Juliana Elstad is the President, CEO of Vibrato Medical.  She is a global executive with significant experience identifying opportunities for growth and delivering success in start-ups to multi-billion-dollar companies, and has led innovative medical companies through compelling vision, strategy, and growth.  She has worked both in start-ups and Fortune 500 corporations in the U.S. and Emerging Markets and has worn many leadership “hats” in the medical device business.   She serves as a board member of AdvaMed Accel, the world’s largest trade association representing medical dev ..read more

MedTech startups found themselves flush with cash a couple of years ago for quite obvious reasons. Pandemic-fuelled investment pushed VC funding for medtech and health-focused companies to unforeseen heights. But times have certainly changed. The medical device industry now finds itself reckoning from the banking crisis and VCs shifting priorities (and funds) towards other opportunities. That shift has caused funding for early-stage medtech companies to decline significantly, with numbers sliding by the billions across the board for digital health projects.  Entrepreneurs and develop ..read more

It's been almost a year since Anthony Klotz, a psychologist and professor of business administration at Texas A&M University, coined a famous phrase when he said “the great resignation is coming” in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek.  The popular phrase refers to the elevated level in early 2022 coming off a year in which almost 48 million people quit their jobs, an annual record.  As one can imagine, this revolution of sorts has caused quite a stir amongst the HR Community, with experts scrambling to understand the "why" behind this mass exodus…and work out what it i ..read more

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Today we speak with CEO of Diality, Osman Khawar.  Diality is a privately held medical device company currently in development of a versatile hemodialysis machine useable at home or in a variety of care settings, including nursing homes, hospitals, transitional care facilities and dialysis centers*. Committed to helping build a future where all patients and partners can control kidney disease, Diality is focused on developing solutions that help care providers improve the care and lives of patients with kidney disease while giving physicians the flexibility to prescribe personalized dialy ..read more

Ramin Mousavi is the CEO, President, and Board of Directors for Cathworks; a medical technology company focused on applying its advanced computational science platform to optimize Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) therapy decisions and elevate coronary angiography from visual assessment to an objective FFR-based decision-making tool for physicians.   Ramin has executive leadership and operational experience in general management, marketing, strategy, product development, and commercialization across multiple market segments and was responsible for developing the clinical and commerc ..read more

Your Medtech brand is not something an agency gives to you. Nor is it something you buy. Your brand is defined by the relationship you have with your customers, and it’s shaped by the messages you send and the response those messages elicit.  Getting the attention of busy physicians and hospital executives is more challenging than ever for medical device manufacturers across the globe. Doctors are busier and have less time to see patients, let alone talk to a sales representative. Successful medical device marketers have learned how to harness the power of digital to achieve their ke ..read more

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Irvine is home to over 15,000 businesses, and life sciences and medical device companies constitute one of the fastest-growing sectors.  With a global focus on the Medtech industry, the need to build an infrastructure that can support the explosive forecasted growth is more crucial than ever.   A well-educated, job-ready workforce, world-renowned R&D facilities and community initiatives all conspire to make Irvine a magnet for Medtech success.  So how is Irvine executing on their 50-year plan coming out of the pandemic, to ensure our medical device community is not only ..read more