceTalks. Tom also chats with Raj Denhoy, Managing Director, Equity Research Analyst at Jefferies, who details how the Medtech sector is fairing in this unprecedented uncertainty. While most Medtechs stand on strong financial footing, Denhoy issues a warning to investors that another correction may be coming once analysts start assessing the impact on earnings. Still, he says there are safe havens out there and identifies one in the podcast. Finally, Tom and Chris explore what impact social distancing may have on medtech in the short-term – sales and deals - and long-term – innovation.
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Aug 28, 2017
Intuitive Surgical CEO Gary Guthart plans to stay on top
Gary Guthart, the longtime CEO of Intuitive Surgical, tells MassDevice.com Executive Editor Brad Perriello why he's so confident about staying on top of the robot-assisted surgery heap, the company's five buckets for in-house R&D; and what he looks for in potential business partners.
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Dec 30, 2016
Inside Google and Johnson & Johnson's bid to change surgery
DeviceTalks goes inside the union of two of the most innovative companies in the world, Google and Johnson and Johnson as they look to change the face of surgery. In this episode, we chat with Scott Huennekens, President and CEO, Verb Surgical, the robotic surgery platform spinout from Google and JNJ. Huennekens shares with us the mission of Verb, insights from his career in medical startups and why he thinks robots will be performing surgery in 50 years.
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Nov 1, 2016
DeviceTalks Live: Being a woman in the corner office of medtech
There's an old saying that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards and in high heels. For Nancy Briefs, Deborah DiSanzo and Martha Shadan, it's also a challenge they know well. These CEOs and medtech veterans have made the journey from the ranks of the medtech industry to the corner office, making them, sadly, a rarity in this industry where just 1 out of 7 women in medicine hold senior executive positions. In this panel, recorded live at our DeviceTalks Boston event features remarks from DiSanzo, IBM Watson General Manager, Ms. Briefs, CEO, InfoBionic and Ms. Shadan, CEO, Rotation Medical.
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Oct 18, 2016
The evolution of OCTANe and Orange County's technology ecosystem
Bill Carpou took over at OCTANe 18 months ago with the mission to increase Orange County, California's image as a technology super hub. Through programs like the Medical Device Investor Forum and a new emphasis on helping local companies stay in the area, OCTANe is one of the most innovative industry council's in the medical device space. We talked to Bill about OCTANe's upcoming event, as well as its recent merger with the Orange County Technology Alliance.
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Oct 4, 2016
Changing the face of dialysis with NxStage Medical founder Jeff Burbank
Jeff Burbank started NxStage Medical in 1999 on the premise that patients with chronic kidney disease would benefit from bringing hemodialysis out of the clinic and into their homes. Now, 17 years later Burbank's hypothesis has been proven out and his Lawrence, Mass.-based company is topping more than $300 million in annual sales, while making a real difference in the lives of patients. In this interview, recorded at DeviceTalks Boston on September 28, 2016, we sit down with Jeff to discuss his business journey.
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Sep 23, 2016
Does culture eat strategy for breakfast? A chat with Smiths Medical CEO Jeff McCaulley
When Jeffery McCaulley took the reigns at Smiths Medical, the company was in a slump. Several years of flat growth and a potential merger that didn’t go through, had sapped the winning spirit of the Twin Cities, Minn.- based company. However, with McCaulley’s arrival, came a renewed sense of what was possible for Smiths Medical. The medtech veteran employed several new initiatives, honed at companies like GE to rebuild the company’s culture and move it back on a path to growth. In this podcast, we discuss McCaulley’s playbook when it comes to fostering a winning culture in the medical device industry.
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Jul 19, 2016
Teleflex CEO Benson Smith on what it takes to be great in sales
This interview, recorded live on June 6, 2016 in St. Paul, Minn. at DeviceTalks Minnesota, is one of the funniest, most enlightening and interesting discussions we've ever had at DeviceTalks. Teleflex CEO Benson Smith takes us through his career from door-to-door salesman to CEO of 1 of the top performing medical device companies in the past five years. Listen all the way to the end to hear an unforgettable tale of going all out to get the job.
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Jun 28, 2016
Leading the battle against sepsis with Spectral Medical CEO Paul Walker
Dr. Paul Walker speaks to MassDevice about his efforts to take on endotoxins and sepsis at the head of Spectral Medical, his history with the deadly condition and what’s next for the burgeoning Canadian medical device firm.
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May 6, 2016
How we built the company with Innovative Trauma Care's Joe Brennan
Innovative Trauma Care, a San Antonio, TX-based startup, has found a new way to stop the bleeding. The company's flagship product, the iTClamp is a hemorrhage control device for use in the extremities, scalp and neck. The device, which looks like a hair clip, seals the edges of a wound closed to stop further blood loss until the wound can be surgically repaired. We spoke to CEO Joe Brennan about the device and how it can help improve survival rates in trauma incidents.
