In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Rich Newitter, managing director at SVB Leerink, says Zimmer Biomet’s decision to spin out its spinal and dental business will accelerate its already impressive market share grab in its core orthopedics industry. Newitter says CEO Bryan Hanson brings a tried-and-true diversification model used by companies like his former employer, […]
Deadline looming for MedTech Color pitch competition
Medtech entrepreneurs of color hoping to secure a portion of more than $100,000 in cash and in-kind services have until Feb. 5 to apply to MedTech Color’s first pitch contest. The organization launched the contest last month, inviting Black and Latinx founders in the healthcare space to pitch their ideas to investors and corporate sponsors. […]
DTW Podcast: CEO Johnson on entrepreneurship, upcoming MedtechColor Pitch Contest; Krum handicaps medtech Q4
In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Angelique Johnson, CEO of MEMstim, shares her “accidental entrepreneur” story and how it has enabled her the help others pursuing the same dream. Also, Johnson, co-founder of MedtechColor, an organization seeking to further the advancement of people of color in the medical device industry, details the group’s […]
Corza Medical set to take on ‘almost monopolistic’ surgical giants
Corza Medical, a new venture forged by the financial firepower of private equity giant GTCR, is looking to become a surgical tool supplier that its executive chairman Greg Lucier says can compete with “almost monopolistic” leaders in the space. To mount the challenge, Corza acquired Surgical Specialties Corp., a supplier of surgical sutures and ophthalmic […]
DTW Podcast Ep. 42 – How the pandemic has accelerated, slowed medtech innovation
The pandemic has accelerated innovation in many ways but the physical pressures on entrepreneurs, innovators and engineers is very real. In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, a panel representing early-stage and tech transfer efforts explain how they’re helping individuals and young companies work through the unique challenges of the time, including finding capital, […]
Medtechs can’t set digital strategies aside – DTW Podcast
Digital connectivity no longer belongs in the final slides of a medtech company’s pitch deck. In the latest DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, three leaders pushing for connected medical devices explain the need to incorporate data collection and monitoring functionality in new devices. Scott Huennekens, who advanced the “digital surgery” strategy when he helped launch Verb Surgical, […]
Former Corindus CEO Toland joins robotic `micro’ surgical startup
Mark Toland, the former CEO of Corindus Vascular Robotics, believes the next big opportunity for surgical robotics is actually very small. Toland, who sold the telesurgery robotics company to Siemens in 2019 for $1.1 billion, is now the CEO of Medical Microinstruments S.p.A. (MMI), an Italian company that has developed a surgical robotic system capable […]
Medtronic’s Kowal explains how remote medtech got its groove back
In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Dr. Robert Kowal CMO of Medtronic’s cardiac rhythm and heart failure business and vice president of medical affairs, explains how new tech, savvy patients, eager physicians and, yes, COVID-19, has fueled a renaissance for remote technology, once seen as a mature, staid business. Kowal, who left clinical practice to […]
9 lessons in crisis management from Stryker CEO Kevin Lobo
Decades of corporate leadership helped him address the challenges that 2020 wrought. The past year presented extraordinary leadership challenges for CEOs. First came the COVID-19 pandemic, then social unrest following the killing of George Floyd, and finally a contentious election that tore at the political connective tissue of the nation. The year may have been […]
The 10 most popular DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast episodes of 2020
Without the ability to gather for events and meetings, the DeviceTalks team launched the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast to keep our medtech community talking. Over the span of 9 months and 39 episodes, we interviewed dozens of medtech leaders from startups to multinational corporations to hear how they’re managing through the challenges of 2020. Our episodes […]
Medtronic CEO Geoff Martha explains the importance of competition
A major reorganization will position the world’s large medtech company for higher growth. But employees will be asked to hold on tighter to market share to help drive innovation. Whether they’re running a start-up or the largest medical device company in the world, CEOs must be competitive. Their job requires a desire to win that’s […]
