Wed Mar 5, 2008 6:00 PM
MDG March 2008 Forum Topic: "Full Circle of Innovation - from Surgical Suite Invention to a Surgical Product"
Traditional way of bringing new medical devices to market begins with market research (if we’re lucky) or with a new idea within the R&D team. After a rigorous market validation, product development, and regulatory clearance, the product is finally launched into the medical world. Today, physicians are getting much more active in challenging and changing this process. We are seeing a variety of new technologies, conceived in the surgical suite or at the patient side, brought out via hospital-based technology transfer organizations. Transfer of a physician’s concept into a commercial product involves traditional risks and efforts as well as new challenges for all the participants.
NOTES™ (Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery™) provides an excellent case study. It demonstrates how a new medical procedure that started in research hospitals triggers interest and involvement of the cutting edge medical device companies. It also showcases new methods medical device companies have to adopt in order to maintain their technological lead position.
Moderator:
| Name |
Title/Company |
| Randy Chinnock |
Optimum Technologies |
Speakers:
| Name |
Title/Company |
| Bernard Haffey |
CEO, NDO Surgical |
| Ken Horton |
Director, New Technologies, Covidien |
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Event Co-Champions:
| Name |
Title/Company |
| Olga Cherniavsky |
Chief Marketing Officer, Corum Medical, Inc. |
| Richard O’Brien |
Founder, Nagog Hill Partners |
Registration Fee:
| Members: |
$15 (PrePaid), $25 at the door |
| NonMembers: |
$30 (PrePaid), $35 at the door |
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