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Apr 21, 2016
Fighting the war on brain cancer with NovoCure chairman Bill Doyle
Novocure, the St. Helier, Jersey-based medical device company, which raised more than $158M in an IPO last year, is trying to change the way we fight cancer. Company officials say its proprietary tumor treating fields technology, marketed under the product name Optune, are a new tool in the war against some of the deadliest forms of cancer. MassDevice publisher Brian Johnson recently caught up with Doyle to discuss the technology, the company's origins and how its current concentration on glioblastoma is just the beginning.
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Mar 22, 2016
How I built the company with Patrick Daly, CEO, Cohera Medical
Patrick Daly, CEO, Cohera Medical talks to MassDevice Executive Editor, Brad Perriello about starting up the absorbable surgical adhesives and sealants company, how he raised one of the largest seed rounds in history and why he's moving the company to Raleigh, NC. This episode was recorded on February 29, 2016 at DeviceTalks Raleigh.
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Mar 7, 2016
What it's like to be the CEO of the world's largest medtech company with Bill Hawkins
On this episode of DeviceTalks we dive into life in the corner office with Bill Hawkins, former CEO of Medtronic and chairman of Immucor. Hawkins shares his experiences on the front lines of medicine where he has spent 25 years leading companies as diverse as start ups to the world's largest medical device company.
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Dec 23, 2015
Talking innovation with Johnson & Johnson's medtech R&D guru Martin Fitchet
Martin Fitchet is responsible for R&D at JNJ's medical device unit, a tall task for anyone but appropriate for this former surgeon.
In this episode of DeviceTalks, we talk about what innovation means to a behemoth like JNJ and what areas he sees in medicine that are ripe for disruption.
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Nov 18, 2015
A medtech veteran takes on C.diff: Rebiotix CEO Lee Jones
Clostridium difficile or C. diff. is a growing crisis in the U.S. with over 29,000 deaths and 500,000 cases annually, according to the CDC. The disease, which CDC officials warned can kill people in less than 30 days, is characterized by severe diarrhea, fever, and loss of appetite. Sadly, many elderly and infirmed patients are among the most vulnerable.
Roseville, Minn.-based Rebiotix is one of a handful of companies looking to harness the human microbiome into a treatment for recurrent C. diff, which impacts about 20-30% of patients, where there are currently no approved drugs to treat patients with two or more recurrences. Rebiotix is currently in Phase 2 clinical trials for the treatment, which harnesses gut microbiota and turns them into therapies. The company hopes recurrent C. diff is just the 1st in a pipeline of treatments than can be derived from the microbiome.
On this episode of DeviceTalks we discuss C.diff with Reviotix CEO Lee Jones. What personal stories led her to…
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Nov 12, 2015
The leadership lessons of Stryker's John Brown
For a man who took a private company from $17 million in sales to a $4.5 billion publicly traded juggernaut, John Brown is a remarkably humble man. However, he is, by all intents and purposes, the man who put Stryker on the map. Today, the Kalamazoo, Mich.-based medical device company nets nearly $10 billion in annual sales.
In this episode of DeviceTalks, recorded at the recent AdvaMed 2015 conference, Brown spoke to us about how he built such impressive results during his tenure at Stryker, including the lessons he learned along the way.
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Nov 12, 2015
Can Sirtex turn cancer into a chronic disease?
Big things sometimes come in small packages. For Sirtex Medical, the big thing comes in a really small package.
The Australian medical device company’s flagship product - the SIR-sphere - is made up of 30 to 60 million microspheres about the size of a grain of sand, which are injected into the hepatic artery and flow into the liver where they kill tumors from the inside.
In this episode of DeviceTalks, MassDevice.com publisher Brian Johnson talks with Mangano about the company, the learning curve he had of moving from a traditional medical device company to an oncology company and why the cancer market may be ripe for other medtech companies to enter.
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Oct 27, 2015
Building the Cologuard and the fight against colorectal cancer with Exact Sciences Graham Lidgard
Colon cancer is one of the most preventable cancers, yet it is also one of the deadliest forms of the disease. In this episode, we speak with Graham Lidgard, the Chief Science Officer, Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Exact Sciences, a Wisc. -based company that has developed a non invasive test to detect colorectal cancer without having to undergo a colonoscopy. We talk to Graham about the Cologuard test and his 40 year career developing breakthrough medical technology.
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Oct 15, 2015
Exit interview: Stephen Ubl moves on from AdvaMed
Before Stephen Ubl departed for a job as the chief lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry, medtech's main man in Washington D.C. sat down with us to reflect on his time as CEO of AdvaMed. In this episode of DeviceTalks, we go deep into Ubl's background, the fights over the medical device tax, forging a new partnership with the FDA and more.
