DeviceTalks Podcast Network

In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, we dig deeper into the worlds of Corporate Venture Capital and Surgical Robotics. In our keynote interviews, Host Tom Salemi speaks with Abby Hunter-Syed, director of Olympus Innovation Ventures (OIV), the corporate arm of Olympus, the medical giant. Hunter-Syed explains how her own entrepreneurial experience led her to discover the joy of supporting star...

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Editorial Director Tom Salemi visits with Arun Menawat, CEO and Chairman of Profound Medical, developer of incision-free therapies which combine real-time MR imaging, thermal ultrasound and closed-loop temperature feedback control for the radiation-free ablation of diseased tissue. In the conversation we’ll discuss Menawat’s past successes and his...

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, we’ll talk with Gary Justak, president and general manager of Enovis’ foot & ankle business, about the rising war in the orthopedic extremities space. Co-hosts Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker also host Jason Feipel, senior product development director of Medtronic’s Brain Modulation business, to find out details about the Percept RC DBS System....

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, we’ll replay our Day 2 opening keynote at DeviceTalks Boston with three senior leaders from CMR Surgical, creator of the versatile Versius surgical robotic systems. Co-Founder Mark Slack, MD, now CMO, and Luke Hares, now CTO, identified several problems facing the healthcare system and explained why they saw surgical robotics as the solution. Long...

In this episode of DeviceTalks AI, we are joined by Ha Hong, PhD, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer of Medtronic Endoscopy about integrating AI into Medtronic's endoscopy unit, the impact on healthcare outcomes, patient-centric design, and the future of AI in the medical device industry. Watch or listen to the episode to: - Discover how Ha's research coincided with the rise of deep learning, a...

In this episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, we visit with Elizabeth McCombs, executive vice president and chief technology officer at BD. This is a replay of the opening keynote interview at DeviceTalks Boston. This conversation comes to you courtesy of our sponsor – MTD Micro Molding. Go to MTDMicromolding.com for more information or scan the QR code. Thank you for listening to the DeviceTalks Weekly...

In this episode, the DeviceTalks Editorial Team - Tom Salemi, Kayleen Brown - recaps the highlights of DeviceTalks Boston with MassDevice Editor in Chief Chris Newmarker, Holly Scott of the Mullings Group, and Paul Melnychuck, Vice President & General Manager, Advanced Components at Spectrum Plastics Group, A DuPont Business. Spectrum Plastics Group sponsored the podcast. For more information...

In this episode of AbbottTalks, Mahmood Kazemi, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Abbott’s Diabetes Care business overviews the profound advancements in diabetes management over the past decade and discusses the evolution of treatments and technological innovations that have revolutionized how individuals with diabetes approach their condition. Further, Dr. Kazemi underscores the benefits of advancemen...

In this week’s episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Editorial Director Tom Salemi talks about next week’s DeviceTalks Boston meeting with MedTech Innovator CEO Paul Grand. We also hear interviews done earlier this year with speakers – Bertin Nahum of Quantum Surgical, Kurt Haggstrom of Synchron and Closing Keynote Speaker Rajit Kamal of Medtronic. Anyone interested attending – and meeting a...

In the final episode of MedtechWOMEN Talks season one, we are joined by YJ Oh, SVP US Sales, Marketing and Commercial Operations at Edwards Lifesciences, who takes us through the intricate process of medical device commercialization. Starting with her unique entry into the medtech industry, YJ shares her comprehensive journey from sales to global marketing, emphasizing the significant role of upst...

In this episode, we visit with Rebecca Seidel, president of Medtronic’s cardiac ablation solutions group, about the future of pulsed-field ablation and what it means for the electrophysiology sector. Host Tom Salemi also visits with biomedical researcher Jeff Karp to discuss his new book, LIT: Life Ignition Tools: Use Nature's Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action Kindle...

In this episode of StrykerTalks, Spencer Stiles, Group President of Orthopaedics and Spine at Stryker, discusses Stryker's latest advancements shaping the future of orthopedics and spine care, including an update on the significant role of Mako, Stryker’s pioneering robotic arm-assisted system. Additionally, Stiles discusses the expansive reach of these innovations, emphasizing their rapid adoptio...

