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News Release from: Medical Device Technology forum
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 28 July 2005
Networking event for the medical device
market
Medical Device Technology Innovation Forum attracted almost 300 participants - a mix of clinicians, medical device designers, manufacturers, suppliers and finance providers.
Medical Device Technology Innovation Forum attracted almost 300 participants - a mix of clinicians, medical device designers, manufacturers, suppliers and finance providers The Forum's premise was to help match device development with changing clinical needs, and to accelerate the transfer of the latest technologies from research lab to usable medical devices
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 29 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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As a unique feature of the Forum, the attendees created their own agenda for the day.
There were ten top-flight speaker presentations, around 60 small discussion groups (of up to 12 people each) and over 130 one-to-one meetings.
All were arranged via the Forum website, and attendees received their own timetable on arrival.
This style of event proved a major hit with the attendees.
Just one week after the event, 134 of them had responded to a feedback survey giving 94% approval on their attendance, and near universal (only two respondents demurred) applause for the concept of the Forum.
The Forum was sponsored by Pearson Matthews, the design consultancy, and by Connector and Teleca, themselves a linkage of a partnering group and a software firm.
Other supporting companies were present with displays.
Mike Pearson of Pearson Matthews found the Forum gave a real opportunity for critical product development issues to be aired: 'As a Founder we were especially pleased to see this new format actually work so well.
Some of the sessions we hosted, exploring issues such as the reasons to innovate and the use of design as an R and D tool instead of a downstream marketing activity, were extremely well attended and could have happily lasted all morning.' The Medical Device Technology Innovation Forum was launched with the backing of a Founders group of influential figures from healthcare providers, industry and university research centres.
Founders included eminent cardiologist Professor Martin Rothman of Barts NHS Trust; Lucius Cary, the leading financier with Venture Capital Trusts; and Dr John Yianni of Thermocore Medical, the UK company which last year signed with US-based Bristol-Myers Squibb to commercialise a new technique for detecting coronary problems using temperature mapping.
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