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Oct 13, 2015
Marie Johnson and the mission to prevent sudden heart attacks
Marie Johnson turned tragedy into a mission. In 2002, the CEO of Aum Cardiovascular lost her husband to a sudden heart attack, despite the fact that he was, by all accounts, a perfectly healthy man.
Fast forward 13 years and her company has commercialized a non-invasive test designed to quickly detect significant coronary stenosis called the CADence. Johnson hopes the pre FDA-approved device, which is on the market in Germany, will eliminate needless death due to coronary artery disease.
In this interview, recorded live at our DeviceTalks Minnesota event, touches on Johnson's incredible story.
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Oct 13, 2015
One of medtech's most successful men reflects on failure
Dr. Manny Villafana is one of the most successful men in the history of medical innovation, having founded four companies, including CPI/Guidant Corp. and St. Jude Medical, Inc.
His most recent venture, Kips Bay Medical was supposed to be his best work yet. However, problems with the FDA and shortfalls on funding doomed the company, which shut down in September 2015.
Recorded live on September 23rd at DeviceTalks Minnesota, just one day after he resigned as CEO of Kips Bay Medical, we discuss failure with Dr. Villafana. How does someone who has had so much success deal with the opposite? What comes next for this serial entrepreneur?
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Sep 25, 2015
The story behind Airing: One of medtech's most successful crowdfunding campaign
Stephen Marsh has more than 70 patents to his name but his most recent endeavor, the Airing device, may make him a household name. The Airing is a hoseless, maskless, disposable micro CPAP machine, which could one day change the game in sleep apnea. However, Marsh and company have already made quite the mark on medtech by running one of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns ever. The company has raised more than $1 million on Indiegogo, more than 10 times its initial goal.
In this episode of DeviceTalks, we talk to Marsh about the Airing device, inventing technology that sticks and how the company pulled off such a successful crowd funding campaign.
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Sep 14, 2015
Spinal cord injuries and the quest to find a better treatment with Invivo Therapeutics Mark Perrin
Ten years after it was spun out of MIT, Invivo Thereapeutics and its neuro scaffold treatment for traumatic spinal cord injuries is moving closer to a reality. The company has completed enrollment of its 5 patient pilot study, which has made headlines around the world and is looking to push forward on adding more patients. In this episode of DeviceTalks, we talk to new CEO Mark Perrin about the company and why there has been so little movement in the fight against paralysis.
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Sep 4, 2015
Behind the Boston Scientific turnaround with CEO Mike Mahoney
In this episode of DeviceTalks, recorded live at our DeviceTalks Boston event at Boston Scientific's corporate headquarters, we sit down with CEO Mike Mahoney to discuss the company's recent turnaround. Mahoney, who joined the company as its CEO in 2012, sat down with MassDevice's Brian Johnson to take us inside how the company has improved its performance.
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Aug 28, 2015
Battling obesity with the alternative to bariatric surgery| ReShape Medical CEO Richard Thompson
Reshape Medical recently received FDA approval for its Duo balloon system for obesity. The company bills the device as an alternative to bariatric surgery for the majority of patients suffering from this global epidemic. In this episode we dig into the obesity epidemic and how ReShape Medical is looking to change the paradigm of care for patients needing to lose a significant amount of weight.
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Aug 10, 2015
What makes Minnesota's medical alley tick with LifeScience Alley's Shaye Mandle
In this episode we catch up with LifeScience Alley CEO Shaye Mandle about doing business in Minnesota's world class medical device cluster. We delve into why the medical device and life sciences community clustered in the Twin Cities, what trends are developing in funding, m&a and technology in the area and, of course, where to go for a power breakfast in the area.
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Aug 6, 2015
How teaching computers to recognize emotion led to healthcare innovation: MIT's Rosalind Picard
In this episode of DeviceTalks, we delve deeply into emotion and how teaching computers to recognize emotions led to a potentially major breakthrough in medical technology with MIT scientist and entrepreneur Rosalind Picard. Listen to hear the backstory behind her book Affective Computing, her work with artificial intelligence and pioneering wearable technology.
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Jul 22, 2015
Changing the game with rotator cuff disease| A conversation with Martha Shadan
Rotation Medical is changing the game when it comes to treating rotator cuff disease, one of the most prevalent orthopedic conditions that people suffer from. We talk to CEO Martha Shadan about Rotation Medical's revolutionary biologic treatment and how the orthopedic world is changing.
