Dr. Manny Villafaña is one of the most successful men in the history of medical innovation, having founded some of the most successful companies in the industry, including Guidant Corp., which was sold to Boston Scientific for more than $27 billion and St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ). His most recent venture, Kips Bay Medical was supposed to […]
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Airing: The story behind one of medtech’s most successful crowdfunding campaigns | DeviceTalks Podcast
Inventor Stephen Marsh has more than 70 patents to his name, but his most recent endeavor, the Airing device – a hoseless, maskless, disposable micr0-CPAP machine for obstructive sleep apnea, may make him a household name. Marsh and his Burlington, Mass.-based startup have already made quite a mark on medtech by running 1 of the most successful crowdfunding […]
The quest for a better spinal cord injury treatment: InVivo Therapeutics CEO Mark Perrin
Ten years ago, InVivo Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NVIV) was spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with big ambitions and an even bigger amount of chutzpah. Then-CEO Frank Reynolds was a force of nature, a man we described in a 2009 profile as a “robust 44-year-old who speaks in rapid-fire, Bronx-tinged clips.” Reynolds left the company in 2013, […]
DeviceTalks Podcast Exclusive: Behind the Boston Scientific turnaround with CEO Michael Mahoney
In this episode of DeviceTalks, recorded live at our DeviceTalks Boston event at Boston Scientific‘s (NYSE:BSX) corporate headquarters, we talk with CEO Mike Mahoney to discuss the company’s recent turnaround. Mahoney, who joined the company in 2012 and took over as CEO in 2013, sat down with MassDevice.com Publisher Brian Johnson for an exclusive, inside look […]
How Reshape Medical built an alternative to bariatric surgery for obesity | DeviceTalks Podcast
In this episode of DeviceTalks, we speak with Richard Thompson, CEO of ReShape Medical, about the company’s bariatric surgery alternative for people suffering from obesity. In July, San Clemente, Calif.-based ReShape won pre-market approval from the FDA for its dual balloon system, indicated to facilitate weight loss in obese adult patients. The system is designed to be inserted […]
DeviceTalks Podcast: Rosalind Picard on how embracing emotion led to healthcare innovation
In this episode of DeviceTalks, we delve deeply into emotion with MIT scientist and entrepreneur Rosalind Picard and her story of how teaching computers to recognize emotions led to a potentially major breakthrough in medical technology. Picard is also the chief scientist at Cambridge, Mass.-based Empatica, an early-stage firm that’s developed a smart watch and other wearable […]
What makes Minnesota’s ‘Medical Alley’ tick? A podcast with LifeScience Alley’s Shaye Mandle
In this episode of DeviceTalks, we catch up with LifeScience Alley CEO Shaye Mandle about doing business in Minnesota’s world class medical device cluster. We delve into why the medical device and life sciences community clustered in the Twin Cities, what new trends in funding, M&A and technology are developing in the area and, of […]
Looking to change the game on rotator cuff repair: Rotation Medical’s Martha Shadan
Rotator cuff disease is one of the most common injuries in the world, with more than 3 million in the U.S. alone suffering damage to the tissues connecting muscle to bone in the shoulder. But the standard treatment for rotator cuff disease is clunky, painful and often inefficient, with an estimated 40% of patients experiencing re-tearing of […]
Fighting depression with medical devices: A podcast with Tal Medical’s Jan Skvarka
Tal Medical‘s roots go back to a serendipitous discovery at McLean Hospital more than a decade ago, when researchers working on bi-polar disorder reported that patients said they felt better after receiving an MRI. As it often does in medtech, that initial moment of discovery paved the way for years of development, eventually leading to […]
How I built the company: Merit Medical CEO Fred Lampropoulos
Fred Lampropoulos’ life reads like something out of a Horatio Alger novel. Lampropoulos, 65, started South Jordan, Utah-based medical device company Merit Medical Systems (NSDQ:MMSI) in 1987 and has grown it to more than $500 million in annual sales. He also served in the Special Forces (Airborne), ran for public office twice in Utah and opened […]
Emergo Podcast: ANVISA medical device approval in Brazil
By Stewart Eisenhart, Emergo Group Brazil’s medical device market offers significant growth potential for foreign manufacturers, but the country’s device approval process is challenging. In this podcast, Emergo Vice President of Business Development Ann Marie Boullie provides an overview of Brazil’s regulatory requirements for medical device registration, including: