Mastering Medical Device

Send us Fan Mail Chris Idelson is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at ClearCam, a company dedicated to developing technology to improve surgeons visual field during minimally invasive procedures. In this episode we discuss what a Mechanical Engineering Ph. D. program is like, the importance of hands-on education, how the NSF I-Corps program has informed his view on product development, IP d...

Send us Fan Mail Brady Shirley is President and Chief Operating Officer of Enovis, an innovation-driven medical technology growth company dedicated to developing clinically differentiated solutions that generate measurably better patient outcomes and transform workflows. The Company’s extensive range of products, services and integrated technologies fuels active lifestyles in orthopedics and beyon...

Send us Fan Mail John Gumas is the Founder and CEO of Gumas Advertising, a full service advertising agency based in San Francisco. John is recognized as one of the country’s foremost authorities on Challenger Brand Marketing®. He is the author of the popular books “Marketing Smart” and “Challenger Brand Marketing”. In this episode John shares how the medical device market is the same and different...

Send us Fan Mail Dean Gray is a Partner at PA Consulting, a company with over 4,000 employees that operates globally, and helps companies in several industries become more effective. Dean also has has significant experience within industry at Pfizer, BD, Boston Scientific, Sanofi Genzyme, and Heidelberg Engineering. In this episode he shares how consulting is utilized, what a good or bad engagemen...

Send us Fan Mail Karen Zaderej is CEO of Axogen, where they provide technology solutions to help restore feeling and functionality to damaged peripheral nerves. After a 17-year career at the Ethicon Division of Johnson and Johnson, Karen took on the challenge of a start-up, and has built a successful company that is delivering much-needed solutions to clinicians and patients. In this episode she s...

Send us Fan Mail Scott Nelson is Co-Founder and CEO of FastWave Medical.  He is also the host of the Medsider Podcast, as well as the Founding Partner and Managing Director of Big Sky Biomedical, a leading medtech accelerator. Scott is a medical device veteran, and has held leadership roles at Medtronic, Covidien, Boston Scientific, C.R. Bard and ConMed. He also co-founded Joovv, a popular health...

Send us Fan Mail Richard Vincent is CEO and Co-founder of FundamentalVR, a company that is focused on improving patient outcomes by revolutionizing medical training through virtual learning platforms. Richard is experienced in building international businesses and has a keen interest in seeking out opportunities to disrupt markets through development and adoption of new technology. In this episode...

Send us Fan Mail Lori Harada is Senior Manager of Commercial Technical Excellence at Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies. Starting out as a nurse, Lori found that education was her passion and she’s been involved in it ever since.  In this episode she shares the importance of education, what types of people are drawn to it and how to prepare them for success, considerations for designing an educati...

Send us Fan Mail David Smith is President and Chief Revenue Officer of Ilumivu, a company that is taking data from common smartwatches and using AI and machine learning to gain insights into the early detection of certain medical conditions. In this episode he shares how health plans are evolving, how physician perceptions of the plans are changing, how well care and early disease detection is goo...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Laura Cazier is a Board Certified emergency medicine physician who is also helping other doctors deal with burnout and other challenges through life skills coaching. She co-founded The Whole Physician with two other board-certified ED doctors, providing mindset and wellness coaching for physicians, by physicians. In this episode Dr. Cazier shares the reasons why physicians fee...

Send us Fan Mail Ohad Arazi is President & CEO of Clarius, a company that provides a high-definition wireless ultrasound system that includes AI to help reduce the complexity of ultrasound. In this episode he shares about his time in the Israeli military and the surprising environment that encourages entrepreneurship, what you can learn while working in large and small companies, where AI is a...

Send us Fan Mail David Albert is a physician, inventor, and serial entrepreneur. He is the Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Alivecor, the leading company in personal ECG technology. He has founded 5 companies, and sold two – one to Arrhythmia Research Technology and one to GE which he joined as Chief Scientist of GE Cardiology. David has 32 issued US patents and has authored or co-authored ove...