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Jul 13, 2015
Fighting depression with medical devices
Tal Medical's roots go back to a serendipitous discovery at McLean Hospital where patients suffering from bi-polar disorder reported feeling better after MRI. In this episode of DeviceTalks, Jan Skvarka, CEO, Tal Medical tells us about how that discovery could one day lead to a new clinical pathway for care for patients suffering from acute depression.
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Jul 6, 2015
How I built the company with Merit Medical CEO Fred Lampropoulos | DeviceTalks
In this DeviceTalks podcast, we talk with Merit Medical founder and CEO Fred Lampropoulos about starting the Utah-based medical device company, his thoughts on leadership and his experience as a musician opening for The Doors and The Beach Boys.
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Dec 15, 2014
How I built the company with Masimo CEO Joe Kiani
Medtech entrepreneur, patient safety advocate Joe Kiani, CEO, Masimo Corp. talks about building the company from scratch. In addition, he discusses his mission as the founder of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, recorded at DeviceTalks West on November 19, 2014. Also featured, B. Braun CEO Carroll Neubauer.
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Dec 2, 2014
Inside one of the largest medtech companies in the world| B. Braun Medical CEO Caroll Neubauer
MassDevice publisher Brian Johnson interviews Caroll Neubauer, CEO, B. Braun Medical about the medical device tax, Obamacare, patient safety and the current state of the medical device industry.
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Nov 7, 2014
How we built the bionic eye with Second Sight's Robert Greenberg
One day, Second Sight Medical CEO Robert Greenberg, may be considered one of the most important figures in the fight against blindness.
On this episode of DeviceTalks, he discusses the journey to bring sight to the blind with the Argus II "Bionic Eye. "
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Aug 5, 2014
What's the worst mistake you ever made? A discussion with medtech CEOs
Manny Villafanna, founder, St. Jude Medical, Guidant and Kip's Bay Medical, joins medtech CEOs Brian Concannon, Duane DeSisto, Charles Carignan and Carmichael Roberts for a discussion on leadership.
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Aug 5, 2014
Inside the world of diabetes, bionic limbs and wearable sensors| A panel discussion
This CEO panel was recorded on July 15, 2014 at DeviceTalks Boston, hosted by MassDevice.com. It features CEOs from BIOM, Insulet and Carmichael Roberts, founder MC10, Arsenal Medical and 480 Biomedical.
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Jul 22, 2014
How Haemonetics pioneered the blood collection world with Brian Concannon,
MassDevice publisher Brian Johnson interviews Haemonetics CEO Brian Concannon about the company's history, its present and the future of blood management and blood donation. The interview was recorded at DeviceTalks Boston on July 15, 2014.
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Jun 30, 2014
How the Medtronic/Covidien merger will change medtech| A discussion
Panel discussion recorded at June 24th DeviceTalks Minnesota event featuring Nadim Yared, Deb Rectenwald, Philip Ebeling.
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Jun 30, 2014
A look at the massive Medtronic/Covidien deal with Covidien exec Stacy Enxing Seng
This MassDevice podcast featuring Covidien's Stacy Enxing Seng was recorded live on June 24th at DeviceTalks Minnesota.
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Nov 6, 2013
Managing diabetes with a smart phone with Glooko CEO Rick Altinger
Glooko CEO Rick Altinger and MassDevice's Brian Johnson discuss Glooko's mobile diabetes management app. Altinger describes the economics behind the Glooko platform, as well as the app's ability to foster easy communication between diabetes patients and healthcare providers.
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Oct 11, 2013
How I built the company with CeQur CEO Jim Peterson
MassDevice’s Brian Johnson and CeQur's CEO Jim Peterson discuss Peterson’s personal connection to diabetes, and how that personal connection has impacted the company’s direction.
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Jul 18, 2013
Making the deal with CEOs from Zoll, NxStage Medical, Ocular Therapeutix and ConforMIS
MassDevice reporter Brad Periello speaks with CEO and founder of NxStage Medical Jeff Burbank, Zoll CEO Richard Packer, ConforMIS CEO Philipp Lang, and Ocular Therapeutix CEO Amar Sawhney about what it takes to keep companies on the cutting edge, as well as their ups and downs as heads of major medtech companies.
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Jul 18, 2013
Breaking the glass ceiling of medtech with Karen Licitra and Cathy Burzik
Johnson & Johnson's Global Medical Solutions Group Worldwide Chairman Karen Licitra talks about her role within Johnson & Johnson and how she thinks the economics of healthcare and the medical device industry need to change in order to accommodate the future.
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Jul 18, 2013
Inside the $6.1 billion merger of Kinetic Concepts/Apax Partners with Catherine Burzik
Former Kinetic Concepts CEO Catherine Burzik takes you inside the $6.1 billion merger of Kinetic Concepts with Apax Partners in 2011, the largest leveraged buyout since the fall of Lehman Brothers.
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