DeviceTalks Podcast Network

Just a short visit today. Paul Grand of the Medtech Innovator introduces us the five finalists of his start-up program. They’ll compete for the top spot at AdvaMed’s meeting next week. in Boston. Remember to join us at DeviceTalks West THIS week. Register at DeviceTalks.com.

In this episode we’ll talk with Kathryn Rieger, PhD, senior director, human factors and user research at Intuitive, about how the surgical robotics leader is working with surgeons to understand how to make its surgical systems easier to use or, for lack of a better word, intuitive. Where should buttons go. What does the blue blinking light mean? And should surgical robotics systems follow a similar template to make it easier for surgeons to master different systems. Thanks to Elsner Engineering Works for sponsoring this episode.

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Editorial Director Tom Salemi provides a sneak peek (listen?) into next week’s DeviceTalks West conference which will be held Oct. 19-20 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Tom will run through some of the highlights of the agenda which can be viewed at west.devicetalks.com. We also include snippets of past interviews of two keynotes – Gary Guthart, CEO of Intuitive, and Leslie Trigg, CEO of Outset Medical – from past interviews with DeviceTalks. You can find both interviews on DeviceTalks.com. If you’re interested in attending connect with Tom Salemi on LinkedIn.

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In this episode, we’ll first hear from Swarna Alcorn, business unit vice president, Olympus America, about that company’s long held – and growing -position in respiratory tools. We’ll weight the value between reusable and single-use bronchoscopes as well as the dire need for more awareness of lung cancer. Then we’ll connect with Rebecca Whitney, global spine president at ZimVie, the recent spinout of Zimmer Biomet. Whitney recounts why she joined the spinout and where ZimVie is making progress with payers. This episode was sponsored by DeviceTalks West.

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In this week’s episode, we’ll talk with leaders from Zimmer Biomet and Vicarious Surgical about the new partners they’ve entered into with national hospital companies in a bid to further their digital and robotics surgery offerings. Guests include Robert Kraal, Vice President and General Manager, Connected Health at Zimmer Biomet, and Adam Sachs, co-founder and CEO of Vicarious Surgical. You’ll get great background on both companies. One note: Tom Salemi interviewed Sachs during a DeviceTalks Tuesday Webinar. So if you’d rather watch the interview go to DeviceTalks.com where you can find the discussion – complete with video and PowerPoint presentation – available for free.

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Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences, also returns with his Newmarker’s Newsmakers – Stryker, Smith + Nephew, Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, and Philips.

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This episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly podcast features a panel discussion I led at Medmarc’s Annual Broker meeting. There are enormous insights on how investors and start-up executives see the opportunities and challenging facing the sector today. Below, you can see time stamps for each of the major topics we covered. We suggest sitting back and listening to the entire podcast – long, but not crazy long – but refer to the time stamps if you’d like to go back and listen again.

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Here is the panel

Ali Behbahani, MD, General Partner, NEA

Ryan Drant, Founder, Managing Partner, Questa Capital

Justin Klein, MD, JD, Vensana Capital

Martha Shadan, Medtech CEO, Board Member

Here are the topics

3:30 - Intros

8:20 - Concerns about inflation

23:20 – Optimistic or pessimistic about the future

29:20 – Regulatory/Reimbursement

43:00 – Connected Health

51:00 – Opportunities and risks of AI

58:30 – Finding a workforce

1:04:30 – Where have all the VCs gone?!

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The medical device industry obviously isn’t immune to the challenges posed by a shaky supply chain. But OEM leaders like Boston Scientific need to work doubly hard to ensure they have the supplies needed to provide devices for patient care. In this episode, we’ll talk with Brad Sorenson, executive vice president, Global Operations, and Paudie O’Connor, senior vice president of supply chain, to learn how Boston Scientific has managed the crisis. Topics we cover include supplier relationships, the value (and risk) of redundancies, how to reducing shipping costs and other critical topics. Supply chain executives at OEMs and smaller vendors will value from the conversation. Thanks to Paxxus for sponsoring this episode.

Chris Newmarker also returns to share his Newmarkers Newsmakers – Edwards Lifesciences, Verily, Johnson & Johnson, Smith+ Nephew, and MassDevice’s Big 100!

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Nearly 700,000 people die from heart disease, that’s one out of every five deaths, a startling number that could be curtailed with better predictive tools. In this episode, we’ll talk with two medical device companies employing new analytical tools to get a clearer picture of heart health. We’ll first connect with Campbell Rogers, MD, executive vice president and chief medical officer of HeartFlow, who will explain how the company’s HeartFlow FFRCT Analysis tool can bring new data to bear. Then, we’ll connect with James Min, MD, co-founder and CEO of Cleerly, a start-up employing artificial intelligence and other tools that he says will help dispel the mystery of this elusive killer.

In this episode, Eileen Buckley, vice president, corporate responsibility, unpacks how Stryker is following its environmental, social and governance strategies to encourage its employees, suppliers and even customers to meet increased demands for greater healthcare access and a smaller environmental impact. In a time where employees look to work with companies that carry a broader social mission, Buckley says Stryker sees real business benefits by answering the call issued by societal stakeholders as well as its shareholders. This episode is sponsored by Dassault Systemes.

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