Send us Fan Mail Patrick Jamnik is President of Episurf Medical, an orthopedic company who provides individualized technology for the treatment of painful joint injuries. In this episode Patrick shares why a company personal development plan may not be the best for your career, why you need to be a lifelong learner, how to seek out mentors and where to find them, what a mastermind group is and how...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Agim Beshiri is the Chief Medical Officer at Nutromics, where they have developed technology for continuous diagnostic monitoring through a ‘lab-on-a-patch’ approach. Dr. Beshiri is a leading industry expert in developing medical affairs organizations and driving medical research and education. Prior to joining Nutromics, he contributed at Abbott Laboratories for over 16 years...

Send us Fan Mail Ethan Drower is the Founder and  Operating Partner at CiteMed Solutions, who provide full Clinical Evaluation Report services for EU MDR. Ethan is a software engineer and entrepreneur, trained to identify problems and implement solutions. In this episode Ethan shares how to listen for new ideas, R&D differences and similarities in industries, building early prototypes and capt...

Send us Fan Mail Andrew Buckler is the Founder, President and CTO of Elucid, a company that is focused on characterizing placque, with the goal of providing clinicians better information on placque stability, vessel structure, treatment options, and risk factors for cardiac events. In this episode, Andrew shares how to  found a company when you have a significant amount of research ahead of you, t...

Send us Fan Mail Scott Alexander is the CEO of iVelocity Marketing, and has been on the leading edge of identifying market shifts and building strategies and programs to embrace a new and improved go-to-market strategy. In this episode he shares  what providers don’t understand about medical device companies, what we don’t understand about providers, the reasons why the old go-to-market strategy n...

Send us Fan Mail Stephen Mariano is Vice President of Global Endosurgical R&D at FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation. Stephen has a long history of success in research and development for the medical device industry and has helped bring numerous innovative technologies to market. In this episode Stephen shares how a company chooses the types of problems to solve, how to choose a specific...

Send us Fan Mail Amit Vohra is the Founder and CEO of Promaxo, a medical technology company that is commercializing an office-based MRI system. In this episode he shares  why entrepreneurs need a support system around them, how culture is really built in a company, identifying good start-up team members, why everyone needs to be a salesperson, working with advisors, the balance between being flexi...

Send us Fan Mail Frank Fornari is the Founder and Chairman of BioMech, a leading company in motion analytics. In this episode Frank shares information on how our movement can indicate health, injury, decline, disease or neglect; why assessing motion can help to understand if we are getting better or worse over time, or after an intervention or surgery; the BioMech system; options for commercializi...

Send us Fan Mail Amber Schiada is the Head of Americas Work Dynamic Research at JLL, one of the largest real estate services firms in the world. In this episode she shares the results of their 2022 Patient Consumer Survey and other topics, including the most important consideration in choosing a health care facility, generational differences in healthcare choices, attitudes toward tele-health, dif...

Send us Fan Mail Skylar Talley is CEO of MedScout, a company that provides life science companies data and insights to help sales reps and sales managers be more targeted and effective. In this episode Skyler discusses upstream and downstream marketing, bootstrapping a company, why inside sales is becoming more popular, leveraging distributor organizations, why digital marketing should be moving h...

Send us Fan Mail Jim Surek is a recognized sales leader whose teams have performed wherever he has been, based on proven sales principles. Jim is currently VP of Sales at Explorer Surgical and is also host of the podcast, Medical Sales Nation.  In this episode Jim shares the sales process, including translating engineering language into customer language, aligning the company behind customer messa...

Send us Fan Mail Jim Surek is a recognized sales leader whose teams have performed wherever he has been, based on proven sales principles. Jim is currently VP of Sales at Explorer Surgical and is also host of the podcast, Medical Sales Nation.  In this episode Jim shares how medical sales has changed, why reps have evolved into enterprise salespeople, his mindset of helping to heal our healthcare...

Send us Fan Mail Vivek Thakkar  has over a dozen years of experience in regulatory affairs for Class II and III medical devices, while at Roche, JUUL, Cardinal Health, and Abbott Vascular. He is also a frequent speaker on software, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Vivek is now focused on start-ups and consults with medical device companies to identify and refine their regulatory stra...