DeviceTalks Podcast Network

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 De...

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 Gen...

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 tal...

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...

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 a...

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 th...

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 i...

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...

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 &a...

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 Intuiti...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

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 s...

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 Preside...

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 Diagno...

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...

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 rec...

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 Inn...

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 Int...

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...

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...

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 ba...

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 t...