DeviceTalks Podcast Network

In this week’s episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Vafa Jamali, CEO of the newest medical device company ZimVie, speaks with Chris Newmarker, executive editor at MassDevice, about the companys’ plans post-spinout from Zimmer Biomet. Jamali explains where the company sees opportunities to compete in the spinal space.

In addition to the interview, we talk about the medical device industry’s support of Ukraine, as it’s being invaded by Russia. If you want to support Ukrainians during this attack you can find some charities here.

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In our Newmarker’s Newsmaker’s segment we hit about news from Siemens Healthineers, Roche, Philips, Varian, Heartflow, and Butterfly Networks.

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In this episode, we’ll speak with Heather Hudnut Page, vice president and general manager of peripheral vascular at Philips about the company’s ongoing efforts to build an image-guided therapy program. Hudnut Page will walk us through the four sizable acquisitions Philips has made to build out its pipeline.

We first visited Philips two years ago when we spoke with Chris Landon, Senior Vice President and Business Leader for Image-guided therapy devices. Chris Landon returns to the podcast to share his thoughts on this week’s Newsmarker’s Newsmakers.

This week, Executive Editor Chris Newmarker highlighted the news from Baxter, Shockwave, Smith & Nephew, Medtronic, and Abbott.

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You can listen to Chris Landon's interview here. https://www.devicetalks.com/philips-imaged-guided-leader-landon-shares-global-giants-plans-for-minimally-invasive-devices/

Welcome to the first ever DeviceTalks Weekly Pitchcast!

This week Kwame Ulmer, executive director of Medtech Color, sits in on the Newsmaker segment and delivers details on the upcoming Medtech Color Pitch Contest.

Then, you can hear from the contests finalists themselves -

AllergenIQ, bTECH LLC, Candlelit Therapy, Dialysis-X, Diatech Diabetes, Free From Marketplace, SealCath, Sunny and TAB Diagnostics.

You can watch the pitch competition on March 8 by registering at MedtechColor.org.

Chris Newmarker's Newsmakers includes Philips, Boston Scientific, Bayliss, Johnson & Johnson, DePuy Synthes and Masimo.

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This week we’ll focus on a few of the exciting companies in the diabetes space.

Associate Editor Sean Whooley first tracks down Dexcom CEO Kevin Sayer, who discusses the company’s next-generation G7 continuous glucose monitor, which is awaiting FDA approval.

Then, Sean speaks with Bigfoot Biomedical CEO Jeffrey Brewer to learn more about what he calls “a transformational attempt” to simplify CGMs with an all-in-one platform with a smart insulin pen cap.

Finally, Sean interviews Senseonics CMO Dr. Francine Kaufman about

the company’s Eversense 180-day CGM, which just received FDA approval.

Chris Newmarker brings his Newsmakers of the week including Amazon, Thermo Fisher, HeartFlow, Abbott, Cooper Company and Cook Medical.

This episode was sponsored by Accumold.

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In this episode we’ll interview Michael Friedrich, CEO of Distalmotion, creator of Dexter, a robotic system used for laparoscopic procedures. Friedrich details how Dexter is positioned to build a market in an area untapped by other surgical robotic systems. The company recently closed on a $90 million Series E led by Revival Healthcare and 415 Capital. (For a related podcast listen to our most recent episode of Intuitive Talks on your DeviceTalks Weekly Library.)

Executive editor Chris Newsmaker delivers his Newsmaker’s Newsmakers – Boston Scientific, Medtronic, BD, Hologic and Senseonics. Find out how these companies are tied to the upcoming DeviceTalks Boston meeting and listen for the discount code.

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We drill down on diagnostics – including COVID-19 testing – with Dave Hickey, newly promoted executive vice president and president of the life sciences segment of BD and Brooke Story, who took over his post as worldwide president of integrated diagnostic solutions. How did BD handle the crushing demand for at-home tests and where is diagnostics headed in the future.

Paul Grand, CEO of Medtech Innovator, sits in with Chris Newmarker and Tom Salemi on this week’s Newmarker’s Newsmakers. He also delivers some important deadlines for medical device startups.

This week's Newsmakers include Medtronic, Edwards Lifesciences, Distal Motion, Respironics and ZimVie.

Find out more about Medtech Innovator at MedtechInnovator.org. Register for DeviceTalks at devicetalks.com. Use the discount code mentioned in this episode!

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In this episode, we learn about Intuitive’s OTHER ground-breaking robot, the ION endoluminal system. This episode is sponsored by Maxon Group.

ION allows for robot-assisted bronchoscopic procedures such as biopsies in the hardest to reach areas of the lung. The FDA cleared the ION system in 2019.

We speak with Charlie Dean, vice president and general manager of the endoluminal business unit at Intuitive, an engineer who has spent his career working to make smaller, more effective minimally invasive tools.

We also talk with Oliver Wagner, MD, vice president and medical officer of the endoluminal division. Wagner explains how his long-time pursuit of NOTES led him to join Intuitive. He also sees a future where ION can serve as a platform for many other devices.

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In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, Outset Medical’s Leslie Trigg recounts the career detour that led her to a successful career in medical devices.

Drawing on past experiences, the CEO explains why she chose to lead Outset’s mission to create a dialysis system that restore the freedom lost to the demand of traditional in-clinic dialysis. Outset’s “enterprise system” for dialysis now allows patients to treat themselves at home when and where they want. Can Outset serve as a model for other “hospital at home” approaches.

Chris Newmarker delivers another stellar Newmarker’s Newsmakers featuring news from the Big 100, Edwards Life Sciences, Inspire Medical, Dexcom, Medtronic, Neurometrix, Augmedics and Acutus Medical.

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In this episode, two senior orthopedics executives at DePuy Synthes walk us through the company’s growing portfolio.

First, Rajit Kamal, worldwide president, sports medicine and shoulder reconstruction, lays out the opportunity for the growing shoulder market and explains what the INHANCE Shoulder System offers to surgeons. He also details what it will take for ortho companies to grow the shoulder market.

Later, Andrew Ekdahl, Worldwide President, Joint Reconstruction, updates us on the company’s VELYS surgical robotic system. He explains how new digital and robotic tech will change the orthopedics industry.

Instead of Newmarker’s Newsmakers, this week host Tom Salemi will review the most listened to DeviceTalks Weekly Episodes of 2021. We’ll also announce upcoming news in in-person conferences, digital meetings and podcasts – including a NEW podcast powered by DeviceTalks.

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Happy New Year!

In this first episode of 2022, we’ll learn a lot about Olympus Corp.’s plans to expand into the medtech industry. The global behemoth has been doubling down on the industry in recent years.

COO Nacho Abia and Gabriela Kaynor, global division head of therapeutic solutions in the Americas, will lay out the plans to build into other parts of the medtech industry.

Chris Newmarker is back with his Newmarker’s Newsmakers! Chris will bring news from Boston Scientific, GE Healthcare, Titan Medical, Relievant Medsystems, Medtronic, Memic Innovative Surgery, and Stryker.

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