After hearing the story of her 10 cardiac surgeries and seven pacemakers, you could be forgiven for thinking that Heidi Dohse has a weak heart. But the Google executive, endurance cyclist and, now, inspirational speaker she may have a stronger heart than most people on the planet. Dohse, a senior program manager at Google and […]
The evolution of OCTANe and Orange County’s technology ecosystem
OCTANe, the Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based industry council set up to nurture and grow the technology ecosystem in Orange County, is on the move. Last month, the technology council said that it would merge with the Mission Viejo, Calif.-based Orange County Technology Alliance, keeping the OCTANe name. That move, according to OCTANe CEO Bill Carpou, will […]
How NxStage is changing the game: A conversation with founder & CEO Jeff Burbank
NxStage Medical (NSDQ:NXTM) was founded in 1999 on the premise that patients with chronic kidney disease would benefit from bringing hemodialysis out of the clinic and into their homes. Seventeen years later, NxStage founder & CEO Jeff Burbank’s hypothesis has proven out. His Lawrence, Mass.-based company is topping more than $300 million in annual sales and, more […]
DeviceTalks Podcast: Talking culture with Smiths Medical CEO Jeffery McCaulley
Jeffery McCaulley came to Smiths Medical with the job of turning a flagging medical device franchise around after years of negative growth. Getting rid of the wood paneling was another story. McCaulley, a 25-year veteran of the medical device business, held executive level positions at Zimmer Holdings and Medtronic. However, there was nothing that taught […]
From door-to-door to the corner office: Teleflex Medical CEO Benson Smith
Teleflex Medical CEO Benson Smith’s career has taken him from door-to-door salesman to CEO of 1 of the top performing medical device companies in the past five years. Along the way he made films, wrote a book and, as you’ll hear in this podcast, went to extreme lengths to get a job. In this interview, […]
How Innovative Trauma Care wants to change the way wounds are closed
Innovative Trauma Care has found a new way to stop the bleeding. The San Antonio, Texas-based company’s It Clamp hemorrhage control system is designed to create a temporary pool of blood under pressure that forms a stable clot until a wound is surgically repaired, capable of controlling bleeding in as little as 5 seconds, according to […]
A new frontier in 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 cancer. Currently, the company has […]
Bill Hawkins on his time at Medtronic, Immucor and 25 years in the hot seat | DeviceTalks podcast
For nearly a quarter of a century, William “Bill” Hawkins sat in the corner office of medtech companies of all sizes, before stepping down from Immucor last year to become the Atlanta-based company’s lead director. Hawkins is best known for his 4 years as CEO of Medtronic, where he served in the corner office from […]
An artificial pancreas for hospital care: The Admetsys story
Admetsys, a Boston, Mass.-based start up is looking to take the math out of nursing, literally. The company has developed what it calls a first-of-its kind artificial pancreas for hospital and surgical settings, which officials say will eliminate the need for nurses to hand check glucose levels for patients at diabetic risk during his/her hospital […]
Can Sirtex turn cancer into a chronic disease?
Big things sometimes come in small packages. For Sirtex Medical, big things come in a really small package. The Australian medical device company’s flagship product – SIR-Spheres® Y-90 resin microspheres – is made up of 30 million to 60 million microspheres about the size of a grain of sand, which are injected into the hepatic artery and […]
A medtech veteran takes on C. diff from the gut
Most people don’t think much about Clostridium difficile, or C. diff., until it impacts their family. That was the case for Rebiotix CEO Lee Jones, who had never heard of the disease until her mother fell ill with it several years ago. Lee says she quickly learned how dangerous the disease really is – it’s responsible for more than 29,000 […]