In this episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, Greg Roche, CEO of Distalmotion, explains why smaller profile surgical robotic systems like Dexter have a shot at competing with established soft tissue giants. Just over two weeks to DeviceTalks Boston register now to meet Roche and other surgical robotics executives! Thanks for listening to the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast. Subscribe to the DeviceTalks Podcas...

In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast episode, Host Tom Salemi talks with Joe Mullings of The Mullings Group about the Karl Storz and Asensus Surgical News as well as Johnson & Johnson's big play for Shockwave Medical. Then, we talk with the leaders of Sovato Health - Yulun Wang, PhD, chairman & co-founder, and Cynthia Perazzo, Co-founder and CEO, about the startup’s plans to build a f...

In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly, Host Tom Salemi thanks the DeviceTalks community for the kindness and support of our podcasts and conferences. He also looks back at our four years and replays Episode 1 where he and Chris Newmarker make some prescient calls on the impact of the pandemic while also showing just how different the world was. Thanks for listening to the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast. S...

In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Bridget C. Bagnato, worldwide president of specimen management at BD, gives us a glimpse of phlebotomy’s future – the BD MiniDraw, a blood testing system that can run a wide array of diagnostic tests on the blood drawn from a fingertip. How might this change how and where blood is drawn in the future. Thank you to Aptyx for sponsoring this episode! Listen...

In the latest episode of MedtechWOMEN Talks, Rebecca Whitney, SVP, Global Spine President, ZimVie dives deep into what it takes to bring innovative medical solutions to market in a large medtech OEM, weighing the benefits of internal product development against strategic external partnerships. ​ The episode shines a light on the diligent process behind medical device product development, taking in...

In this episode of DeviceTalks Weekly Co-Hosts Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker pay a visit to the Wizard, Joe Mullings of The Mullings Group, to get his take on the disruptive force that is Intuitive’s da Vinci 5. What does this mean to the surgical robotics competitors both big and small? Then Tom Salemi talks with Murali Srivathsa, CEO of Akura Medical, about the company’s aggressive moves to dis...

In the latest episode of AbbottTalks, Abbott Cardiovascular's leaders, Christopher Piorkowski, MD, DVP and Chief Medical Officer of Electrophysiology, and Dan Kaiser, Divisional VP Product Development, Electrophysiology, delve into the vast landscape of electrophysiology and the comprehensive approach Abbott is taking towards atrial fibrillation (AFib) treatment. The conversation highlights a pote...

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, John Murphy, CEO of Virtual Incision, highlights the headline-grabbing surgical robotics start-up. Virtual Incision followed up a trip to the ISS for a nod from the FDA. What’s next? He talks to Editorial Director, Tom Salemi. But first Shriya Srinivasan, Ph.d, assistant professor at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, drops some...

In this episode of Ortho Innovation Talks, Nitin Goyal, MD, chief science, technology and innovation officer at Zimmer Biomet (ZB) shares his journey from the OR to the medtech industry. Dr. Goyal oversees ZB’s global innovation, medical education, clinical affairs, and reimbursement strategy. He tells host Tom Salemi about his passion for building solutions to address clinical challenges and impr...

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, we meet the 13 finalists for the MedTech Color Pitch Competition, both general and pediatric categories. Editorial Director Tom Salemi and Managing Editor Kayleen Brown ask each entrepreneur about the problems they’re trying to solve and the solutions they’ve developed. Tom and Kayleen also interview MedTech Color’s new executive director, Katrina...

In this episode of MedtechWOMEN Talks, Christina Hawley, Sr. Director, of Clinical Operations at May Health helps to unravel the clinical trial process for medical devices, emphasizing the non-linear path from early feasibility to pivotal trials and post-market studies; and delves into the meticulous process of gaining FDA approval and even the nuanced differences between clinical affairs and regu...

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Co-hosts Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker interview Brad Estes, CEO of CytexOrtho, the winner of a pitch contest staged by AAOS. The company is developing implants that could serve as an alternative therapy to total hip replacement. In our main interview, Tom interviews David Wilson, CEO of InnovHeart, a multinational startup that’s developing trans...

This episode of DeviceTalks AI offers a comprehensive look at the ways AI is poised to upend the pharmaceutical industry. It features an in-depth keynote interview with Helen Merianos, Head of Sanofi's R&D Portfolio Strategy, who provides an inside look into Sanofi's commitment to go "all-in" on AI and data science. Merianos discusses the use of Sanofi's proprietary plai app – an AI-enabled sm...