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MassDevice Q&A: Michael Frazzette

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After 20 years in the medical device business, you might think Smith & Nephew Endoscopy president Mike Frazzette had grown jaded. But the industry innovations, ranging from the mechanical tissue shaver that started it all for Smith & Nephew Endoscopy to current work with bioabsorbable materials, continue to amaze and engage him.

MassDevice asked Frazzette about how his endoscopy business has evolved and the way Smith & Nephew leverages its developing technologies in adjacent business segments.

MassDevice: How did you get your start in medical devices?

Mass Device Q&A: Dave Kroll

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Dave Kroll, the founder and principal of Kroll Associates, works out of his office in western Massachusetts, which, according to him, proves there is life in design and product development beyond Worcester and the Greater Boston area.

In fact, Kroll sees his distance from Boston as an advantage, since he can also tap New York, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire and beyond for new work.

He has clients in and around Boston, sure — one of his biggest is in Waltham — but his ties to New England universities, contractors and manufacturers, and his persistence in maintaining a presence with clients, either virtually or through office visits, keeps him on top of the industry.

MassDevice Q&A: Jeff Burbank

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More than 20 years of developing, marketing and manufacturing products for end-stage renal disease patients led NxStage Medical Inc. founder, president and CEO Jeff Burbank to a realizations: The key to improving care is to look beyond the hospital and into the home.

The Lawrence-based company makes a home dialysis system that allows patients with kidney disease to better manage their own treatment. Burbank talked with MassDevice about how the success of the product hinges on improving patients’ quality of life and how the success of the company relies on the timing of finding and keeping great employees.

MassDevice Q&A: Mark Tauscher

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Mark Tauscher joined PLC Medical Systems Inc. in January 2000 after more than 20 years in medical product sales, marketing and management. When he spoke with MassDevice, the company had just announced strong sales and narrowed losses for the first quarter, largely due to strong international sales.

Tauscher told us about the rocky road PLC traveled in getting FDA approval for its first device, a transmyocardial laser revascularization system, how it decided the RenalGuard device would be its follow-up and why he sees the global credit crunch as the industry’s biggest challenge.

MassDevice Q&A: Paul Nickelsberg

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Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting president and CTO Paul Nickelsberg is an electronics industry veteran, with experience ranging from high-end computing design to networking and telecommunications under his belt.

But it was his “try anything once” attitude that helped him break into the medical devices market.MassDevice caught up with Nickelsberg recently to get his ideas on coming challenges for the medical device market and his strategy for keeping clients happy during uncertain economic times.

MassDevice: How did your company get into medical devices?

VasoTech gears up to go global

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It would have been easy for Tim Wu, cardiologist and founder of VasoTech Inc., to give up on his vision for the next generation of drug-eluting stent. He didn’t.

Instead, he invested $50,000 of his own money to set up shop in his garage and build a better stent, wrapping three state-of-the-art elements — a cobalt chromium stent, a biodegradable polymer and a potent combination of two anti-restenosis drugs — into a single device he calls the PowerStent. And he’s counting on that power to take his fledgling company global.

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